Tag Archive | "Nate Irving"
Irving back and better than ever
Eight months following a car accident which nearly took his life and ended his 2009 football season, Nate Irving seems poised to return and make a huge impact for the 2010 Wolfpack. Check out this story from GoPack on Irving’s recovery and return to the field. “I’m Ready to Hit Somebody” Nate Irving didn’t just walk into the [...]
Continue reading...Nate Irving Out for the Season
Thursday, August 13, 2009
“After meeting with a doctor Thursday, N.C. State linebacker Nate Irving announced that he will be out for the season because of injuries suffered in a June 28 car crash.” (N&O) Link to WRAL’s story For now it looks like sophomore Dwayne Maddox will attempt to fill the void left by the loss of Irving. The [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part V, 2009
Friday, August 7, 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
Wednesday, August 5, 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...Tuesday talk: Is the secondary already toast? [Updated 11:35am]
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Background entry: More Concern than Hope Yesterday marked not only the first day of practice, but also the one-month mark until the Wolfpack kicks off the entire 2009 College Football season on ESPN against South Carolina. Unfortunately, practice started with some bad news as we all learned that safety Jimmual Simmons is no longer with the program. [...]
Continue reading...…and it continues – Donald Bowens still out [Updated w/ LB news]
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Updated Entry – July 30, 2009 Pretty significant news coming out of Greensboro this morning and Ken Tysiac got it up on ACCNow in short order. Coach O’Brien is talking Nate Irving and our linebacker play – and Dwayne Maddox is going to be given the first shot at replacing Nate Irving. If Maddox can handle the job, [...]
Continue reading...2008 NC State Football Review
Monday, July 13, 2009
Much like our previous breakdown of the entire Atlantic Coast Conference, today we’ll take a look at the 2008 Wolfpack with a focus on trends and issues that are likely to carry over to the 2009 version. I actually starting planning this article during the 2007 season, when I was [...]
Continue reading...More concern than hope (Updated 7/7)
Monday, July 6, 2009
ESPN’s Heather Dinich has been running a series on the ACC teams called “Hope and Concern”. She penned her entry on the Wolfpack on June 30th and it can be seen by clickling here. Biggest reason for hope — Quarterbacks Unlike coach Tom O’Brien’s first two seasons in Raleigh, there’s no question who the starting quarterback [...]
Continue reading...Get Well Soon Nate
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
We thought we would pass along the “Get Well Nate” group on Facebook. Pass the link around to all your FB friends!
Continue reading...Update on Nate Irving
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
“Nate’s got one of the greatest smiles of anybody,” McCollum said by telephone after another hospital visit Monday. “He’s just a great character guy. … It’s a blessing, because he’s got another day, and he’s got a chance to make a difference in people’s lives by fighting through this. And he is a fighter.” Myers said [...]
Continue reading...And so it begins – Nate Irving Injured in Car Accident
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Within hours of the Charlotte/News & Observer going to press with their selection that NC State would win the 2009 ACC Atlantic Division Football Championship, the Wolfpack’s all-conference junior linebacker Nate Irving was injured in a car accident. Irving was injured on Saturday night and is currently in the Wake Med Trauma Center with [...]
Continue reading...Russell Wilson Is All-ACC First Team QB
Monday, December 1, 2008
The Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association has named their 2008 All ACC Football team. Russell Wilson wins First Team QB honors Willie Young gets Honorable Mention at DE Nate Irving gets Honorable Mention at LB T.J. Graham received Honorable Mention for Special Teams The rest of the list can be found here.
Continue reading...Irving Out Again with Ankle Injury
Monday, October 20, 2008
“He’s out again. I don’t know how long. Indefinitely,” O’Brien said. O’Brien said Irving “got rolled on again” in Thursday night’s loss to Florida State.
Continue reading...TOB – No Clarification on Pack Injuries
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Per the N&O writeup, Beck is still listed as the starter for Saturday: “We don’t know [Wilson's status],” coach Tom O’Brien said during his weekly news conference Monday. “We’ll have to wait and see. Right now Beck is the starter, and we’re going into the week with him preparing to play.” My biggest fear was that Evans [...]
Continue reading...Complete Meltdown for USF (No Wilson, No Irving)
Monday, September 22, 2008
Here’s the link – I have very little to say except are you f-ing kidding me? Wilson, who threw three touchdown passes against the Pirates, suffered an undisclosed injury in the second half of the game but continued to play. He was evaluated on Sunday and O’Brien made the decision then to hold him out of [...]
Continue reading...The long overdue Nate Irving appreciation entry
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Pack Pride ran a feature on NC State linebacker, Nate Irving which created the perfect launching pad for us to run our long overdue appreciation entry regarding Irving’s incredible play this season. (Link to article) The redshirt sophomore had 52 tackles last season in 11 games, including four starts at the end of the year. [...]
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