NC State Legislates Two Touchdown Beating of ECU, 34-20

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-From N&O ACC Blog:

In a certain sense, ECU joined itself in the record books by allowing State to score 34 points. The Wolfpack hadn’t cracked the 30-point barrier against a I-A team since a 52-14 win over ECU on Nov. 27, 2004. That was John Thompson’s last game as ECU’s head coach. State had gone 26 games without scoring 30 points against a I-A team.


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61 Responses to NC State Legislates Two Touchdown Beating of ECU, 34-20

  1. StateFans 10/20/2007 at 10:30 PM #

    testing 1,2

  2. packk 10/20/2007 at 10:33 PM #

    I am still in shock! Way to go Pack!!!!!

  3. VaWolf82 10/20/2007 at 10:34 PM #

    It’s not like ECU is all that great, but it is sure nice to get a real win.

  4. BoKnowsNCS71 10/20/2007 at 10:39 PM #

    This is the start of the rebuilding. Baby steps. Build cconfidence. Go Pack!

    Nice that it was not a squeaker. Maybe now we can win the Mythical State Championship?

  5. ncsubch2000 10/20/2007 at 10:39 PM #

    Not that it translates, but they beat UNC!

  6. Dr. BadgerPack 10/20/2007 at 10:46 PM #

    Sweep for my teams today… State, Wisconsin, Florida… NICE!

    Of course, now I don’t have anything to be pissed off about… what will I do?

  7. beowolf 10/20/2007 at 10:57 PM #

    Just a reminder of what a completely stupid, idiot fool Marc Basnight is:
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    “There are no negatives to it,” Basnight said this week. “It benefits the economy of Eastern North Carolina and benefits Raleigh. It fills up the stadiums. All I’ve heard in the legislative building this week is ‘Big game, big game.’ Why play some out-of-state team when you can create this much interest?”

    No. 1. Economy: Oh please. The economies of Eastern NC and Raleigh are not helped one whit when NC State plays ECU as opposed to playing out-of-state teams. Consider the LOSS of out-of-state fans coming to town and staying overnight somewhere in Greenville and Raleigh, not to mention the loss of regional and/or national TV exposure.

    No. 2. Fills up the stadiums: Generally, any opponent will do. A big out-of-state name would do so better.

    No. 3. Big game, big game heard all over the legislative building: Trust Basnight to be able to interpret the gruntings of those pigs.

    No. 4. “Why play some out-of-state team when you can create this much interest?”: Um, let’s see, TV exposure, money for our program, a game with national interest, more travel to the region, plus the fact that the goal of NC State football should not be to “create much interest” in the halls of the pork-slopping NC legislature!

  8. vtpackfan 10/20/2007 at 10:58 PM #

    Eating crow time, humbly speaking. I thought Green, Crouch, Lathan and the whole OL did an outstanding job. I rail on Meares Green mercilessly (because I am a twerp mostly), and hopefully he and the rest of this unit can string together some more positive performances like this.

    DE played smart and had it all going on. Earned himself a starting QB position for next’s week ACC tilt vs. Virginia.

    Pressley, Brown, and Young played like some of the great DL that have recently come before them. Dominating stuff, and they too will have a great opportunity to improve against a tough ACC line when the Wahoo’s come knocking.

    Finally the Coaching staff deserves a huge pat on the back for this one. Say what you will about the botched fake fg and some prevent D, but the overall gamepaln was solid. Going no huddle through out the game was perfect. A big reason for the success ECU has out of the front 7 comes from their depth and rotation. The no huddle prevented substituitions and probably slowed their pass rush a bit, buying more time for a QB who can get hot when given time to set up.

    Also taking the wind after winning the coin flip took balls from TOB. He gambled that if we could score first and get mometum then we would stand a better chance then waiting for the wind at our back in the 2nd and fourth quarters. That was a much more crucial call compared to the fake fg, IMO. GO PACK!

