The #RedLight is not just ‘on’, it is blinding! #Pack14

Dave Doeren Football Recruiting33

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Good Lord! I hope that you haven’t blinked or disengaged from the internet over the last week!? If so, then you have missed a massive flurry of football recruiting activity that could very well be transforming the future of the NC State Football Program!

Coach Doeren & Company have secured three commitments in just the last few HOURS!!! In total, the Wolfpack football program has secured EIGHT new commitments since last Thursday from high school football players who almost all are rated 3-stars or better. As of right now, Rivals.com ranks NC State’s current recruiting class #16 in the country.

 

As of 1:50pm today – Deonte Holden, Bradley Chubb and and Justin Jones had all committed to Coach Doeren and the Wolfpack. All three prospects rank amongst the Top 50 players in the country at their respective positions on the defensive line.

Jones is technically the highest rated of the new commitments as our second 4-star recruit of this class. He had offers from ACC rivals Miami, Duke, Wake Forest and Louisville as well as offers from dozens of other schools.

 

Holden is 6-foot-4, 220-pound 3-star prospect who is easily one of the Top 50 defensive ends in the country. He picked NC State over offers from Virginia, Wake Forest, Boston College, Cincinnati, I Iowa and others.

 

Chubb is 6-4, 235 pounds and is also a Top 50 defensive end. He held dozens of offers from schools like Georgia Tech, West Virginia, Wake Forest, Mississippi State, Duke and East Carolina.

All of this excitement is enough to make Wolfpackers celebrate. The following video is making the rounds on Twitter as Coach McNutt celebrates the momentum around #Pack14.

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33 Responses to The #RedLight is not just ‘on’, it is blinding! #Pack14

  1. tjfoose1 06/25/2013 at 11:06 AM #

    BJD is talking about the team and units as a whole, not individual players. Of course we’ll have some players exceed the mean.

    We’ve had teams with much more talent finish with losing records. The team that had 3 defensive linemen go in the first round of the NFL draft finished 5-7.

    Some of you are letting the special talents of Russell Wilson, and to a lesser extent, Mike Glennon, and what they were able to accomplish, affect your judgement. Those were SPECIAL and special players for the Wolfpack, two of the best to ever play their position at NC State. We don’t have one of those on the roster this year.

    And for those of you who insist to read lines that are not written, let me be clear. I am not “bashing” the team, I am not “down” on team, and I am not “bashing” individual players. I’m simply engaging in a cursory honest assessment of individual talent and the likelihood of team success.

    I will support this team, as I always do, and hope individuals and team exceed expectations.

    But EXPECTATIONS are just that, EXPECTations. There is a difference between expectations, projections, and potential.

    They are different words for a reason.

    The phrase “exceed expectations” exists for a reason. As does the term “overachieve”. I have been on several teams that did both. To say that we did not, and our success should have been expected, diminishes what was accomplished.

    When the season is over, I hope both phrases can be said of the 2013 Wolfpack.

  2. redisgood 06/25/2013 at 11:32 AM #

    I don’t know if it has been mentioned here, but Kendarius Whitehead has left the team, which is a blow to the defensive line. I was hoping for good things from him.

  3. ryebread 06/25/2013 at 11:39 AM #

    Great job by the staff on recruiting. I’m excited. You can’t win without players — period.

    On expectations for the season, I believe that our schedule was so soft that we’re getting to 6-6. This was a TOB schedule — go 3-1 at worse non-conference and just go 3-5 and squeak into a bowl. I’m not saying this staff is better or worse at coaching than the last. Time will tell on that. I do think the schedule is set up for a certain minimal number of wins.

  4. tjfoose1 06/25/2013 at 1:32 PM #

    5 to 6 wins is a realistic, attainable goal. 7 wins would be nice. But then, I don’t see an automatic win on the entire schedule. Games we “should” win, but I see no cake walks.

    I see La Tech and Richmond as the only sure “should” win games. C Michigan beat (albeit a bad team) Iowa last year.

    Right now, Vegas would probably have us as dogs in the rest of our games, except maybe Wake Forest.

    The only State games with early lines have us at 11, 20, and 2.5 dogs to Clemson, FSU, and u*nc, respectively. Not much love with those spreads.

    For comparison, FSU is only a 13 favorite over Pitt, 26 over Nevada, 17 over BC, 16 over Syracuse, and 18 over Wake.

  5. BJD95 06/25/2013 at 2:09 PM #

    To put it more precisely, I would expect any objective unit-by-unit breakdown of the conference (the kinds that pre-season annuals always did before the interwebs existed) would list every NC State unit – other than the DL – as #8 of 14 or lower. Many significantly lower.

    I said each non-DL unit (not individual players) was below average by ACC standards. Not “poor.” And yeah, I said overall team speed was poor, and I stand by that. Go back and watch tape from the Vandy (or worse, Tennessee) game. It’s glaring. That is a HUGE limiting factor.

    Everybody has a handful of players one can point too as good. Even 2-10, 3-9 caliber teams.

    I say this team exceeds reasonable expectations if it wins 5 or 6 games. More than 7 (pre-bowl) is extremely unlikely, and IMHO – close to our absolute ceiling.

    Foose is right – no sure wins on the schedule. We will be overwhelmingly undermanned against Clemson and FSU. Every other game we will run the spectrum of a slight talent advantage to a moderate talent disadvantage.

  6. Classof89 06/25/2013 at 2:55 PM #

    and thanks to TOB’s subpar recruiting, we now have a significant talent deficit relative to UNC similar to what existed during the Mike O’ Cain vs. Mack Brown era, and we saw what that led to–seven straight losses in the series. Thankfully, I think Doeren will be a little more successful in the rivalry than MOC was. Really, in a down year like this year is likely to be, springing an upset over your archrival can make the biggest difference in how happy we are with what happens next fall…

  7. tjfoose1 06/25/2013 at 4:40 PM #

    You could always just bet on State covering the spread… they seam to usually do that, at least when I’ve paid attention for purely entertainment reasons only.

  8. wolfpackdawg 06/25/2013 at 8:17 PM #

    redisgood……some other players won’t be back either…DD is cleaning house..I talked at length to Hakeem Flowers Father a few weeks ago here in Greenville.
    He won’t be back and not by his choice.

    He talked about how bad things got with the staff and team last season..it was just brutal. Bible is basically bi-polar.

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