The countdown to NC State's run at the 2009 ACC Championship begins!


days and counting

We are going to get our revenge and beat those Cocks come September 3rd when they come into The Wolves Den!

Ahoooooooooooooo!!!!!!! (can someone embed the wolf howl?)

12/10/2008 11:03:02 PM

i like that pic

we have a pretty damn decent stadium

12/10/2008 11:05:35 PM

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"The countdown to NC State's run at the 2009 ACC Championship begins!"

FUCK. You done gone and done it now. JINX fucking city you mother fucker.

[Edited on December 10, 2008 at 11:08 PM. Reason : just kidding...mostly]

12/10/2008 11:06:57 PM

Technically I couldn't jinx us. I said run at, not run to. So I didn't predict a championship, just us being in the running for it. I chose my words carefully.





[Edited on December 10, 2008 at 11:10 PM. Reason : ]

12/10/2008 11:09:06 PM

^ahhh! well played then

12/10/2008 11:14:21 PM

WOLF!!!


PACK!!!

12/10/2008 11:15:49 PM

Wolfpack - 31
Chickens - 17

12/10/2008 11:17:42 PM

cool picture, hadn't seen an overhead of C-F lately.

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"(can someone embed the wolf howl?)"

DO NOT do this, it causes it to show up in the iframe for every remaining reply. becomes a pain in the ass.

12/10/2008 11:23:29 PM

What if it was done on the second page then?

12/10/2008 11:26:17 PM

So do they still have season tickets with no LTR?

I'd like to be able to buy season tix but not commit to LTR's until I am able to get a bit more financially stable in NC...

12/10/2008 11:27:01 PM

^^that works.

12/10/2008 11:28:43 PM

You can also do the WOLF or PACK packages where you get tickets to either 4 or 3 of the home games.

12/10/2008 11:28:50 PM

Oh and TOB will make Butch his bitch again just like he did on this day.

12/10/2008 11:32:12 PM

i had never seen that overhead pic. our stadium really does look nice. gotta love all the parking nearby as well. where'd you get that pic?

12/10/2008 11:40:38 PM

^wikipedia



[Edited on December 10, 2008 at 11:41 PM. Reason : ]

12/10/2008 11:40:45 PM

^^^i have that picture hanging above my bed at the moment all nicely framed. Carter-Finley really does look beautiful

12/11/2008 12:05:29 AM

^ haha, we have one in our foyer. it's the first thing people notice when they come in.

12/11/2008 2:54:52 AM

and I have it in my office

12/11/2008 7:46:04 AM

here's to starting out '09 strong! Go Pack!

12/11/2008 7:48:27 AM

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"i like that pic we have a pretty damn decent stadium "

Especially considering what it used to look like



[Edited on December 11, 2008 at 7:55 AM. Reason : dont know the people, but only old pic i could find]

12/11/2008 7:53:20 AM

^It's a shame we had to plow over those INTIMIDATING pine trees, perhaps we'd be a tougher place to play if we still had those majestic timbers looming over the field.

As a kid, did anybody else go and get cardboard boxes from the concessions vendors, rip them up, and slide down the pine straw hill by the field house? That shit was fun!

[Edited on December 11, 2008 at 8:18 AM. Reason : .]

12/11/2008 8:16:25 AM

1947 team with WWII veteran Fred Wagoner. Wagoner was the editor of the N. C. State Agriculturist, the official student publication of the School of Agriculture, and also won the Student Body President position in 1946.




Sports Quarterly FOOTBALL ROUNDUPS Preview Magazine from 1969 with State All-American tackle Ron Carpenter on the cover



All-American halfback Dick Christy.


Christy lives on in Wolfpack lore. On Nov. 23, 1957 the NC State football team went into Carolina Stadium (which would become Williams-Brice Stadium) in Columbia, SC and beat the Gamecocks 29-26 on a field goal. Christy scored all four of his team’s touchdowns, added a pair of PATs and then kicked the game-winning field goal, on the only attempt of his career.

