- This topic has 200 replies, 36 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 2 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
When McCallum trolls, he trolls with acerbic wit. No problem here. But…failing to acknowledge the foot injury leading to Frasier’s frosh RS, and Matt Dayes’ rightful #1…and everything after that is called a “laundry list” for a reason…well, dammit Mc, it just ain’t up to standard.
I like McCallum. He’s sassy.
I like ice cream. Who cares. I just can’t stand his hit and run tactics with nothing to support it and tons of evidence where a kid comes from a small school and does well. It just reeks of lazy analysis.
You guys just need to learn how to read McCallum. He is not a troll, he is a State Grad. He is just an over read frat boy from the sand hills who does not know the difference between ‘Dirt’ and ‘Soil’. Just learn to love him and laugh, he can be very entertaining if you take it correctly.
From PA State looks great to me, I just have learned to hate Penn State as much as UNX.
Well no matter what we think, time will be the factor that lets us know who is right. Let’s play football! Go Pack! Surprise us!
While I am not one to call out players who haven’t done an other than live up to our expectations….I do think it’s certainly fair to note that Frazier wasnt able to finish it off like ta, Andre brown and our current Samuels.
Note that another highly touted back who had a star-crossed career here (but was nothing but pure class during his time here)
I like McCallum because his hit and run tactics make grown men whine on the internet.
Having seen TA run roughshod over 1A teams, and only having seen Frazier in the Shrine Bowl, the speed and explosion thru the line looked very different.
I like McCallum because his hit and run tactics make grown men whine on the internet.
I like how you think you are funny.
I like McCallum because his hit and run tactics make grown men whine on the internet.
I like how you think you are funny.
thanks!
Don’t listen to anything wirogers says because:
1) he od’ed on honey buns and Dr Pepper during the Bush I administration
2) he once dated Summer Erb
The comments on Fraiser are an “attempt” to get some of you to step out of the greater Wake County area and have a look at the larger picture. Elite athletes of the “top 5” variety are rarely stopped or slowed down on the high school level, State has few if any in that talent category.
The talent level is not high in Raleigh nor is the coaching level. To suppose State will catch a break here or there, wishing for this or wishing for that are hyperbole. The o line play is weak, the wideouts lack speed experience and depth, QB play has no tangible experience, and the linebackers and secondary are weak(pretty weak last year for certain). The kicking game is in complete question but for some reason that is not mentioned much when you are pulling kids from unc-Pembroke.
State has depth on the defensive line and experience. There is depth at running back.
That is about it. Now we can beat the statistical analysis(plays from scrimmage versus, 3rd down conversion, yards 1st down, tackles on line, tackles are 5,10,15 yards from line etc) around all you like but when you finish you’ll see the is little regression from mean and mean is roughly .506 overall.
4-4 would be normal, 5-3 a deviation, 6-2 would send some of you back into Amway, and let’s not go any further because Cool-Aid only recovered from Jim Jones about 20 years ago despite him using Flavor-Aid.
McCallum
Can I get some info that’s not 6 months old and actually useful.
UT -20 YOSEPH, UL -39.5 49ers, WFU -17 Tulane, no line State -17ish???
For entertainment purposes only of course.
How nice to ask me about Kirby Smart. I must say I’m flattered though I can’t help but see the ironic contrast between Kirby’s last name and the Georgia fan base.
What can you say about Georgia other than they get all they want each and every year. They pull the best in state talent plus they run that wonderful Hwy 74 from out near Shelby all the way down toward Wilmington. A little known FACT is that a Division 1 team could pull 30 miles north and south of that highway from Shelby to Wilmington and you’d have all you need to win big.
Not sure what to expect out of Georgia other than the typical mouthing of the fans who are akin to unc fans except they are less cultured but more bright. Now you ask more bright and I would point out that the typical Georgia fan figured out how to stop the blinking light on the VCR: they covered it with electrical tape.
McCallum
Having seen TA run roughshod over 1A teams, and only having seen Frazier in the Shrine Bowl, the speed and explosion thru the line looked very different.
I watched TA a ton in High School and it was crazy insane the things he did to those poor kids. One play against a team I cannot remember, TA takes a pitch speeds to the outside and his met by a small corner he unloads on the kid and knocks him about 3 yards downfield, he then did that classic spin right into a player coming to help and knocked him 3-4 yards back and TA pulls up as if he is looking for someone else to hit but then just jogs into the endzone.
And I saw Andre Brown play in state championship and it looked like a man playing with kids.
