I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
November Looms
Many of us have been discussing the Carolina loss and what it means for this season and TOB’s future. Please don’t mistake me for a staunch TOB supporter, but after giving it some thought, I’m not ready to fire him just yet. I’m willing to see how November plays out first because at 5-3 (2-2), [...]
Tuesday Tidbits
NC STATE FOOTBALL Associated Press N.C. State’s Glennon Next Up For Seminoles Pass Rush The Seminoles (5-0, 2-0) have the league’s best defense and feature its two top pass rushers in defensive ends Cornellius Carradine and Bjoern Werner, who already have 13½ sacks between them. Florida State’s defense ranks first across the board in the [...]
Sports Illustrated Preview: Pack #25
Two weeks from right now hopefully we’re all waking up happy about the previous night’s score. SI.com: Three years ago, NC State’s secondary was in shambles. His hand forced by injuries and departures, coach Tom O’Brien plugged a pair of first-year players in at safety: true freshman Brandan Bishop and redshirt freshman Earl Wolff. Another [...]
TOB & Googs to represent in Chick-fil-A Bowl Charity Golf Event
Head football coach Tom O’Brien and basketball legend Tom Gugliotta will make up the two man team representing NC State in the Chick-fil-A Bowl Golf Challenge. The event is being held beginning this Sunday, April 29 thru Tuesday, May 1 at the Reynolds Plantation resort. It features 16 schools competing for the first place prize [...]
N&O: TOB evaluates first scrimmage
N&O: O’Brien enjoyed watching quarterback Mike Glennon throw against the first-team secondary. In 75 plays, the offense scored two touchdowns, both on passes. The defense, which had 27 interceptions last season, picked off two passes in the scrimmage. O’Brien said Glennon and the secondary are improving. “(The secondary) is operating at a high level, which [...]
A Brief History of Shutouts and Blowouts
Today’s 34-0 loss to Florida State was the 3rd time NC State has been shutout under Tom O’Brien. State was also shutout in back-to-back games, the opening game of the 2008 season 34-0 to South Carolina and the season finale in 2007 was a 37-0 loss to Maryland. I’m sure you’ve noticed that all 3 [...]
TOB Gives First Adult Perspective to UNC’s Problems
WRAL’s sports blog has condensed TOB’s latest radio show and his thoughts on UNC’s woes in a recent post which can be found here. “I pray that it’s not a systematic problem. I don’t buy that ‘everybody does it’ routine. You don’t have to be that way. I think it all comes down to the [...]
Why Skeptics of Tom O’Brien Should Feel Better
Note: This article was written earlier, but compliments StateFanNation’s summary of the N&O article on Wolfpack’s patience with TOB. This only serves as an explanation for why those skeptical of Tom O’Brien should feel more comfortable about his coaching tenure to date and is written from the perspective of a self-described Tom O’Brien critic. It [...]
2010 ACC – This Is Why We Hired TOB
Back when we were happily in the market for a new football coach (at long last for me, as I was maybe the very first person off the Amato train – having told several people after the Maryland game during PR’s senior year that the Amato experiment was going to end very badly), I got [...]