Why did you have to fool me during my college career at NC State (2000-2004)? Every game I expected a good fight, and usually a win. Sliding down the grass hill in the infield only to charge the field and carry the goal post down Hillsborough street to Waffle House when we beat GT in the last sec of the game.....these times seem like a distant past. I was young and naive and did not realize that you were simply a breath of fresh air. I blame you for my complete disappointment in NC State football.

Love,
Desh

[Edited on August 29, 2008 at 10:05 AM. Reason : oh yeah.....lock/suspend]

8/29/2008 10:03:46 AM

The truth

8/29/2008 10:08:05 AM

I'm still convinced that Philip Rivers is a god.

8/29/2008 10:11:33 AM

8/29/2008 10:13:57 AM

haha

So true. I was in school during the Rivers era as well. Just be happy that he was here during your time at state. He sure had me fooled into thinking we could be a competent football program as well.

8/29/2008 10:14:26 AM

Rivers had a son right

just wait 18 more years

8/29/2008 10:22:07 AM

Oh man, I was a senior in HS going to NCSU games. Then Freshman year came and it was gonna be awesome. Well I was a freshman in 2004....so no.

8/29/2008 10:41:40 AM

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"Sliding down the grass hill in the infield only to charge the field and carry the goal post down Hillsborough street to Waffle House when we beat GT in the last sec of the game"

god damn that was a good game

8/29/2008 10:44:13 AM

yes it was. Fucking great game. I'm showing my age, but the only bad part is when we all got pepper sprayed by the damn RPD cause we were gonna take the goal posts to the brickyard.

8/29/2008 10:50:37 AM

yep. I remember sitting at the BP station squirting bottles of water in my eyes. that shit hurt.

8/29/2008 12:48:08 PM

i wish i would have gotten in there with you guys but i weighed like 115 lbs back then and was scared for my life

that game was awesome i had like 3rd row seats on the 50 yard line - drank nearly a whole bottle of vodka before the game

8/29/2008 12:50:38 PM

our inability to recruit and prepare a quality qb during the river's era has set this program back and essentially erased all the positive ground that was done while he was here.

8/29/2008 12:53:43 PM

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"Rivers had a son right just wait 18 more years"

He has a younger brother Stephen who I think is a QB. I think he's 15 or 16 right now.

8/29/2008 1:36:57 PM

I was fortunate to be in school for most of Philip's time too. My actual last game was the Gator Bowl victory (I graduated in Dec 02). I am really glad I am not a student now because I got to see a decent basketball team too with Hodge. Current students have jack shit to root for. I feel really bad for them. FUCK YOU LEE FOWLER. WILL YOU PLEASE DIE!!





[Edited on August 29, 2008 at 1:39 PM. Reason : bj]

8/29/2008 1:38:41 PM

^agreed. From 2000-2004 we had great football and pretty damn good basketball. We routinely beat UNC (thank you Sam Eagle), upset D00k a few times, beat FL State (football) like it was our job and made it to the Big Dance every year.

Although my dad was there when David Thompson played and won the Championship.....damn him.

8/29/2008 1:53:23 PM

I went to school from 04-08. Athletically it sucked.

8/29/2008 1:57:38 PM

8/29/2008 2:08:59 PM

^^at least you got the Men's basketball sweet 16 appearance, hell even NCAA tourney appearances at all

luckily i got to go to one and a bowl, but it has sucked pretty bad since, the best thing in recent memory is the ACC Tourney run in '07, and that is a sad sad truth

8/29/2008 2:34:38 PM

ahhhh FSU games and the gator bowl...damn those were good times

8/29/2008 3:00:23 PM

^^ watching a herb sendek coached basketball team is no consolation, whatsoever.

8/29/2008 3:16:54 PM

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"^^ watching a herb sendek coached basketball team is no consolation, whatsoever."

But watching high scorer losing teams is fun!

8/29/2008 8:05:18 PM

I was just talking to someone today about how much confidence I had in NC State football and how it really had to do with Philip Rivers. Such an all around nice guy and great player. I also was there from 2000-2004 and some of my favorite memories at state involve football games. That includes the Ga Tech game. I remember sliding down that hill to the goal post and twisting my ankle. I was so sad when they filled in that hill with seats. Also jumping off the side of the student section to get to the field after the Florida State win.

one game I went to last year I sat in the student section, the students were so lethargic and I was trying to get them pumped up and was telling them about how it was with Rivers. They basically just rolled their eyes at me.

8/29/2008 9:07:58 PM

I graduated with Rivers and came to State a semester after he started....good good times, Gator Bowl.....Rivers graduated and our FB program returned back to the shitter where it had been for a long time......

8/29/2008 10:40:08 PM

I was pumped at work with my NCSU shirt on..watching the game on the flat screen...and yeah after Wilson got hurt it made me think of how fortunate I was to be at State from 98-03.


Rivers, Holt, TA, made my class like we were the shit..well and I guess for those 5 seasons we were......GOD..where have those days gone....?


