Those who have been with us longer than a year may recall last season an article was published titled “Benchmark Tom O’Brien: The Race to Perceived Success“. Â There is some good discussion on our message boards regarding Tom O’Brien’s trajectory as a program builder and why he is a good asset for our athletic department. […]
Chuck Amato
The Symmetry of Loserdom
I remember sitting in Carter-Finley on Philip Rivers’ Senior Day. State was choking against Maryland, and with under three minutes to play, the Terps missed what would have been the game tying extra point. I swear to God, I turned immediately to my family and said “Great, now we will lose in regulation.” Which we […]
NCSU Football Needs an Indoor Practice Center
It’s finally raining in the deserts of Raleigh once again. That’s good news for homeowners, some who depend of wells for water for their homes, others who are trying to care for parched grass, for farmers tending dusty fields, and for nearly everyone. We’ve needed this rain for a long time. Unfortunately, however, it comes […]
The Lee Fowler Era: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Part 2 (The Bad)
Now that June 30, 2010 has come and gone, North Carolina State has officially parted ways with its athletic director of the past 10 years, Lee Fowler. The past 10 years have been wrought with many more downs than ups, but we want to take some time to look back at the entire Lee Fowler […]
Amato has cancerous spot on tonsil
Via the Charlotte Observerand Ken Tysiac. Former N.C. State football coach Chuck Amato will undergo treatment for a cancerous spot located on his tonsil, N.C. State sports information director Annabelle Myers confirmed. Doctors detected the cancer early, and a full recovery is expected. Amato gave a statement to Myers after a Charlotte Observer and News […]
Fowler, Sendek, Amato and the GSR (Updated @ 1:15pm)
NC State is currently tied for the worst record in the Atlantic Coast Conference football season as the program heads towards its longest consecutive streak of non-winning seasons since the 1950s. The Wolfpack has been picked to finish 12th out of 12 teams from almost every imaginable source for the upcoming basketball season continuing a […]
10/15/2005: Letter to the Wolfpack Nation from NCSU Director of Athletics Lee Fowler
Raleigh, NC – Dear Wolfpack Fans: I know this is a time of great frustration and disappointment for all of you who care deeply and passionately about Wolfpack football. As Athletic Director, I can say that we all feel badly about losing–our coaches, our players and our staff, as well as our thousands of fans. […]
INJURIES IN CHAPEL HILL – THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM NO MORE
A few weeks ago we discussed UNC Football’s sudden and previously unexplained bout with Stunted Growth Syndrome. If you didn’t get a chance to read it, please take time to do so. The links are summarized, but the meat of the stories linked are quite informative beyond the blurbs. Essentially for the last three years […]
Pre-Game Pump Up Classic
An old video with some old faces…granted the story for some of folks in this video didn’t have happy endings, but this was certainly some happy times. See you at the game tonight!
Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part II, 2000-06
This is Part II of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many of us […]
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