So I don’t know what you do with it, I don’t know the right way to process a result like this, when at least theoretically, NC State was playing right behind the eight ball, with a full list of sick children.
The point is that if it’s true, I mean, we can’t be really upset about the result … and if it’s just an excuse, well, what are we doing here, because that is embarrassing. Just an absolutely embarrassing effort, a failure to introduce a team that needs to be playing desperately.
Whatever the case, I think it’s clear that they are done with this season – I can’t blame them – and no amount of theater yelling at the coach will change the fact that the guys checked out.
Duke has an excellent attack, but there was a strict level of NC State’s indifference throughout this game, and as the Blue Devils accumulated points at the beginning, Wolfpack decided to simply stop worrying. What you want to do with it, how you want to see it, well, it depends on you.
This was a futile effort, and the results corresponded to the total indifference with which NC State approached this game. You get exactly what you put in, sometimes, and that’s where sports can check you correctly. Does it matter to this NC state team at this point? I kind of doubt it.
You will hardly find a result more revealing than one like this against a close rival. It is not that NC State was defeated, but that NC State did not seem interested in playing. This is excusable on some points, even against Duke, and I understand that the circumstances are different this year.
Still, this is painful and a result that is difficult to interpret as anything other than an accusation by Kevin Keatts. I don’t want it to be that way. I’m definitely not sure about that he must be it. But that sucks.
If the team is sick, then don’t play, and what the fuck are you doing, playing sick, as if that were responsible? If the team is not sick, well, this whole thing we just witnessed is a violent kick opening a door that I didn’t want to break into.
Watching some accidental, Amish-looking idiot fool around with you all afternoon should be a good wake-up call, if nothing else works.