Tag Archive | "PapaJohns.com Bowl"
Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part IV, 2007-Present
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...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...Football Tidbits: ACC Spring Football Prospectus, Rutgers Bled Cash To Play In Pizza Bowl
Monday, March 2, 2009
Tidbit 2: Rutgers Loses 184K Going To The Pizza Bowl Rutgers University collected $1.2 million for its trip to the PapaJohns.com Bowl last December. But by the time expenses were paid and the coaching staff given its performance bonuses, the school lost more than $184,000, according to reports filed with the NCAA. While the football team’s expenses [...]
Continue reading...Birmingham – QB talk & Harrison Beck
Friday, January 2, 2009
I’ve got a lot of random items from the bowl game but will probably get around to the items in a fragmented manner. We’ve already touched upon NC State’s great fans (Click here) On Monday night in Birmingham after the loss to Rutgers Monday’s the group I was with ran into a lot of players from both [...]
Continue reading...Great Wolfpack fans help save another bowl
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
So sorry for the lack of activity on the blog over the last week or so. In addition to the holidays I went down to Birmingham for the game and my laptop is having some issues; I am just now getting back to something that resembles a normal life. I’ll have more from Birmingham later, but I [...]
Continue reading...Semi-Live Bowl Blogging from Blowing Rock
Monday, December 29, 2008
I am in a mountain condo on my blackberry, so don’t expect updates every 5 minutes or graphics of any kind. But I am ready and willing to sort of live blog today, for the last time in 2008. I feel really good about today’s game, which I fear means impending doom. 3:04 – Eugene [...]
Continue reading...Great Read on O’Brien and His Coaching Philosophy
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Update 1: Instead of making a new entry, I’ll add this bit here: Tom O’Brien said today that starting safety Clem Johnson will indeed be ready to play tomorrow in the Pizza Bowl. This is a positive for the Pack as it adds depth to a defensive secondary that’s sure to be tested all [...]
Continue reading...ESPN: Video Preview
Saturday, December 20, 2008
A nice two-minute look at our bowl game here. The PapaJohns.com really lucked out with its selections…Two of the hottest programs in college football Note McShay’s comments with 40 seconds remaining in the clip: Early in the year, remember, Mike Teal, the quarterback, was getting booed by his home crowd. May we do the pleasure of reminding you by [...]
Continue reading...State selling tickets in Birmingham; Fowler fails to capitalize on a media opportunity
Friday, December 19, 2008
The News & Observer reports that… N.C. State’s ticket office has sold about 5,500 of its allotment of 10,000 seats for the Papajohns.com Bowl, State assistant athletics director Brian Kelly said Thursday. Remember that these are only tickets sold officially through the Wolfpack Club. I usually suggest obtaining tickets from the WPC for bowl games; but, that is [...]
Continue reading...Vegas Oddmakers Are Noticing Russell Wilson
Thursday, December 18, 2008
One of the dirty little secrets of college athletics is that people actually bet on games. That’s why points spreads exist. A proper point-spread incents equal betting on both sides of the point-spread and creating a 50/50 proposition (if the oddsmakers get things right). But, sometimes it doesn’t work out that way. Sometimes the oddsmakers [...]
Continue reading...Focus on Football
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
We’ve got some solid football items to digest today. Heather Dinich has ranked the ACC Bowl games in order of most entertaining. The Wolfpack vs the Scarlet Knights is a strong second on the list. It’s interesting a bowl that is not an official ACC Bowl and includes the ACC’s 10th team is ranked so highly. [...]
Continue reading...Your Birmingham Travel Entry
Sunday, December 7, 2008
No surprises this evening as the Wolfpack’s trip to Birmingham is finalized for a match-up with Rutgers. Kickoff is set for 3pm on Monday, December 29th on ESPN. You can get your Wolfpack Club travel packages by clicking here and you can use this entry to share thoughts, insights and information regarding Birmingham and travel. Link [...]
Continue reading...5:45pm Update: NC State to play Rutgers in PapaJohns.com Bowl
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Nothing different from what we have been sharing…official announcement will be out later… 5:10pm Update Our spies in Florida tell us that the Champs Bowl is going with Florida State, so this would mean that most of the rest of the projections of the conference’s bowl line-up should fall into place as previously projected. This development [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack’s Bowl Picture Becoming More Clear (Updated 11:35am)
Thursday, December 4, 2008
NC State’s bowl chances now appear to rest on the University and the ACC’s ability to secure an at-large bid. It seems apparent now that the NCAA and the ACC are standing firm by not allowing a 6-6 NC State team take one of the 9 bowl bids affiliated with the ACC. Over the past [...]
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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