October 7, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL The Sports Xchange TSX: Sweezy’s Return A Plus — The Wolfpack has avoided a three-game losing streak only in one season (2010) over the past five years. In order to prevent such a streak this year, the Wolfpack must win Saturday against visiting Central Michigan. “I told the guys […]
College Basketball
Thursday Compendium
October 6, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL PackPride.com TELECONFERENCE: Tom O’Brien Quotes What were some of the things that you thought your defense did particularly well and particularly not well against Georgia Tech last weekend? Well, I think we gave up — when you look at how they were throwing the football and they were averaging […]
Gameday News
October 1, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL JP GIGLIO (N&O) Fordham cleared to play for Pack N.C. State’s offensive line, which struggled against Cincinnati, will be deeper with the addition of guard/center Cameron Fordham. The LSU transfer was cleared Friday by the NCAA to play in Saturday’s game against No. 21 Georgia Tech. Fordham, who was […]
Thursday Compendium
September 29, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Matt Carter (TheWolfpacker.com) Meet Jacob Kahut When both junior Brian Slay and sophomore A.J. Ferguson went down with injuries at Cincinnati, a thin defensive tackle position got even thinner. Already out were fifth-year senior J.R. Sweezy and redshirt freshman Thomas Teal. State was down to two healthy defensive tackles […]
Gottfried speaks…and I continue to like what I hear
Luke DeCock gives us the following from this entry today. N.C. State is close to a home-and-home series with Kansas, new basketball coach Mark Gottfried told the Raleigh Sports Club on Wednesday. The Wolfpack would go to Lawrence in December 2012, with Kansas coming to the RBC Center in December 2013. Gottfried said the contract […]
Friday Farrago
September 16, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Ryan Tice (TheWolfpacker.com) Game slowing for Mike Glennon The most noticeable thing for Glennon between his first two college starts was how the game began to slow down against Wake Forest, although the ACC opponents offered a stiffer test than Liberty, members of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). “I […]
Thursday Compendium
September 15, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Matt Carter (TheWolfpacker.com) Audie Cole trying to stop bad habits Fifth-year senior linebacker Audie Cole admits that he did not enjoy looking at the film from the Wake Forest game. The Pack lost 34-27 after the defense struggled to contain the Demon Deacons’ offense. “We didn’t look good on […]
Wednesday Woolgathering
September 14, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Jacey Zembal (TheWolfpacker.com) DT Markus Kuhn taking on leadership role Defensive tackle Markus Kuhn is well versed in the ups and downs of college football. The 25-year-old graduate senior has played on two teams that reached bowl games (2008 and 2010). Kuhn also watched the 2009 squad go 5-7 […]
Tuesday Tidbits
September 13, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL J.P. GIGLIO (N&O) Pack back to basics, work on defense Instead of ordering a dose of Bear Bryant’s “Junction Boys” gridiron justice, N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien decided to give his football players a day off the field after its deflating 34-27 loss at Wake Forest on Saturday. No […]
Tuesday Tidbits
September 6, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL J.P. GIGLIO (N&O) O’Brien happy with Pack’s win N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien was generally pleased with his team’s 43-21 win over Liberty on Saturday. The fifth-year coach was not entirely thrilled with how the Wolfpack won, but he’s not going to argue with the result. “That’s still the […]
