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My comment about getting Blackman was purely an expression of gratitude, not dismissive of the team’s performance.
I felt good about the game from the start fwiw. Heck, I actually left home right before the safety and drove to Wise Man Brewing in Winston to enjoy Octoberfest and finish watching the game with friends. #confidence? 😉
I too felt a little bit like we let off the gas in the 3rd quarter, but I don’t recall anything specifically to back up that feeling either.
On the other side of things, DD went for it on 4th and 1 on our first TD. I would not have made that call, but it was the right call because we needed to get all we could early on. It’s like playing the Patriots. Get as far ahead as you can and then hold on with all you have.
Overall, I liked the play calling mix, Felt like we were trying to maintain possession and move the ball, while sprinking in something unique here and there to keep them honest.
Question: I wasn’t paying attention to Harmon, but did FSU do anything to take him away or was it something else?
Btw, I do feel we caught a break with getting FSU on Blackman’s first game though.
Absolutely detest that effing tomahawk chop and the nah, nah, nah, that goes along with it. Sucks even worse when you are witnessing a serious beat down too.
Good thing Chuck and TOB helped provide a couple of opportunities to return the favor and chant long wayyyy hommmmme back at ’em.
looks like we are 6-12 in our last 18 with the Noles.
Nice article and I especially enjoyed that she ended up committing on the floor at Reynolds with her Dad right there.
Doesn’t hurt that he is easily in my all-time top 5 players to play at State and he just exudes class.
Looks like the volleyball team is primed to have a good ACC season too!
Tractor57, I believe there are many of us who do the forum “drive by” in hopes of finding something new/worthwhile posted, but don’t stop to add anything to the conversation. I’ll try to do better, but careful what you ask for. 🙂
I do believe the football team is progressing, but the pace has been slower than I expected (didn’t help to 0-8 in year 1). As with every other football coach in recent years, I get most frustrated by the consistency of the inconsistency. I’ve done the analysis, made the pretty charts and graphs, and they all make me feel like the movie Groundhog Day. Wash, rinse, repeat!
The low point for me personally last year was the BC game. I walked out of there fully supporting a change in coaching. While I understand how the powers that be might have come to a different conclusion, I thought it made sense to change. No, I wouldn’t have expected a homerun hire, but I feel an upgrade was within reach.
As for this season, a good season was 8 wins, a solid season was 7 wins, and a marginal season was 6 wins. I didn’t think we would win both USC and ND, so that means we need to go 4-4 in the ACC. Certainly do-able, and I am rooting hard for it. Just not holding my breath.
YES! It was absolutely boring. I don’t think I am alone in that sentiment either judging by the empty seats after the 1st half.
Respectfully disagree Troll. I was in the parking lot the ENTIRE second half, but NOT because the game was boring.
Let’s face it, it was hot (I was in the direct Sunlight), they don’t serve alcohol in section 2, and I can watch the game in the parking lot thanks to ESPN. If the game were a conference game, I would have been back in my seat for the 3rd quarter, but it wasn’t and I wasn’t.
Sorry to nitpick, but that does seem to be general modus operandi around here these days. 😉
Now, on to next week where we get an FSU team who has only taken the field once so far this year, but with a rookie under center. A recipe for a interesting game, just not sure for whom.
Totally agree with Rye…again. Maybe because we are getting a little “perspective on life”.
Check out my visual posted earlier. While I have had an endless supply of great memories with friends and family at football games, we have NOT had a lot of great seasons. Hell,even the year we went to the Gator Bowl (most exciting year since I started at State in ’84), we only went 5-3 in conference play.
Some folks might even bitch if we didn’t do better than that.
Not saying to accept mediocrity, just saying that things weren’t really “better” when you thought they were. And yes, I think the perception would be better if we had the occasional “magical” season to offset the turd season.
Hoping for the best, not holding my breath, and tailgating like a mofo until then.
Totally agree Rye. It’s not that hard, is it? 🙂
A follow up on a post from a few weeks ago about our the number of our conference wins (or lack thereof) is colorfully presented and compared against all of the other schools. Green is good, red is bad. Anyway, sums up what I have always known to be true.
Even after couple days to set in, fact is this was a game we were predicted to win and should have won. Don’t think I’ve ever had the high hopes of a pre-season hype smashed as quickly as an opening season kick off TD by the opposing team did. It was almost like knew it would happen like we knew Pack would miss the last second game winning fg kick at Clemson.
While it wasn’t the season opener, the 2004 game in Raleigh felt every bit as bad to me as Devin Hester took the opening kickoff back for a TD. Who in their right mind kicks to Devin Hester anyway?
That was the start of a 4-game slide and another season of narrow losses and missed expectations.
Fastback, I completely agree about this being my most enjoyable time of the year.
Not at the game, but hanging out with family in the mountains and enjoying the cool weather.
