We’ve already posted some statistics that have grown out of the NC State – Tennessee match-up from last Friday night. But, last night I ran across another number while stumbling through some Tweets in my timeline. Check out this link to ‘ESPN Mediazone’: ESPNU averaged 1,491,000 viewers (based on a 1.3 rating and 945,000 households) […]
College Football
Thursday Compendium
NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Pack has another opportunity to bounce back from loss What goes down, must come up, at least it has for N.C. State’s football team since the start of the 2010 season. N.C. State’s players talked before this season about getting off the “win-one, lose-one” roller coaster of the past […]
Hold the presses: NCAA and UNC agree
UNC has released a statement about the NCAA investigation into the alleged UNC academic problems. With the NCAA enforcement staff, our internal working group of University Counsel Leslie Strohm, Senior Associate Dean Jonathan Hartlyn, and former faculty athletics representative Jack Evans interviewed faculty and staff in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, academic support […]
Friday Farrago (GAMEDAY EDITION)
It’s finally here. Game Day. It has taken 5 loooonnng months but we’ve finally “arroved” fellow Wolfpackers to what we’ve been waiting for…NC State Football!!!! Enjoy the headlines and feel free to use this as your open thread until kickoff. NC STATE FOOTBALL GoPack.com Sizing up State and Tennessee The wait is finally over. Officially, […]
Thursday Compendium
NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) Injured WR Underwood back on the field for Wolfpack Coach Tom O’Brien said Wednesday that sophomore Bryan Underwood has returned to practice and might be available to play in the season opener at the Georgia Dome against the Volunteers. Underwood had been sidelined since undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery on […]
Program on the Rise?
For any dyed in the wool fan of NC State Football, or pretty much any Wolfpack athletic program for that matter, it is completely unnecessary to state the obvious…NC State has been the Rodney Dangerfield of the ACC more often than not in the past. That’s why the recent onslaught of positive press has some […]
Monday Musings
Wolfpack Football Media Day WRALSportsfan.com O’Brien: Expectations high for deep NC State NC State head football coach Tom O’Brien knows his team is seasoned and expected to excel. Amerson: Expects foes to look the other way All-American defensive back David Amerson says some opposing quarterbacks might not throw in his direction. Stocker: Ready to fill […]
NCAA hands Penn State $60 million fine & 4 year postseason ban
The NCAA has spoken, and while it did not give Penn State’s football program the Death Penalty, it may as well have: with the penalties handed down today, the Nittany Lions will not be able to field a Top 25 team for years. $60 Million fine Four year post-season ban Scholarship reduction from 25 to […]
Wolfpack Football Q&A
The Orange & White has a little Q&A Session with Raleigh’s N&O JP Giglio about 2012 NC State football. Here is a portion of it. Q: Who is the one player who is totally indispensable to the Wolfpack, the guy State couldn’t do without in case of an injury? A: State would be sunk without […]
Does Penn State deserve the death penalty for its abominable cover-up?
The full report into Penn State’s response to allegations of sexual abuse by longtime defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, following an eight-month investigation overseen by former FBI director Louis Freeh, fills 267 excruciating pages. But to put the finishing touches on the obliteration of a half-century of goodwill, it only took 163 words: The evidence shows […]
