Many media outlets are reporting that NC State Assistant Basketball Coach, Larry Hunter, has been offered the Head Coaching job at Western Carolina University. Folks…you can chalk it up that Hunter is gone. Larry Hunter joined the Wolfpack staff in May of 2001, coming to Raleigh simultaneously with the “Julius Hodge recruiting class” that was […]
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ACC Postseason Football Talk
As we look toward the 2005 Football Season and are in the middle of a scheduling snafu with Temple, I thought that it may be interesting to highlight some offseason news on the ACC Championship and Bowl schedule. ===> ACC Championship Game: The ACC’s first ever college football championship game, which will be aired on […]
Chip Alexander Update On The Temple Game
It is hard to believe that Chip Alexander could get hold of Lee Fowler (since Lee is so media shy) but he did, and here is an update on the Temple game fiasco. Also here is one aspect of the story you will want to follow. The Temple contract says $250,000 for a buyout, unless […]
Football Game With Temple Is In Jeopardy
Word around the Murphy Football Center is that Temple wants to drop NC State from their 2005 football schedule. You can read all of the details in this article.
Another ACCeptional Season
The Atlantic Coast Conference posted its final weekly press release of the season on its website last week. Congratulations to Julius Hodge who earned ACC Player of the Week honors on five different occassions, more than any other ACC player. Conference Envy After the media tried to make so much of the success of a […]
Mestas: Sendek is ‘Strictly Business’
“He demands a lot. Nobody’s going to slack off, that’s for sure. Not everybody’s going to like him. I don’t want to say he’s a mean guy, but he could show up in the morning without saying hi to his secretary. He goes straight to work, and that’s why he wins. He’s strictly business.” Miami […]
Tudor: Good QB = Good Record
“The Wolfpack will be good, just as it was a year ago. But good doesn’t always mean successful. A good Wolfpack team in ’04 finished 5-6 because the offensive line was hurt and lean and the quarterbacks were not good enough to overcome that one problem. The defense was good enough to win nine or […]
Sendek Hired 9 Years Ago Yesterday
On Thursday, April 18, 1996, the 100th installment of the (new) InfoPack reported on Herb Sendek’s first full day as the new basketball coach at NC State University. S endek was announced the previous day in Reynolds Coliseum. The following are some random items InfoPack #99 and IP #100 from April 17th and 18th, 1996: […]
Saturday’s Spring Game
NC State held its annual Spring Football game on Saturday. Intra-squad scrimmages in any sport are very difficult to watch because you are constantly asking yourself questions like, “Did the offense do poorly/well because the defense is good/bad…or vice-versa? I first learned this lesson in the mid to late 80’s when Teviin Binns went off […]
Good News: The Emergence of DeMario Pressley
After discussing the dearth of information from the football team’s spring practice, Tim Peeler has a nice piece on GoPack.com AND, Chuck Amato gave a long interview on 1090-AM. A transcript of the interview has been posted here. Emergence of DeMario Pressley? Peeler’s piece included an interesting blurb… “The coach, who will enter his sixth […]
