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RIP Two Wolfpack Greats – Dennis Byrd & Kaye Cowher

Saturday, July 24, 2010

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It just a very sad news day in Wolfpackland. We extend our deepest condolences to the families of Dennis Byrd and Kaye Cowher. God bless you call. Dennis Byrd North Carolina State football legend Dennis Byrd, who was recently selected to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December, has died at [...]

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Big injury update and afternoon football bytes

Monday, September 21, 2009

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Big injury update and afternoon football bytes

WRAL: Eugene & Vermiglio not on current two-deep WRAL is reporting that neither Jamelle Eugene nor Jake Vermiglio were ‘listed on the N.C. State depth chart for the Pittsburgh game, which was released by the school Monday afternoon.’ I’m not going to lose any sleep over this yet as: (1) I haven’t seen this two-deep [...]

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A View from the Cheap Seats

Monday, July 14, 2008

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Dear Heather Dinich, Good for you, having been to all of the ACC stadiums – it’s something I can’t say for myself. And kudos to ESPN for hiring an Indiana graduate and a Maryland resident to write a regular blog about the ACC. I’ll be honest here, Heather. I’m provincially prejudiced and I don’t intend [...]

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Cowher Downsizing, Staying in Raleigh

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

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There have been some weird rumors regarding Bill Cowher in recent days; many of which have been perpetuated by the website linked here. The N&O addressed the topic directly from the horse’s mouth this morning. Bill Cowher is moving – to another house in Raleigh. Cowher put his 7,400-square-foot North Raleigh mansion on the market [...]

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A View from the Cheap Seats

Friday, August 10, 2007

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Tom O’Brien may be an Ohio native who’s spent the past decade in Boston, but he’s got a certain nature about him that seems distinctly southern. In a way not entirely different than Sidney Lowe, O’Brien has unified a fan base that hasn’t been completely united across the board in twenty years, a refreshing change [...]

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Football Insight

Monday, February 19, 2007

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A few articles are providing a little insight into the Wolfpack’s new football coaching staff that we thought that we would share. * Love reading this – Coach O’Brien Wants to Hear from Former NC State Football Players!. * Future Defense N.C. State’s Mike Archer has gained a reputation as a 3-4 defensive coordinator. Three [...]

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Cowher Signs with CBS

Monday, February 19, 2007

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Bill Cowher joins CBS as a studio analyst. (Link) Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher is returning to the NFL — as an analyst on CBS’ Sunday “The NFL Today” studio show. Share This Article:

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Big Coaching Update: Must it be a Head Coach?

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

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Lots of things to run down in today’s coaching update. As with all of our updates, we think it best if you start by refreshing yourself with our preceeding entries on the topic. * Paul Johnson was interviewed yesterday and his candidacy is being discussed by ESPN today. Johnson must have reason to believe that [...]

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‘Tremendous Interest in the Job’

Saturday, December 2, 2006

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Lots of personal responsibilities have been keeping us away from running down coaching scoop and blogging updates over the last couple of days, but nothing of real note has broken so we haven’t missed much. Regardless, this entry from Dave Glenn does a fantastic job of setting the table and is a must read for [...]

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No Contract For Neinas? Say It Ain’t So, “Coach”

Thursday, November 30, 2006

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I may be overreacting, but a comment reported in today’s News & Observer causes some real concern about the coaching search. NC State Athletic Director Lee Fowler, who stumblebummed through the Sidney Lowe hiring some months back, told the newspaper that, “[h]e has talked with Chuck Neinas, a Colorado-based headhunter who helped North Carolina hire [...]

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Cowher Johnson? Fisher? Other?

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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Sorry that we are late on this. We are only bothering to put it up so that we can say that it is up there. Bill Cowher said no to the Wolfpack in public today. However, after the public comments Chris Mortenson commented on Erik Kuselias’ radio show (ESPN) that Cowher to State is still [...]

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Cowher’s Contract? Interim Solution?

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

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Fanblogs.com had a nice comprehensive piece that will interest you. The entry includes links to Pittsburgh newspapers that highlight Bill Cowher’s contractual status with the Steelers has him committed through next season. The newspapers also suggest that the Rooney family is probably not inclined to allow Cowher out of his contract to coach anywhere next [...]

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A View from the Cheap Seats

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

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I know why we’ve yet to win a national championship in football. It’s a theory I’ve developed over my many years of watching far too much college football and retaining far too much useless information. While there is nothing scientific about it, I do consider myself a foremost expert on the subject; if only I’d [...]

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Tuesday’s Football Update

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

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We are expecting this “search” to be pretty quick and pretty painless. It now looks as thought things are evolving as it has appeared they would – if Bill Cowher says no then Paul Johnson is the man. We expect that NC State will receive an answer from Bill Cowher by the end of the [...]

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Fanblogs: Reviewing the Top Candidates (Updated 3:30pm)

Monday, November 27, 2006

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College football’s annual coaching carousel is in high gear and NC State is taking spin this year. SFN has already blogged some commentary and analysis to set the table for some of our future entries. But, we don’t expect football coaching scoop to be quite as clear as the basketball scoop that we were able [...]

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SFN’s Football Scoop and Analysis

Sunday, November 26, 2006

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SFN Notes: Originally posted early Sunday Morning. Sorry that we couldn’t get this up prior to the ECU game like we had said that we would. Thanksgiving and family obligations have a way of impacting our best intentions. We will keep this entry at the top of the blog for most of Sunday and Monday, [...]

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SFN Impact Update

Thursday, November 9, 2006

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Some of the nice comments from our readers in this entry from Tuesday prompted today’s quick reflective note. Bank in July we gave you an update of how our blog had exploded during the year and shared some of our statistics with you. You can see our comments by clicking here. Today we thought that [...]

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Just For Argument’s Sake

Thursday, October 26, 2006

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Since we ran our kind of “Just For Argument’s Sake” related to Bill Cowher in this entry, ESPN’s article today was worth sharing with you. Three interesting items related to college football coaches are included in the piece that was very interesting. The crux of the second item is included below: Many of us have [...]

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Truth & Rumor: Cowher in Light Blue? (Key Update @ 2:30pm)

Thursday, October 26, 2006

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From Sports Illustrated through the Philadelphia Daily News: “A few folks in Pittsburgh think Bill Cowher is ready to walk away from the Steelers and could resurface at one of those Carolina schools, because his children are older and his wife is from down that way.” Let’s play the “what if” game for a moment. [...]

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D*#&^$ Second Guesses Cowher

Monday, September 25, 2006

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There is one thing that you have to hand Gregg #($*^$ – no matter how stupid he may sound, he does not hesitate to write things that embarass him. I know that we don’t like to link to @&*#. Obviously, we won’t even say his name. But, to completely ignore him isn’t all that much [...]

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