Breakfast With Oblinger

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Hopefully, a voice mail is being left in the NC State football office right now – “Hey, Chuck, this is Jim Oblinger. It’s been awhile since we got together – could you meet me for breakfast on Monday? Oh yeah, please ask Lee if he can join us, too.”

There is no reason to even wait for next week’s game. Chuck Amato needs to be fired by the end of business Monday, so we can make some calls/visits over the long weekend. Hopefully, it will be AD Bobby Purcell spearheading the effort.

From what we have heard at SFN, Chuck needed to lose out for firing to be a certainty. Hopefully, today’s sorry showing will be enough to tip the big donors’ and the Chancellor’s hands.

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1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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44 Responses to Breakfast With Oblinger

  1. Wolfpack4ever 11/18/2006 at 6:39 PM #

    I was at the game and I find it in my heart the generosity to forgive my friend for getting us the tickets. I cannot find one single excuse for Amato’s failure to prepare his team to play, the play-calling, the stupid personal foul penalties, etc.

  2. old13 11/18/2006 at 6:40 PM #

    ” . . . don’t diss Fowler for hiring coach Lowe . . . ”

    I don’t think that he was. I believe he was dissing Foulup for NOT hiring a SL SOONER!!

  3. highstick 11/18/2006 at 7:14 PM #

    Don’t give Fowler credit for hiring Lowe, he was probably given orders to do it or the search would go on forever!

    Hire Phillip Rivers’ dad as the interim, until Cowher can get there. Maybe even let him coach next week!

    Someone said don’t sell your tickets to the Purple Hicks! Frankly give them all the darned tickets and let the place turn purple next week. Maybe Oblinger and the other “powers that be” might get the message! Better yet, wear purple if you’re going to make a statement to the administration. That’s pretty sickening, but it might drive home the frustration!

  4. Cosmo96 11/18/2006 at 7:39 PM #

    Our regression has lasted for four years now. It started during Philip Rivers’ Senior year, ’03. 2002 was the Gator Bowl year, the pinnacle. The next year, ’03, was the Whatever Bowl against Kansas. The ’04 year was worse. The ’05 year was better than ’04, but still not as good as ’03. This year, ’06, has been the worst year yet.

    What good does it do to wait and see what next year holds? We probably will improve a little if we stay the course. But if we win six or seven games next year, so what? Does anyone actually think we will improve upon, or even sustain that type of performance in the long run?

  5. belowaverageprogram 11/18/2006 at 8:35 PM #

    You people need to give chuck a break!! He is a fantastic recruiter, just because he is not producing enough wins with all that talent and hasn’t beat his rival in 3 years doesn’t mean he should be fired!!!!

    He should defintely not be fired if he UPSETS the pirates!!

    Signed

    John Bunting

  6. IrishPackFan 11/18/2006 at 8:42 PM #

    The bottom line is that Chuck did the school a favor…we have top of the line facilities, fantastic recruiting (despite the lack of wins) and national attention to our program just by Chuck bein’ Chuck.

    Having said that he needs to go. I love CTC and would love to see him roaming the sidelines for the rest of eternity IF he is getting the job done. He’s not though, is he? I believe in my heart of hearts that Chuck was a definate upgrade to MOC, but his promises of finding the Promised Land has failed. We just need to go up one more level in the coaching chain and we’ll rock this joint out! Chuck has done what he can and his passion for NC State should be comended. On the other side of the coin; his passion for the Pack should also lead him to his OWN decision that he isn’t getting the job done and wants what is best for State. If that includes hiring Chow or (fingers crossed) Cower then that’s what we need. This isn’t Rocket Science to figure out. If you aren’t getting the job done you need to get someone who can. Hell; Chuck was a Math Major so he should clearly be able to see the numbers behind his futility.

    Chuck you are the man, but it takes a man to say “my job here is done”…

  7. IrishPackFan 11/18/2006 at 8:44 PM #

    One more thing…thanks Chuck for all that you’ve done. Our facilities are bad ass and you’ve done well getting some key players for State. Thank you…

  8. packpigskinfan23 11/18/2006 at 9:31 PM #

    yes chuck…. thank you. see you later. your gone after thanksgiving.

    i have stood up for chuck as long as I can. today was an embarrasment. I dread going to work on Monday…

    I was on the “wait one more year, let cower get a break for a year and see what is up then” band-wagon…. but right now, I say go 200% for CHOW!!!!

    he is one of the most stand up guys I have ever seen… coached guys like Steve Young, that other heisman winner our of BYU, Matt Leinehart, and McNair… his teams SCORE POINTS… even if they suck like the TITANS!!!!

