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Tenuta joins Wolfpack coaching staff
Per Media Relations… NC State head football coach Tom O’Brien has announced that Jon Tenuta has joined the Wolfpack staff and will serve as linebackers coach, replacing Andy McCollum, who took another job on Tuesday. Tenuta brings 29 years of experience as a coach and 16 as a defensive coordinator, most recently at Notre Dame. “We lost [...]
Continue reading...National Signing Day Open Post (With TOB Video)
3. February 2010
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...The Less Interesting But More Important Coaching Carousel: The Assistants
11. December 2009
The annual shuffling of coaches is well underway, of course, with coaches moving up, others moving on and schools scrambling to fill empty slots while their is time to save their recruiting efforts for the year. We aren’t making any changes here at NC State, of course, but the one thing that we as fans should [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack Offensive Coordinator Bible Has Leukemia (Updated 6:45 am)
23. November 2009
Some things are bigger than any sport, and this is one of them: Tom O’Brien has announced that Wolfpack Offensive Coordinator Dana Bible has been diagnosed with leukemia. We here at Statefans Nation wish Coach Bible and his family the very best, with our hopes for his speedy recovery. N.C. State offensive coordinator Dana Bible [...]
Continue reading...Two Virginia Prep Titans Square Off Under Center Saturday in Blacksburg
18. November 2009
Saturday afternoon in Lane Stadium, two of the best-ever Virginia high school QB products will lead their respective teams when NC State visits Virginia Tech. Tyrod Taylor, a Hampton High School graduate, has paced the Hokies this year and has improved a great deal in his third year. He’s become an effective leader for the [...]
Continue reading...10/15/2005: Letter to the Wolfpack Nation from NCSU Director of Athletics Lee Fowler
15. November 2009
Raleigh, NC – Dear Wolfpack Fans: I know this is a time of great frustration and disappointment for all of you who care deeply and passionately about Wolfpack football. As Athletic Director, I can say that we all feel badly about losing–our coaches, our players and our staff, as well as our thousands of fans. As I [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien Talks About End of First Half Clock Management (Updated 9pm)
1. November 2009
The comments that follow are related to the atrocious clock management at the end of the first half of yesterday’s loss at Florida State. As WV Wolf highlighted in comments: Donald Bowens gets tackled with about 30 seconds left in the half. Russell Wilson gets the play from the sideline at 22 seconds. Ball is snapped at [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien Stands By Mike Archer, Blames Players (As Usual)
30. October 2009
Photo Courtesy of photo1nc on SFN Flickr stream Tom O’Brien is nothing if not steady, apparently to a fault sometimes. During his entire tenure at NC State, he has blamed his players for failing to execute – even in a win – and stood by his coaches. Thursday, he was back at it: “Mike’s been part of [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien Remains Upbeat, Still Confident In Rebuilding Process
20. October 2009
Despite back-to-back woodshed-whoopings, not to mention an increasing chorus of fans howling across the Wolfpack Nation for heads to roll on his staff, Tom O’Brien says that he is still confident in the growth process of the Wolfpack program under his leadership and that he does not believe that it is time to write off [...]
Continue reading...The “We Lost To Duke” Post Game Entry
10. October 2009
Rock Bottom. It might be time to let Ari Gold buy out the NC State Athletic Department. You're fired.
Continue reading...“Welcome to the Football Apocalypse” Post Game Thread
10. October 2009
Have at it, folks. I’m out of words to describe this horse crap. Don’t tell me that we’re young, don’t tell me to be patient. The football product Tom O’Brien and staff have put on the field the past two weeks has been embarrassing. We might as well wave the white [...]
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...South Carolina Post-Game – The Perfect Blueprint
3. September 2009
You have to hand it to the ol’ ball coach. He managed to do what nobody could in 2008 – stopped Russell Wilson cold. When asked by the media afterwards how he managed to bottle up Wilson like that, Spurrier exclaimed “We’ve got athletes!” That they do. But what almost nobody [...]
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...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part V, 2009
7. August 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 [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part IV, 2007-Present
5. August 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Visit with a purpose
30. June 2009
If N.C. State’s leadership quandary has you depressed, you can find some solace in coach Tom O’Brien’s decision to take members of the Wolfpack football team to the Wounded Warrior Battalion at Camp Lejeune. As we approach the Independence Day holiday, we wanted to go back and highlight this story and photo gallery that we didn’t [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien’s program making more waves (Update 12:30pm)
10. June 2009
Let’s turn to something good for a moment, shall we? On the heels of this fantastic “State of Football” entry that may have gotten lost in the recent administrative news coming out of Raleigh we’ve decided to focus a little more on some football! There is no doubt that The Sporting News and Matt Hayes have been [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien Working Hard To Manage Expectations
28. May 2009
As the Wolfpack Caravan winds its way around the state, one thing that is clear is that fans are excited about the upcoming football season and that a large number of them are predicting big things for the 2009 edition of NC State football. You can see that in the poll here at SFN, where [...]
Continue reading...Giglio: Pack is Pre-Season Atlantic Favorite
7. May 2009
Giglio neatly and concisely summarizes 83% of my thinking on the ACC’s Atlantic Division race. You can make a compelling case against all five other teams, but I think one can make a compelling case against State as favorites, too (basically, I think we are a year away from being a serious title contender). That [...]
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11. February 2010
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