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After watching TEAMSl coached by The Grey Fox (Case), Stormin’ Norman (Sloan) and Jimmy V, I suppose I’m spoiled. I don’t care if I never see another NC State game with some body dribbling up to the arc and jacking up another 3. Or worse having it stripped while trying to dribble through the entire opposing team.
The players weren’t as talented but I’ve seen better basketball played in the intramural games in Frank Thompson Gym. And if some primo donna tried to do it all himself, it didn’t require a coach to say anything. 4 teammates were in his face.
A few months ago some of you guys gleefully abandoned football as soon as basketball practice started. While the football team won 4 out of 5 including a thorough ass-kicking of our arch rival and a nice bowl win, we got samo, samo with basketball — games we should have won, no blocking out, too much 1v1, early foul trouble, etc. If I woke up from a deep sleep and read these blogs, I wouldn’t know what year it was.
FYI we just landed a top 5 FL recruiter to coach the wide receivers.
The only implication meant was that Hines was ahead of the curve, and consequently took time away from others.
But Hines’ playing minutes were sub par given his skills — which was my first thought when I heard he was leaving.
I’ve wondered about the regression and ‘dropsies.’ Could be some were being over coached. Thinking is the enemy of hand/eye coordination. Think not? Ever toss a balled up piece of paper at a trash can — almost without looking and it goes right in. Try again thinking about it. Hardly every goes in the second time.
Training new technique is for practice, not in front of 50.000 fans in C-F. Maybe not you, Mr. DOG but for a freshman or soph trying to earn playing time it will tighten up the muscles that need to be loose. Just an old man’s opinion.
Cheatzik is dreaming if he thinks everybody on Brokeback Hill is stupid enough to approve his hire. Fedora, have another Red Bull and lay off those funny smelling cigarettes. I wouldn’t put if past the Hat to “tell” a highly prized DB that Cheatzik was going to be the DC then blame it on the BOT when it doesn’t pan out. Wouldn’t be his first lie. Won’t be his last.
The bigger problem for the future, I would think, would be how soon before bigger programs come calling and he starts listening.
Strangely enough I don’t worry about Doeren listening to the big boys calling. Why? We have what he wants. North Carolina is where he paid his own money to vacation with his family.
I have no way of knowing but he seems to have core values that are bigger than money and I think if he is very successful our PTB will find the funds to keep him here. Even if he leaves isn’t it great that we have had a coach that was so successful that the big boys wanted him enough to buy out his contract.
What I do worry about is keeping our coordinators and other assistants. Canada is going to be a very hot property soon. Our line coaches are IMO well above average. The other coaches are getting the job done as well. If our receivers coach can cure the “drop-sies” he can name his price in the pros.
I see where you are coming from but I’m not inclined to worry about that which I can do nothing.
Alpha Wolf says:
“Admittedly, 2014 was not a high water mark for NC State football, but considering where they were going into the season, this team accomplished some great things. They were an afterthought at best in the summer, but they turned around a three win season with no conference victories in 2013 to a winning record and with good players returning next year.”That’s pretty clearly is not measuring “success by the isolated failure of another.” This year’s success is measured against last year’s lack of success. If we had lost to GSU, we were still a success compared to last year. Taking the Syracuse INT away from us to create a false loss, is ridiculous.
What I’m left to puzzle over is why McCallum felt the need to lift his nose in the air and say, “What I will not do is measure any success by the isolated failure of another.” Measuring success by the isolated failure of another is only in his mind.
If we were measuring our success by the failure of the holes, that failure sure as hell ain’t isolated.
Basking in their implosion is inviting our own disasters.
Read the words again, PackFamily. Basking in our victory, not basking in their implosion. If enjoying their misery is inviting disaster too effing bad. I’ve been a State fan since I was 7. That’s 70 years of listening to the righteous bastards crowing and preening about “The Caroline Way.” I believe I and some other older State Fans are enjoying the shoe being on the other foot for a while. Bragging rights for a year. How sweet it is. That’s 6 out of 8 years. I’ll tell you what’s inviting disaster, cheating for 20 years so you can get an edge on your “non rival.”
State beat the lucky sperm club (wake forest), Syracuse, and the tar holes; hardly the basis to proclaim a resurgence of State’s fortunes. Close as a pubic to Monica’s lips, the Pack was awful close to dropping a game it had in hand the other night.
If State were down by a TD and needed to recover an on-side kick and score another TD in less than 1.5 minutes — an on-side kick we failed to recover — and we started claiming we were within a c-hair of winning, we would be laughed out of town. I think the same goes for claims that we were that close to losing. Sure we could have lost but THAT close? Be for real.
There is a constant I have observed during my long suffering as a State man: State measures it’s success in context to the failures of the holes. I would suggest that ending the mental symbiotic relationship would be a healthy first step. Measure success and failure in objective rational manners, stop equating chapel hill with the base line for improvement. Measuring against the holes only deepens the paradigm they sought to impose long ago, they are the beginning and ending of all things.
