This probably will serve as a little insight as to why Tom O’Brien left Boston College for Raleigh: ESPN’s Chris Mortensen is reporting that Jeff Jagodzinski will be fired as the coach at Boston College if he proceeds with his scheduled interview with the Jets on Monday. According to Mortensen: “Despite the threat from athletic […]
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Dan Werner takes center stage
In our preview article focused on NC State’s HUGE trip to Gainesville today we opened the topic of Dan Werner. Instead of dominating that entry we thought that we would follow-up with more insight on the topic in this entry. Similarly, please try to keep the conversations here focused on this topic and don’t dominate […]
Condolences to Frank Weedon and His Family
Longtime NC State Sports Information Director Frank Weedon has lost his wife Janice recently after she fought a long battle with cancer. From all of us in the Wolfpack sports family and Statefans Nation, we’d like to extend our condolences and regret at your loss, Mr. Weedon.
Quick reference Pack players in the NFL
While the holidays are in full effect, we thought we’d point you to this excellent reference page that lists NC State alums’ in the NFL: Pro Football Reference: NC State I especially found references to the old-school players whose names are on Carter-Finley Stadium’s Ring of Honor fun to look at. For example: Dick Christy […]
Wall Street Journal Looks At Coaches’ Pay (w/ NC State mention)
An interesting article popped up on the radar from an unlikely source: the venerable and staid Wall Street Journal. In “Who Pays The College Coach,” author Mark Yost takes a look at Alabama’s Nick Saban, among others (including Coach Kommercial.) When North Carolina State thought it would take at least $2 million to find a […]
Report: Skip Holtz Going To Syracuse
Sunday morning: Michael Bradley from the NFL Network reports that Skip Holtz will be named Syracuse University’s football coach on Monday. Link from Syracuse, NY television station The Wiz of Odds is also covering it Published on 12/05/2008 at 3:35pm There might be trouble on the Pirate ship, as it looks like there’s some substance […]
Mario Williams Loves Wearing Red
For one home game each year the NFL’s Houston Texans’ deviate from their primary uniform colors of blue and white to wear special ‘Battle Red’ jerseys. In Houston, the game is looked upon with excitement as something different and, in most years, it seems the struggling Texans’ franchise rises to the occassion and submits one […]
Holland on Money Matters
I wish this one could be bronzed for the ages. Terry Holland in October 27, 2008’s The Sporting News The administration, with $100 million or more recently invested in facilities and a $50 million annual budget, cannot afford to keep a coach who is not producing a return on that investment. If donors and season-ticket […]
Cutcliffe: This Might Be O’Brien’s Only Year to Chirp (Updated 2:15pm, Grobe’s Comment)
With all due respect to the Duke football program, I found this little gem laugh-out-loud funny: “If I were Tom O’Brien, I’d be saying that,†Cutcliffe said. “This might be the only year he can ever chirp like that. When you’ve got chirping right, you better chirp. Thing is, if there’s any football program in […]
Red Means Go Contest
If you are not familiar with the Red Means Go campaign then you definitely need to read this important entry. We wanted to take this opportunity to draw your attention to the new contest to give away a $1,000 gift card to the NC State Student Store — click here for more
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