Watching the game, I hope we play well, finish strong, and kick off a season that brings our fans out of the woodwork.
4o, well done. However, no need to apologize to those young girls anywhere but in your mind. To them, you might as well be Dr. Jack Griffin in The Invisible Man.
As for you Curmudgeons, I’m a first-year empty nester and perhaps I will get there too. However, I long ago gave up on letting what happens beyond your “Gate Nazis” affect my level of enjoyment (even though they actually searched our group after halftime of the Notre Dame game. Seriously, I thought they should have handed confiscated liquor bottles to us just for being there).
Focus on the fun in the parking lot gents, for it is there where NC State has truly upped their game to be one of the ACC’s best.
Now, about that Lagavulin …
Thank you and well done CD.
You have studied the scriptured statistics. You are versed in strength and weakness of this Pack. There is no usefulness in sermons of repetition of those things you already know.
Can I get an amen from the congregation?
Speaking of Chappaquiddick, I always thought that they should have made a drink by that name. Easy to concoct too as you only need scotch and a splash of murky water.
Ok, so I had to go back and look at how football has done in comparison to their preseason predictions. I separated it into 2005-2015 (Divisions) and 1976-2004.
Sadly, and not surprisingly, the pattern holds, although not as much upside as we’ve seen in basketball.
Since division play began, we’ve under-performed if picked 3rd or better, BUT tended to perform as expected when picked 4 or lower.
Let’s face it, to finish in 3rd place you really need 5 conference wins and that is something that we’ve only managed 4 times since Sheridan said adieu.
Well the one consistent thing in the post-Sheridan/post-V era, NCSU will underperform their pick.
I’d like to see the correlation of pick versus performance. Seems if most folks are optimistic, we under-perform. If most folks are generally pessimistic, we have a 50/50 shot at over-performing.
I did look at this for basketball last season, and over the past 38 seasons, on average, we under-performed if picked 6th or better. 7th or worse, we tended to over-perform.
Sendek: 10 seasons, 8 within +/- 2 places of preseason prediction
Lowe: 5 Seasons, 1 were within +/- 2
Gottfried: 6 Seasons, ZERO were within +/- 2.Yes, the league grew and changed, but I think that sums up Capt Wood Chopper versus the other two.
Looks like the final results are in. While we didn’t hold that #12 slot, we did finish 29th (6th in the ACC). Ahead of Clempsun and damn respectable in my book.
Sure, we want more success in the major revenue sports, but at least we’re making progress in the other areas. Let’s see if it is contagious to football and MBB.
Not sure what is more pointless, that article or me expending energy to comment here.
Btw, I did NOT notice “Head Coaches cashing big damn checks” as one of the challenges listed.
I actually kinda like Bilas, but he is NOT a legal scholar folks. Yes, he has a point that is valid, but he is way too quick to allow UNC off the hook because academic irregularities (sounds so nice and simple when said that way) can’t be classified as “impermissible benefits”
First, that is total horsecrap! The players received “impermissible benefits”, regardless of what anyone says. Tell the NCAA to sack up and take another pass on that NOA.
Seriously, if all Louisville students received free sex (er, “physical irregularities”) at these parties, would it then be ok? Of course not! Also, if Pitino should have known, why shouldn’t at least one single UNC coach have known?
Sorry, but Jay Bilas seems way too quick to use to the letter of the law to give them a pass, rather than acknowledge the repeated cheating and use the letter of the law to identify where they violated the rules (regardless of the changing NOAs).
Come Jay, sack up and at least call it lack of institutional control.
Funny stuff on the Spaulding Smails profile. “I want a hamburger, no a cheeseburger..”
Looks like it could be a good year for my O’s.
As a parent with kids closer to college than I am to my time in college, I see this increasingly as a business transaction. It’s one where the schools have a lot more leverage than the kids. In the revenue sports the schools get a lot more out of it than the kids. It only seems natural to let them go when it is time to move on.
As a parent with almost 2 of my 3 kids out of college, I’ve come to see it as business transaction for non-athletes as well. Not surprising, but I’ve never heard the term “it felt transactional” used in the positive sense.
Loved when Bob Ryan says “We must ask if its Alumni and fans care that left unresolved is one of the most egregious cases of academic fraud in the history of college sports”.
No, actually we don’t. All of us here in NC already know the answer.
I find it funny as hell. Not sure exactly what all motives he has, but if Coaches get to talk “politics”, then why not University Presidents about academics and athletics. Sure, maybe a breach of protocol, but sometimes you gotta go straight to the “Triple Dog Dare”.
I am sure the folks in Chapel Hill are, aw .hell, who cares
Spot on wirogers.
As for both the NCAA and UNCx, they remind of the following quote.
“When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. When neither is on you side, pound the table.”
Sadly, UNCx is beating them at their own game. I wonder how much the NCAA has spent in comparison to UNCx.
