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NCSU has a remarkable history of futility in football.

I heard a stat yesterday that they are the only P4 team in the last 25 years to not have a 10 win season. They are sneaky bad.

Oregon and Washington both went through this exercise recently.

And when it became clear the ship was sinking and there weren't enough lifeboats, they saved their primary brands and left the rest to drown.

The Lounge 3 w ago

Yep, that's been an issue in every article I've read about it.

It was confusing the hell out of me until I realized the authors just didn't know the difference. A fire or police chief kept referring to "steel box beams" in a press conference and I still have no idea what the hell he was talking about. ** Edited by LonghornHokie at 7/7/2026, 9:22:04 PM

The Lounge 3 w ago

It takes a lot to overload a column. They're usually considerably oversized

for compression, and any remaining capacity of the existing columns would be the first thing engineers, building department etc. checked & verified when designing the addition. Being steel it's possible they were too tall and/or slender for the new loads, but this is still SE101 stuff and virtually impossible to get through all the checkpoints without being flagged and octuple checked. I saw a photo in another article (can't find now) that showed a sagging beam crushing a steel stud wall below. If that was a beam spanning those failing columns then it would suggest new / excessive loading midspan on the beam. That would then add new eccentric / lateral loads on the columns which could certainly cause the bending and twisting seen in the photos. So either a faulty detail or field execution that is causing load to be applied midway on beams instead of centered on columns. It's hard to piece together with the scattered info out there so far, but that would be my guess based on what I've seen / read. Only certainty as of now: many rich lawyers about to get richer.

Is there no one left in the pen?

How do you leave in this guy after two straight dingers.

Something you haven't seen before: the Spurs are in black uniforms at OKC

tonight, and their PG tried passing it to a referee as if he were a teammate and watched it bounce OOB. 😂 ** Edited by LonghornHokie at 5/26/2026, 10:52:56 PM

He said it himself.

I don't recall the other places it showed up. Good enough?

It was reported that part of the Neo deal was that he got to play PG

and essentially be first scoring option, so the whole scheme was developed and based on his own 'demands'.

My point is he'll be playing less...

and may not play much at all, depending on the rest of UNCheat's roster. Which would seem problematic for NBA scouting. He averaged 31.7 MPG this year for reference. Doubt he gets that with the heels. ** Edited by LonghornHokie at 4/13/2026, 3:51:18 PM

Don't really understand the move.

For a guy needing to be on the court for NBA evaluation, why go somewhere that you'll be competing with a bunch of 5 stars for playing time? Unless it's just about immediate cash.

Interesting. Baylor, very recent winners of the NCAAT...

not too good for secondary postseason play and are playing in the Crown Tournament right now, whipping Minnesota.

LOL.

Outside of a couple decades in football, they're AD is superior in every way to VT and it's not even close. Pains to say but true.

In order of interest @ UT...

1. Football 2. Spring football 3. Football recruiting 4. Football re-runs 5. Baseball / Basketball (tie) They should still have had more historical basketball success though.

If Lawal really jumps 49.5...

it would be the highest measured in NBA history, is what I've heard. MJ was 48 for comparison. ** Edited by LonghornHokie at 3/21/2026, 6:30:04 PM

I'd take that.

Really good experienced starting 4 to build around. ** Edited by LonghornHokie at 3/21/2026, 6:28:54 PM