I think we got us a case here of McCallum seeing the world through his own eyes. I don’t see that here on SFN. Perhaps McCallum needs his eyes checked.
Are we basking in our current success while enjoying EweNC’s current misery? Guilty. But all this BS? I don’t think so.
A true pleasure to read. Thank you. I hope every State fan will post a “Thank you” so that Alpha Wolf can get a sense of how many of us he has entertained with this fine write up.
Something I read on IC: “Sleeping giant my ass. How long is this mf going to sleep.”
Good chance this ends in time for the start of our game
It was before the holes had an injury off the field but couldn’t move the guy5 feet so the game could continue.
I also hope that a certain New Bern resident is watching this…
He should be happy. Want have much competition for playing time.
I’m just looking forward to the unc defense protecting the light blue acc logo after the loss.
This. ^
37-7 4th Qtr.
Day looks to be half successful at a minimum.
Dark visors are illegal at all school levels, so that refs can look into a players eyes when he has had his bell rung.
What’s stupid is not sending a player off to be examined by a medical professional when he’s had his bell wrung.
Same uni we wore in our last game… the one we ripped the heels 35-7. Aren’t dark visors illegal in college ball? That’s just stupid enough to be true.
“If he ain’t buying what we’re selling…”
A big part of what we are selling is family… you hear it in the recruits conversation, in the slogans and in everything about the Pack. Screw up at State and you get disciplined like you would expect in a good family. Screw up at EweNC coaches look the other way and you get it covered up unless it gets exposed by external means. One environment attracts one kind of person; the other attracts another.
The way this went down disgusts me. It’s almost like he was not only opting for EweNC but wanted to rub our/State’s nose in it. There was always a little smirk on his face when he was interviewed about his recruitment. There’s an F-U in this somewhere. I had bad feelings about this when he didn’t hang with the State commits at the Shrine Bowl. I wasn’t there so I don’t know if he hung with the EweNC commits or not.
Could be he told Doeren of his decision before hand like he told Fedora. If so, I’ll back off. He’s enrolling early so at least we don’t have to worry about him de-committing and wanting to come to State. Not sure I would want him now even if he did de-commit.
And one last comment (for now) I so want to see Gallaspy or McGirt pancake block his ass.
We have 5 2-star recruits, one of which is a long snapper. Two of the other 4 are generally thought to be underrated. More important than the ranking IMO is the fact that we are getting recruits in the areas of greatest need.
Based on our coach’s track record I have a feeling that the remaining 2-star recruits could turn out to be underrated as well.
We’ll never know until they are enrolled and actually performing on the field but it sure is fun speculating on what our commits will mean to our football team.
When I look at who we have coming back, who we have red-shirting and this list of recruits, I get so excited I almost sh!t myself.
Thank you Randy for hiring Debbie, Debbie for hiring Dave and Dave for hiring a great staff.
There’s a place called Relish on Creedmore at Millbrook that serves good food even if it’s not a meat and 3 kind of place. Big servings. 5 or 6 varieties of macaroni and cheese. The Fish and Chips has lots of home cut fries and 2 big pieces of fish. Lots of other stuff. It’s worth a try; you want be disappointed. Get there before 6:30 and you won’t have to wait for a table.
Griffin’s up in Youngsville sounds like what you are looking for. I used to eat at Griffin’s when they had one in Raleigh. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.
I see one or 2 tables of black folks every time I go in Watkins. It’s a real family business. Mothers, daughters, sisters, etc., work there and run the place. For some of us plain folks like Mr. DOG before he starting drinking martinis at the Empire, the homey atmosphere is as enjoyable as the food. One day me and a friend ordered lemon meringue pie for desert. It was almost closing time, 2:00 PM, and what’s her name brought us one piece of pie and told us one of us would have to have something else. Well, we kidded a bit about her being out of pie and she snatched it up off the table and cut it half with a fork she had brought, slid half on a clean spot on my plate and handed the other half to my friend. You can’t get that kind of service at the Empire Room.
Don’t be afraid to try Watkins. Just don’t go too often as it’s crowded enough as it is.
State commits… and preferred walk-on Duncan Musselwhite.
I heard Musslewhite (a center) is considering both UNC and State but had not heard he had decided on State. He was a teammate of Hughes at New Bern so which ever way Hughes goes, Musselwhite will be leaning that way but he said it’s not a certainty.
This my first year following recruiting. As exciting as it is, who’s going where is not a certainty until the LOI is signed.
Tanqueray martinis in the cellar at the Empire.
Alright. Who is this and what have you done with Mr. DOG?
And what about Watkins Grill on what used to be Old Wake Forest Road? That’s the kinda place “hands in the dirt’ NC State folks eat at. Breakfast is off the charts.
The voice-over is a little irritating. Well, maybe a lot irritating. Not thomebody I want to thporth with. You know what I’m thaying?
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