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We should play the other Big Four teams twice EVERY season! Playing Duke twice probably won’t improve our win-loss record, but it’ll make us a better team by season’s end. And it sure beats playing VT, Miami and BC twice!
One thing that needs to be restored is the WF game as the season finale. With the ACCT moving farther away from Tobacco Road, a long road trip only a few days before the tourney starts doesn’t help us. If we have to do this from now on, Duke and UNC should also have to give up their travel-free weekend that always comes just before the ACCT. Treat us all the same.
If NCSU officials are serious about gameday enhancements in the stadium, they’d pull the audio plug on that GD scoreboard!
The road wins State needs most this season are in Mobile, Norfolk, Winston-Salem and Chestnut Hill. If they do this plus win at least 3 of their home ACC games, then I think State football will have taken a significant step forward.
A 4-4 ACC mark simply isn’t going to get this program up where it belongs. State issimply going to have to become an ACC contender before we’ll be taken seriously, which will help us land games (including bowl games) against opponents that will give us major exposure.
I see improvement over last season, but still think it’ll play out to 8-4 and a bowl I probably won’t buy tickets to.
Most memorable non-conference Wolfpack game EVER was the Saturday night 16-6 win over #2 Houston in the Astrodome.
I still think it’s the biggest non-conference win ever for Wolfpack football. It wasn’t televised back in 1967, so we listened to it on WPTF radio. A friend of mine who was there that night (he was stationed there) told me that State completely dominated that game, that they were bigger and stronger than the Cougars.
And that season featured perhaps the second most memorable non-conference game as well, the 13-8 loss at Penn State on a failed 4th down try on the goal line. Again, no tv.
Had the 8-0 Wolfpack won that one, oh what might have been. Just like Columbus.
Even more important than getting a 4-star recruit is that we likely have gotten a 4-year player. We need more of these guys.
He could be Scott Wood II, but it is very important to have an outside presence on the floor at all times.
There is hope yet for basketball. Maybe lots.
If it’s 7-5 like some are predicting, that almost certainly means a second straight 3-5 in the ACC. And if State goes 4-4 in the ACC and is still 7-5 overall, that would be even worse, given this schedule. Eastern Kentucky and ODU should be easy wins, but Troy at home and South Alabama on the road won’t be gimmes.
BC and Wake wouldn’t be difficult except that State never wins at BC and seldom wins at WF. The UNC game, played at the worst possible time of the season, could be anything from close to either team winning a blowout. Some of State’s home advantage will be negated by the school being on Thanksgiving break. Why can’t this game be played in October, or at least when students aren’t home on break?
I want to get excited about this season, but I just don’t like the way this schedule sets up. Not one bit.
The 4 games on the Wolfpack’s schedule that will be the most telling about this program and Dave Doeren are the games at Old Dominion, South Alabama, Wake Forest and Boston College.
A loss in Norfolk or Mobile would be nothing less than disastrous. Whoever set this schedule should be thrown off the top of Vaughn Towers.
I think ryebread has hit several excellent points.
The decline of rival games against teams that nobody gives a damn about seeing is a big reason that not only students but donors have been driven away. I’ll ask again- why is it that we have to play the likes of Boston College and Syracuse EVERY season, and get to play Duke, Ga. Tech, Va. Tech, UVA and Miami at home only once every DECADE?
Look at this season’s schedule- only 6 home games and FOUR games vs non-power conference schools. The biggest head-scratcher to me is playing Old Dominion and South Alabama on the road, in successive games no less. What in hell do we hope to accomplish from this? Lose ONE of those games, and State football will likely be back to square one.
The 4-hour games, some even longer, usually require students to sit in the sun during the hottest time of the day. With shorter attention spans than the seasoned fans, who usually get the shaded seating, it’s no wonder that more students are saying “no thanks” to being baked all afternoon while pretending that they actually care about their team beating up on some faraway small school that many have never heard of.
Until State becomes a factor in the race for an ACC title in football and men’s basketball, I just won’t be able to see any significant improvement in the two sports that really matter.
I don’t give a crap about the Director’s Cup. 1979 and 1987 matter more to me. Football continues to finish in the lower half of its division, and men’s basketball remains well outside the top 4 finishers in the ACC standings. This is longstanding.
