Tag Archive | "Tom O’Brien"
Benchmark Tom O’Brien: The Race to Perceived Success
First, something for the liberal-arts lovers: “All our knowledge has its roots in our perception.” -Leonardo da Vinci. I wonder if da Vinci ever tried quantifying perception? Every college program has coaching dynasties that we view, or perceive, as “good programs”. To back this up, we have all of the records, stats, and bowl trophies to [...]
Continue reading...TOB vs CMFBD
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Joe Giglio has been hard at work compiling a ‘by the numbers’ analysis comparing NC State’s Tom O’Brien with UNC’s Chief *# Butch Davis. The two points I can make for Coach O’Brien are: (1) I am very glad he gets to play Carolina every year! (2) Is there something we can do to get [...]
Continue reading...O’Brien v. Lowe
Monday, August 9, 2010
Maybe it’s unfair, but I have routinely compared Sidney Lowe’s performance with Tom O’Brien’s performance, at least within my circle of Wolfpack faithful. The debate can often become colorful and I usually, and admittedly, find myself on the outside looking in on the popular response. Now that we’re more than a few years in to [...]
Continue reading...Tom O’Brien After Russell Wilson
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Although Russell says he is coming back to play in the fall even after being drafted in the 4th round of Major League Baseball’s Draft, it may be time for Tom O’Brien to dust off his Contingency Plan. After all, professional athletes NEVER posture and use leverage to get the maximum salary they can pull… [...]
Continue reading...Remember – The Hard Work is Just Beginning
Monday, May 10, 2010
Now that a few days have passed, and the initial euphoria is starting to wear off – let’s put everything into perspective. Chancellor Randy Woodson is off to a great start. And by removing a clear, absolute impediment to athletic success (Lee Fowler), he is giving us a fantastic opportunity to move forward. But we [...]
Continue reading...In case you missed it, Tom O’Brien is on the hot seat
Friday, March 26, 2010
In more football news, apparently Tom O’Brien is on the hot seat. Thanks to 99.9 FM’s Joe Ovies for bringing this to my attention this morning via Twitter. O’Brien’s ‘rebuilding’ window is closing fast Three seasons ago, Tom O’Brien surprised more than a few people by jumping abruptly from Boston College to N.C. State. At [...]
Continue reading...DG talks to TOB
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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 here. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the community [...]
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 with [...]
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 University. [...]
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 rudely awakened to just [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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