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 [...]
Baddour & Butch hold presser, confirm Blake involved in NCAA investigation [2:40pm Update]
Question: If a press conference is held where nothing is said…has a press conference really been held at all? I don’t have a lot of time today so I can’t have my normal commentary right now. But, on the heels of this absolutely fantastic discussion, the ‘leadership’ at UNC-CH broke their public silence and held [...]
FOWLER’S GONE!!! (Updated 5:00pm, Woodson Takes to the Radio)
Joe Giglio at the N&O deserves the credit for being first to break the story. PLEASE click on the link to the story so that the journalist who broke the story can get all of the traffic/credit as possible. It is only fair. Lee Fowler and N.C. State agreed to end their working relationship today [...]
O’Brien’s program making more waves (Update 12:30pm)
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 [...]
Giglio: Pack is Pre-Season Atlantic Favorite
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 [...]
ACCSports.com – Wolfpack Insider Free Today
ACCSports.com/ACC Sports Journal is allowing free access to their NC State team report today. Wilson Offers Program Hope provides a deeper look at the obvious ‘hot issue’ of the moment within the NC State Football program — the impressive emergence of quarterback, Russell Wilson. Ever since he got knocked out against South Carolina in the [...]
Giglio Discusses Pack “Options” at QB
It’s just a small blurb from last week – Tom O’Brien discussing the five potential starters at QB. It’s not really an embarrassment of riches, as past performance or inexperience means that all candidates come with question marks. But it’s really an academic discussion. Russell Wilson will start, and barring injury or extreme ineffectiveness, will [...]