I hope that Tenuta gets thru to these guys. Maddox looks as confused here as most of the defense did last season.

[Edited on August 4, 2010 at 7:02 AM. Reason : .]

8/4/2010 6:43:33 AM

im thinkin Sept 25th looks like a mighty tasty weekend on i85. Wolfpack @ GT, Panthers vs Bengals.

[Edited on August 4, 2010 at 8:34 AM. Reason : .]

8/4/2010 8:33:51 AM

^ I'm considering that trip as well, and throwing in the Hurricanes @ Thrashers preseason game.

8/4/2010 8:43:08 AM

^ HOLY HELL. YES.

8/4/2010 8:59:12 AM

DJ Green #31







Position: Safety
School: Westside High School (Macon, GA)
Height: 6'4"
Weight: 210
Class: Freshman

Very long safety who could easily grow into a linebacker after a year or two in a college strength program. Very aware defender both in man over the top and in zone finding receivers trying to sit in the soft spots. If he is to transition to linebacker he needs to work on his aggressiveness as he tends to wait for the carrier to come to him and absorbs the hit or tries to dive at their feet. - Miller Safrit

Biography:

Last year D.J. Green earned All-Region and All-State honors in the state of Georgia. He helped lead his Westside High Seminoles to a 12-1 record in '08, with the one loss coming in their final game in the third round of the playoffs against Tucker. Green led a defense that caused disastrous problems for offenses all year long. They only allowed 6 points per contest, and also tallied 5 shut-outs. The Seminoles finished ranked #17 in the state of Georgia.

Green is a Safety that has the height and size to lay a pretty nice hit. While he will more than likely play Safety at NC State, the coaching staff has already told him that they might flirt with playing him a little bit at linebacker. This is something that he is semi-used to doing, seeing as his high school currently uses him at linebacker in goal line sets.

This consensus 3-Star Safety also runs 40-time that is in the low 4.5 range. It should be noted that Green moved from 2-Stars to 3-Stars in Scout and Rivals latest updates. Last season Green had 85 tackles and 4 interceptions for Westside. D.J. committed to NC State on June 25th, 2009.

8/4/2010 10:29:24 AM

i've purchased my GT v. NC State tix...my birthday weekend!


we're heading down thursday night and making it a long weekend...should be fun and hopefully we'll play tough

8/4/2010 10:45:09 AM

Here's a link to the N&O gallery

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/04/613147/pack-hopes-backs-bring-the-noise.html?tab=gallery&gallery=/2010/08/03/613326/nc-state-football-080310.html&gid_index=1

Brosius looks like a big boy

8/4/2010 10:49:56 AM

Might've been a little warm for a hoodie, maybe.

8/4/2010 11:00:12 AM

just bought my plane ticket for the western carolina game -- i'm excited, haven't been back to a game in several years

8/4/2010 11:28:32 AM

Good news from the Secondary
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/pack-practice-dbs-a-focus

Quote :

