4 interceptions? I can't imagine the defense improved that much, so either the offense is starting to crumble... or TOB secretly told the QBs to toss the defense a few to boost their confidence.

8/18/2010 12:00:18 PM

or it was practice. a scrimmage.

8/18/2010 12:19:38 PM

i specifically remember reading that the situational scrimmages were going to be 4 minutes left on the clock

http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/2/993066.html

Quote :

""[Tomorrow night] we'll play end of game situations. Four minutes left to go in the game and see who can win." "

8/18/2010 1:38:43 PM

Still sounds like another year of terrible offensive lines. 4 sacks? ugh.

8/18/2010 2:36:16 PM

If we hadn't recorded any sacks, you would be crying "we have no pass rush, God I wish Willie Young was still here, blah, blah". It was a fucking scrimmage, the stats mean very little at this point.

8/18/2010 2:51:23 PM

^plus not hitting the QBs so as soon as one is touched its blown dead as a "sack."

and


Days Left




[Edited on August 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM. Reason : 17]

8/18/2010 2:58:11 PM

OH MY GOD WHERE IS THE COUNTDOWN? I NEED IT

8/18/2010 3:33:55 PM

[Edited on August 18, 2010 at 4:57 PM. Reason : added to top]

8/18/2010 3:39:42 PM

phew, i thought i had missed the opener. THANKS Wadhead1!


WOLP

8/18/2010 3:47:29 PM

FACK

8/18/2010 3:58:41 PM

Wolfpack?

8/18/2010 4:40:33 PM

^GAY

8/18/2010 4:41:51 PM

Yeah. It fucking sucks that teenage girls get to determine what's being bombarded at us on all the late night talk shows and TV commercials.

8/18/2010 4:57:56 PM

and then wilson goes into a 2 week coma everytime he takes a live hit

8/18/2010 5:12:27 PM

16.

8/19/2010 7:41:06 AM

^^you shut your mouth when you're talking to me.

8/19/2010 8:01:33 AM

New toons and wallpapers up at: http://wolfpackcartoons.com/

Don't forget to join: http://facebook.com/markmclawhorn.art for game-week updates!

8/19/2010 9:37:48 AM

When do they mail season ticket packages out? Havent got mine yet and am getting nervous

8/19/2010 10:08:20 AM

I got mine a few weeks ago. call the ticket office and ask 'em, 865-1510.

8/19/2010 10:38:58 AM

got mine july 30th or so.

8/19/2010 10:48:22 AM

Still waiting on my mini-pack tickets that I ordered over 1 month ago.

8/19/2010 10:53:52 AM

^ I ordered the mini-pack tickets too. It said on the order page that you should recieve them approx. 10 days before the game.

8/19/2010 11:59:48 AM

gotcha. I ordered mine over the phone, so I didn't see an "order" page. Thanks for the update.

10 days is cutting it pretty close!

8/19/2010 12:26:30 PM

I don't know why, but I'm starting to get a good feeling about this season.

This probably equates to disaster, though.

8/19/2010 2:11:50 PM

hell yeah, we're the ONLY school that the Southern Fried Football tour sees TWICE this year

8/19/2010 4:48:36 PM

That schedule is pretty weak compared to past years.

8/19/2010 4:52:23 PM

yeah...St. Aug's at Catawba?

still, all we have to do is make the ACC title game and we'll be on there THREE times

Packer just said he was giving us some love since he took away our Clemson game last year for them to go to App State / Elon

8/19/2010 4:54:51 PM

Quote :

"I got mine a few weeks ago. call the ticket office and ask 'em, 865-1510."

thanks for the FYI, folks. Really saved my season (literally)

Apparently my tickets were sent to an old address that was not updated (for the second year in a row) by the staff over there after I updated it on the web ordering form. FedEx allowed one of my old neighbors - who I didnt even know - to sign for the package in my stead. Luckily the guy took my tix to the office and left them there. The office never bothered to call me about it, but I got them today.

I am very lucky they didnt end up on CraigsList and eBay! This is the second year they sent my tickets to the wrong or an old address. Why does their customer service suck soo bad? Am I the only one with these kind of bad experiences?

[Edited on August 19, 2010 at 6:37 PM. Reason : asdf]

8/19/2010 6:36:29 PM

I've had all my problems with FedEx delivering my tickets. Last year I had to get my tickets reprinted because FedEx claimed they delivered them to my house but I could find them nowhere. About 4 weeks into the season I see a FedEx truck pull into my driveway and guess what they deliver, my season tickets. I was pissed and bitched to FedEx about it.

8/19/2010 7:31:26 PM

damn that sucks. I've changed addresses since last year. I wonder if I should call and ask.

8/19/2010 11:15:27 PM

i just want to apologize, i can't help it, i think i'm getting pumped, amp'd, terry-tate'd.

hearing good things (i have no inside sources) from the various outlets about the freshmen secondary, these kids sound like they are the future.

ughh, optimism

8/20/2010 2:32:48 AM

what did isay no more then one page back? no danged optimism

8/20/2010 8:31:35 AM

I'll say that I'm past optimism, I'm confident... nay... CERTAIN!














......that our tailgates will be epic.

8/20/2010 8:33:08 AM

Quote :

"hearing good things (i have no inside sources) from the various outlets about the freshmen secondary"

god, i hope your right. relative to our greater area competition (UNC, DUKE, TENN, SC) - this is the year we have to perform before we fall waaay behind in the recruiting race of the future

8/20/2010 9:52:33 AM

W
W
W
L
L
W
W
L
L
W
W
W

thats how our season will go.

8/20/2010 10:16:16 AM

nice!

actually that's not a bad prediction if you told me today that we were winning 8 games this season - I'd probably pick the same way. I'll fill in the schedule for you..