These are the 2 hurdles that Wolfpack sports needs to get past, not simply moving up 2 notches in the DC standings or just making it to any bowl or being one of the “last in” to the Dance.
COWDOG, the OT doesn’t refer to an offensive tackle.
It refers to OVERTIMES.
And as for Dark Horses- Clinton High School is the only team I’m aware of with this nickname.
And no, I’m not from Clinton.
Yes, I was wrong on the State-Wake numbers, although one of my points was that State routine struggles against arguably the conference’s weakest football program.
The biggest point that I keep trying to make on here is that until the ACC makes significant changes in the way ACC football games are scheduled, State and Wake Forest will continue to struggle mightily. Yes, it’s very possible to beat Clemson or FSU, as we have, but how many times have we beaten BOTH in the same season?
The deck is stacked against the ACC Atlantic teams. Sure, Georgia Tech has a great chance to win the Coastal. So have any of the other teams in that division, who seldom have to face the Seminoles or Tigers, let alone both in the same season. Doesn’t Duke’s recent dominance in the Coastal tell you anything? It tells me that changes are needed.
I don’t see how State or any other team in the ACC Atlantic Division besides Florida State or Clemson could possibly be a dark horse. I don’t think there’s a team in the ACC who could beat both those teams in the same season right now, and the Pack would be a long shot even in the Coastal Division.
State has had a difficult time just finishing 3rd in their division. The Pack has yet to win at BC and hasn’t won at Wake Forest in 34 years. Any chance the Pack has of being a legit dark horse took a hit when Louisville was added to their division. FSU and Clemson football are essentially SEC football being played in the ACC, and those two continue to pound us on the gridiron.
I think any of the Coastal teams are bona fide dark horses for the ACC title, because this division has been wide open since it was created. If these divisions aren’t going to be re-aligned, at least the Coastal teams should have to play the Seminoles and Tigers on a regular basis and not dodge them repeatedly.
I like ryebread’s comments and we indeed are in a different age of basketball. I don’t adjust easily to change like a lot of the older people I know (I’m one), but we simply aren’t going to get many really good 4-year players anymore. So we may as well go after anybody we can get, 4 years or 2.
I am not a fan of transfers in general, but things are changing and it looks to me like Dorn is a very good catch for State. I guess what I’m saying is that I like transfers a lot better in basketball than I do in football, because most of the talent level we get at NCSU for football isn’t going to be the 2 or even 3 and out variety. You can jump to the NBA because it is predicated more on talent than any sport I know. And that’s to me why it sucks so much.
It has been refreshing to see even not even one post on here about those sons of bitches who are showcasing their hip-hop culture’s “game” on ABC this week.
Remember, NBA stands for Never Buy Anything.
Trini Lopez sang that if he had a hammer, he’d hammer in the morning, in the evening, all over the land.
However, this is the NCAA, which has shown that it can be very selective when swinging that hammer. Just ask Smoo fans.
I’ll have to see a real hammer before I’ll believe that the result will be much more than a slap on the hand.
I think only so much of this can be heaped on the players. An epic collapse like this one, and it WAS epic, HAS to go on the coaching staff. This is not a bad State team, and in fact was a pretty good State team.
I will echo mak4dpak and agree that Avent needs to go. Now. He lost me in Gainesville a few years back when he held a fully rested Rodon out of Game One in the Super Regionals. That to me would have been like holding Sandy Koufax out of Game One of the Series. Senseless. If any of the Big Wolves saw this one last night, they’ve gotta be wondering where Wolfpack baseball is going under this coaching staff, especially after the bottom of the 8th.
BLUNDERLAND it was, if you were lucky enough to snag a final edition of today’s N&O. At least ESPNU hid this one from the rest of the country.
I’m not familiar with ESPN3 being available to me on DirecTV, although it may well be. I don’t subscribe to any of their extra pay/premium packages.
I just checked the grid for upcoming sports programs and could find only the ongoing French Open extra channels, an upcoming PGA event, and the usual MLB games on the MLB pay package. There appears to be nothing else. Since ESPN has taken control of most college sports, the regional Fox sports cable affiliates are no longer showing any significant games involving (at least) the “power” conferences.