"Pack practice: DBs a focus Submitted by kentysiac on 08/04/2010 - 10:40 Tags: ACC Now | N.C. State N.C. State has a returning all-star candidate at quarterback in Russell Wilson and a healthy competition for the starting halfback position, but the defensive backs drew the most attention from observers during the preseason-opening practice session Tuesday. The opening practice usually is the only one N.C. State opens to the media, and the focus Tuesday was on the position of greatest need. That's the defensive secondary following a disastrous 2009 season for that group. Redshirt freshman Dean Haynes appears to have the first opportunity to help fix the secondary. Haynes worked with the starters at boundary cornerback. Junior Justin Byers has played cornerback and safety and has more experience, but has struggled for much of the time he has played. Haynes' willingness to get physical with the receivers was impressive, but he did get hollered at by defensive backs coach Mike Reed for missing an assignment in run support on one play. Freshman David Amerson also got an extensive look as a second-team player. Amerson, who was one of the most highly recruited players in North Carolina, is the team's most impressive physical specimen at cornerback at 6-foot-3 and 180 pounds. His inexperience showed on one pass breakup when he knocked down a receiver in a practice where the players are instructed not to take players to the ground. But coaches can tolerate aggressive errors ahead of passive or timid errors any day. And Amerson also demonstrated maturity by staying home to stop a misdirection running play, earning shouts of congratulations from the defensive sideline. The first-team field cornerback, C.J. Wilson, also made an impression with an interception in the flat that he returned for a touchdown. And if nothing else, first-team safeties Brandan Bishop and Earl Wolff didn't make any glaring errors. Elsewhere in practice, quarterback Russell Wilson did appear a bit rusty as expected after missing spring practice and spending the summer playing minor league baseball. He fumbled the ball once early during individual drills and didn't have midseason sharpness with his passes. But there's little concern around camp that Wilson will be ready for the Sept. 4 opener against Western Carolina. Running back James Washington says he can stop on a dime and change direction quickly, and he showed that with some of his running plays. Terrell Manning is ahead of fellow sophomore Dwayne Maddox at weak side linebacker. There is hope in camp that Manning finally is completely ready to put the knee injury that he suffered as a high school senior behind him and display the ability that wowed recruiting analysts before the injury. Meanwhile, first-year athletic director Debbie Yow watched from the sideline with interest. Yow said she attends practices on an infrequent basis because there is so much administrative work to do in the office. But she showed up, spoke with coach Tom O'Brien for about five minutes and chatted amicably with media members while the team scrimmaged. After three straight losing seasons under O'Brien, the football team will make Yow's (and O'Brien's) job a lot easier if it shows improvement in the win column. Getting the secondary in order will be a good place to start "

8/4/2010 11:32:26 AM

dammit, who schedules weddings on opening weekend

8/4/2010 11:47:48 AM

a woman about to enter a doomed marriage.

8/4/2010 11:48:26 AM

not to mention Labor day weekend at that..

my bro in law (with whom i have ltr seats with) can't come b'c of one...he's pissed

8/4/2010 11:53:16 AM

Good read. I like the idea of having a physical CB in Hayes out there. Thought I read he switched to safety? Good move bringing him back to CB if so.

He looked like a beast on his highlight videos, FWIW

8/4/2010 11:54:55 AM

MORR1799...... any other pics from PACKPRIDE worth posting? I have no access.

8/4/2010 12:11:13 PM

I just got an invite to one on the VT weekend.

8/4/2010 12:20:14 PM

^^^^ So they use one less day vacation from work for their honeymoon?

Still a bad move. You hear about this every year. I guess it's inevitable since football season is like a third of the year.

8/4/2010 12:50:46 PM

ECU's scoreboard: 84 x 28

NCSU's scoreboard: 32 x 24

UNC's scoreboard: 32 x 24

feel free to discuss and in general hate life, as usual

8/4/2010 1:18:20 PM

omg i'm soooooooo depressed that our 10 year old scoreboard is smaller than ECUs brand new one!!!

who gives a shit. a new scoreboard would be nice and i'm sure it's in the plans but it's not something that will bother me game in and game out

8/4/2010 1:22:21 PM

Maybe that new scoreboard will get them into a real conference.

8/4/2010 1:24:15 PM

^^^My hands are bigger than Ron Jeremy's. I bet he hates life.

8/4/2010 1:32:28 PM

^^^im too busy watching our corners get burnt to give a shit about the scoreboard. Until our defense straightened out I have bigger priorities than our scoreboard.

8/4/2010 1:35:59 PM

Not sure if they are the same size of the main one, but we do have 3 jumbotrons in our stadium.

8/4/2010 1:41:18 PM

Creecy put on some weight, and it ain't muscle...also I had no idea Travis Leggett was black, that changes everything

8/4/2010 1:48:16 PM

Quote :

"also I had no idea Travis Leggett was black, that changes everything"

what does that even mean?

8/4/2010 2:05:26 PM

With a few exceptions, white people are generally not good tailbacks

8/4/2010 2:08:01 PM

^very well thought out and articulate.

