Maryland and North Carolina currently sit as the ACC’s only two bowl eligible teams, but a quick look at the conference’s standings before week 10 will show that every team in the conference – except for NC State – has the chance to ultimately control their own destiny. It is a crazy season!Â
- I have come to grips with the fact that this season as a whole is generally a lost cause and, therefore, my focus has turned from wanting to compile a successful body of work to wanting to pick off some specific scalps. Said another way – who cares if we finish below .500 this season if we can beat ECU, UNC, Wake and Duke. We still have that opportunity.
- I didn’t have to invest money or time watching the game.
- I completely understand and accept the impact of our thin breadth and depth of our roster on our performance and am actually quite pleased with some of the progress we have made in certain areas such as quarterback play and offensive line play.
- I generally accept the comments and perspective shared by this blogger.
- Before the Maryland game ESPN ran a “Mid-Season Report†on the Wolfpack that you can view by clicking here.
Another year under Tom O’Brien, and another year of injuries so extensive we’ll never know how good the Wolfpack could have been. A total of 12 starters have been injured, but the most important was at quarterback, where three different starters were needed. Against East Carolina, Russell Wilson proved he was capable of leading the Pack’s offense. T.J. Graham has helped field position tremendously and developed quickly as a receiver.
- Translation? The familiar Wolfpack refrain – wait til next year!
- S6 has an update on the Wolfpack’s statistical rankings after 8 games available here. Warning – it is not pretty.
- You may have missed this great video from ESPN if you don’t check the site over the weekends. I wanted to make sure that you didn’t miss it. I also wanted to ask how the 9th string production crew from ESPN could film, produce, edit and ultimately create such a great video in less than 48 hours while NC State’s marketing department can’t seem to generate anything remotely this good given unlimited time?
- While we are discussing videos, this is another entry that you have to see and is obviously not included in my previous comments.
- I gotta throw some attention 850TheBuzz’s way because they have already highlighted something on which I have had my eye – a potential BCS scenario of taking an undefeated Penn State over a one-loss team from the SEC of even Big 12. (Or even USC who dominated by over 30+ points the same Ohio State team that Penn State struggled to beat by a touchdown). Link here.