He sometimes looked like that in college
I do NAWT believe Happy Appy will cover the 20 spot against UT. I like the creamsicle checkerboard folks this season. Perhaps by default, but I likes ’em nonetheless.
What’s the company line? Somewhere between 5-7 and 7-5? Might be worse, won’t be better.
No prizes are given out at the end of the season for being right. Could use market economic principles and buy shares of the final record to temper those who are optimistic (DD best coach ever) and those who are pessimistic (DD is the worst coach in NCSU history).
It’s always funny to see the reaction when someone disagrees with the company line around here.
Not sure what you are trying to say here. I agree with some of the latest assessment of the team. I am on record of 6-6 or 5-7. I think this team will be somewhat better but have a worse record. The schedule is so damn tough. It all comes down to QB play or lack of it. I just thought it was cheap shot to say I told you so about a kid who has no control where he grows up and plays ball. Most kids who come from the small schools don’t make it but more than you think do. I know it was an indictment on DD but if that kid had gone to USC and had a career worth fawning over people would have ripped him from letting him get away. Recruiting is so hit and miss it’s silly to sit back and say I told you so over the success or lack there of a 18 year old kid.
I do think DD will have to win 6 and beat UNC to keep the seat from getting hot. It takes at least four years to get your system and players in the program. He deserves the support this year and next. Sounds cliché but this year is important for his job status. If they go 6-6 or better the vibe around the program will be positive enough to flow into the recruiting trail. 5-7 might be ok if the program has a signature a win. If it is worse than that it’s over. Not this year, though. He will coach 2017 season. The recruiting will suffer and DD will lose the fan base.
I do NAWT believe Happy Appy will cover the 20 spot against UT. I like the creamsicle checkerboard folks this season. Perhaps by default, but I likes ’em nonetheless.
We took the checkerboard tour this past weekend. I think I have lost her. The irony is we all went to the Chik Filet game 4 years ago but it seems like just yesterday. Not a transition I’m looking forward to but time marches on. Blue tick hounds are ok but I might have really screwed myself with Rocky Top. The late coin is driving the spread down but Vols cover.
Well one thing’s for sure.. it’s year 4 and there’s no excitement around the program. One would think this needs to be some kind of break out season for DD & co. or else what’s the point?
It is not a cheap shot on the “kid”.
I asked when he was signed if he was any good because it was apparent to me that something is missing when you are gauged to have a certain level of talent and yet you do not dominate. I pointed to Keith Marshall at Millbrook as another example in comparison to Todd Gurley.
What I heard was what you saw in the comment section and too much of the fan base buys into what they are told. There will be no success at State until the AD understands what type of mentality you need to look for at a place like NC State. That menaltity does not concern knowing the history of the school in an effort to supplicate the fan base and their narcasstic nature but rather to understand the complex nature of recruiting at NC State in relation to population, media connections, the impacts of basketball as well as the correlation of success in relation to the number division 1 programs within 200 miles.
State can’t even capitalize on the massive fraud that has taken place over in Orange County to horde in state talent. Instead the 7-8 year cycle of Tennessee or Clemson being down has been missed.
I just don’t think the SOBs know what they are doing.
McCallum
The talent level is not high in Raleigh nor is the coaching level. To suppose State will catch a break here or there, wishing for this or wishing for that are hyperbole. The o line play is weak, the wideouts lack speed experience and depth, QB play has no tangible experience, and the linebackers and secondary are weak(pretty weak last year for certain). The kicking game is in complete question but for some reason that is not mentioned much when you are pulling kids from unc-Pembroke.
State has depth on the defensive line and experience. There is depth at running back.
I agree for the most part. Recruiting rankings aren’t an exact science, but the teams that consistently finish high in that regard do pretty well. Unfortunately, we haven’t been cracking that top 25 or 30 in forever which means we’re still “coachin’ ’em up” and that leaves us consistently out of being anywhere close to winning the Atlantic, always hoping and wishing for bowl game scraps. All the best-case scenarios have us at 4th in our division and that’s with some breaks. 2016 rankings at Rivals have us behind FSU, Clemson, Notre Dame, Miami, UNC, Duke, Pitt, Louisville and VT (Scout has us ahead of VT). Someone in the program is going to have to figure out a way to recruit over the last 5 teams on that list in order to move ahead in league.
Additionally this level of recruiting makes it so that a lesser program full of 4 or 5 year players has a good chance to beat us. If our x-factor QB and kicking positions don’t trend up this season then we could be in for a nightmare.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