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"RALEIGH, N.C. – For nearly six seconds, everyone stands on the field watching, as the low-liner of a kick wobbles towards the goal post. Literally, each player is standing with his arms at his sides, waiting to see if the ball will go through the uprights. On this vintage film, it never does. But the celebration that ensues on the turf at Carolina Stadium leaves no doubt about what happened after that interminable wait: the 36-yard field goal is good, and the fuzzy team in dark jerseys begins a joyous celebration. In exactly 50 years since that celebration ended – with NC State beating South Carolina for the school’s first ACC football championship – no one in any sport has ever had a more dominating individual performance than Wolfpack All-America halfback Dick Christy on Nov. 23, 1957. The story is well known to Wolfpack fans. Christy scored all four of his team’s touchdowns, added a pair of PATs and then kicked the game-winning field goal, on the only attempt of his career. Highlights of the game have never been readily available. But even in this rare three-minute video, culled from a long-forgotten season highlight tape owned by team member Fran Tokar and shared with GoPack.com earlier this season at a 50th anniversary reunion, it’s obvious that Christy is the most dominating player on the field. Sure, he may have muffed a kick after South Carolina scored the game's first touchdown, but he picked up the ball and ran back 56 yards, inside the South Carolina 20 to set up his first score of the day. Never mind that left halfback and team captain Dick Hunter nearly stole Christy’s thunder in the second quarter by catching a pass and lunging towards the end zone. He went out of bounds at the 1-yard line, and on the next play, Christy plunged through the line for his second touchdown of the day, even though it could have been called back because left tackle Fran Paladrini left a little early on the snap. Christy was clearly a tough guy. He was slammed with a late hit near the Wolfpack 20 yard-line in the third-quarter, but he dusted himself off and scored on the very next play. He got some height on his goal-line dives, taking off as early as the 4-yard line on one of his Superman flights. He even took over the kicking duties from Hunter, who had missed his last seven extra-point attempts, to keep the Wolfpack in the game, booting through two PATs. The Wolfpack needed every point it could get, because the Gamecocks kept scoring against the ACC’s best defense, which recorded five shutouts that season and had allowed just 41 points in the team’s first eight games. South Carolina tied the game at 26-26 with just over a minute to play when All-ACC halfback Alex Hawkins threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to Julius Derrick. South Carolina thought it secured a tie – which would have been the third of the season for the Pack, after a 14-14 affair with Duke and a scoreless tie at Miami -- on the game’s final play from scrimmage, when its defense intercepted a Tom Katich pass and returned it to the NC State 15-yard line as time expired. But the Gamecocks were called for pass interference, and the Wolfpack got the ball back, with no time remaining, on the 30-yard line. Kicking had been a problem for the Wolfpack all season long. Hunter took over the kicking duties in the preseason – his kicks were straight but not long. He did fine most of the year, but got a case of the kicking yips beginning with the 19-0 win over Wake Forest. He missed his final seven PATs of the season, including two against the Gamecocks. Christy, who practiced kicking in his spare time, convinced Wolfpack head coach Earle Edwards to let him handle the extra points against the Gamecocks, making two. When the Wolfpack had the one free play to win the game, there wasn’t much thought of kicking a field goal: The team hadn’t made a three-pointer all season long. Assistant coach Pat Peppler was in the press box trying to come up with a play that would get Hunter free in the open field, hoping the small but tough back could create a play to get into the end zone. Instead, Christy was on the sidelines convincing Edwards to let him take a crack at kicking the ball. The coach finally relented. “Well,” said the reserved Edwards, “you’ve done everything else today. Go ahead and try.” With Hunter serving as the holder, Christy lined up for the game-winner, took his time and cleanly booted a wobbly line drive towards the uprights. "I held my head down for a moment," Christy told newspaper reporters after the game. "Then I looked up and saw the official raise his arms. Man, I was stunned. But, oh, it felt good. "No doubt, no doubt, it was the greatest day I've ever had on a football field." Charlotte Observer sportswriter Herman Helms described what happened next, after the ball cleared the crossbar: “His jubilant teammates, bursting with emotion, proceeded to tear his clothes to pieces in a touching scene at midfield.” The celebration didn’t end there. When the players returned to the lockerroom, they learned that North Carolina had beaten Duke, giving the Wolfpack the ACC Championship. Edwards also got a phone call from a strapping high school all-star from Wilmington, N.C., that afternoon, saying he would like to play football, baseball and basketball for the Wolfpack. That’s the day Roman Gabriel said he would join the Wolfpack. The team’s buses left Columbia soon after the game was over, though about half the players rode home with family or friends. “I was on the bus with about half of the other players, with Coach Edwards and Mrs. (Mary) Edwards,” said Ken Nye, one of Christy’s backups in the backfield. “Somewhere outside of Columbia, the bus stopped and each of the players took their small carry-on bags and bought at least a six-pack of beer for the ride back to Raleigh. “As the singing got louder, it was pretty apparent to the coach what was going on and he told all the underclassmen to move to the front of the bus and let the seniors do as they pleased. When the bus got to Raleigh, Coach Edwards asked the bus driver to let he and his wife off near their home on Dixie Trail.” And the coach let his players go to the celebration in front of Reynolds Coliseum without him. Christy, obviously, earned the game-ball for his performance that day, and it currently resides in Charleston, S.C., in the office of former NC State basketball coach and athletics director Les Robinson, who was given the ball and Christy’s game-worn No. 40 jersey by the Christy family when the player’s number was retired during the fall of 1997. Robinson befriended Christy and his wife after Christy returned to summer school during his time off from the NFL to work on his college degree. They became close, though Robinson never knew about Christy’s greatest game until he read the tributes the day after Christy died in an auto accident in Chester, Pa., in 1966. “I have such great respect for him and all that he accomplished,” Robinson said. “I talk about him a lot when I speak to groups about humility. All the time my wife and I spent with him and his wife, he never once talked about that South Carolina game. I read the stories about it and was shocked. “My intention is to give the game ball back to the NC State athletics department. That time could be coming soon. I see that NC State and South Carolina play the next two seasons.”"

