Game Thread: Wolfpack Football vs Louisville

Alternate title: Minimalistic Game Thread to Honor thy Glorious Fatherland and Boost Proletariat Mojo.

Wolfpack Football(4-0) has put the salad portion of its schedule behind it and this week will attempt to begin feasting on the meat.

This week’s meat: Cardinal, rare…hold the hookers.

(and mopeds too, to be fair).

12:30pm on the Big Five.  WatchESPN/ESPN3, or other ACCN Affiliates for those outside the area.

And if we haven’t already said so….Thanks ACCN.  No seriously, those 12:30 starts don’t screw up anything.

Despite being 4-0 and looking (mostly) good doing it, the Pack is unproven as they jump into the conference portion of the season. Plus, there’s the unknown team mental aspects having to do with this week’s moped-mageddon.

If the Pack comes out and performs well today, that will tell us a lot about the trajectory of this program as a whole, I think.

Louisville comes into Raleigh sporting just a 1-3 record, but they’re likely better than their record might indicate. Two of their losses were by a mere field goal, one of which was to Clemson (20-17); and they fell AT Auburn by only a touchdown in their opener.

Frankly, despite the records and home field advantage for the Pack, I look at today’s game as a Pick ‘Em. Nonetheless, Vegas has the Pack as a 3.5 pt fav (down from a -5 open, fwiw).

 

 

Thursday Football Notebook (GoPack.com)

Wolfpack Opens ACC Play Against Louisville (GoPack.com)

 

   

 

A day for football if ever there was one.  Stadium looks pretty good in the dank grey environs, no?

So, the Wolfpack will try to begin to prove itself as legit beginning today.  Should be fun.

What is genuine is proved in the fire, what is false we shall not miss in our ranks. The opponents must grant us that youth has never before flocked to our colours in such numbers, … in the end, one will be found among us who will prove that the sword of enthusiasm is just as good as the sword of genius.
-Friedrich Engels

 

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I know we did a PAC12 thing last week, but somehow I missed this one.  C’mon USC….wider angle next time…

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Welp, that’s all I got.  And the good common peoples shall demand no more.

A situation having almost nothing to do with my inability to sit at the desktop any longer due to a fouled up back/shoulder from playing golf in the cold rain yesterday.

Go Pack!!!!

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  • #89792
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    SO what’s next, fellas? Duke/BC or Bama/Georgia? or a little of both?

    #89793
    1.21 Jigawatts
    Keymaster

    GT 7
    *NC 0

    #89794
    Wufpacker
    Participant

    I seriously couldn’t care less if Duke/BC chokes on my nads.

    UGa/Bama, then ND/Clemson.

    #89795
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    lol that dumbass went out of bounds! wahoo!

    edit: or not?

    #89796
    1.21 Jigawatts
    Keymaster

    So its up to Brissett to carry the team to a tie…..

    Phew, I thought we were in trouble.

    #89797
    Wufpacker
    Participant

    sigh

    #89798
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    time for some magic… 96 yards, 1:45 to go with no time outs and only scored 13 points all day in the rain… no prob.

    #89799
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant
    #89800
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    We just got owned by the Lville defense.

    #89801
    rky
    Participant

    They do know a pass has to be caught in the air and not on a one-hop, right?

    #89802
    Texpack
    Participant

    What an idiot!

    #89803
    1.21 Jigawatts
    Keymaster

    Run off tackle?? Shocked it didn’t work (again)

    #89804
    Tau837
    Participant

    Brissett can’t throw an out

    #89805
    Wufpacker
    Participant

    Never gets old….

    #89807
    1.21 Jigawatts
    Keymaster

    Time for the positives:

    DL and Samuel

    #89808
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    4th and 1 game on the line… telegraph the play by overloading the right side. Brisset looked terrible today. It happens. Turnovers.

    I guarantee we win this game if we played just one single team worth a damn in our first 4 games. Oh well, 0-1 in the ACC and the loss to an Atlantic division team makes it even worse.

    Hope we learn from this.

    #89809
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    And that cupcake schedule did us no favors today.

    #89810
    Texpack
    Participant

    Not much evidence of progress today. At least my Coogs remain undefeated.

    #89811
    Khan
    Participant

    My 7-5 call is looking pretty optimistic at this point. Dominated by an ok Louisville team. Next week, we play a bad VT team. If we lose that one, and the odds are better than a coin flip, I’m going 6-6.

    #89812
    JohnGalt78
    Participant

    While I’m in a salty mood…. SFN, your freakin banner ad essentially ruins your sites functionality on an iPhone. Hope it pays you well.

    #89815
    Wolfanatic
    Participant

    Can’t believe we did not get one turnover today. They get two for half of their points. The Ramos fumble was especially deadly. Gosh dong dong…

    #89817
    rthomas44
    Participant

    Why can’t state figure it out and dominate at home? We have talent but look unable to grind. We have to have a big play to stay in the game.

    #89820
    ldr of the pk 75
    Participant

    To me, the game really boiled down to 3 or 4 plays. Early on we fumble in the Red Zone. They get a 60 some yard run to go 7-0. Later, I believe on a third down, they go 30 something for a TD. We still had a chance, even though we did not look good. The running game wasn’t great and Brisette looked awful.

    I still fall in the camp of believing we need to improve our schedule. 4 cupcakes doesn’t allow you to find out much. But beyond that, potential recruits, at least good recruits, see that kind of schedule and go other more high profile places. Hence we try to build a program with less than the talent it takes to play at an upper level. Doesn’t mean it can’t be done, just that we haven’t.

    #89822
    TheCOWDOG
    Moderator

    I’m sticking with 10.
    And for better, or worse, I DO think for myself….

    4 plays made a difference in a sloppy game loaded with bad mojo.

    Punt team is responsible for 2 of those plays.

    Figure it out.

    #89827
    TheAliasTroll
    Participant

    I’ll go out on a limb here and say there is no way in hell is there 6 more wins on this schedule. But I like the optimism. We’ll see who gets their turn in the barrel at the end of the season

    😉

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