Tag Archive | "Tom O’Brien"
DG talks to TOB
It is Super Bowl Sunday (good luck, DeMario Pressley), so let’s use this opportunity to turn away from the trainwreck that we all call ‘NC State Basketball’ and take a little look at football season. Dave Glenn had a nice 12 minute interview with Coach Tom O’Brien to which you can listen by clicking [...]
Continue reading...NC State 28, UNC 27 (Updated at 9:45am)
Saturday, November 28, 2009
With 16 scholarship players out and two more defensive starters hurt during the game, the Wolfpack looked like longer shots than the oddsmakers’ mere touchdown. – WSJ.com ESPN2’s Todd McShay and Robert Smith had nice things to say about the Wolfpack and the win in their post-game comments…and, I appreciate them focusing on the winners today [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien Talks About End of First Half Clock Management (Updated 9pm)
Sunday, November 1, 2009
The comments that follow are related to the atrocious clock management at the end of the first half of yesterday’s loss at Florida State. As WV Wolf highlighted in comments: Donald Bowens gets tackled with about 30 seconds left in the half. Russell Wilson gets the play from the sideline at 22 seconds. Ball is snapped at [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien Stands By Mike Archer, Blames Players (As Usual)
Friday, October 30, 2009
Photo Courtesy of photo1nc on SFN Flickr stream Tom O’Brien is nothing if not steady, apparently to a fault sometimes. During his entire tenure at NC State, he has blamed his players for failing to execute – even in a win – and stood by his coaches. Thursday, he was back at it: “Mike’s been part of [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien Remains Upbeat, Still Confident In Rebuilding Process
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Despite back-to-back woodshed-whoopings, not to mention an increasing chorus of fans howling across the Wolfpack Nation for heads to roll on his staff, Tom O’Brien says that he is still confident in the growth process of the Wolfpack program under his leadership and that he does not believe that it is time to write off [...]
Continue reading...Boston College 52 NC State 20
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Photo courtesy of News & Observer/Ethan Hyman. Link to N&O Photo Gallery. We are just going to turn the The Live Blog into the post-game entry for two reasons: (1) I can’t emotionally deal with putting together a post game entry and (2) BJD’s comments in the live blog and the comments from [...]
Continue reading...Pitt provides pivot point for Pack program (Updated 10am)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Make no mistake about it…today’s Wolfpack win over the favorite to win the Big East Championship marked a legitimate turning point for Coach Tom O’Brien and the NC State football program. We posted this previous comment as the game ended, so we were very pleased to see that we were on the same page [...]
Continue reading...N.C. State’s Tradition Coordinator – Who knew???
Monday, August 31, 2009
After posting (erroneously – sorry and thanks!) about the Pep Rally that will be held at Harris Field on Wednesday night, I was contacted by the Director of Traditions for the Alumni Association Student Ambassador Program. Call me disconnected if I’m the only one without knowledge of this group, position and/or effort by 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...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...Visit with a purpose
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
If N.C. State’s leadership quandary has you depressed, you can find some solace in coach Tom O’Brien’s decision to take members of the Wolfpack football team to the Wounded Warrior Battalion at Camp Lejeune. As we approach the Independence Day holiday, we wanted to go back and highlight this story and photo gallery that we didn’t [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien’s program making more waves (Update 12:30pm)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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 have been [...]
Continue reading...Carr adds NC State to the mix
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Gainsville, GA safety Daunte Carr has added NC State to his final four. We are in the mix with Wake Forest, Stanford, and UCLA. The reason I find this so worthy is the reason behind Carr’s list: academics. ESPN reports that Carr wants to major in biomedical engineering and pre-medicine, the former being a large [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien Working Hard To Manage Expectations
Thursday, May 28, 2009
As the Wolfpack Caravan winds its way around the state, one thing that is clear is that fans are excited about the upcoming football season and that a large number of them are predicting big things for the 2009 edition of NC State football. You can see that in the poll here at SFN, where [...]
Continue reading...Dienhart: ‘Expect a breakout this fall’
Monday, April 13, 2009
A couple of years ago we highlighted various media exercises where Tom O’Brien was garnering praise and high rankings. It may be worth some of your time to do a little surfing. As you can see from some of the previous links, Tom Dienhart was writing for The Sporting News in the past. Today, [...]
Continue reading...What A Great Guy: BC AD Defilippo Says He’ll Fire Jagodzinski If He Interviews w/ Jets (Updated 9am)
Monday, January 5, 2009
This probably will serve as a little insight as to why Tom O’Brien left Boston College for Raleigh: ESPN’s Chris Mortensen is reporting that Jeff Jagodzinski will be fired as the coach at Boston College if he proceeds with his scheduled interview with the Jets on Monday. According to Mortensen: “Despite the threat from athletic director Gene [...]
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...ACC Football Future: NC State (Updated 11:30am)
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
As ESPN.com reviews the Wolfpack’s 2008 Football season in this entry, Dave Glenn says that after an impressive stretch run, Wilson & Pack aim to contend in 2009 With UNC flirting with an ACC championship run this year before fading in November, and with the Tar Heels talking up big plans for another stadium expansion, the [...]
Continue reading...Report: Notre Dame To Retain Weis
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
WNDU and Irish Eyes website are reporting tonight that Charlie Weis will return next year. (Links through The Big Lead) We didn’t want to alarm the Wolfpack faithful when we floated this entry earlier in the day; but, as with much of what we report here there was a lot more going on behind the [...]
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