Bad news for a team already thin at LB, as likely starter MJ Salahuddin goes down with a knee injury and will be out “for a while” according to head coach Dave Doeren. Salahuddin will require surgery, but no further details have been made available. Wolfpack loses LB Salahuddin to knee injury (CharlotteObserver.com) N.C. State […]
GoPack.com #PackCamp 2014 – Day 3 Practice Notes The team put on pads for the first time this morning for practice No. 3. They were in their ‘1/2-pack’ (shoulder pads), and will put on full gear for practice No. 5 on Wednesday. • Coach Doeren praised Rob Crisp for his leadership in today’s practice and […]
Link to practice notes provided courtesy of NC State. “• The team began hitting the field around 9:15 a.m. for a 9:45 flex. There was light rain in the area at the beginning of the workout, but the rain cleared out and left behind cloudy and cool temps (67 degrees when practice began). • The […]
WRAL: RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State opened its second training camp Saturday under Dave Doeren with a quarterback in place this time. The Wolfpack also has a year of experience in Doeren’s system. That puts the team on better footing while trying to improve on last season’s struggles. “I thought the guys came out […]
Lynchburg The News & Advance: Virginia was not the only football team that failed to win a single ACC game last season. Neither did North Carolina State. The Wolfpack went 3-9 overall and 0-8 in ACC play in Dave Doeren’s first season as the team’s coach. “We remember what last year tastes like, so we […]
WRAL: If there’s one prevailing assumption about NC State’s 2014 football team, it’s that the Wolfpack will be much better on offense with transfer quarterback Jacoby Brissett at the wheel. … “We have a good quarterback, and that’s not to take anything from Brandon Mitchell or Pete Thomas,” senior running back Tony Creecy said Sunday […]
OK, so maybe heroics is overstating it a tiny bit. But then again…maybe not. As it turns out, the young girl whom coaches Dave Huxtable and Frisman Jackson stopped to help out of her overturned vehicle Tuesday (just after she had rolled it due to texting while driving apparently) was safely seat belted in and […]
Niklas Sade is on the Lou Groza Watch List (GoPack.com). Patrick Stevens previews 2014 NC State football (Syracuse.com): Three preseason questions 1. Is there any star power here? It was only slightly harder to beat Florida State last year than it was to name 10 N.C. State players. The Wolfpack was the ACC’s most anonymous […]
We’re not the only ones commenting on the continued poor non-conference scheduling (more background here). Pat Forde has some general comments about the scheduling in 2014, with several of those comments either specific to or relating to State. SFN has noted recently that the trend shows declining attendance across college football, even in the SEC […]
It is that time of year when college football previews start to litter the landscape and help us all set our sights on the upcoming season. We are already under 100 days before the start of the 2014 football season, so I guess it is time to gradually start preparing for what the ‘experts’ expect […]
