In an article containing the hopeful nugget that NC State and USC may resume their storied rivalry, The State reports this oft-rumored terrible news: If the two-year deal is finalized, the Wolfpack would visit Williams-Brice Stadium in 2008, with USC traveling to Raleigh in ‘09. Vaughn said N.C. State is looking to fill a couple […]
NCS Football
FBall Position Talk
NC State released the post-spring depth chart (Link) a couple of weeks ago. In order of “most concern” to “least concern”, the following is a list of how I feel about the Wolfpack’s different positions: (1) Offensive line (2) Linebackers (3) Wide receivers (4) Quarterbacks (5) Secondary (6) Defensive Line (7) Special Teams (8) Running […]
Video: Philip Rivers in Tangerine Bowl
YouTube makes watching video easy. Someone has uploaded every pass that PR threw in his record setting 2003 Tangerine Bowl performance. You can click here for the links. First Quarter Second Quarter
ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 Shuffles College Football on-air talent
Lots of changes to ABC & ESPN’s on air annoucers for this season. You will enjoy this link discussing some of this in much more detail.
D Morris Cut and Re-Acquired; Wolfpackers in the Desert
Former NC State offensive lineman, Derek Morris, has already signed free agent contracts with two different NFL clubs since going undrafted in the NFL draft last month. Morris was awarded to the Arizona Cardinals off of waivers after being cut by the Kansas City Chiefs. Morris signed with Ohio State out of high school before […]
Rivals Gets it Right
In addition to any basketball developments that may take place in recruiting and with the new staff, the next couple of weeks will see SFN spend a lot more time focusing on football. We’ll be developing a lot of our own entries, but we will never hesitate to direct you to spend time at other […]
SMQ: Premature Assessment
Sunday Morning Quarterback is one of our favorite football blogs on the internet. (For more great blogs, please take a look on the right hand side of the front page of StateFansNation and scroll down to “Football Blogs”) Last month, they ran an “absurdly premature assessment of NC State” that can be seen by clicking […]
Carter-Finley’s Best, Part I
Tim Peeler has neat piece up on GoPack.com. (Link) I’m looking for a little help. To help celebrate the 40th anniversary of Carter-Finley Stadium, the athletics department is looking to identify the top seven games ever played at NC State’s home football stadium. After we have identified the top 20 candidates, we’re going to conduct […]
Focus on Football
Spring Round-Up The top priority for the relatively young Wolfpack this spring was to avoid major injury – mission accomplished. ESPN.com has THE PORTAL for all the spring football news throughout the nation that you may want. Click here. In addition to ESPN’s round-up of the ACC’s Spring Football, the ACC Area Sports Journal has […]
2006 Athlon Cover
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