Quote :

" Butch Davis gave credit to N.C. State for their performance, while citing turnovers as the biggest reason for the loss to the Wolfpack. It is extraordinarily disappointing and frustrating to play as poorly as we played today. The things that we did today during the course of the game give you absolutely no chance to win the ball game. There will never be a football game ever played that you can lose a turnover ratio as dramatically poorly as we did today and still give yourselves a chance to win. Six turnovers---you can almost totally disregard any of the other stats. Once you get past the turnovers, there are other things that certainly contributed to today's loss – giving up big plays in the secondary, balls being thrown deep and not being contested, guys being open – all of those things contributed to the way that we played today. I thought that our defense initially got off to a decent start after being put in just some horrible field position and that they rallied early. Given the field position, we forced a field goal, forced another missed field goal where they got a delay of game and got another chance to kick the ball. We felt like going into the locker room with the score 10-3, that as poorly as we played that we weren't out of the football game. We had to do something to effectively change the game. We had to start to play better. Unfortunately we continued to turn the football over. If you do those things you are not going to win. "

game thoughts


thoughts on RW :

Quote :

" He played very well but that didn't come as a surprise. Every coach on our staff and all of our defensive players watched all the film that he had played this year. Everybody realized that really, truly you really needed to do a great job, keep him in the pocket and that he has got a great arm. It's a complete problem for a defense when a quarterback can extend plays. Michael Vick was one of those types of guys, may not be the greatest thrower in the world, may not be the best operator but plays are never over."

11/22/2008 9:05:03 PM

wilson has reminded me of vick the way he can just run to the the 1st down marker and then some

i love how he doesnt slide at the side of a defender 10 yds away

11/22/2008 9:07:14 PM

Quote :

"to luke.decock@newsobserver.com, john.drescher@newsobserver.com date Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:27 PM subject Yates cast in role of Scapegoat: Save your boos for the pros John & Luke, I'll be looking forward to your articles this week on how awful the UNC fans are for booing Yates early in the third quarter this afternoon. A Faithful Reader, Parks"

nice work

11/22/2008 9:08:01 PM

mcnabb would be a better comparison as russell can actually throw

11/22/2008 9:10:05 PM

i was really impressed with wilson today. specifically how he actually takes care of the ball.

11/22/2008 9:12:17 PM

the "state championship" was always real big with Amato

"first we have to win the state championship, then the acc, then national"

i bet he has a huge grin on his face after seeing all this talk and the t-shirts

11/22/2008 9:13:30 PM

you know, i'm not all about making some t-shirts and celebrating a "state title," but i definitely recognize these wins and this season (as well as last) as a step in the right direction.

11/22/2008 9:18:14 PM

just need to find a way to keep everyone healthy

11/22/2008 9:19:24 PM

the fact that 3 of the 4 wins were against ranked teams makes it somewhat more special

11/22/2008 9:19:48 PM

the shirts are lame


but the "state championship" is huge for recruiting IMO, especially since TOB has been so much more focused recruiting in this region than Amato was

also huge for the fanbase, as we can talk shit to the majority of people at our jobs

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 9:20 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2008 9:20:18 PM

definitely good for recruiting and shit talking

i think with TOB our team will only continue to improve.

11/22/2008 9:25:54 PM

^^ Haha. That's right. At work, or anywhere for that matter, it'll be like "Wait, who's your team? Oh, that's right. We beat them too. Thanks for playing."

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 9:27 PM. Reason : ^]

11/22/2008 9:27:14 PM

Awesome conversation from IC

Quote :

"please remember red shoe Amato won 3 outta 4 in his first 4 yrs over there....and we all know the result of his coaching career over there"

- NCU77

Quote :

"which one of these coaches reminds you more of Amato? I know which one, but i aint sayin"

- tsmith2829

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 9:38 PM. Reason : ]

11/22/2008 9:36:27 PM

Quote :

""yea yea ya'll won.....we played like shit....o well....its basketball season now....so you already know" "

lol my friend from UNC after I asked just to make sure he lubed up before todays game.

11/22/2008 9:39:40 PM

ahahah, love that cop out.

but you know if they had won, they would be rubbing it our faces...

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 9:41 PM. Reason : sounds like a duke thing to say anyway.]

11/22/2008 9:41:18 PM

^but we're not a rival!

11/22/2008 9:45:26 PM

Found this in a random State fan's gallery from today's game:

11/22/2008 9:47:38 PM

^ is that person cleaning the sign?

11/22/2008 9:49:19 PM

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recap?gid=200811220006

Quote :

"Instead, the only title anyone was talking about afterward was the mythical “state championship” the Wolfpack had focused on entering the game. N.C. State has beaten North Carolina, Duke, Wake Forest and East Carolina in the same season for the first time since 1986. “What it speaks to is we’re the best football program in the state,” Wolfpack coach Tom O’Brien said, “without question.” Certainly not on this day, anyway."

did i miss something?

