Our friends at The Red and White from State ran a poll to gather opinions on which Wolfpack football coach was the best of all time. The final results look like this: – Dick Sheridan…..49% – Lou Holtz………..21% – Chuck Amato……13% – Earle Edwards…..10% Rhetorical Questions: – So who did you vote for and why? […]
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First Football Practice Reports Trickle In 8/5 (Updated 8/6)
An article full of nothing useful at gopack.com. Can we have Annabelle back? Here are the highlights: With the offense in red, the defense in white and the quarterbacks in dressed in black, the team began to flex while John Deraney and the other kickers punted to Darrell Blackman and a few others. Deraney in […]
News Right Now is BAD News
You’ve surely noticed that the last couple of weeks have been full of bad news for college football programs. From Auburn’s academic troubles to Rhett Bomar and everything in between. For the most part, if your football team is making news in July or early August…then they are making BAD news. Sunday Morning Quarterback has […]
Rivers Impressive
We can’t follow every NC State alumnus playing football in the NFL (especially since the number of Wolfpackers in the NFL continues to grow and grow and grow). Additionally, we can’t focus an inordinate amount of attention on Philip Rivers has he gets ready to take the reigns of the San Diego Chargers. But, we […]
Lose The Pro Look, Chuck
The post-Rivers mediocrity of Wolfpack football has many causes. Jay Davis wasn’t Philip Rivers and at times wasn’t Tol Avery. The team was often poorly disciplined and poorly coached. An apparent – and hopefully eradicated – “star system,�? whose poster child was the insufferably annoying T.A. McClendon, took its toll. And assistants came and went […]
SFN: What A Year (thusfar)!!!
Excerpt: “In the first seven months of the year, SFN has attracted almost 150,000 different visitors from around the world, generating just under 8 million hits and 2.5 million different page views of unique SFN material. We couldn’t be more proud of the breadth and depth of our growing reach considering that we are just […]
Cowher TV Feature
Bill Cowher is being featured on “Aaron’s Football Saturdays in the South” that is running in syndication on local channels throughout the south this weekend. (Link) The show is produced by “Lincoln Financial Sports” which is the old Jefferson-Pilot Sports. (Lincoln Financial Group bought Greensboro-based Jefferson-Pilot months ago). Super Bowl Champ Bill Cowher, NC State […]
NFL Notes: Mario, Manny, McCargo & More
Give The News & Observer some credit for doing a good job of following the Wolfpack’s “6 Pack” of draftees. The N&O ran this summary of 2006 Wolfpack football alums as NFL training camps are opening. Mario Williams earned rave reviews in Houston during his first NFL practice. (Link) The Houston Texans’ No. 1 draft […]
4 Reasons Big 4 = Bottom 4
Link to Dave Glenn’s blog entry on the four reasons why the Big 4 = The Bottom 4 in football over the last 25 years. 1. Snowball Effect/Expansion. 2. Bad Demographics. Here’s the breakdown of how many Division I-A signees the traditional ACC states produce on an annual basis, relative to the number of I-A […]
Fascinating Idea (Update @ Noon – New Football League
In the same vein of mixing sports and business and The Big 12 Network comes a new football league that are going to be connected to, and play at college campuses. We’ve heard rumblings about folks at NC State being a little fearful of having a little too much debt connected to renovations at Carter-Finley […]
