Tag Archive | "Football Recruiting"

Tony Creecy Commits to Wolfpack (Updated 10:15am)

Monday, June 22, 2009

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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 dash, and [...]

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More Immediate DL Help On the Way?

Thursday, April 30, 2009

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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 [...]

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ChltObs: 2009 Top 25 NC HS Football players

Sunday, April 19, 2009

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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, [...]

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NC State Football Gets A Big Commitment (Updated 9:45am)

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

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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 [...]

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Bunting revisits AJ Davis and “Puff” Thomas

Friday, January 23, 2009

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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 [...]

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Four football players enroll early

Thursday, January 8, 2009

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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 [...]

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State lands two Atlanta-area offensive linemen

Monday, December 22, 2008

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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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Butch Davis No-Shows Shrine Bowl – Practicing for Sun Bowl halftime or taking a math class?

Saturday, December 20, 2008

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One of the traditions of the annual Shrine Bowl in Charlotte are speeches from the states’ major college coaches.  Yesterday, Tom O’Brien, Steve Spurrier, Dabo Sweeny, and David Cutcliffe were on-hand to give their remarks — but due to the weather, UNC’s Butch Davis missed his turn at the mike. Thanks to an insider tip, we’ve [...]

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Is UNC About To Fire Up Its Football Waiver Wire? (updated 12/16)

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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[Note: if you haven't read the 2nd update, please take the time to do so.] The News and Observer has finally noticed that UNC football’s scholarship count and recruiting numbers don’t add up: The Tar Heels will lose 12 scholarship seniors after they complete the 2008 season vs. West Virginia at the Meineke Bowl on Dec. 27. [...]

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N&O highlights Wolfpack’s attrition issues

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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We’ve recently been busier than normal and therefore haven’t had the opportunity to cover nearly as much as we would have liked. But, one topic that we have done an admirable job of highlighting is the impact/problem of attrition and injuries related to this year’s NC State football team. Back in September we highlighted the [...]

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NC State down to 46 scholarship players not counting kickers

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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This column has been provided by a guest author Todd Lion. After viewing the post yesterday describing NC State’s injury woes and last week’s entry discussing the high rate of attrition from Amato’s last two classes, I thought it would be worth it to examine who is available to play instead of focusing on those not [...]

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41% attrition rate from 2005 & 2006 classes

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

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Here is a good article from Rob Daniels of the Greensboro News & Record that provides some statistical insight into what we all know and are feeling – NC State’s football program is depleted of depth and currently undergoing a major rebuilding project. Hopefully our fans have begun to realize that we are in a total [...]

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Butch adds the head coach of a top recruit to his staff as Director of Player Personnel

Monday, April 14, 2008

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Butch Davis is pulling out all the stops to attract top players to UNC. Carolina is off to a quick start in 2009 recruiting with 11 commitments so far, including 4-star prospect Josh Adams who is mentioned in the linked article. It seemed like odd timing for Adams to commit so early in the process, [...]

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ESPN.com Recruiting Rankings- NC State 20th

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

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Florida the new No. 1, Clemson rises to No. 4 #2 Miami #4 Clemson #13 FSU #16 VT #20 NC State No sign of BMFD as of 1:15pm

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Football Recruiting to Take Center Stage

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

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With signing day less than 24 hours away, college football recruiting will take center stage this week. To its credit, the Charlotte Observer who traditionally gives us LOTS of things to criticize ran two particularly interesting articles today focused on college football recruiting complete with a detailed budget of the schools that can be seen [...]

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Wolfpack Nabs LB Recruit From South Carolina; More Recruiting (Updated)

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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South Carolina linebacker Sterling Lucas, was rumored to be a ‘lock’ for the University of South Carolina…that is until he committed to NC State this morning. Lucas is considered one of the Top 25 middle linebackers in the country and chose the Wolfpack over offers from UNC-CH, USC, Maryland, Michigan State and Wake Forest. [...]

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O’Brien Gets Big Time OL Recruit: RJ Mattes

Sunday, January 20, 2008

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Big time. Four Star NC OL RJ Mattes has committed to NC State. Can’t over state the importance of this. You’ve got to think that the reputation of developing NFL offensive lineman by Coach O’Brien and his staff was vital here. We couldn’t be more excited about this!

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Mike Glennon Named Player Of The Game In The Under Armour All-American Game

Saturday, January 5, 2008

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Mike Glennon had an impressive performance in the Under Armor HSAA Game. Here is a live blog from the game. If you watched the game on ESPNU, give us your thoughts in his game in the comments section.

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Recruiting: Incoming Wolfpack Class Impressive

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

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From WRAL-TV Even if national signing day occurred tomorrow, you could go ahead and count N.C. State’s recruiting year a success.Coach Tom O’Brien and his staff have already put together an impressive class of 19 prospects with more than a month to go before the signing period begins on Feb. 6.But it’s not just the quantity [...]

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How Do They Do It?

Friday, September 21, 2007

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We’ve talked about this before, so it’s nothing that new. But it is kind of a natural time to re-approach the topic of ACC fan support in light of a recent observation made by EagleinAtlanta and the fact that one of the ACC’s best fanbases visit Raleigh this weekend. I like to occassionaly take [...]

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