This is the final part of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many of […]
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2008 NC State Football Review
Much like our previous breakdown of the entire Atlantic Coast Conference, today we’ll take a look at the 2008 Wolfpack with a focus on trends and issues that are likely to carry over to the 2009 version. I actually starting planning this article during the 2007 season, when I was rudely awakened to just […]
More concern than hope (Updated 7/7)
ESPN’s Heather Dinich has been running a series on the ACC teams called “Hope and Concern”. She penned her entry on the Wolfpack on June 30th and it can be seen by clickling here. Biggest reason for hope — Quarterbacks Unlike coach Tom O’Brien’s first two seasons in Raleigh, there’s no question who the starting […]
2008 ACC Football Review
It should be really easy to project this fall’s college football results. All we have to do is: – Assess what went right/wrong in 2008. – Subtract contributions from “graduating†players. – Add in contributions that we will see from new players. – Subtract lost contributions due to injuries. That should leave us with […]
How bad was Saturday’s defense?
Check out the statistics generated on Saturday by Boston College. (Even though Eagle in Atlanta is still mad at us, we don’t let petty grudges keep us from linking to good information) Despite the Wolfpack’s depleted roster, it is hard to come to any conclusion other than – Steve Logan made Mike Archer look like […]
Thursday Open Thread – State’s Defense
Sorry, but I am buried at work with the markets and everything else going on in the world. Wanted to open this thread for the community to share news that they are seeing and for discussion. A couple of quick points: S6 analyzes the statistical improvement of ECU in this entry while they highlight how […]
2003-2004 Wolfpack Defense
DE Mario Williams – Texans (Pick 1, Round 1) DE Manny Lawson – 49ers (Pick 22, Round 1) DT John McCargo – Bills (Pick 26, Round 1) DT Tank Tyler – Chiefs (Pick 82, Round 3) LB Stephen Tulloch – Titans (Pick 116, Round 4) LB Pat Thomas – Jaguars (Pick 194, Round 6) LB […]
NFL Notes: Mario, Manny, McCargo & More
Give The News & Observer some credit for doing a good job of following the Wolfpack’s “6 Pack” of draftees. The N&O ran this summary of 2006 Wolfpack football alums as NFL training camps are opening. Mario Williams earned rave reviews in Houston during his first NFL practice. (Link) The Houston Texans’ No. 1 draft […]
Fair Thought…Wrong Reason
As we stated in one of our biggest and best entries of the summer: Over the next couple of weeks SFN will have some entries focusing on the tough summer that Chuck Amato is having in the national media. Then we went on to defend Coach Amato to TSN based on the incorrect premise and […]
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