NC State’s football recruiting has been on a tear over the last couple of weeks as Coach O’Brien has been adding commitments and quickly moving toward a full class for the year. It is no surprise that offensive line continues to be a primary need for the Wolfpack’s recruiting; and, tonight State added two three-star […]
Football Recruiting
Butch Davis No-Shows Shrine Bowl – Practicing for Sun Bowl halftime or taking a math class?
One of the traditions of the annual Shrine Bowl in Charlotte are speeches from the states’ major college coaches. Yesterday, Tom O’Brien, Steve Spurrier, Dabo Sweeny, and David Cutcliffe were on-hand to give their remarks — but due to the weather, UNC’s Butch Davis missed his turn at the mike. Thanks to an insider tip, […]
Is UNC About To Fire Up Its Football Waiver Wire? (updated 12/16)
[Note: if you haven’t read the 2nd update, please take the time to do so.] The News and Observer has finally noticed that UNC football’s scholarship count and recruiting numbers don’t add up: The Tar Heels will lose 12 scholarship seniors after they complete the 2008 season vs. West Virginia at the Meineke Bowl on […]
Mike Paulus Did Not Want To Compete, So Russell Wilson Came To State
Bob Lee Swagger, a UNC blogger of note, had this little tidbit about Russell Wilson and his interest in playing football for UNC prior to his commitment to the Wolfpack: “I don’t follow “recruiting” as a life passion but several who do passed on this little tidbit. Two years ago Russell Wilson was a highly […]
ACC Sports Journal: Wolfpack Failed to Fix Line With 2005 Class
Recently the ACC Sports Journal completed major changes to their website and the layout of their print edition. For anyone interested, they are offering a free 30 day trial to their website. You can register by going here: Free 30 day Trial One cool feature non-subscribers can use on their website is the “Daily Links” […]
N&O highlights Wolfpack’s attrition issues
We’ve recently been busier than normal and therefore haven’t had the opportunity to cover nearly as much as we would have liked. But, one topic that we have done an admirable job of highlighting is the impact/problem of attrition and injuries related to this year’s NC State football team. Back in September we highlighted the […]
Our Best Pitch
The following was submitted to us by our old friend, SMD. The timing of the piece was perfect as Jerricho Cotchery was featured last night in a FANTASTIC piece on ESPN’s television show, E:60. If you didn’t see it, you need to find a replay of it and watch it. It was summed up by […]
NC State down to 46 scholarship players not counting kickers
This column has been provided by a guest author Todd Lion. After viewing the post yesterday describing NC State’s injury woes and last week’s entry discussing the high rate of attrition from Amato’s last two classes, I thought it would be worth it to examine who is available to play instead of focusing on those […]
41% attrition rate from 2005 & 2006 classes
Here is a good article from Rob Daniels of the Greensboro News & Record that provides some statistical insight into what we all know and are feeling – NC State’s football program is depleted of depth and currently undergoing a major rebuilding project. Hopefully our fans have begun to realize that we are in a […]
Sam Jones thread mysteriously disappears from Pack Pride forum
A member of the Pack Pride message board community posted a thread on the website’s free board this morning proclaiming that he/she had a personal relationship with the family of Wolfpack signee, Sam Jones and that Jones had failed to take an Algebra II class that is a requirement for admission at NC State. The […]
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