8/4/2010 2:26:35 PM

Quote :

"^^^im too busy watching our corners get burnt to give a shit about the scoreboard. Until our defense straightened out I have bigger priorities than our scoreboard"

I'm pretty sure having bad CBs isn't a problem that money can fix (unless you're UNC). Not that I really care about the scoreboard but our CBs and our scoreboard have nothing to do with each other.

8/4/2010 2:30:36 PM

http://www.ecu.edu/cs-admin/mktg/dowdy-ficklen_stadium_web_cam.cfm

8/4/2010 2:34:54 PM

^^I was in no way shape or form saying that they were correlated.

[Edited on August 4, 2010 at 2:40 PM. Reason : ']

8/4/2010 2:40:04 PM

injury list from pp:

Quote :

"Player (Expected Return) HB Brandon Barnes, ankle (October) CB Jarvis Byrd, knee (October) OT Duran Christophe, mono (mid-August) DE Sylvester Crawford, hip (mid-August) WR Steve Howard, hip (mid-August) OG RJ Mattes, knee (September) DT Deion Roberson, ankle (none - med. hardship) CB Rashard Smith, knee (out for season)"

it begins...

8/4/2010 4:19:44 PM

None of those happened yesterday.

8/4/2010 4:20:59 PM

Quote :

"^^I was in no way shape or form saying that they were correlated."

Hope not. Tony Knight is a white dude.

8/4/2010 5:12:26 PM

^not that it matters, but i read (on tww) that he wasn't

8/4/2010 5:36:37 PM

Either case, he ain't Charlie Murphy.

8/4/2010 10:42:38 PM

Darkness

8/4/2010 11:57:51 PM

i don't know how i missed this and how long ago this was, but when did we decide creecy was going to be a RB?

8/5/2010 8:31:40 AM

he was recruited as a wr/rb.

8/5/2010 8:33:10 AM

that's true, i just figured since he was a top 30 wr that he was going to play it...but i'm glad he's at RB; he seems built for a college rb over wr

8/5/2010 8:38:00 AM

Does anyone know what the deal is with Good?

8/5/2010 8:39:16 AM

^sounds like grades

8/5/2010 9:00:47 AM

I was gonna say, I thought he was recovering from an injury from last season.

But I think you're right, based on TOB's comments:

Quote :

"O'Brien clarified the status of redshirt freshman offensive lineman Denzelle Good, who was not at practice Monday or Tuesday. "He's still part of the team, and when he's not I'll let you know," he said."

8/5/2010 9:10:58 AM

Thanks.

8/5/2010 10:14:50 AM

We need Good, bad ... dude is a mauler.

8/5/2010 10:17:17 AM

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"Maybe that new scoreboard will get them into a real conference."

We're sorry we aren't good enough to be in the Virginia Tech Coast Conference.


Besides, ECU would only need on average about 2-3 more wins than state to go to the same level bowl.

And ya'll haven't had a winning season since.............................05? So we're straight. But thanks for the concern.

8/5/2010 10:58:14 AM

oh wow someone is proud of conference usa

8/5/2010 11:02:46 AM

hahaha no I hate HATE HATE cusa. But its not like acc football is anything to throw a parade about.

Hey as long as we beat State and everyone and his brother beats carolina, I'll be pretty happy.

So yeah I would like to thank state for beating up on carolina the last few years. That has brought happiness to my heart.

[Edited on August 5, 2010 at 11:05 AM. Reason : Go Pack]

8/5/2010 11:04:53 AM

Hopefully that 84x28 scoreboard can handle the amount of points N.C. State is going to put up this year

[Edited on August 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM. Reason : .]

8/5/2010 11:20:10 AM

we'll make sure the 000 setting is working on your side of the scoreboard when ya'll roll into town

8/5/2010 11:41:29 AM

i'm sorry but if you put any of the top 9 or so teams from the acc into conference usa, there is a great chance that they all could go undefeated in conference every year. but, at the same time, if one of those teams did that they'd lose all their recruiting...so they'd start to suck too.

8/5/2010 11:44:39 AM