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Wilson the Passer vs. Wilson the Runner
There’s been lots of chatter in the comments and in the forums about Wilson not looking to run. I don’t think that is the case, and the stats back that up. Wilson had 11 rushing attempts last night, compared to an average of 11.56 per game last year (in the 9 games where [...]
Continue reading...Dr. Saturday: Quantifying the Russell Wilson Effect
23. July 2009
You just can’t do any better work than this. Please go read the article and support work that is this good. This is the kind of work we strive to do here…but quite frankly, it is very difficult to go so deep when you are a non-revenue site and operate as a hobby for a [...]
Continue reading...2008 NC State Football Review
13. July 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...2008 ACC Football Review
16. June 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Random Shots
21. April 2009
Where do you start when building a college basketball team? Mike Huguenin’s answer: Give me the elite point guard….. Jason King’s answer: …To me, though, the biggest key to any winning team is the coach… Steve Megargee’s answer: … I’d lean toward the point guard because he’s more likely to make an instant impact and also probably has [...]
Continue reading...Eagles No ‘Fun’ for Nashville
24. February 2009
Another year…another bowl with an Atlantic Coast Conference tie left reeling after a visit from Boston College. This comes to us from the Nashville Business Journal: Vanderbilt University may have been the big winner in the 2008 Music City Bowl, but Nashville came up short. The New Year’s Eve game between Boston College and Vanderbilt generated $9.97 million [...]
Continue reading...Brown Turning Heads at Senior Bowl Practices
22. January 2009
Looks like Andre Brown is starting to get noticed in the run-up to the Senior Bowl: Wednesday Practice Notes: Brown had a very solid afternoon. He ran well inside the tackles, hitting the holes with authority. Also showed good speed getting to the edge and picking up some yardage outside the hash marks. As for Anthony Hill Caught [...]
Continue reading...NFL.com: Andre Brown #4 senior RB
12. January 2009
NFL.com has ranked NC State’s Andre Brown as the fourth best senior running back in the country. (Link to rankings here) We are going to close this entry to comments since you can read a lot more related to this topic at this entry from last week. In that conversation last week GAWolf made an interesting [...]
Continue reading...Russell Wilson Won’t Need Surgery
6. January 2009
Good news on the football (and baseball) front via GoPack.com: [NCSU QB Russell] Wilson, a first-team All-ACC performer, suffered a tear of his posterior cruciate ligament late in the second quarter [of the Papa John's Pizza Bowl] and did not return to action after halftime. He had passed for 186 yards and a touchdown and rushed [...]
Continue reading...Birmingham – QB talk & Harrison Beck
2. January 2009
I’ve got a lot of random items from the bowl game but will probably get around to the items in a fragmented manner. We’ve already touched upon NC State’s great fans (Click here) On Monday night in Birmingham after the loss to Rutgers Monday’s the group I was with ran into a lot of players from both [...]
Continue reading...Great Wolfpack fans help save another bowl
31. December 2008
So sorry for the lack of activity on the blog over the last week or so. In addition to the holidays I went down to Birmingham for the game and my laptop is having some issues; I am just now getting back to something that resembles a normal life. I’ll have more from Birmingham later, but I [...]
Continue reading...Semi-Live Bowl Blogging from Blowing Rock
29. December 2008
I am in a mountain condo on my blackberry, so don’t expect updates every 5 minutes or graphics of any kind. But I am ready and willing to sort of live blog today, for the last time in 2008. I feel really good about today’s game, which I fear means impending doom. 3:04 – Eugene [...]
Continue reading...Great Read on O’Brien and His Coaching Philosophy
28. December 2008
Update 1: Instead of making a new entry, I’ll add this bit here: Tom O’Brien said today that starting safety Clem Johnson will indeed be ready to play tomorrow in the Pizza Bowl. This is a positive for the Pack as it adds depth to a defensive secondary that’s sure to be tested all [...]
Continue reading...ESPN: Video Preview
20. December 2008
A nice two-minute look at our bowl game here. The PapaJohns.com really lucked out with its selections…Two of the hottest programs in college football Note McShay’s comments with 40 seconds remaining in the clip: Early in the year, remember, Mike Teal, the quarterback, was getting booed by his home crowd. May we do the pleasure of reminding you by [...]
Continue reading...State selling tickets in Birmingham; Fowler fails to capitalize on a media opportunity
19. December 2008
The News & Observer reports that… N.C. State’s ticket office has sold about 5,500 of its allotment of 10,000 seats for the Papajohns.com Bowl, State assistant athletics director Brian Kelly said Thursday. Remember that these are only tickets sold officially through the Wolfpack Club. I usually suggest obtaining tickets from the WPC for bowl games; but, that is [...]
Continue reading...FanBlogs on Notre Dame Position
18. December 2008
One of the more credible college sports blogs has a little rumor to share regarding some interesting developments related to the Notre Dame football coaching position. (Click here) We just like sharing it as a follow-up to our initial entry and resulting follow-up.
Continue reading...Vegas Oddmakers Are Noticing Russell Wilson
18. December 2008
One of the dirty little secrets of college athletics is that people actually bet on games. That’s why points spreads exist. A proper point-spread incents equal betting on both sides of the point-spread and creating a 50/50 proposition (if the oddsmakers get things right). But, sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Sometimes the oddsmakers [...]
Continue reading...Eugene and Young Submitting Their Names to the NFL Draft Advisory Board
16. December 2008
Two For Pack Consult NFL Draft Advisory Board N.C. State juniors Willie Young and Jamelle Eugene are submitting their names to the NFL draft advisory board for feedback on where they might be selected in the draft in April if they choose to leave school early, coach Tom O’Brien said Tuesday. Additionally, linebacker Nate Iriving said “After Rutgers [...]
Continue reading...Focus on Football
9. December 2008
We’ve got some solid football items to digest today. Heather Dinich has ranked the ACC Bowl games in order of most entertaining. The Wolfpack vs the Scarlet Knights is a strong second on the list. It’s interesting a bowl that is not an official ACC Bowl and includes the ACC’s 10th team is ranked so highly. [...]
Continue reading...5:45pm Update: NC State to play Rutgers in PapaJohns.com Bowl
7. December 2008
Nothing different from what we have been sharing…official announcement will be out later… 5:10pm Update Our spies in Florida tell us that the Champs Bowl is going with Florida State, so this would mean that most of the rest of the projections of the conference’s bowl line-up should fall into place as previously projected. This development [...]
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4. September 2009
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