If you want to know? why Swofford has insured that UNC is in the division they are in it’s because he understands the potential rewards to this prize. As long as we both continue floundering – no biggie. But if one can sustain some success – especially if that one is Chapel Hill – it will be harder for the other to catch up.
This. Doeren hasn’t seemed particularly intense about winning in his early years. Some of the baffling decisions were (I thought at the time) were more about teaching moments than strategic. Still do. I believed him when he said North Carolina was where he wanted to be — the fishing, the life style, etc. He also said he was aiming for a national championship (or words to that affect) and while that may be outside some of our reality, I think he meant it. It can’t all be done in the same day but we are doing things that point in that direction.
Have you seen the new graphics showing recruits making plays wearing NC State unis? A recent one had QB commitment, Devin Leary, throwing to WR recruit Devin Carter in Carter-Finley (with a tarhole DB trying to catch up)? Carter is making the catch. “Coincidentally” Carter committed a couple of days later. I’m serious. Those graphics are hot.
There’s one of Hux wearing a suit (or tux) looking just like the guy in the adds with the caption, “I don’t blitz often but when I do, I bring the house.” (If only it were true.) Really funny, Our graphics guy is talented. And creative. And a great recruiting asset.
Recruiting isn’t about who’s got the smoothest pitch on the in-home visit, although you would think from reading here on SFN that it is. Today you have to get the HS kids seeing themselves in your uniform on game day. Sweeney does a great job of this. Kids see themselves rubbing Howard’s Rock and running down that grassy bank into a stadium filled with 80,000 fans. Clemson could have put seats on that bank but it’s worth it to them to leave it like it was/is.
Chuck brought the fireworks to C-F. Doeren does that hands on the heads with the team swaying thing. Walk-on’s (I believe) carrying flags, sledge hammers, etc. It’s all about getting kids excited about playing at NC State. Letting a walk-on run out carrying a flag and being someone who leads the team on the field may not seem like much, but good walk-on’s are an asset to any team.
Blah, blah, blah. You know this as well as I do. We all need to quit trying to be effing comedians with the Pack in general and Doeren, Keatts, Avent, etc., in particular being the butt of our not very funny jokes — if we want the Pack to stop being the joke of the day in the revenue sports. Mr. DOG is right on. And believing starts with us, the fans. IMO if we don’t believe, we forfeit the right to ask the teams to believe. This “I’ll wait and see” BS is losers talk.
Any-some-how, IMO DD is building something sustainable and by aiming at a natty, if we fall short we will still have gone “where no State team has gone before.” The less than bold want to wait until we win a conference championship to be concerned about a natty. I won’t live that long.
DD isn’t trying to build something on his personality, he’s putting the blocks in place to build a sustainable, winning organization. (All this preaching and it ain’t even Sunday.)
Go Pack!!
