Gainsville, GA safety Daunte Carr has added NC State to his final four. We are in the mix with Wake Forest, Stanford, and UCLA. The reason I find this so worthy is the reason behind Carr’s list: academics. ESPN reports that Carr wants to major in biomedical engineering and pre-medicine, the former being a large […]
Football Recruiting
SoCar Coach Says He Games Recruiting Rankings
Brad Lawing, the South Carolina defensive line coach and former UNC-CH recruiting coordinator, says that recruiting rankings and sites are a scam. “I can take a three-star and make him a four-star, and I can take a four-star and make him a three- or two-star with the contacts I have. That’s how ridiculous recruiting on […]
More Immediate DL Help On the Way?
If this Athens Banner-Herald article is correct, the defensive line for the 2009 and 2010 Wolfpack will soon get even tougher: Lemon, who has attended Georgia Military College after being booted off the team at Georgia and suspended by the university, expects to continue his football career at North Carolina State this fall, according to […]
ChltObs: 2009 Top 25 NC HS Football players
Charlotte Observer ran a list of the Top 25 high school football recruits in the state of North Carolina today. (Link) It’s nice to see our big man sitting on top of the heap. 1. Robert Crisp Chapel Hill, 6-8, 300, OL: Committed to N.C. State and a top-30 national recruit. Had more than 30 […]
NC State Football Gets A Big Commitment (Updated 9:45am)
NC State received verbal commitments from Chapel Hill’s Rob Crisp and Pete Singer tonight. Crisp is a 6’8”, 280 lb OT from Chapel Hill High School who is ranked as the state of North Carolina’s top prospect and one of the top 100 players in the country. His offer list was larger than 30 different […]
Legislature Panel Recommends Making It Tougher To Admit Out-of-State Athletes
I figure it’s as good a time as any to start turning the page away from basketball and to other topics, namely the coming football spring practices and spring game, as well as other various and sundry items of note and interest. The State Legislature is in town, so hold on to your wallets, and […]
Let’s See How It Turns Out In 3-4 Years, Jamie Newberg
Google’s news snoop sent me a link a little while ago where a roundtable of Rivals.com national analysts talked about the college football signing classes that they ranked as the ‘most disappointing’ for the year. Jamie Newberg’s answer: I think what North Carolina State did was a little disappointing, especially with the way they finished […]
It’s National Signing Day
Quote of the night from last night’s Wolfpack coaches’ comments on our recruiting class: “stars are like a bikini…they show a lot, but not everything.” Indeed. Our coaching staff seems quite satisfied with our incoming class, and given their experience and history of taking players that are less-heralded and turning them in to solid football […]
Bunting revisits AJ Davis and “Puff” Thomas
Apparently John Bunting is coming out with a book soon. Check here for the full interview from the ACC Sports Journal: On the recruitment of Puff Thomas: I remember when the offering plate got passed, I think I put a $20 bill in there and I looked over and Webster’s writing a check. I was […]
Four football players enroll early
NC State Athletics has announced that four new football players who will be eligible for the fall have enrolled for the new semester at NC State and will be eligible for spring practice. Sam Jones, (6-7, 295, Fuquay Varina, NC), OL/DL “originally signed with NC State in the spring of 2008, but attended Hargrave Military […]
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