Once again, South Carolina will take the national stage for its Thursday opener against North Carolina State at Williams-Brice Stadium. The Gamecocks have been installed as 13-point home favorites. ESPN will have the telecast at 8:00 p.m. Eastern.”The Gamecocks have a decided advantage over the Wolfpack in the experience department,†VI handicapper Christian Alexander said. […]
’08 Football
Audio from Tom O’Brien interview on 850 am (Updated 9:45am)
Coach Tom O’Brien was interviewed on Adam’s Gold radio show today. This is the first time I have ever been to 850’s blog, so I must give them credit for its content. There is a lot of good stuff over there. Check here for the full audio. * ECU expects to have their best team […]
Mid June Football Check
After yesterday’s entry on Markus Kuhn and last week’s little entry about the best players in the ACC we are starting to grind some attention towards football season. Can you believe that football practice starts in just a month and a half? To get yourself off on the right foot you can click here to […]
Markus Kuhn featured on ESPN
A special thanks to those of you who emailed us at [email protected] to draw our attention to this article. As many of you experience, we (unfortunately) are painfully slow to get to our emails. (It’s just the nature of being stretched to thin. Our readers will enjoy this feature on Markus Kuhn written by Mark […]
Early season ACC Football games get time slots
This link will take you to our initial entry for NC State’s 2008 Football Schedule. This link will take you to BJD’s early breakdown of the Wolfpack schedule. As some additional information, the ACC has released the kickoff times for the first three weeks of the 2008 season. The Wolfpack’s first three games are as […]
TSN: Ranking the ACC’s Best FBall Players
It’s always interesting to look at lists like these. NC State only has two players – Anthony Hill and Willie Young – on the entire list. I think that is representative of what we all recognized a few years ago and expected to be the case as Chuck Amato’s recruiting was starting to suffer and […]
NC State Football Recruit Tobias Palmer Wins State 2-A 100M Dash (Updated 5/13)
May 10th Pretty cool. Check this out: For the boys, Northwood senior Tobias Palmer, an N.C. State football and track recruit, won the 100 meters with a time of 10.58. He ran an 11.09 at regionals. “This was my last chance,” said Palmer, who wanted to win badly after taking sixth last year and second […]
Chip Alexander Q&A with TOB
LINK. Not much news, but does provide another good window into Coach O’Brien’s steady, cerebral mindset. The Dick Sheridan comparisons look more apt every day. He also says we should expect to win championships. Imagine that!
Spring Game Doesn’t Provide Much to Discuss
…but we’ll open this entry for people to make mountains out of molehills if they would like. Evidently, it was a ‘thriller’. The statistics can be found here. And, some bullet points focusing on our QB situation can be found here. The Charlotte Observer’s game story shares a little of the only information that I […]
Coach O’Brien Keeping Pack on the Track to Coming Back (Updated with 850 Audio Link)
The Red & White football game is approaching this weekend and Wolfpack fans are starting to look ahead to the 2008 season. (That’s what we do as NC State fans – look ahead…OR…look very far in the past). I just had to tell you how impressed I continue to be with NC State’s Head Coach, […]
