October 8, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Caulton Tudor (N&O) O’Brien’s audacity of hope Beat Central Michigan today, then wait for the cavalry – that’s been a big part of Tom O’Brien’s message all week. The fifth-year N.C. State football coach staked out that path on Monday and talked it up again Tuesday and Wednesday. But […]
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Friday Farrago
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 […]
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 […]
NC State Football By The Numbers – Post GT Edition
Here are the season stats after the Georgia Tech game. Team Statistics Offense Points Per Game: 30.8 (ACC Rank: 6, Nat’l Rank: 51) High: 43 Low: 14 Rushing Yards: 107.0 (ACC Rank: 10, Nat’l Rank: 101) Passing Yards: 261.6 (5, 39) Total Offense: 368.6 (11, 83) Defense Points Per Game: 31.4 (ACC Rank: 12, Nat’l […]
Depth Chart for Central Michigan – Sweezy returns
Link At least J.R. Sweezy returns. Nice to see Darryl Cato-Bishop’s name. Curtis Underwood returns in a back up role. Taylor Gentry‘s injury wasn’t too bad and he returns (listed as starting fullback) And, evidently Wil Baumann‘s hamstring wasn’t too bad.
Tuesday Tidbits
October 4, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL GoPack.com Wolfpack Defense Changes Gears for Central Michigan After a crash course in defending the option last week, and drilling against Cincinnati’s short passing attack the week before, the NC State coaching staff must game-plan for yet another philosophy as Central Michigan brings its smash-mouth style of play to […]
TOB & Spaziani hitting national ‘hot seat’ radar
Two coaches and programs inextricably linked through personnel moves of the last five years are now coming full circle in the national media. ESPN’s Heather Dinich had this today It’s a game of musical chairs in the ACC, and there are two new coaches trying to stay off the hot seat: NC State’s Tom O’Brien […]
How is State not last in the ACC power rankings?
New ‘power rankings’ are out from the ACC Sports Journal and somehow Virginia and Boston College are both ranked below the Wolfpack. Does that mean that State might actually have a chance when we travel to both Charlottesville and Chestnut Hill later this season? With a win this weekend over Central Michigan it looks like […]
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 […]
#21 Georgia Tech vs NC State Preview: …whatever…
Despite how this season may be turning out, here are some highlights on GT. If this analysis is a bit leaner than usual, I’m assuming everyone will forgive me for not exactly being motivated to preview too much for Tom’s 5th-year football team (I’m even avoiding calling it the “2011 NC State Football Team”). Georgia Tech […]
