I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
Kiper fallout related to the UNC scandals and increasing national scrutiny of Butch (Day 91)
I don’t have a lot of time tonight, but I am going to pass along a few things. First, some quick “dot connecting” that grew out of the big Sports Illustrated piece that hit yesterday. One interesting passage from that article dealt with “NFL draft guru” Mel Kiper. He is the annoying guy with the “Lego man” [...]
Sammy Batten: ‘You have to give the edge to NC State’
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 [...]
Recruiting practices take spotlight
Just last week SFN highlighted the difference between local recruiting budgets in this well-received entry. Almost simultaneously, the University of Tennessee’s football program came under scrutiny for the use of its Hostess Program to ‘lure’ recruits to the University. We started talking about the news in real time in this thread on our message boards. [...]
Tony Creecy Commits to Wolfpack (Updated 10:15am)
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 [...]
More Immediate DL Help On the Way?
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 [...]
ChltObs: 2009 Top 25 NC HS Football players
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 [...]
NC State Football Gets A Big Commitment (Updated 9:45am)
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 different [...]
Bunting revisits AJ Davis and “Puff” Thomas
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 [...]
Four football players enroll early
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 [...]