  9. RochesterRedWolf 10/20/2007 at 10:59 PM #

    All of the tireholes close defeats don’t look so good now…I think this win makes us the best 2-5 team in the country…i told u guys the 2nd half of this season was gonna be different. If we had been playing those Defensive calls at the end of the first half that we were playing at the end of the game, it would have been a real ass-whoopin

  10. StateFans 10/20/2007 at 11:17 PM #

    beo: it would be smart for someone to ask Basnight does he think ECU should play at App State. You know, it would be good for Western part of the state.

  11. BJD95 10/20/2007 at 11:24 PM #

    I really didn’t want to lose to Wofford. I really didn’t want to lose to those assholes from Greenville. And I sure as hell don’t want to lose to theb damned Holes.

    So far, 2 for 3. Well played, Coach O’Brien.

    The play near the end where we ripped the QB’s helmet off (legally) then sent him to the turf with a missile-like forearm shot almost brought a tear to my eye.

    The offensive performance can be explained away by ECU’s weak front 7, but still could build some confidence for the rest of the season. The defense played smart and hit hard. I loved that.

  12. noah 10/20/2007 at 11:32 PM #

    All kinds of fun today. Considering the horror show that was the end of the first half, it was a blast to watch the second half improvements.

    I hope we can get one more win. We’ve never had a 10 loss season before. I’d like to maintain that streak.

    I *was* sorry to see Vermiglio’s play.

  13. Astral Rain2 10/20/2007 at 11:32 PM #

    This season is no longer a complete disaster. Beat UNC and it can be considered a minimal success.

  14. bTHEredterror 10/20/2007 at 11:36 PM #

    A lot of guys made plays today. And we had a return to poor form for about a minute and half before the break with the turbo turnovers. Both were forced by their D, IMO and all they did was prevent a more thorough beating. We came out and made plays on both sides of the ball in the second half, and our O-line competed fairly well the whole game. They really came on at the end.

    Was anybody there that could see the Vermiglio play? The game telecast didn’t catch it.

    Eugene was a work horse. He stuck it in the hole, even when it was a razor’s edge, and he is a dangerous open field threat. Sed Hickman and Kushner made a couple of catches. Evans made one bad play in IMO, the coverage sack while at the edge of scoring territory. He could have thrown it away and then there isn’t an optimistic 4th and 8 attempt, we FG instead. Or perhaps the fake FG attempt, which all failed plays hope to be when they grow up, would have occurred sooner, so ehhh..

    Evans played well, and all the receivers made big plays. He missed maybe five throws, and missed ’em good, the Int was really Davis’s fault. Since he scored the first TD, I forgive him. ECU focused their coverage on Blackman, and the other guys stepped up. Dunlap had a solid day, despite a couple of tough drops. Catches he would normally make.

    The younger and older LBs made some solid tackles, they held Johnson in check, and the DL were tremendous to a man. Our guys dropped three other forced TOs as well. Young made a couple of sacks happen with his wingspan and timing. Kuhn had a FF that magically rolled perfectly for the only ECU player for ten yards to recover. Morgan the younger could have scored the other FF we missed. He played very well, made some big tackles late. Great effort considering our early season woes and the fact that only VT and WV held their O down before today. I noticed late in the game, Archer didn’t go to prevent and let the hounds loose with some stunting four man fronts. A smart man, with the prevent defense being so poor in the first half.

    The boys put it on ’em sum’n fierce, baby. I loved it! It should have been more crushing, but …..it’ll do. Now let’s ambush us a bunch a Wahoos next week.

  15. noah 10/20/2007 at 11:53 PM #

    Apparently, CJ Wilson caught Vermiglio with an uppercut on the previous play. Vermiglio decided to exact some revenge.

    Stupid. You can’t do that kind of thing.

  16. choppack1 10/21/2007 at 12:16 AM #

    We need mean OLs – I like the Locklear’s, Berton (he was a TE, but he alone a tremendous impact on our OL when he was here), Riggs, etc.

    Hey one cheap shot begats another – he’s true frosh, and they’ll do that kind of thing.

    Evans was perfect today – no brain farts and the only INT wasn’t his fault at all.

    I know – that per VaWolf – TO margin doesn’t matter – but that’s a key reason why we finished on top today.

