Lynchburg The News & Advance: Virginia was not the only football team that failed to win a single ACC game last season. Neither did North Carolina State. The Wolfpack went 3-9 overall and 0-8 in ACC play in Dave Doeren’s first season as the team’s coach. “We remember what last year tastes like, so we […]
NCS Football
NC State future OOC Football Schedule
For all of your whining and complaining in recent years…the following isn’t too bad…especially when we play Florida State, Clemson, Louisville and North Carolina every season. Sprinkle in some future dates with a familiar Duke program and I don’t find much for Wolfpack fans to complain about. (Of course, that doesn’t mean it will stop […]
“Interest” in a State-Duke Non-Conference Football Series
On the heels of the announcement that State and West Virginia will play a home-and-home series in 2018-19, and Mississippi State in 2020-21 (click here for more on this), is the news that State and Duke are both interested in a regular (non-conference) series in the future. Like West Virginia and Mississippi State, this is […]
State Football Adds Series with West Virginia
This is the exact type of series State fans have wanted. Now, if we could just get the ACC/SEC +1 agreement to work out. WRAL: North Carolina State University announced on Wednesday that it has added a future non-conference football home-and-home series with Big 12 opponent West Virginia. In 2018, the Mountaineers will travel to […]
“Brissett’s Time Finally”
WRAL: If there’s one prevailing assumption about NC State’s 2014 football team, it’s that the Wolfpack will be much better on offense with transfer quarterback Jacoby Brissett at the wheel. … “We have a good quarterback, and that’s not to take anything from Brandon Mitchell or Pete Thomas,” senior running back Tony Creecy said Sunday […]
NCSU Football Asst’s Heroics
OK, so maybe heroics is overstating it a tiny bit. But then again…maybe not. As it turns out, the young girl whom coaches Dave Huxtable and Frisman Jackson stopped to help out of her overturned vehicle Tuesday (just after she had rolled it due to texting while driving apparently) was safely seat belted in and […]
Miscellaneous Football
Niklas Sade is on the Lou Groza Watch List (GoPack.com). Patrick Stevens previews 2014 NC State football (Syracuse.com): Three preseason questions 1. Is there any star power here? It was only slightly harder to beat Florida State last year than it was to name 10 N.C. State players. The Wolfpack was the ACC’s most anonymous […]
Pack lands top recruit over the holiday
Georgia High School football star Quentez Johnson is a 6’3, 330 pound three-star rated defensive lineman that was pursued heavily by Miami, Tennessee, Oregon and other top programs. Over the holiday he announced that Raleigh, North Carolina is going to be his home for the next four to five years. For the next 4 years […]
Forde: State has “Most Cowardly” Non-Conference Schedule
We’re not the only ones commenting on the continued poor non-conference scheduling (more background here). Pat Forde has some general comments about the scheduling in 2014, with several of those comments either specific to or relating to State. SFN has noted recently that the trend shows declining attendance across college football, even in the SEC […]
USA Today: NC State Football #88
It is that time of year when college football previews start to litter the landscape and help us all set our sights on the upcoming season. We are already under 100 days before the start of the 2014 football season, so I guess it is time to gradually start preparing for what the ‘experts’ expect […]
