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N&O highlights Wolfpack’s attrition issues

Published by StateFans on 10/23/2008 in '08 Football, General and Recruiting - FBall. 48 Comments

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 41% attrition rates from the 2005 and 2006 recruiting classes in this entry that is worth reviewing.

Then we followed up with this very detailed account of which players are actually seeing the field.

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NC State down to 46 scholarship players not counting kickers

Published by Daily Update on 09/16/2008 in '08 Football, General and Recruiting - FBall. 49 Comments

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 available to play. From my latest examination of the GoPack.com roster, the Wolfpack has 73 players on scholarship this season.

Let us begin this examination by eliminating those players who are currently unavailable to play in the ECU game due to injury.

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41% attrition rate from 2005 & 2006 classes

Published by Daily Update on 09/09/2008 in '08 Football, Fans, General and Recruiting - FBall. 95 Comments

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 rebuild mode and potentially several years behind other schools who made coaching changes at the same time we hired TOB.

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

Published by Daily Update on 04/14/2008 in General, Recruiting - FBall and Rivals. 26 Comments

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, however it makes a little more sense now:

Since his departure from Cambridge in December, Paul Gonnella said he has been all over the country, around the clock, in search of the right coaching job. Finally, the most prominent virtue he expressed -– patience -– appears to have paid off.

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ESPN.com Recruiting Rankings- NC State 20th

Published by StateFans on 02/06/2008 in ACC, Rankings / Lists, Recruiting - FBall and Tom O'Brien. 54 Comments

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

Published by StateFans on 02/05/2008 in Football and Recruiting - FBall. 39 Comments

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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 by clicking here.:

Carolinas Schools Spend Generously to Woo Recruits
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Area Colleges Rollout Red Carpet for Recruits

Each school itemizes in its own way, so it’s impossible to proclaim a Carolinas recruiting budget champion. But North Carolina ($449,347) and Clemson ($401,083) each spent more than $400,000 and South Carolina ($283,505) and N.C. State ($243,462) more than $200,000 in 2006-07.

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

Published by StateFans on 01/29/2008 in '08 Football, ACC and Recruiting - FBall. 55 Comments

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.

Lucas becomes the 4th major linebacker prospect committed to the Wolfpack in this recruiting class joining Terrell Manning (see commitment entry), William Beasley and Dwayne Maddox (see commitment entry). It is generally understood that Terrell Manning will redshirt next year to give his injured knee sufficient time to rehabilitate therefore opening the door for one of the other three commits to potentially earn playing time as a true freshman.

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O’Brien Gets Big Time OL Recruit: RJ Mattes

Published by StateFans on 01/20/2008 in '08 Football, Football, Recruiting - FBall and Tom O'Brien. 42 Comments

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

Published by StateFans on 01/05/2008 in '08 Football, Football and Recruiting - FBall. 21 Comments

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

Published by StateFans on 01/01/2008 in '08 Football, Recruiting - FBall and Tom O'Brien. 28 Comments

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 at this stage of the recruiting process that is impressive about the Wolfpack’s effort.

O’Brien has firmly established himself as a major player with in-state prospects and has addressed many of the program’s primary needs with his first full recruiting class since coming from Boston College.

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Mike Glennon Washington Post All Metro Team

Published by StateFans on 12/20/2007 in '08 Football and Recruiting - FBall. 23 Comments

Hopefully Mike Glennon can play ASAP next year. He made the Washington Post All Metro team this season.

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Good News Continues - Manning Commits

Published by StateFans on 08/03/2007 in '07 Football, General and Recruiting - FBall. 24 Comments

You want to have some fun?

Take a look at this link and add “NC State” to the guy who is ranked#2…right after the #1 on the list that also has NC State as his college choice!!!

On the heels of this great news for our basketball program, NC State’s Football program got into the groove in a big way as Tom O’Brien added his 4th commitment from the State of North Carolina’s 15 best high school players.

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TOB Lands Important Commitment

Published by StateFans on 06/22/2007 in General and Recruiting - FBall. 76 Comments

NC State Head Coach, Tom O’Brien has been winning the respect of the media…and now it looks like he is garnering respect from the state’s top high school football players.

Coach O’Brien secured his third - and most important to date - verbal commitment of this year’s recruiting class this week when Shelby Crest linebacker, Dwayne Maddox declared his intention to join former Crest stars David Thompson, Chris Coleman, and Tim Ramseur as member’s of the Wolfpack family.

State also has verbal commitments from Pittsboro Northwood running back Tobias Palmer and Charlotte Independence tight end Mario Carter.

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