  9. packpigskinfan23 11/18/2006 at 9:33 PM #

    I would have to say that todays lose will be more embarasing then the one to ECU we are staring at right now….

  10. OwenDorm83 11/18/2006 at 9:51 PM #

    Hate to send one of our own out the door, but he isn’t getting the job done. Team is just awful. Not ready to play, heads not in the game, etc. Coaching staff COMPLETELY botched the end of the first half. I wasn’t as upset about the 4th down gamble late in the game as I was end of half.

    Unfortunately, Daniel Evans, bless him, looked like he was the second coming of PR in his first 2 games, but has come crashing down (hard) to reality and we see why he was destined to be a walk on at NCSU had we signed Brent Schafer

    Hard as it seems to believe this, I’m jealous of Wake. I want their team. They aren’t the greatest athletes, but they play together, don’t make STUPID mistakes, etc., play smart, don’t showboat, and they’re doing GREAT.

    By the way, did y’all see 25 for us today after a good hit start clapping his hands? It was a pretty good hit, but unfortunately, it was after the receiver had picked up about 8 yards, a first down, and UNC was dominating us.

  11. packpigskinfan23 11/18/2006 at 9:59 PM #

    ^saw it, and thought the EXACT same thing!!!!

  12. sf59 11/18/2006 at 10:15 PM #

    thanks chuck good luck as ass. coach at FSU

  13. class of 74 11/19/2006 at 8:54 AM #

    Well Chuck it you said early on, the program was talent deficient, soft and fat and you knew what we needed. Your first three years were spent playing with MOC’s players and you did a creditable job with those fat, soft, talent thin fellas. Years four through seven we have witnessed your vision of what we needed, and it is apparent to all now we do not share your vision.

    Chuck, I know you are not a quitter but do the right thing and volunteer your resignation today. You are in over your head and you really should not make us form a WPC posse to have you removed. Another year only delays the inevitable and further weakens the program, Chuck, hope is not a strategy.

    In closing to my fellow WPC members, do not sit idly while our adminstration tries to dodge this hot rock. Let your feelings be known to Bobby Purcell, LF and Oblinger. Our program’s future is at stake and the longer we try to punt this issue the longer and harder the climb will be for our next coach. And I for one say let that new coach be Paul Johnson from Navy, a proven certifiable winner.

  14. class of 74 11/19/2006 at 9:21 AM #

    ^sorry should have been “Well Chuck you said it early on”

  15. Cardiff Giant 11/19/2006 at 11:15 AM #

    My bad on the ejection call. I just assumed, based on history that is well established, that it was one of our players.

  16. Lee Fowler 11/19/2006 at 12:52 PM #

    I saw that despicable self congratulations from #25 and thought to myself: “get your f-ing ass back to the huddle and shut the f up! we’re getting smoked you dipshit!”

    Of course, this was but one of about 10 similar iterations that I saw from an assortment of our players during the game.

  17. redfred2 11/19/2006 at 3:31 PM #

    I listened o the radio and I wasn’t able to get the game in my area, but I can just imagine the celebration after a single hit. I’ve seen them over and over and over again. It’s the white sun glasses, red shoes, “HEY, LOOK AT ME!” mentality, that kills the concept of playing as a TEAM.

  18. Wolfpack4ever 11/19/2006 at 5:50 PM #

    I am sick and tired of hearing that the football program under Amato is mediocre. That is simply not so. To define Amato’s program as mediocre is giving it far to much credit.

    I have been a voice of moderation since I started posting here. I kept up hope that the Tressman offense would get in sync, come around, whatever. Too bad Chuck is going down the tubes because of the offense but that goes with the territory being HC. But the ‘program’ includes the offense — coaches and players (o-line).

  19. Wolfpack4ever 11/19/2006 at 6:08 PM #

    Cardiff Giant Says: “My bad on the ejection call. I just assumed, based on history that is well established, that it was one of our players.”

    Understandable. I was sitting there disgusted until to my amazement the referee threw a second flag looking right at the Carolina team and the WTF comment crossed my mind. More doubt when he said “on the offense.” (I had forgotten after the INT the Holes were on offense.) Only when he started walking it off on them did I fully understand what was happening. BFD.

    Like I said, understandable.

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