NC State Head Coach, Tom O’Brien has been winning the respect of the media…and now it looks like he is garnering respect from the state’s top high school football players. Coach O’Brien secured his third – and most important to date – verbal commitment of this year’s recruiting class this week when Shelby Crest linebacker, […]
Football Recruiting
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 […]
All-Amato Era 50-Man Travel Squad
Have some fun with entertaining this….featuring 21 players who have either appeared on, or are on track to make an NFL opening day roster. QB: Philip Rivers, Marcus Stone TB: Toney Baker, Ray Robinson, Andre Brown, TA McLendon WR: Koren Robinson, Brian Clark, Darrell Blackmon FL: Jerricho Cotchery, Tramain Hall, Richard Washington TE: TJ Williams, […]
N&O Embarrasses TSN’s Mike Farrell
Score one for accuracy in reporting!!! We’re laughing all the way to the fact-checker on this one. A few weeks ago, The Sporting News’ Mike Farrell penned a blog entry whose accuracy and analysis/conclusions we destroyed in this entry that is well worth the read. Despite the fact that 100% of Chuck Amato’s seven verbal […]
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 […]
TSN Blogs Big on Amato…and Bombs
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. But, we are first going to turn your attention to The Sporting News’ Mike Farrell who blogged a big entry on Coach Amato at the end of last week that […]
Does recruiting matter?
People certainly take it seriously. Thousands of LSU fans flock to the daylong Bayou Bash Recruiting party every year and pay $25 a head to sit and watch letters of intent come across the fax machine. But does it really matter? Will February 1st have any impact on January 1st (2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th)? […]
