January 25, 2012 NC STATE BASKETBALL Caulton Tudor (N&O) Gottfried keeping it simple in prep for UNC game N.C. State basketball coach Mark Gottfried wants to keep things simple in preparations for his first game against UNC as the Wolfpack’s coach. State (15-5 overall, 4-1 in the ACC) goes to UNC (16-3, 3-1) on Thursday […]
Football Recruiting
Monday Musings
January 23, 2012 NC STATE BASKETBALL GoPack.com NC State Tops Miami, 78-73 Scott Wood scored 21 points to lead North Carolina State to a 78-73 victory over Miami on Sunday. The Wolfpack led 55-41 midway through the second half and withstood a late Miami rally. Kenny Kadji’s dunk with 1:44 remaining got the Hurricanes to […]
Thursday Compendium
January 19, 2012 NC STATE BASKETBALL Akula Wolf (BackingthePack.com) Previewing The Boston College Eagles I’m curious about the biggest year-to-year dropoffs in offensive efficiency, because this Boston College team has to be up there. Steve Donahue inherited a group of experienced well-coached offensive players in his first season, led by Reggie Jackson. Biko Paris came […]
2nd football recruit leaves UNC for NC State
The Larry Fedora era at UNC-CH seems to be starting with a bang!! Just a couple of days after a player who had verbally committed to ECU switched over to UNC, Fedora has experienced his second recruiting defection to NC State. Sanderson High football defensive end Desmond Owino has switched his college choice from the […]
Josh Sessoms lands Extra Effort Award
In typical TOB recruit fashion, safety prospect Josh Sessoms from Southern Nash High is the latest winner of Tom Suiter’s Extra Effort Award. For those of you like me who played high school sports in NC (or at least all of NC that matters: Raleigh and anything to the east therefrom… I kid Charlottans and […]
Thursday…the day before Friday
October 27, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) What exactly happened to Tobias Palmer on Saturday? Two questions immediately sprung to mind the moment it was announced that N.C. State wide receiver Tobias Palmer had suffered a concussion during pregame warmups at Virginia on Saturday. The first was: How does anybody suffer a concussion […]
Friday Farrago
October 7, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL The Sports Xchange TSX: Sweezy’s Return A Plus — The Wolfpack has avoided a three-game losing streak only in one season (2010) over the past five years. In order to prevent such a streak this year, the Wolfpack must win Saturday against visiting Central Michigan. “I told the guys […]
Wednesday Woolgathering
September 28, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) Wolfpack waiting for reinforcements, but can they arrive in time? The good news is that Sweezy (broken foot), Rieskamp (shoulder), Slay (ankle) and several others – including linebacker Terrell Manning (knee) and running back Mustafa Greene (broken foot) – are all expected back on the field […]
Friday Farrago
September 16, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Ryan Tice (TheWolfpacker.com) Game slowing for Mike Glennon The most noticeable thing for Glennon between his first two college starts was how the game began to slow down against Wake Forest, although the ACC opponents offered a stiffer test than Liberty, members of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). “I […]
Thursday Compendium
September 15, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL Matt Carter (TheWolfpacker.com) Audie Cole trying to stop bad habits Fifth-year senior linebacker Audie Cole admits that he did not enjoy looking at the film from the Wake Forest game. The Pack lost 34-27 after the defense struggled to contain the Demon Deacons’ offense. “We didn’t look good on […]