But thanks for the kick as memories..lighting trees on central campus on fire via toilet paper....having random people on hillsborough street hug and buy me drinks, rushing the field numerous times...helping tare those damn goal posts down....I wont ever forget those days..thanks Holt/Rivers/Cotchery/TA...for giving me stuff to brag about to my UNC/Duke/ECU buds.

8/29/2008 11:39:53 PM

i agree with this thread...i wish i could have appreciated him more the one year he played that i was here

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"Current students have jack shit to root for."

this can not be emphasized enough

[Edited on August 29, 2008 at 11:44 PM. Reason : .]

8/29/2008 11:42:20 PM

Yea, great times. Phil was here during my fresh/soph year. Most memorable times: beating Clemson breaking NCSU record for wins in a season, victory at CF vs. FSU, Ohio State thriller (1st game). Not so much lately.

8/30/2008 12:12:07 AM

My fondest memory of NC State football was in the fall of 2004, when in my Fitness Walking class, we watched the Ohio State game that went into triple OT.

8/30/2008 10:32:12 AM

Yup, I started in 98 and saw T. Holt pretty much single handidly beat FSU, carried the goal posts after we beat Donovan McNabb and Syracuse that same season, then I got the Philip Rivers era. Pretty good in the football until the time I left.

8/30/2008 10:38:17 AM

^^ I was in that class.

8/30/2008 10:45:06 AM

^^^I was at that game, it was fucking awesome. Would have been even more awesome if we'd won! I'm still pissed about that play calling.

8/30/2008 12:00:58 PM

Was there with Rivers. I was there 99-02 and was absolutely spoiled with names such as Holt, Rivers, Cotchery etc...

Rivers made you look fwd to the games and you knew it was going to be a fight with a good plays. I want to take my son to a game he is 3 and loves anything NC State, but damn, I don't want him seeing this shit.

I totally support this thread.


III

8/30/2008 12:04:43 PM

With Rivers it wasn't whether or not it would be completed, but how big of gain we would get


Now it's just hoping for an incomplete pass over an interception

8/30/2008 12:28:15 PM

I was an undergrad from 99-03 and a grad student from 03-06, so I barely remember time Before Philip Rivers (BPR). I had 3 years of undergrad while Phil was here, and had a blast rushing the field after the FSU win in 02, then going to Jacksonville for the Gator Bowl win against Notre Dame. Also saw his senior year (and stood there stunned after his last home game was a loss). I was in grad school for 0-2 APR, and have been rather fortunate to be stuck in Upper Michigan for years 2-4 APR where I can avoid hearing about NC State news.

Some people are talking about how they thought the team's performance while Phil was at NCSU was how it would always be. I knew that there would be a drop-off after he left, but I never thought it would be so dramatic. This is the fifth season since he left, and we still can't find an AVERAGE quarterback, let alone a good or a great QB. That's what I find so surprising. Davis, Stone, Evans, Beck, etc. They're not even AVERAGE - they've all done bad! It makes me so sad.

8/30/2008 9:37:30 PM

I was in school from '98-'03 so I saw all the good football stuff. I think I still have a piece of turf somewhere that I pulled up after our victory over FSU in '98. I went to the game Thursday night and after just reading all the posts in this thread it makes me want to cry

8/31/2008 12:14:25 AM

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"Now it's just hoping for an incomplete pass over an interception"

that's very sadly a very true statement.

8/31/2008 12:23:08 AM

98 to 03
I graduated with PRiv and I respect ALL that he did for NCSU football. I did expect to win and I did expect to be in the "others receiving votes" for the top 25.
I also was here when Tory Holt was a senior, that was thrilling life too---beating FSU in Carter was amazing.
BBall was good too and Sendek carried our program to a place where we were at least respected.

State athletics (in the revenue sports) is dead.
Kudos to any teams that are still doing well (gymnastics, track, women's bball)

8/31/2008 12:57:52 AM

LOL

I watched Jamie Barnett and Tory Holt beat Donovan McNabb.

Now that was an exciting game.

8/31/2008 3:36:07 AM

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"My fondest memory of NC State football was in the fall of 2004, when in my Fitness Walking class, we watched the Ohio State game that went into triple OT."

that game was in 2003, not 2004

8/31/2008 12:18:42 PM

i was there 00-04, same years as P Riv and even had the same major (business). i didn't really go to many games or even watch them back then because i wasn't as in to football. now that i'm a football fanatic, knowing i missed many opportunities to actually GO to those games makes me very

8/31/2008 4:25:14 PM

Dear P.Riv,
Thank you for the great years of football and tailgating. Thank you for your help on my class project and getting me an A, and thank you in advance for the great season you're about to have as you are on my fantasy team.



Ah, I too was part of the 00-04 era of great NCSU athletics. Was there for the GT game, the FSU game, the Duke (4 rows back) and UNC upsets. Good times.

9/1/2008 10:16:43 PM