After EJ Whitley chose Virginia Tech on Monday…we figured that it may be uplifting for some to briefly highlight a quick blurb we ran across in Sports Illustrated last week.
In a special to Sports Illustrated titled, ‘Unconventional thinking: Top QB recruits have made unexpected commitments’, recruiting analyst Mike Farrell mentioned NC State commitment, Mike Glennon in the following paragraph:
Centreville (Va.) Westfield quarterback Mike Glennon committed to N.C. State over offers from Michigan and others.
Glennon will learn his craft under N.C. State offensive coordinator Dana Bible. Bible coached current NFL quarterbacks Tim Hasselbeck, Brian St. Pierre and Quinton Porter at Boston College, and Bible is the man responsible for the development of 2007 Heisman Trophy sleeper Matt Ryan.
It is nice to see NC State recruiting get some play no matter where or how.
Unfortunately, the source of these comments is Mike Farrell who has an atrocious historical reputation of covering/commenting on recruiting in the Carolinas. This link will take you to an entry from last year (that also includes some links) to help explain Farrell’s historical record of ‘covering’ NC State recruiting.
The pain doesn’t end with NC State coverage.
For fun, check out this blog entry written by Mike Farrell in May of 2006. BY ITSELF, the entry and thought – titled “North Carolina Could Finally Break Through” – is as random and far fetched of a thought as one could contrive. But, when you factor in this attack on Chuck Amato (and rebuttal from SFN), your frame of reference on speculating the motivation behind Farrell’s entries obviously changes.
After UNC comprised the following records:
2000: 6-5
2001: 8-5
2002: 3-9
2003: 2-10
2004: 6-6
2005: 5-6
…Mike Farrell proclaimed:
The North Carolina football program has been on the cusp of a breakthrough for years. A program that has long lived in the shadow of basketball success, the Tar Heels have fallen just shy of a huge season a few times in the last decade. But with more talent in the state of North Carolina now than in any year in recent memory and a hungry coaching staff, a breakthrough seems closer than ever before.
UNC has been labeled as a “sleeping giant” for years based on the above criteria coupled with a lack of consistent success. The term is one fans both hate and embrace, detesting the notion that their program should be great but isn’t while clinging to hope that it wouldn’t take much to turn things around.
The ACC be warned, this “sleeping giant” could awaken soon.
How did that “breakthrough” work out in the 2006 season?
