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National Signing Day Open Post (With TOB Video)
The annual race between grown men to get the signatures of 17 and 18 year old boys is officially over and NC State has added 23 players to the fold for the 2010 class. Most of the attention around players on National Signing Day is based on ratings. Coaches and fans “seeing stars” will do pretty [...]
Continue reading...Mustafa Greene commits to NC State
28. January 2010
Based on news from several recruiting outlets, it looks like three-star running back Mustafa Greene(Columbia, SC), has committed to NC State for 2010. The No. 43 running back in the 2010 class according to Scout.com, Greene made his official visit to NC State a couple weeks back. Greene ran for more than 1,300 yards and finished with 21 [...]
Continue reading...Sammy Batten: ‘You have to give the edge to NC State’
28. January 2010
As football recruiting for 2010 comes down the home stretch and National Signing Day (Feb. 3) approaches, schools in North Carolina and elsewhere are scrambling to try and wrap up commitments from those recruits still trying to make decisions. Sammy Batten, from the ACC Sports Journal, broke down recruiting in the state Wednesday and declared NC [...]
Continue reading...TBJ Reports NCSU lags behind on recruiting spending
7. December 2009
It’s really no surprise to most of us here at Statefans that the Triangle Business Journal’s Chris Baysden is reporting that NC State spends much less on recruiting than our rivals down the road. In football the difference is simply (and sadly) astronomical. Here is a link to Mr. Baysden’s article: link. The [...]
Continue reading...INJURIES IN CHAPEL HILL – THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM NO MORE
19. September 2009
A few weeks ago we discussed UNC Football’s sudden and previously unexplained bout with Stunted Growth Syndrome. If you didn’t get a chance to read it, please take time to do so. The links are summarized, but the meat of the stories linked are quite informative beyond the blurbs. Essentially for the [...]
Continue reading...Audie Cole Gets Front Page Treatment
9. August 2009
Ken Tysiac has a nice writeup this morning: It’s no secret that N.C. State was most effective late last season when a healthy Irving and defensive end Willie Young rushed the quarterback from opposite sides. Opponents had to slide their protection toward one of those players. If N.C. State schemed correctly, that meant a running back was [...]
Continue reading...Sunday Stuff – July 12th
12. July 2009
====> Please no Lorenzo Brown comments in this entry. Once we get over our devastation we will post its own entry. ====> Stud outside linebacker, Kendall Moore, of Southeast Raleigh choose Notre Dame over NC State this weekend. (Link to the story) This one hurts, as Moore would have been a fantastic complement [...]
Continue reading...Football recruiting keeps on rolling
27. June 2009
After a big start to the week with wide receiver Tony Creecy’s commitment, the NC State football staff hasn’t taken their foot off the pedal. Yesterday, the N&O printed an article discussing this very topic with “NCSU builds on success”. N.C. State’s success in football recruiting this spring and summer was a factor in the Wolfpack getting [...]
Continue reading...Tony Creecy Commits to Wolfpack (Updated 10:15am)
22. June 2009
The momentum Coach Tom O’Brien has built behind this year’s recruiting class continues as Tony Creecy – another of the state’s top prospects – has committed to play football at NC State. Southern Durham wide receiver Tony Creecy has committed to N.C. State, according to NCPreps.com. The 6-foot, 196-pound Creecy runs a 4.5 forty yard dash, and [...]
Continue reading...Carr adds NC State to the mix
28. May 2009
Gainsville, GA safety Daunte Carr has added NC State to his final four. We are in the mix with Wake Forest, Stanford, and UCLA. The reason I find this so worthy is the reason behind Carr’s list: academics. ESPN reports that Carr wants to major in biomedical engineering and pre-medicine, the former being a large [...]
Continue reading...SoCar Coach Says He Games Recruiting Rankings
26. May 2009
Brad Lawing, the South Carolina defensive line coach and former UNC-CH recruiting coordinator, says that recruiting rankings and sites are a scam. “I can take a three-star and make him a four-star, and I can take a four-star and make him a three- or two-star with the contacts I have. That’s how ridiculous recruiting on [...]
Continue reading...More Immediate DL Help On the Way?
30. April 2009
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 his [...]
Continue reading...ChltObs: 2009 Top 25 NC HS Football players
19. April 2009
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 scholarship offers, [...]
Continue reading...NC State Football Gets A Big Commitment (Updated 9:45am)
7. April 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Legislature Panel Recommends Making It Tougher To Admit Out-of-State Athletes
17. March 2009
I figure it’s as good a time as any to start turning the page away from basketball and to other topics, namely the coming football spring practices and spring game, as well as other various and sundry items of note and interest. The State Legislature is in town, so hold on to your wallets, and duck [...]
Continue reading...Let’s See How It Turns Out In 3-4 Years, Jamie Newberg
10. February 2009
Google’s news snoop sent me a link a little while ago where a roundtable of Rivals.com national analysts talked about the college football signing classes that they ranked as the ‘most disappointing’ for the year. Jamie Newberg’s answer: I think what North Carolina State did was a little disappointing, especially with the way they finished [...]
Continue reading...It’s National Signing Day
4. February 2009
Quote of the night from last night’s Wolfpack coaches’ comments on our recruiting class: “stars are like a bikini…they show a lot, but not everything.” Indeed. Our coaching staff seems quite satisfied with our incoming class, and given their experience and history of taking players that are less-heralded and turning them in to solid football [...]
Continue reading...Bunting revisits AJ Davis and “Puff” Thomas
23. January 2009
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 wondering [...]
Continue reading...Four football players enroll early
8. January 2009
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 Academy [...]
Continue reading...State lands two Atlanta-area offensive linemen
22. December 2008
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 [...]
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3. February 2010
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