Gameday is finally here! #WPN #1Pack1Goal #BeatLaTech — Dave Doeren (@StateCoachD) August 31, 2013 Carter-Finley around 7:30am this morning: @packpride @packfootball Carter Finley on the eve of the start of the season #GoPack #1pack1goal #BeatLaTech pic.twitter.com/yrjJt5eG37 — ElevatedPerspectives (@elevatedFPV) August 31, 2013
’13 Football
College Football 2013 Kicks Off
Joy of joys, our long national nightmare of watching only baseball and soccer ends tonight. Hopefully with some nice, medium-well Hole Schadenfreude. Yes, teams will be rusty, but there are at least theoretically interesting matchups, headlined by Georgia/Clemson and LSU/TCU. Hell, I’m even geeked to stay up late to watch Ole Miss and Vandy tonight. […]
Closer to kickoff #1Pack1Goal
On Wednesday, NC State’s football players will learn the identity of the starting quarterback to take the field when the 2013 football season kicks off on Saturday. Brandon Mitchell and Pete Thomas will find out which one will be N.C. State’s starting quarterback on Wednesday. The rest of us will have to wait until just […]
SI projects Pack to go bowling
What a great week!! The start of the college football season is upon us in just four days (and the start of college basketball practice actually tips off in 31 days). The national football previews that I have seen over the summer almost unanimously project Dave Doeren’s first installment of NC State Football to be […]
Football! Doeren & personnel moves
In just one week from right now we will be discussing the results from Dave Doeren‘s debut as NC State’s fifth Head Football Coach of the last thirty years. Let’s all hope that his debut goes better than Tom O’Brien’s. Who can forget the night Central Florida defeated NC State in Carter-Finley (25-23) when Knights […]
Preseason Webrun
NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) N.C. State DT K’Hadree Hooker transferring to ECU Defensive tackle K’Hadree Hooker has traded in his N.C. State red for East Carolina purple. The 6-foot-0, 307-pound redshirt freshman, who released from his scholarship at State earlier in the day, announced Thursday evening on Twitter that he will continue his […]
Preseason 2013 Football Webrun
NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Smith, Payton held out of second scrimmage Veteran receivers Rashard Smith and Quintin Payton were held out of Friday’s scrimmage at Carter-Finley Stadium as a precaution. “Rashard is just beat up and we kind of know what he is and I don’t need to put him out there and […]
Preseason Webrun
NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) Scrimmage performance helps transfer Mitchell become Wolfpack QB frontrunner Friday after practice, N.C.State football coach Dave Doeren said that the five-man battle for the Wolfpack’s starting quarterback job had been narrowed down to just two – senior transfer Brandon Mitchell and junior Pete Thomas. Judging from Doeren’s comments following […]
We have a Robert Caldwell sighting! Talking 2013 linebackers
As we roll closer to football season we will pick up the pace on some topical conversations related to the 2013 edition of NC State Football. Today, I thought we would talk a little defensive news coming out of practice, particularly related to our linebackers. The linebacker position is particularly interesting to me this year […]
Monday Musings
NC STATE FOOTBALL Joe Giglio (N&O) Pack QB competition begins for Thomas, Mitchell The Arkansas graduate is competing against junior Pete Thomas, who worked with the first-team offense in practice on Friday in the drills open to the media. Mitchell worked with the second-team offense. Mitchell, who played receiver at Arkansas last season, made an […]
