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Hauschka in Vikings Camp

The Fort Mill Times (Fort Mill has a newspaper? Really?) has a nice write-up on former Wolfpack kicker Steven Hauschka. Stuck behind steady, strong-legged Ryan Longwell on the depth chart, it’s unlikely that he’ll be in a Viking uniform this year. Still, it sounds like he is at least getting notice in [...]

The Demise of ACC Football

Inane utterances from the local media, gross inaccuracies perpetrated by the national media, and glaring inadequacies of State’s athletic department frequently provide topics to address here. But every so often, someone in one of the organizations that we often ridicule will absolutely nail an issue. Such is the case with an article today by Pete [...]

SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature

HAPPY NEW YEAR! This entry will remain posted near the top for a couple of days…so, if you are visiting the site for the first time or if you are a frequent visitor please don’t ignore all of the entries below. For example, VAWolf logged an awesome statistical post that follows this. We just wanted to take [...]

2007 Bowl Primer

Eleven years ago, there were 18 bowl games. Today there are 32, some operated by ESPN. No wonder the opposition to a playoff by the bowl system. After a run of five in a row, NC State is home for the holidays for the third time in four years. With a more manageable schedule approaching coming [...]

Ced Hickman Arrested

A sarcsatic thanks to Ced Hickman for taking the hard earned money of NC State supporters for his scholarship and returning the favor by embarassing the University…if he is guilty, of course. Link to N&O’s article on Hickman’s arrest. It is a shame. This guy had a nice future in front of him…particularly if we ever [...]

BCS System Attracts TV Viewers

While some seem to enjoy flights of fancy, I much prefer fact-based posts and analysis. Unfortunately, a recent entry here on the BCS system showed once again that there are alot of opinions floating around, but frightfully few facts. So I thought that this article was particularly interesting because we actually get a [...]

Hot Coaching Updates: CUTigers reports Bowden to stay / Paul Johnson to GT?

* Arkansas-Tommy Bowden-Clemson: Clemson fans may FINALLY get their wish. It is being reported that Tommy Bowden has been offered the vacant Head Coaching position at Arkansas for a considerable raise. Bowden was offered the Arkansas job Monday night, a source familiar with the proceedings said. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported in today’s editions that incoming Razorbacks [...]

2007 ACC Bowls and Bytes

This link will take you to the bowl schedule for the entire country. The ACC Bowl Menu is set and can be seen by clicking here. Of course, if you read SFN then you would have seen that we accurately projected the entire bowl line up BEFORE Sunday. A couple of interesting NC State tidbits: * NC State [...]

I seem to say this every year on this day

Number two-ranked West Virginia just lost to Pitt (just as USC lost to UCLA last year). Number one-ranked Mizzou followed that by losing to Oklahoma. As I sit here and watch ANOTHER final day of the college football season unfold with unfathomable results, I can only imagine how AWESOME – uh, I mean MEANINGLESS today’s football [...]

Virginia Tech Wins ACC Championship, but surely BC had fun

Tom O’Brien’s Boston College Eagles lost ANOTHER BIG NOVEMBER game today to one of the Big East’s powers when Virginia Tech took down the Eagles this afternoon, 30-16. Wait. Check that. Despite the pre-season proclamation of Boston College fans that their Eagles would finally shed historical late-year troubles without Coach O’Brien roaming their sidelines, “Coach Jags” ultimately [...]

O’Brien Likes Look of Pack’s Future

RALEIGH – N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien, the ol’ Marine, is looking for more than a few good men.”We need to sign a lot of good football players,” he emphasized at a news conference Thursday. “All our focus is on recruiting.” O’Brien wants to beef up every position, especially in the “thin” offensive line, where only [...]

850 “The Buzz” Highlights Lack of Professionalism From BC’s AD

Click over to their blog for good analysis and comments (well, most are good). Quote from Jackhole DeFilippo: “We’re having fun now,” he said. “We’ve won before, but we had no fun. This is still a game, it’s not life and death. The fun is back in Boston College football. Tom did a wonderful job here, [...]

Ron Cherry: Giving Him The Business

4th most watched video on YouTube today

Heartless End To the 2007 Football Season; Maryland 37, NC State ZERO

* There is no more joking “is it basketball season yet”. It really is basketball season for the Wolfpack. * In 2001, Maryland threw oranges on the field at the end of the game at Carter-Finley. Today, they threw statues of Mother Teresa, Gandhi and Bono on the field to celebrate their bid to the [...]

0-37 (so far): Wolfpack Doesn’t Look to Want to Go Bowling

ESPN Pre-game Comparison * NC State sarting middle linebacker, James Martin, has torn his ACL and will not play today. Of course, you won’t hear about this from the Lincoln Financial-TV production who have failed to mention anything about the rash of injuries that have impacted BOTH of these tames this season. It’s just sad. The [...]

Bowl Talk – What to Watch For

For the second time in three years, NC State will host the University of Maryland in a season finale where one team will leave the field bowl eligible at 6-6 and the other will end the season with a losing record of 5-7. Two years ago NC State defeated the Terps to secure a bowl [...]

Pack Blows It

Saturday Football Bytes/Wake Game Entry

* N.C. State running back Andre Brown has been cleared to play at Wake Forest, the Wolfpack announced on Friday afternoon. * S6 spoke with Old Gold Blog in this entry that will help prep you for the game. * Speaking of the game – Wake Forest has scored NINE non-offensive touchdowns in ten games this season. [...]

Bowl Game Possibilities – Revisited

I want to share some highlights from a phone conversation that I had earlier today. The conversation revolved around interpretation of the following NCAA requirement for placing teams with a 6-6 record into bowl games: (Thanks to RAWFS for the link to current NCAA requirements.) In the case of a conference contractual affiliation, [...]

Wake Forest Preview

I almost didn’t do a WF preview this week. The keys to the game should be obvious to anyone that has watched any ACC football at all over the last several years. But before we get to those, let’s take a little closer look at a few areas that [...]