August 19, 2011
NC STATE FOOTBALL
CHIP ALEXANDER (N&O)
Pack’s Kuhn, Sweezy worlds apart
Most know of Kuhn’s unusual story, of how he and his father, Wolfgang, came to the U.S. from Germany in 2006, visiting colleges, looking for a place to play. Kuhn didn’t have a recruiting resume. He had size and a DVD of football highlights, and the Pack signed him to a scholarship in February 2007.
“Me and my dad, we didn’t realize how big college football was before we came,” Kuhn said. “I looked at the stadium and it was like, ‘Wow, there are 60,000 people who will watch us play.’ It was unbelievable.
“I now understand the importance of it. Still, when I tell people in Germany about it, they don’t understand how big it is or all the things that go into it: the practices, the weight training, how high the overall talent level is here.”
Matt Carter (TheWolfpacker.com)
Thursday practice report: O’Brien talks student-athletes
Priorities have been a major topic of discussion in recent weeks in college football. For O’Brien, the key to running an effective program starts with recruiting.
“I think programs attract different kinds of kids,” O’Brien noted. “I don’t think there is any question about that. I think it’s played its way out on the national stage now. It’s become pretty apparent to people that the way a program is run is a reflection on the people that run the program.”
Hobbton’s Bowden to toss coin for NCSU game
FOOTBALL RECRUITING
Kelly Parsons (ACCSportsJournal)
ACC Football Commitment Lists: Atlantic Division, August 18
BASEBALL RECRUITING
Matt Carter (TheWolfpacker.com)
Baseball receives commitment from LHP Matt Tenuta
Tenuta is the son of NC State linebackers coach Jon Tenuta, but the younger Tenuta said his father’s job played a minor role at best in his decision.
“I’ve moved around in my life and been to a lot of different places in my life,” Tenuta said. “I say the one thing that it did do was we were living here and I was so close to be able to go and visit the coaches and talk to them and get a feel for them. Otherwise it really didn’t play too much into it.”
The U-niverse
Joe Ovies (WRALSportsFan)
Web chat: All about the “U”
Joe Ovies (WRALSportsFan)
The NCAA “death penalty” is dead
The NCAA said as much in ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary about Southern Methodist University, which was the last football program to have a season canceled. That attitude was repeated when the NCAA’s vice president for enforcement, Julie Roe Lach, spoke to the New York Times regarding possible penalties for Miami.
The death penalty has been shelved and will likely never been used again. The ramifications are too great. It not only puts not just the program receiving the penalty in jeopardy, but the conferences themselves. Considering the amount of money invested into college football, through television contracts and facilities, it’s too big to fail.
Spencer Hall (EDSBS.com)
FULMER CUPDATE: THE TWO MINUTE WARNING HAS SOUNDED
HEY DOES MIAMI GET POINTS FOR THIS? No. Miami gets nothing for the Yachthookergate because no one has been charged with anything besides Shapiro, and him not being a football player for the University of Miami presents a serious roadblock towards us including him in any of this. Did illegal things happen? Unless prostitution has been legalized in the state of Florida, then yes, but no charges equal no points.
But wouldn’t it be fun if we tried? Go right ahead. Let’s see: that’s “the number of times a college-aged athlete in the prime of his sex life would want to have sex with a Miami hooker” times let’s see, maybe a quarter of the players, so 15 times three years each of average access, and…well, that’s A BILLION FULMER CUP POINTS. Glad we could settle that by not doing the math at all, because it didn’t exist and never will.
