If this Athens Banner-Herald article is correct, the defensive line for the 2009 and 2010 Wolfpack will soon get even tougher: Lemon, who has attended Georgia Military College after being booted off the team at Georgia and suspended by the university, expects to continue his football career at North Carolina State this fall, according to […]
Football Recruiting
ChltObs: 2009 Top 25 NC HS Football players
Charlotte Observer ran a list of the Top 25 high school football recruits in the state of North Carolina today. (Link) It’s nice to see our big man sitting on top of the heap. 1. Robert Crisp Chapel Hill, 6-8, 300, OL: Committed to N.C. State and a top-30 national recruit. Had more than 30 […]
NC State Football Gets A Big Commitment (Updated 9:45am)
NC State received verbal commitments from Chapel Hill’s Rob Crisp and Pete Singer tonight. Crisp is a 6’8”, 280 lb OT from Chapel Hill High School who is ranked as the state of North Carolina’s top prospect and one of the top 100 players in the country. His offer list was larger than 30 different […]
Bunting revisits AJ Davis and “Puff” Thomas
Apparently John Bunting is coming out with a book soon. Check here for the full interview from the ACC Sports Journal: On the recruitment of Puff Thomas: I remember when the offering plate got passed, I think I put a $20 bill in there and I looked over and Webster’s writing a check. I was […]
Four football players enroll early
NC State Athletics has announced that four new football players who will be eligible for the fall have enrolled for the new semester at NC State and will be eligible for spring practice. Sam Jones, (6-7, 295, Fuquay Varina, NC), OL/DL “originally signed with NC State in the spring of 2008, but attended Hargrave Military […]
State lands two Atlanta-area offensive linemen
NC State’s football recruiting has been on a tear over the last couple of weeks as Coach O’Brien has been adding commitments and quickly moving toward a full class for the year. It is no surprise that offensive line continues to be a primary need for the Wolfpack’s recruiting; and, tonight State added two three-star […]
Butch Davis No-Shows Shrine Bowl – Practicing for Sun Bowl halftime or taking a math class?
One of the traditions of the annual Shrine Bowl in Charlotte are speeches from the states’ major college coaches. Yesterday, Tom O’Brien, Steve Spurrier, Dabo Sweeny, and David Cutcliffe were on-hand to give their remarks — but due to the weather, UNC’s Butch Davis missed his turn at the mike. Thanks to an insider tip, […]
Is UNC About To Fire Up Its Football Waiver Wire? (updated 12/16)
[Note: if you haven’t read the 2nd update, please take the time to do so.] The News and Observer has finally noticed that UNC football’s scholarship count and recruiting numbers don’t add up: The Tar Heels will lose 12 scholarship seniors after they complete the 2008 season vs. West Virginia at the Meineke Bowl on […]
N&O highlights Wolfpack’s attrition issues
We’ve recently been busier than normal and therefore haven’t had the opportunity to cover nearly as much as we would have liked. But, one topic that we have done an admirable job of highlighting is the impact/problem of attrition and injuries related to this year’s NC State football team. Back in September we highlighted the […]
NC State down to 46 scholarship players not counting kickers
This column has been provided by a guest author Todd Lion. After viewing the post yesterday describing NC State’s injury woes and last week’s entry discussing the high rate of attrition from Amato’s last two classes, I thought it would be worth it to examine who is available to play instead of focusing on those […]
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