Football Dates Trickling (Updated 1/20 9pm)

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September 1: Central Florida @ NC State

The Tom O’Brien era at NC State will open against George O’Leary’s University of Central Florida Golden Knights on September 1, 2007.

Click here for a link to UCF’s announcement and click here for some related comments from the N&O’s ACCNow blog.

In addition to the Golden Knights, NC State is slated to host Wofford and Louisville in 2007; Louisville is rumored to be a September 29th game. The Wolfpack will also travel to Greenville to play East Carolina because Lee Fowler is a big p*$$y and won’t say no to people that he believes can help/hurt his potential future professional advancement.

This link will take you to more information about NC State’s future non-conference football schedule.

Updated: 1/20 @ 9m

September 8: NC State @ ECU

State is set for a trip to ECU. Highlighted in this entry at the N&O

North Carolina and N.C. State, for the first time in a single season, will go to East Carolina for football games in the 2007 season.

In what is certain to be a boost for ECU season ticket sales, the Pirates are scheduled to host the Wolfpack on Sept. 8 and the Tar Heels on Oct. 20.

There is a slight possibility that both games dates could change, officials at NCSU and UNC are relatively certain that the dates are solid.

September 15: Wofford @ NC State

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57 Responses to Football Dates Trickling (Updated 1/20 9pm)

  1. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 01/18/2007 at 1:40 PM #

    I wanted O’Leary to replace Amato and was surprised his name was never mentioned. I hope TOB will prove me wrong.

  2. Trout 01/18/2007 at 1:49 PM #

    Wofford wont be a pushover as a 1-AA. They finished the season ranked #23 in 1-AA, and they played Spurrier’s Gamecocks a very close game, losing 27-20.

    http://www.wofford.edu/athletics/football/content.aspx?id=16344

    I thought L-Ville was going to be a Thursday night game?

  3. NCStateDud92 01/18/2007 at 1:50 PM #

    About the link to other schedules. Now why on earth would you schedule a series 10 years from now?

  4. CarnifeX 01/18/2007 at 1:57 PM #

    Why do you complain about supporting our closely related ECU team while not saying a thing about Wofford?

    SFN: Really? Wow. You know…we have an IQ requirement here. Be careful not to make us ban you.

  5. VaWolf82 01/18/2007 at 2:12 PM #

    I wanted O’Leary to replace Amato

    Only if he could get Friedgen as his OC. Look at his record w/o the Fridge and you will see why my GT friends lost no sleep when he left GT for ND.

  6. DRW 01/18/2007 at 2:15 PM #

    Jeff: Did you see that we’re playing AT EZU in basketball next year, too. Why in holy hell are we doing this? Giving up revenue to go to Greenville?!?! LF needs to go ASAP.

    Jeff: We will definitely have plenty on this in the near future.

  7. ChuckAllYall 01/18/2007 at 2:16 PM #

    CarnifeX,

    I doubt we will be playing a home and away with Wofford which is the case with ECU.

  8. Cardiff Giant 01/18/2007 at 2:18 PM #

    Lee Fowler is a big p*$$y and won’t say no to people that he believes can help/hurt his potential future professional advancement.

    Truer words never spoken

  9. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 01/18/2007 at 2:27 PM #

    “Only if he could get Friedgen as his OC. Look at his record w/o the Fridge and you will see why my GT friends lost no sleep when he left GT for ND.”

    From CFU Bio…
    George O’Leary has engineered one of the top turnarounds in the history of college football as the head coach of the UCF football program. Just one year removed from a 0-11 season at UCF, O’Leary guided the Golden Knights to a historic season in 2005, complete with the program’s first bowl appearance in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl.

    In 2005, O’Leary led UCF to the fourth-best turnaround in NCAA history with a record of 8-5, including a 7-1 mark in Conference USA and the East Division Championship. The Golden Knights were just the sixth team in NCAA history to go to a bowl a year after going winless.

    O’Leary was named Conference USA Coach of the Year in addition to being named National Coach of the Year by CBSSportsLine.com and SportsIllustrated.com.

    O’Leary has reshaped the UCF football program in every facet – from improved academic results in the classroom to overall team discipline on and off the football field.

    Since O’Leary’s arrival, UCF has posted its top two fall semester team grade point averages in the classroom. The Golden Knights set a new school Division I-A history record with a 2.78 team GPA in 2004, only to break that mark with a 2.808 team GPA in the fall of 2005.

  10. Trout 01/18/2007 at 2:30 PM #

    FYI, UCF finished 4-8 this year.

  11. Otis 01/18/2007 at 2:45 PM #

    I can see how playing ECU doesn’t help us any, but I don’t understand why all of the hating on playing ECU. I am a current State student hopefully class of ’08, but I grew up in G.ville and am the son of a Pirate grad. I can understand hating on Duke and the tarholes, their arrogance is enough to hate them alone. ECU on the other hand is a lot more like NC State, except less smart sciencecy people, good down to earth kids who weren’t raised with a silver spoon in their mouths. I mean G-vegas is not that far from here, and they don’t usually sell out their stadium, so road trip it. How many road games have you been to outside of the triangle? I know I will be there, think of it as an opportunity to support our in someone else’s house. I would rather play a road game this near by against a decent D1 team from a good conference than another gimme at home against a D2 opponent.

  12. old13 01/18/2007 at 2:54 PM #

    Foulup is much too small-minded in view of the goals stated by NCSU coaches of major sports and needs to be gone NOW! He’s a major drag on Wolfpack sports!