I don’t have an ax to grind with ESPN, but it seems to me that the more they control sports coverage, the less choices we subscribers have. The fact that ESPNU can “whiparound” all the games this weekend tells me that if it were allowed, subscribers could access any of these games they desired, at least pay-wise. But politics, as usual, seems to be in control. Almost every game out there, as well as any station in the USA, is on satellite. Why is it that I’m prevented from getting something I’m willing to pay extra for, when it’s available at the push of a button? Why is it that if I want to watch, say, a CBS affiliate in NYC or LA, the local CBS affiliate says I can’t, even when they pre-empt CBS programming during that time?
So, as far as I can tell, there is no DirecTV channel this weekend, or at least for Friday, that will carry the State-SB game, or any of the others, except ESPNU’s “whiparound” coverage.
I’ve had DirecTV for years, but don’t ever remember them setting aside extra free channels like they do for the major PGA events or the major tennis events.
I saw a tv schedule for the regionals and not one of the games appeared listed on anything but ESPN3.
I’m not very computer or internet savvy, but it looks like ESPN3 might as well be like ESPNU was for years- Unavailable.
ESPN ought to rename ESPNU as ESPN3, and simply quit trying to make these ESPN “3” games appear to be available. If it’s not on DirecTV, chances are that it’s not on tv anywhere, unless perhaps you pay someone extra $$ to get it on the internet.
I don’t know what this Charter-TWC marriage will bring, but it probably won’t be good news. I use TWC for internet and phone, but refuse to complete the bundle with their cable. I do like to watch MLB and giving up DirecTV and switching to TWC would, for starters, cost me over 300 Orioles-Nationals games, which wouldn’t be available even on the MLB Package offered by TWC. Maybe Charter can settle with MASN to get these two teams on area TWC cable. Maybe not.
I’m as old-school as they come. I use a rooftop antenna for my local channels, which gets me all the over-the-air channels in the Triangle and Triad (most which aren’t available on satellite like ME TV), and still have a tube tv, a Sony 34″ XBR, which is a wide screen and to me the still the best HD tv I’ve seen. But as I get older, the screen seems to get smaller. A 52″ UHD tv is in my future, and it will be financed by not buying season football tickets this year.
Go Pack!
I’ll ditto that “greatest season” prediction from Texpack as I will not be in the stands this season for the first time in over 20 seasons.
There’s nowhere for State football to go but up, when you consider that out of the 256 players drafted by the NFL last week, ZERO were from NCSU. At least, I couldn’t find a single one on the list.
Hell, even Mars Hill had a player drafted near the end.
There are two things that need to be said.
First, Coach Cal (along with the UK program) is a scumbag of the highest order, in my opinion, when he goes after a player who has just made a verbal commitment to another team. It may happen all the time, but I don’t recall such an instance. Isn’t there at least the tiniest amount of honor involved among coaches?
And second, this is NOT about Gott- it’s about NC State. Gott has done better here in his first 4 seasons than the Wolfpack basketball program has done in the past 25 seasons. The lack of any sustained success by this program since the 1980s is making it almost impossible for anyone to succeed here. And without some degree of success, which should start with at least appearing to be an ACC title contender instead of a program just trying to go .500 in the league.
Everyone who reads my posts knows that I place a lot of the blame on John Swofford and ACC officials who keep on stacking the deck against the Big Four teams who don’t wear blue. Not being allowed to play Duke twice every season in basketball has hurt our program and Wake Forest’s, and it makes no sense that ACC officials don’t seem to give a damn about the two red-headed bastards from Raleigh and Winston. Wake Forest is an even bigger loser than we are because they don’t get to play either Duke or UNC basketball regularly but rather are stuck with us as a primary playing partner. And if I’m wrong here, someone will quickly correct me.
I just don’t see things getting any better anytime soon. I’m still optimistic that next year’s team might finish above .500 in the conference and make the NCAAT again, but until some big wolves finally get it and try to move this school into the direction of at least exploring a move to the SEC, ain’t nothin’ gonna change.
The ACC has become a league of haves and have-nots. We’re clearly among the latter. Who will ever speak up for us?