I think the ball should be returned during a half-time ceremony during the game. Honor both Dick Christy and Les Robinson. Then put it on display in the Murphy Center.

[Edited on December 11, 2008 at 10:42 AM. Reason : ]

12/11/2008 10:41:51 AM

My birthday


Also, sweet pic

12/11/2008 10:42:52 AM

266 days left

12/11/2008 10:48:50 AM

um last time this thread was made we got the shit kicked out of us

12/11/2008 10:52:13 AM

^ must've been the thread.

12/11/2008 10:53:53 AM

I only hope they don't give RW a concussion again. Beyond that it should be a good game.

12/11/2008 10:57:10 AM

this will be a completely different team

healthy RW, and all of those hailed first round draft picks on the SC defense will be gone.

We're gonna stomp that ass. FUCK THE VISOR

12/11/2008 11:00:40 AM

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"^ must've been the thread."

That is what i thought

12/11/2008 11:03:19 AM

barring another injury plague, knock on wood, our offense should be pretty good next year. and hopefully the defense will be able to get off the field.

sucks to think that we were a handful of defensive plays away from possibly going 9 - 3.

12/11/2008 11:17:20 AM

I was just thinking about this in the last couple of weeks.

Last year's "Days until" thread didn't really get a lot of play until right before the season started. There wasn't a whole lot of excitement heading into THIS season throughout the winter and spring.

But if you remember back to the lead-up to the 2005 season when we played VT at home, that thread was HUGE. People were SO pumped for that season. Mario, Manny, McCargo, Marc Trestman hype. And coming off the end of the 2004 season with UNC.

This off-season is going to be like that. I'm looking forward to this thread throughout the winter, spring and summer.

12/11/2008 11:23:32 AM

Already have this on my calender and will be in Raleigh throughout the weekend. Should be a fun time.

Isn't the Pitt game at home as well on 9/26?

12/11/2008 11:30:51 AM

^^very true...these threads have been much less enthusiastic.

I hate when college football ends, but this thread always helps. Fuck a Jinx, i am looking forward to some hype around our football program this offseason!!!!!

[Edited on December 11, 2008 at 11:42 AM. Reason : ^^]

12/11/2008 11:37:18 AM

haha gg on this thread!

AA-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

12/11/2008 11:56:58 AM

NC State will finish 4th in the ACC next season

2009 ACC STANDINGS
1) Florida State
2) Georgia Tech
3) Va. Tech
4) NC State

12/11/2008 1:09:32 PM

^ replace Va. Tech with Miami and I think you've got it.

12/11/2008 1:17:24 PM

12/11/2008 1:59:32 PM

12/11/2008 2:02:19 PM

I personally think that if BigEgo pulls off the push for a live mascot(s) then we will have generated enough good mojo to counteract the bad mojo that's plauged our program for so long.

LIVE WOLVES FTW!

12/11/2008 2:06:51 PM

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"The countdown to NC State's run at the 2009 ACC Championship begins!"

The countdown to the SCar game is all fine and dandy but the outcome of that game will have no effect on the ACC Championship...so those are technically two separate countdowns...

12/11/2008 5:08:59 PM

I don't want to jinx us or anything, but this game versus South Carolina...I personally GUARANTEE that we score more than 0 points

12/11/2008 5:10:38 PM

I don't want to jinx us or anything, but this game versus South Carolina...I personally GUARANTEE that we score

12/11/2008 5:14:11 PM

you grammar stickler, you

12/11/2008 5:22:04 PM

In regards to Dick Christy:

All Southern Conference from NC State in 1957:
-Dick Christy, HB
-Jim Oddo, C

Jim Oddo was my HS health teacher and has been the Charlotte Catholic Varsity football coach for close to 40 nears now. Not much of a teacher but a really nice guy. He played in the big SC game. Always thought that was cool.

12/11/2008 5:25:15 PM

Can't waiiiiiit for this game. Going to be a long off-season ha.

(That first pic of CF is awesome... anyone have in higher res?)

12/11/2008 6:10:35 PM

^ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Carter-Finley_Stadium_1.jpg

12/11/2008 6:17:40 PM

[Edited on December 11, 2008 at 7:02 PM. Reason : .]

12/11/2008 7:02:11 PM

^haha, the look on everyone's face

12/11/2008 7:10:46 PM

And the students still haven't made it to their seats in that overhead view of C-F

12/11/2008 8:14:33 PM

is there gonna be one of these for next year?

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"Made by ncsuftw1"

you gonna make another??

[Edited on December 11, 2008 at 8:27 PM. Reason : SET EM UP (RIP chickenhead)]

12/11/2008 8:25:42 PM