Dan Wetzel – John Calipari the Perfect Coach For NC State

LINK.

Favorite excerpt:

That tale, the quintessential John Calipari story, is why he is the perfect coach for North Carolina State, and the Wolfpack know it. It is not because of who he would make happy (State alums), but who he would drive nuts, namely Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams.

That has to be what State really wants รขโ‚ฌโ€œ to be relevant, to be feared, to matter again to its local rivals, Duke and North Carolina. To get that, it has to have a coach who will get under the big two’s skin, wage war in the media, steal recruits and road wins, basically give the Wolfpack both the bark and the bite they’ve lacked.

Keep those fingers crossed!

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219 Responses to Dan Wetzel – John Calipari the Perfect Coach For NC State

  1. Winston Wolf 04/11/2006 at 1:09 PM #

    That article excited the h@ll out of me! We got to get him!

  2. Howling Wolf 04/11/2006 at 1:10 PM #

    AMEN, PREACH ON BROTHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. nav 04/11/2006 at 1:12 PM #

    Yeah, that article is nice and all but I really need some info on what is going on today. With all the activity yesterday someone somewhere should know something today.

  4. Winston Wolf 04/11/2006 at 1:13 PM #

    Do I hear an echo?

  5. VolleyWolf10 04/11/2006 at 1:14 PM #

    What an awesome article! GO WOLFPACK!!!

  6. motorhead 04/11/2006 at 1:14 PM #

    Nav, grab a Budweiser, you have the shakes.

  7. WilmingtonWolf05 04/11/2006 at 1:14 PM #

    Wow, triple post! Someone’s a little too excited! J/K ๐Ÿ™‚

  8. roon7723 04/11/2006 at 1:15 PM #

    anyone just watch cold pizza on espn2? woody paige was just talkin crap about state saying y would cal leave memphis just to finish 6th or 7th in the acc…..

  9. motorhead 04/11/2006 at 1:16 PM #

    Woody paige is a bigger a**hole than Jim Rome.

  10. wolfpacker420 04/11/2006 at 1:17 PM #

    to keep the tarholes and dookies on top! that is espn’s job.

  11. Wolfman300 04/11/2006 at 1:17 PM #

    That article makes me want to go out and whoop a UNX fan right now!

  12. roon7723 04/11/2006 at 1:17 PM #

    its sad to see the “experts” not as knowledgeable us some of the people here. he didn’t even to seem to know much of the facts behind it all.

  13. class of 74 04/11/2006 at 1:18 PM #

    Our neighbors annuity has left town and now it’s payback time.

  14. PittsburghPackFan 04/11/2006 at 1:19 PM #

    I think it’s the comments like that that will ultimately bring him to Raleigh. I think he knows that NC State is a sleeping giant, waiting to be stirred.

    Everyone and their mother is wondering why he would go to the ACC, just to finish ” 3rd at best “. He KNOWS he can win big and become a legend.

  15. BJD95 04/11/2006 at 1:20 PM #

    This Dan Wetzel sure “gets it” wrt Wolfpack fans, for sure.

  16. motorhead 04/11/2006 at 1:21 PM #

    I gave my students a test so I could check things out.

  17. gumbydammit 04/11/2006 at 1:22 PM #

    finally, a sports writer that is not an idiot (e.g. Katz, Doyel)

  18. NCSU4LIFE 04/11/2006 at 1:22 PM #

    Woody Paige is nothing but a drunk from Tennessee ofcourse he is going to side with the folks of Memphis. I bet for a 12 pack he would change his mind.

  19. roon7723 04/11/2006 at 1:22 PM #

    woody seemed to know about as much as we knew about the whole situation on about thursday or friday of last week.

  20. Winston Wolf 04/11/2006 at 1:23 PM #

    Nav, how’s the beer?

  21. BladenWolf 04/11/2006 at 1:26 PM #

    I had to send my tarhole lovin’ brother-in-law that article…

    great piece on the Pack… he really get’s it. my favorite excerpt:

    Soon enough N.C. State will go from the other school in the Triangle to a brash, badgering, championship-caliber equal, a program that matters, a team to be feared, to be given attention.

    That’s what it wants. That’s what he wants. And that, a little spice added to the mix, is what college hoops could use.

  22. Jacques_Strap 04/11/2006 at 1:27 PM #

    He’ll need another raise just to pay the ACC fines when he starts talking about refs. He’ll say what the rest of the entire country is thinking and seeing on their own TV sets.

    Imagine, a coach that could not care less what the other boys in the ACC coaching fraternity think of him.

    Give me a guy who does not “know his place” and that’s a guy that can get us to first place.

  23. NYPack 04/11/2006 at 1:28 PM #

    Somebody else mentioned this the other day, but if Cal were to come out of the gate wearing a red plaid blazer I think it’d be the greatest thing ever.

  24. nav 04/11/2006 at 1:28 PM #

    Unfortunately I’m at work. The beer won’t be going down for 4 more hours of nervous work.

  25. motorhead 04/11/2006 at 1:30 PM #

    I promised my son we’d play nine holes after work, so there’s a few hours to worry about something else.

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