2012 Football Schedule + D.J. Green Ruled Ineligible — 4:50 update with Green statement

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The 2012 football schedule has been released, here is the story from gopack.com.

Aug 31 – vs Tennessee @Atlanta
Sept 8 – @ UConn
Sept 15 – South Alabama
Sept 22 – The Citadel
Sept 29 – @ Miami
Oct 6 – Florida St
Oct 20 – @ Maryland
Oct 27 – @ North Carolina
Nov 3 – Virginia
Nov 10 – Wake Forest
Nov 17 – @ Clemson
Nov 24 – Boston College

Also, bad news for the linebacking corp:

O’Brien also announced that linebacker D.J. Green has been declared ineligible by the NCAA for competition during the 2012 season. He will be allowed to practice with the team.

With Cole and Manning moving on and Green now ineligible, the Pack will have 3 new starters at linebacker.

Update:
Pack Pride has a statement from D.J. Green

“During the offseason, I wanted to gain weight so I took a supplement that someone from home gave to me. I wasn’t responsible enough to check with our coaches to make sure that it was something legal and now I’m paying the consequences. I apologize to my teammates, my coaches and to all the Wolfpack fans and hope that other players out there learn from my mistake. Even though it breaks my heart that I won’t be able to play next year, I will work hard every day in practice to help try to make my teammates better.”

About WV Wolf

Graduated from NCSU in 1996 with a degree in statistics. Born and inbred in West "By God" Virginia and now live in Raleigh where I spend my time watching the Wolfpack, the Mountaineers and the Carolina Hurricanes as well as making bar graphs for SFN. I'm @wvncsu on the Twitter machine.

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34 Responses to 2012 Football Schedule + D.J. Green Ruled Ineligible — 4:50 update with Green statement

  1. tdouble 02/28/2012 at 9:09 AM #

    I’m just glad he clarified where he got the supplements from, or should I say went out of his way to clarify.

  2. Six Pack 02/28/2012 at 10:14 AM #

    7-5 with losses to UConn, Miami, FSU, Virginia, and Clemson. A trip to Nashville or maybe El Paso (not charlotte, since we were there last year).

  3. newt 02/28/2012 at 10:32 AM #

    Man, that’s about as good as you could ask for from DJ Green. No skirting the question, takes responsibility, no blaming the NCAA, doubt we’ll see/hear Bob Orr on this.

  4. ryebread 02/28/2012 at 11:30 AM #

    I think we’ll beat UConn, even on the road. In one of the most baffling coaching hires in years, UConn hired Paul Pasquelani almost 10 years removed from his last coaching job when Edsall left. Year one was pretty rough as UConn went 5-7 (3-4) just one year removed from the Big East Championship.

    UT is probably the weakest program in the SEC right now, but they’ll still probably have a talent edge. We’ll have a clear coaching and QB edge which should put us over the top. We need the LBs to step up quickly though. It will still be tough though given it is in Atlanta (clear SEC country).

    I actually think we’ll go 4-0 non-conference. I just think we’ll struggle to get to 4-4 in conference. It will be a weird thing for an ACC team — to see road games against a SEC and Big East school on the schedule yet to think they’re potentially more winnable than 1/2 the conference games. That road game against Miami to start the season looks tougher than UConn or UT to me.

  5. Wulfpack 02/28/2012 at 11:47 AM #

    Getting FSU, UVA, Wake and BC at home is huge. FSU we all know will be very good. UVA is getting better by the day with Mike London. We always seem to struggle with Wake and BC. If we can go 3-1 in this stretch, that would be fantastic and would serve as a real springboard for a solid season. 8-4 is my best guess.

  6. Ed89 02/28/2012 at 1:20 PM #

    ^^That road game against Miami to start the season looks tougher than UConn or UT to me.

    I’m not as worried about Miami. They are in turmoil second only to Maryland. They had a ton of early deflections, although I do think Golden is a good coach.

  7. MP 02/28/2012 at 2:02 PM #

    From the same blog StateFans linked in the forums:

    http://accblogger.com/2012/02/27/2012-acc-football-schedule-breakdown/

    “NC State Wolfpack

    Likes: Tennessee Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game, easing into the first conference game with a couple FCS games (at Miami, Sept. 29), bye before back-to-back road trips (Maryland and UNC), and closing with three of four at home.

    Dislikes: None.

    Strength Ranking in ACC: 11th.

    Oddity: Play three of four on the road in the middle of the season and three of four at home in their final four.

    Toughest Game: at Clemson, Nov. 17.”

  8. packalum44 02/28/2012 at 3:48 PM #

    Wow so taking steroids they ban you an entire season. Selling a jersey for thousands and you get 3 games (see AJ Greene and UGA). Bullshit. If he’s smart he’ll take his “redshirt” year to stay on the roids’ and get bigger before next season.

  9. pack76 02/28/2012 at 7:13 PM #

    B.C- ., Clemson and Wake Forest play State in the final conference game of the season. Gives them lot of motivation to win being their final conference game. The away schedule is nice but the home schedule isnt’ much. Home – So. Ala., Citadel, Fla.St.(nice), Virginia (not bad), W.F. & B.C.

    Away – Tn. (ATl), @ Conn., @ Miami, @ Maryland, @ UNC, @ Clempson.

    Six straight years, starting conference play on the road. Stinks!
    Don’t play Duke again. Stinks!

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