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After EJ Whitley chose Virginia Tech on Monday…we figured that it may be uplifting for some to briefly highlight a quick blurb we ran across in Sports Illustrated last week.

In a special to Sports Illustrated titled, ‘Unconventional thinking: Top QB recruits have made unexpected commitments’, recruiting analyst Mike Farrell mentioned NC State commitment, Mike Glennon in the following paragraph:

Centreville (Va.) Westfield quarterback Mike Glennon committed to N.C. State over offers from Michigan and others.

Glennon will learn his craft under N.C. State offensive coordinator Dana Bible. Bible coached current NFL quarterbacks Tim Hasselbeck, Brian St. Pierre and Quinton Porter at Boston College, and Bible is the man responsible for the development of 2007 Heisman Trophy sleeper Matt Ryan.

It is nice to see NC State recruiting get some play no matter where or how.

Unfortunately, the source of these comments is Mike Farrell who has an atrocious historical reputation of covering/commenting on recruiting in the Carolinas. This link will take you to an entry from last year (that also includes some links) to help explain Farrell’s historical record of ‘covering’ NC State recruiting.

The pain doesn’t end with NC State coverage.

For fun, check out this blog entry written by Mike Farrell in May of 2006. BY ITSELF, the entry and thought – titled “North Carolina Could Finally Break Through” – is as random and far fetched of a thought as one could contrive. But, when you factor in this attack on Chuck Amato (and rebuttal from SFN), your frame of reference on speculating the motivation behind Farrell’s entries obviously changes.

After UNC comprised the following records:
2000: 6-5

2001: 8-5

2002: 3-9
2003: 2-10
2004: 6-6

2005: 5-6

…Mike Farrell proclaimed:

The North Carolina football program has been on the cusp of a breakthrough for years. A program that has long lived in the shadow of basketball success, the Tar Heels have fallen just shy of a huge season a few times in the last decade. But with more talent in the state of North Carolina now than in any year in recent memory and a hungry coaching staff, a breakthrough seems closer than ever before.

UNC has been labeled as a “sleeping giant” for years based on the above criteria coupled with a lack of consistent success. The term is one fans both hate and embrace, detesting the notion that their program should be great but isn’t while clinging to hope that it wouldn’t take much to turn things around.

The ACC be warned, this “sleeping giant” could awaken soon.

How did that “breakthrough” work out in the 2006 season?

29 Responses to Glennon Featured in SI Piece

McWufPacker06 07/25/2007 at 6:43 PM #

Has anyone heard an rumors about T. Manning – has he set a schedule of when he will annouce his decision on schools?
Mike 07/26/2007 at 11:38 AM #

Hate to lose Hill’s blocking, but I am excited about Stone at TE. Stone is a great athlete, and opens up another offensvie threat. Stone is a football player, which is why he moved to TE – he wnats to play regardless of where. Have to give him credit for that and as a result, I think he will make a good TE. Plus, we know he can catch the ball.

Imagine this, the TE comes in motion, takes a direct snap, drops back and fires a pass to a streaking WR all alone. Wait, Chow is no longer here, and I also remembered who the tight end is 🙂
pakfanistan 07/26/2007 at 1:02 PM #

Imagine this, the TE comes in motion, takes a direct snap, drops back and fires a pass over the head of a streaking WR all alone and into the hands of a waiting safety.
bTHEredterror 07/27/2007 at 3:51 PM #

Good piece on Glennon, I’ ve found nothing new on Manning. I am hopeful we get him and Abrams-Ward. Abrams-Ward is the second coming of Manny Lawson. He has played every skill position for Thomasville, including QB where he was more than adequate. I’ve seen him play on four different occasions and in all of them he was the player who caught my eye. These two along with Beasley and Maddox should provide us a quality LB corps. That quartet would be burned in our memory before they left, like the D-line two years ago which is now in the league with Tank being drafted this year. The 3-4 is coming.

Glennon is a smart kid, saw Bible had sent QB’s to the next level, and that his head coach is an old O-line coach who has always focused on line play.
He is comong in at the right time, similar to PR, and may be able to RS a year.

My question about the SI piece is this.

What ND QB is the author referring to that has recently (for me recently is 20 years) had success in the BCS and the NFL? Success in the draft? So they suckered a team into wasting a pick. After Joey SuperBowls they have had nathan. Mirer? Maybe Steve Buerlein? Since 1986 I would say NC State has had a better tradition at QB than ND, and I’d take Rivers and Kramer against Mirer and Quinn any day. Buerlein had a couple of decent years, but was largely a back-up. Arnaz Battle had to switch positions to get drafted. I know Weis is going to change this, but the comment was curious to me.