Much has been said about the accident that Nate Irving had last year, and also about its effect on the NC State defense in 2009. While we cannot overlook the leadership skills and playing abilities of Irving, all too often we overlook on the effect that Nate’s accident has had on him personally. Put bluntly, […]
Nate Irving
Irving back and better than ever
Eight months following a car accident which nearly took his life and ended his 2009 football season, Nate Irving seems poised to return and make a huge impact for the 2010 Wolfpack. Check out this story from GoPack on Irving’s recovery and return to the field. “I’m Ready to Hit Somebody” Nate Irving didn’t just […]
Nate Irving Out for the Season
“After meeting with a doctor Thursday, N.C. State linebacker Nate Irving announced that he will be out for the season because of injuries suffered in a June 28 car crash.” (N&O) Link to WRAL’s story For now it looks like sophomore Dwayne Maddox will attempt to fill the void left by the loss of Irving. […]
Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part V, 2009
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 […]
Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part IV, 2007-Present
This is Part IV 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 us […]
Tuesday talk: Is the secondary already toast? [Updated 11:35am]
Background entry: More Concern than Hope Yesterday marked not only the first day of practice, but also the one-month mark until the Wolfpack kicks off the entire 2009 College Football season on ESPN against South Carolina. Unfortunately, practice started with some bad news as we all learned that safety Jimmual Simmons is no longer with […]
…and it continues – Donald Bowens still out [Updated w/ LB news]
Updated Entry – July 30, 2009 Pretty significant news coming out of Greensboro this morning and Ken Tysiac got it up on ACCNow in short order. Coach O’Brien is talking Nate Irving and our linebacker play – and Dwayne Maddox is going to be given the first shot at replacing Nate Irving. If Maddox can […]
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 […]
Get Well Soon Nate
We thought we would pass along the “Get Well Nate” group on Facebook. Pass the link around to all your FB friends!
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