September 13, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL J.P. GIGLIO (N&O) Pack back to basics, work on defense Instead of ordering a dose of Bear Bryant’s “Junction Boys” gridiron justice, N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien decided to give his football players a day off the field after its deflating 34-27 loss at Wake Forest on Saturday. No […]
Football Recruiting
Friday Farrago
September 2, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 1 DAY!!! J.P. GIGLIO (N&O) Pack’s Glennon will let his play do the talking Mike Glennon gets it. You want to compare him to Russell Wilson, that’s fine. N.C. State’s new quarterback understands it’s unavoidable, given the success Wilson enjoyed with the Wolfpack and the way […]
Monday Musings
August 29, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 5 DAYS!!! Bob Sutton (ACCSports.com) Countdown To Kickoff: N.C. State Sammy Baton (Fayetteville Observer) N.C. State’s Mike Glennon ready for Pack spotlight Matt Carter (TheWolfpacker.com) Niklas Sade relished chance to kick right away Some freshmen may shy away from jumping right into the pressures of major […]
Friday Farrago
August 19, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL CHIP ALEXANDER (N&O) Pack’s Kuhn, Sweezy worlds apart Most know of Kuhn’s unusual story, of how he and his father, Wolfgang, came to the U.S. from Germany in 2006, visiting colleges, looking for a place to play. Kuhn didn’t have a recruiting resume. He had size and a DVD […]
Wednesday Football Tidbits (2pm update)
We’re all excited — some of us more anxious — about the upcoming football season, so we’ll try to keep some fresh football topics on the blog. *Not that preseason polls mean anything at all, but tight end George Bryan was selected to the preseason All ACC team. You can see the others selected at […]
Highly rated QB Picks Pack
Last night’s ESPN crawl was particularly sweet for NC State fans. As “TOBtime” shared in our message forums: Last night, while watching Al/TN baseball game I notice the ESPN scroll says Delvon Simmons (4 star DT) is now going to Texas Tech and has DECOMMITTED from unx. Immediately following that scroll it talks about Mr. […]
Mike Glennon officially takes reins as NC State quarterback
Signing day served to reveal some developments with NC State’s football roster that were not previously known. In afternoon interviews, Head Coach Tom O’Brien announced today that the program will be moving forward with Mike Glennon as the starting quarterback and that Russell Wilson will be playing baseball with the Colorado Rockies. O’Brien did hedge […]
FBall Recruiting: Wolfpack addresses special teams needs
Today is one of the biggest days of the year in college athletics – National Signing Day for college football programs. We have been entertaining a season long “Football Recruiting†thread on our message boards that is now nine pages long and can be seen by clicking here. But, today is when all of the […]
ESPN: FBall Recruiting Rewind
College Football’s national signing day is this week, so you will run across a lot of football recruiting talk in the coming days. As it relates to NC State recruiting, we’ve been trying to keep things somewhat streamlined in the blog and our forums for you. This link will take you to page 9 of […]
Football recruiting rolls along with three strong commitments
Don’t look now, but NC State’s football recruiting seems to have hit stride the last few weeks as the Wolfpack looks to land about 20 players come signing day in early February. The positive momentum continued tonight and over the weekend as Coach Tom O’Brien has landed some impressive talent Tonight, State got a big […]