    Great game plan by the staff – it looked like everything ECU did we were prepared for. The in-game coaching left something to be desired, but bottom line – a great job by players and staff.

  17. RAWFS 10/21/2007 at 12:23 AM #

    A quick note to y’all that had trouble logging in here after the game:

    Sometime during the game, things here on the mutual server that SFN and RAWFS shares got absolutely and totally crushed. It’s a pretty stout box, a well-endowed virtual server that has handled quite a load over the past few months.

    Well, you guys were requesting pages at the rate of 3000 times a second at its peak. When that happened, the machine’s CPU and memory were pegged completely. The machine was so busy it was taking 60 seconds just to open console terminals and another sixty seconds afterward to process any command given. (That’s damned busy.) Then, after we fixed that, the users were requesting data from the internal DB so fast that it couldn’t keep up and curled into a corner and whimpered for a while until we fixed that.

    Bottom line is that we’re going to put our heads together and get this thing a bigger and faster machine to handle everything. My apologies for the slowness and crashes, but I never expected a flood like this.

    Then again, knowing the passion of State fans, I should have guessed.

  18. RochesterRedWolf 10/21/2007 at 1:10 AM #

    statefans, as soon as the game was over and i kept gettting page timeouts i was like…”man the server is hosed, good job pack fans!” Just goes to show you where the packs fans come after the game, at least the losers who are glued to their computers.

    Vermiglio – the announcers on CSTV (Trev Alberts was doing color) mentioned: “we are not trying to condone late hits and cheap-shots, but ever since Vermiglio’s ejection, the OL and the D has been playing some inspired football and sometimes plays like that can spart a team.”

    Demario – did anyone see him hit Kass? He thought he had already released the ball, so he knocked him down, effortlessly and the guy is like 6-4, 240 or something like that, but it was pretty cool how he just knocked him down and got the sack, nice INT too.

    Evans – Jeff Gravely from WRAL mentioned how Evans passes seem to take an extra second to get there…and he’s right, i notice how a 15yrd pass looks like a hail mary, nothing wrong with that…but his timing was nice today and the INT was definitely not his fault.

  19. tvp1 10/21/2007 at 1:11 AM #

    We are beating UVA next week. I have been calling that even before the win today. That team is absolutely ripe for an upset.

  20. jamieinkorea 10/21/2007 at 1:33 AM #

    We won. That’s great. But, come on…

  21. PackerInRussia 10/21/2007 at 5:48 AM #

    I feel like the fat guy in Seabiscuit would have felt if his horse would have won the match race– that was all nice and cute for us to stoop down to their level and play them at their place and hopefully now we can get back to our normal lives knowing that the status quo has been preserved. Nice try EZU. Call us when you get a real team. Yes I am conveniently forgetting last year and am being purposefully arrogant and sarcastic. Heck when wins are this few and far between you have to fit all of your feelings that you get from winning throughout a season into one game. October 5th, 2006 was a long time ago. Keep it up, Pack.

  22. PackerInRussia 10/21/2007 at 5:54 AM #

    “The problems that State has are surely one of talent and depth but c’mon if Stanford can beat USC, can’t State hang with ECU”

    Whoops; looks like someone should have waited to write this article after the game had already been played.

  23. RabidWolf 10/21/2007 at 7:38 AM #

    I am still so pumped up, I live in a neighborhood where about 30% bleed purple and gold. Can’t wait to rub this in to some smug EaSY U faces. All week all I have heard “‘Em Pirates gon’ roll up yo Wuffpack, ain no way y’all gon’ win in Greenville” WHAT YOU GOT TO SAY NOW, JETHRO?!?!

    Great effort on both sides of the ball, now back to CFS and trash some wahoos!!! I don’t know about anybody else, but I put UVa on the same low level as UNX and ECU! WAY TO GO WOLFPACK!!

    335 yards passing……WHODATHUNKIT!

  24. Packaholic1 10/21/2007 at 8:13 AM #

    Closed that Beck thread pretty quick…

  25. RabidWolf 10/21/2007 at 8:23 AM #

    Why’d that happen….hmmmm….that’s a mystery.

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