  13. Dexter 01/18/2007 at 3:02 PM #

    I love the ECU game. Only a 30 min. drive for me.

    Why play @ ECU. Money, Money, Money. It is a cheap road game.

    SFN: Not as cheap as playing a game at home

  14. wolfpackbball 01/18/2007 at 3:22 PM #

    As a pack fan, I don’t buy the logic of the Wolfpack FAN arguing against a football game at ECU. Let’s play creampuffs at home because it benefits us financially. Let’s not get a good heated rivalry against a pretty even team HISTORICALLY, by playing home and away. We are only interested in the dollar value of the game. Line up Wofford, App. St., SCLSU Muddogs. We only care for the money.

    THE MORE WE FUSS ABOUT PLAYING ECU, THE MORE IT SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCH OF WHINY-ASS UNX FANS THAT ARE SCARED TO LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    STOP!!! PLEASE!!!

    SFN: It only sounds this way to people who aren’t smart enough to understand the financial impact of giving up a home game for a road game…particularly a road game that generates ZERO national interest and media attention. Compare State @ ECU to State @ Ohio State. Hmmmm…..which is better for the program?

  15. Dan 01/18/2007 at 3:42 PM #

    I’ll go one further and say there is no way in hell we should be playing any C-USA team on the road. I understand having a non-conference road game, but let it be part of a home at home with mid tier BCS conference member. South Carolina. Purdue. Hell, I’d rather have a home at home with Oregon rather than EZU.

    Fire Lee Fowler

  16. for2n8son 01/18/2007 at 4:08 PM #

    I just hate sitting in the same stadium with the EZU rabble. As much as I hate the grand prix at chapel hell, at least there is some form of sportsmanship involved in that game. When I go to a EZU game, I always have this nagging feeling that I should be bringing a baseball bat with me, just in case.

  17. BJD95 01/18/2007 at 4:13 PM #

    It does squat for our program, and it’s their freaking Super Bowl. We stand a better chance of losing than against a similar caliber opponent b/c they have so much invested emotionally in beating us.

  18. packpigskinfan23 01/18/2007 at 4:20 PM #

    we all know there are great arguments FOR and AGAINST playing in Greenville.

    SFN: We do? Please feel free to share any ‘great argument” FOR playing in Greenville. Seriously.

    its all just a matter of opinion. however there is absolutley NO EXCUSE for EVER playing on the hardwood anywhere near Pitt County. EVER!

  19. packbackr04 01/18/2007 at 4:20 PM #

    otis, i dont argue your logic about playing ECTC, just why so much, i mean arent we required to play them every so often by the state legislation. there is no need to do home and aways with them every year.. play them when we have to, and be done with it…. to be scheduling them every year is pointless and it takes away from the specialness (if thats a word) of playing them every once in a while… i agree. if we played them every 3 or 4 years it would be a big game… not florida state big, but fun and worth getting together wth all your pirate friends and seeing.

  20. packpigskinfan23 01/18/2007 at 4:20 PM #

    ^should say “playing FOOTBALL in Greenville”

  21. lush 01/18/2007 at 4:27 PM #

    what are the arguments FOR playing football in greenville?

  22. packpigskinfan23 01/18/2007 at 4:41 PM #

    1- quick and easy drive to the game

    2- WE may not like to admit it, but there IS a bit of a rival in the Pirates. and I believe they currently hold the top spot in the all time record. there have been many tough games between the teams.

    3- I believe there are MANY of us in here that have ECU fan friends that can get you GREAT tickets.

    4- ECU IS on its way back up, and a good solid defeat will look good for us.

    5- it is cheaper to travel to Greenville than So. Mississippi

    I am not saying I am one who agrees that we should play in G-ville, and I am sure that anyone could come up with something to debate any of these reasons… what I DO believe is that we SHOULD play the Pirates, just two or three times every 10 years. no use in spending a game on the Pirates as often as we do. we need to go after bigger names from time to time. I know the idiot politicians are forcing our hand at the moment, but giving in to the ECU crowd only advances their hopes(I mean delusions) that they should become an ACC team.

  23. StateFans 01/18/2007 at 4:52 PM #

    ^ If those are the “great arguments” then you’ve just made the case for playing at App State and at Western Carolina every year.

  24. packpigskinfan23 01/18/2007 at 4:56 PM #

    no… there is a large diffrence in App State/W. Carolina and ECU.

    not only is the division and talent level far apart- at least with ECU we dont have to travel over any mountains!!!!

    😉

  25. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 01/18/2007 at 5:15 PM #

    I’m no fan of ECU but over the last 15 years or so ECU’s football program has been as consistent as any team in the state. With the exception of a couple year at UNC with Brown and a few years with Grobe at WF, and the Rivers era, ECU football has had at least as good a program as UNC, Duke, WF and State.

    I don’t think going to Greenville makes sense and I don’t think State should schedule ECU every year but I would enjoy watching State play ECU more so than…

    Southern Mississippi
    Arkansas State
    Southern Methodist
    UMASS
    UCONN

    These game don’t even have a regional interest much less national media attention.

    SFN: (Politely) It should be more about ‘what is best for the program’ than ‘teams you personally like to see play’. It would be even more fun to have a non-conference schedule of Georgia, Florida, Notre Dame and USC. But, that isn’t what is best for NC State.

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