Raleigh, NC – Dear Wolfpack Fans: I know this is a time of great frustration and disappointment for all of you who care deeply and passionately about Wolfpack football. As Athletic Director, I can say that we all feel badly about losing–our coaches, our players and our staff, as well as our thousands of fans. […]
Tom O’Brien
O’Brien Talks About End of First Half Clock Management (Updated 9pm)
The comments that follow are related to the atrocious clock management at the end of the first half of yesterday’s loss at Florida State. As WV Wolf highlighted in comments: Donald Bowens gets tackled with about 30 seconds left in the half. Russell Wilson gets the play from the sideline at 22 seconds. Ball is […]
O’Brien Stands By Mike Archer, Blames Players (As Usual)
Photo Courtesy of photo1nc on SFN Flickr stream Tom O’Brien is nothing if not steady, apparently to a fault sometimes.  During his entire tenure at NC State, he has blamed his players for failing to execute – even in a win – and stood by his coaches. Thursday, he was back at it: “Mike’s been […]
O’Brien Remains Upbeat, Still Confident In Rebuilding Process
Despite back-to-back woodshed-whoopings, not to mention an increasing chorus of fans howling across the Wolfpack Nation for heads to roll on his staff, Tom O’Brien says that he is still confident in the growth process of the Wolfpack program under his leadership and that he does not believe that it is time to write off […]
The “We Lost To Duke” Post Game Entry
Rock Bottom. It might be time to let Ari Gold buy out the NC State Athletic Department. You're fired.
“Welcome to the Football Apocalypse” Post Game Thread
Have at it, folks. I’m out of words to describe this horse crap. Don’t tell me that we’re young, don’t tell me to be patient. The football product Tom O’Brien and staff have put on the field the past two weeks has been embarrassing. We might as well wave the white flag – our players […]
INJURIES IN CHAPEL HILL – THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM NO MORE
A few weeks ago we discussed UNC Football’s sudden and previously unexplained bout with Stunted Growth Syndrome. If you didn’t get a chance to read it, please take time to do so. The links are summarized, but the meat of the stories linked are quite informative beyond the blurbs. Essentially for the last three years […]
South Carolina Post-Game – The Perfect Blueprint
You have to hand it to the ol’ ball coach. He managed to do what nobody could in 2008 – stopped Russell Wilson cold. When asked by the media afterwards how he managed to bottle up Wilson like that, Spurrier exclaimed “We’ve got athletes!” That they do. But what almost nobody is able to to […]
Audie Cole Gets Front Page Treatment
Ken Tysiac has a nice writeup this morning: It’s no secret that N.C. State was most effective late last season when a healthy Irving and defensive end Willie Young rushed the quarterback from opposite sides. Opponents had to slide their protection toward one of those players. If N.C. State schemed correctly, that meant a running […]
Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part V, 2009
This is the final part of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many of […]
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