While breezing through some articles this morning on the internet, I came across this piece titled, “Plan to expand Kenan excites Davis”. My initial reaction to reading the headline was, “Uh oh…there goes our football facility advantage over the Tarheels…and here comes another decade of built-in excuses by Lee Fowler and his coaching staffs about […]
Football Recruiting
TOB Lands Important Commitment
NC State Head Coach, Tom O’Brien has been winning the respect of the media…and now it looks like he is garnering respect from the state’s top high school football players. Coach O’Brien secured his third – and most important to date – verbal commitment of this year’s recruiting class this week when Shelby Crest linebacker, […]
WizOdds: ‘NCAA Lacks Text Appeal’
This is a link to an interesting blog entry that includes some good links to other sources discussing the topic of text messaging in college recruiting. The NCAA, unable to get a grip on technology, is about to ban text messaging in college recruiting. Yes, kids do get pestered to death with text messages and […]
Recruiting’s dirty game / NCS + TOB + CTC Comments (Updated 11:20am)
With the Spring Football game approaching this weekend and with NC State’s football recruiting evolving into a very different dynamic under Tom O’Brien than we had under Chuck Amato, we thought that we would share some interesting insight from a former college football coach. (Tip of the hat to Dave Sez for linking this up […]
Couldn’t Resist
Sorry…but, I couldn’t resist linking this blog entry and highlighting the comments of SEC Newcomer of the year, Patrick Beverley: “When I signed my letter of intent to play for Arkansas, I didn’t sign to play for any particular coach. “I signed to play for the University of Arkansas.” I think that I have a […]
TOB Building Bridges
Yesterday, Bobby V bridged the past…today, Tom O’ Brien is building bridges to mend some deterioriated relationships between NC State football and local high school football coaches. Tom O’Brien’s priority this spring is preparing N.C. State for the 2007 season during off-season workouts. But cultivating relationships with the people who’ll be supplying talent to his […]
UNC Lands Two Players That Clemson Admissions Turns Down
The alternate titles for this entry were “There is a War Brewing in Clemson” or “Can’t Wait to Hear Dave Glenn talk about Carolina’s bad academics”. It will be interesting if this piece will show up in any of Dave Glenn’s anyalsis after we have heard for the last few years how NC State consistently […]
John Hannah Signs with CTC @ FSU? Maybe Not
I really don’t care about this situation anymore. The back and forth and back and forth is like Schea Cotton and Brent Schaeffer rolled into one. But, I know that it is a topic that other Wolfpackers have followed closely and thought that we would link up. After the school reported that Johnathan Hannah had […]
Football Signing Day – State Talent
It is signing day! So, why not run an in-depth piece on talent and recruiting (as a follow-up to this entry with some great links in it) Whether it was reality or mis-perception, Chuck Amato had a reputation for preferring high school players from talent-rich states like Florida over those from North Carolina high schools. […]
Football Recruiting Primer
Tomorrow is college football signing day, so we thought that we would offer up a quick, relevant entry on the topic. This will require your clicking to previous links. Our own Bayou Bengal asked the question, “Does Recruiting Matter?” last year in a good piece. There seems to be different ways to judge the answer […]