Sept. 4 WESTERN CAROLINA - W
Sept. 11 at Central Florida - W
Sept. 16 CINCINNATI (Thurs-ESPN) 7:30 pm - W
Sept. 25 at Georgia Tech - L
Oct. 2 VIRGINIA TECH - L
Oct. 9 BOSTON COLLEGE - W
Oct. 16 at East Carolina - W
Oct. 28 FLORIDA ST. (Thurs- ESPN) 7:30 - L
Nov. 6 at Clemson - L
Nov. 13 WAKE FOREST - W
Nov. 20 at North Carolina - W
Nov. 27 at Maryland - W

Unfortunately, I feel like the following games are toss-ups:

UCF: decent Conf USA team that could sneak away with a W ... again.
Cin: top 5 team last season. Still talented after losing coach and QB. I think their pass attack scorches our young secondary.
BC: TOB hasn't beaten his former team yet in 3 straight years. Oh, and they retun Harrell and Herzlich. Although the return of Nate should help to limit Harrell's damage.
UNC: 3 in a row has been sweet, but their time is about due. Our players know this is the biggest game and always play up to it, so the ball could bounce either way.

And don't be quick to count us out of the FSU game. ESPN hasn't forgotten about the magic of that rivalry. We've lost to them 3 straight years, and they are favored to win our division. But I still think anything could happen.

Who the hell knows? TOB seems optimistic that this year's team has the best overall depth he's had since he's been here. Our injury situation appears to be less severe than in recent years. Maybe we get lucky and go 50-50 on the toss-up games and go 6-6 on the season and get back to the postseason.

8/20/2010 11:57:25 AM

Quote :

"Aug. 17, 2010 RALEIGH, N.C. - NC State's football squad held a situational scrimmage on Tuesday evening in Carter-Finley Stadium. In different segments, the offense was up seven, down seven and tied with various times on the clock and available timeouts. Tom O'Brien did not release any individual statistics after the workout, but as a team the offense rushed 36 times for 122 yards, and completed 11 of 29 passes for 88 yards and one touchdown. The defense picked off four passes during the drills, tallied eight tackles for loss and four sacks. "There was a lot of enthusiasm out there tonight," said O'Brien following the workout. "It was a good scrimmage from the standpoint of giving us many teachable moments. We will use tonight's film to learn from and get better." The team will not practice tomorrow as classes start at NC State. The team will be back on the field on Thursday morning, as the Wolfpack begins its new morning practice schedule. "

Good, bad, useless for analysis?

8/20/2010 12:01:27 PM

^i will vote useless. any football news is appreciated though.

8/20/2010 12:14:16 PM

that was posted on the last page.. discussed at the top of this page.

8/20/2010 12:16:51 PM

Useless, all scrimmage stats are useless

8/20/2010 12:18:49 PM

useless to us, because we don't know how it was played out.

however to the coaches, im sure they mean a good bit

8/20/2010 12:45:41 PM

Camaraderie building at N.C. State?

Quote :

"Over the past week or so, a handful of insiders at N.C. State's football practice have offered opinions that the current team is building exceptional chemistry and camaraderie. They say the previous three teams under coach Tom O'Brien haven't necessarily lacked togetherness. But they say the teamwork on the current team is just different, in a good way. "We’re trying to do a couple things different here and there," quarterback and team tri-captain Russell Wilson explained Thursday. "Nothing in particular. But we’re just trying to have fun out there and compete every day, in individual drills and team drills. And just get better. And this is a fun game." Asked about that topic today, O'Brien had a mixed reaction. He is reluctant to proclaim the chemistry and teamwork improved because it hasn't been tested yet in adverse situations. At the same time, he hopes the camaraderie people are talking about is a sign that the team building he has been trying to promote since he arrived finally is taking hold. "Hopefully all our efforts to get it more team oriented, more selfless, more about everybody else than the 'me' factor, if that's taken hold, that's obviously a good thing for us," O'Brien said. O'Brien also said offensive coordinator Dana Bible, who was treated for leukemia during the offseason, recently received another clean bill of health in his latest tests. O'Brien plans to have Bible call plays as he has throughout his tenure at N.C. State before he missed the last two games of last season because of the illness. After getting caught off guard at first when Bible was hospitalized last season on the day the team traveled to Virginia Tech, O'Brien said other staff members will be more alert to the possibility of taking on more responsibility. But he said all the information Bible has received on his health has been positive. "There's no reason to believe he won't be able to assume the same duties that he's done in the past," O'Brien said."

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/camaraderie-building-at-nc-state

Good to see Coach Bible is doing well in his recovery.

8/20/2010 1:02:11 PM

Camaraderie comes easy when you haven't lost yet. Just sayin.

8/20/2010 2:04:15 PM

the article makes sense to me. A large bulk of the guys recruited from the Amato era are gone. Out of the 19-man recruiting class of 2006, only 7 remain.

If there was any bitterness about Chuck's firing that was still lingering around for the past 3 years, it's all but gone now. TOB has players now that have committed to him and his staff.

Also, Darrell Davis days left



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8/20/2010 2:30:38 PM

i saw "darrel davis" and "left" while scanning the page and had a scare.

8/20/2010 2:53:00 PM

^ lol me too.

8/20/2010 3:38:17 PM

2 weeks

8/21/2010 7:11:28 AM

How come Double D has on Reebok gloves?

8/21/2010 7:19:52 AM

They're NFL equipment.

You can see the NFL shield on the middle of his right hand.

8/21/2010 8:40:24 AM

So he bought his own gloves? Seems like Adidas wouldn't like him using a competitor's equipment.

8/21/2010 8:55:43 AM