11/22/2008 9:52:12 PM

I work in Carrboro on the weekends and everyone there except for three of us are Carolina fans/employees/grads. The main guy that gives me a hard time wouldn't even look at me until about 2 hours after the game. We had a bet on the game and he kept trying to pay me in the 3rd quarter. Driving down 15-501 home towards duke forest, I saw not one blue flag. Typically I see a lot on game day.

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 9:55 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2008 9:54:05 PM

I hate those t-shirts...but the fact that we're "state champs" is very significant....it means I don't have to take shit from anyone I know about our football program until next september.




(so i'm pumped)

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 9:55 PM. Reason : ]

11/22/2008 9:55:09 PM

^^^

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 9:55 PM. Reason : ]

11/22/2008 9:55:19 PM

the "certainly not on this day" is referring to the no questions about it thing...without question

11/22/2008 9:56:49 PM

^^

The without question part.

Certainly on this day, you couldn't question State as the best in the state. They played undoubtedly so.

11/22/2008 9:57:43 PM

very misleading tho

11/22/2008 9:58:01 PM

Hearing this in the middle of the Ark/MS State game was the highlight of my day.

At least in our piss poor seasons we can beat our rivals. Now only if we can beat our rivals in our good seasons Seriously this win should make any Pack fan happy. And if we beat Miami and go 6-6, at least we salvaged the season somewhat.

And yeah a big [NO] on those "state champions" t-shirts. We have enough image problems, the last thing we need is to make ourselves look like we want to be a High School team.

GO STATE!!!

11/22/2008 10:00:19 PM

so I was at the game and forgot to record it at home.....anybody got it or know if it's gonna be replayed so I can watch it again in all it's glory?

especially to see how we sounded and hear the WOLF PACK chant that you could even hear on tv

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 10:01 PM. Reason : ]

11/22/2008 10:01:01 PM

i agree, people know, we dont need a shirt to prove it

11/22/2008 10:01:10 PM

why do we always save our wins for the end of the season?

i wish we could get it together BEFORE the season starts instead of at our bye week

11/22/2008 10:01:38 PM

I love bojangles.

11/22/2008 10:01:40 PM

We laid the BOOM MOTHERFUCKER YEAH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZSy2JH8iu4

11/22/2008 10:01:41 PM

id rather us pull out in the end than start like ecu and choke .. and be a laughing stock

esp with all our injuries

72 total games missed from our starters

wow


[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 10:04 PM. Reason : ..thats what she said]

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 10:05 PM. Reason : ]

11/22/2008 10:03:24 PM

i am amazed at the insidecarolina free board right now.

not only is the objectivity ridiculous, but there are tons of "wtf BD, you can't lose to our rivals like that" and no "not a rival" talk that i've seen. very surprised.

11/22/2008 10:10:12 PM

I think they are all pissed at Davis for saying it's not any more important than any other.

11/22/2008 10:12:54 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4AagjYgK3M

11/22/2008 10:20:07 PM

I HERE BY DECLARE THAT OUR TEAMS PLAY IS WORTH THE HYPE THAT THE CARTER FINLEY INTRO LEADS EVERYONE TO BELIEVE!

11/22/2008 10:22:45 PM

^^^

Yup

The odd thing is NCSU playing UNC is States Super Bowl, but for UNC it actually is just another game.

What I think happened today, or at least what we saw today is that they didnt, or arent taking it one game at a time. I think they got caught up in taking the rest of the season for granted and wins would just happen for them. They cant just look to the end of the season like that. They have to come out and play every game just like State did today. Well done.


[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 10:23 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2008 10:22:53 PM

Quote :

"^ is that person cleaning the sign?"

Yup! But it's clearly gonna take more than some damn 409 to get that bitch clean. AHAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!

11/22/2008 10:24:25 PM

Quote :

"The odd thing is NCSU playing UNC is States Super Bowl, but for UNC it actually is just another game. "

SUSPEND.
BAN.
TERMINATE.
CASTRATE.
KILL.

11/22/2008 10:24:58 PM

^nice video to show how many State fans were in the stands.

^^^They're all pretty humble at this point. They just got the everliving hell kicked out of them. You'd better believe that if it was a close game there would be a whole bunch of bitching and whining. That's not to say we, or any other school in the country, wouldn't be doing the same thing.

That win felt so good.

11/22/2008 10:25:24 PM

Quote :

"The odd thing is NCSU playing UNC is States Super Bowl, but for UNC it actually is just another game."

you're not even making applicable responses w/ your trolling mang.

11/22/2008 10:27:02 PM

Well hopefully you can pull a win out against Miami.

If I were State I would study some of GT's playbook. That game was straight nasty.

^ Uh, do you even know what the fuck trolling is?

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 10:28 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2008 10:27:38 PM

Yeah, to my surprise UNC fans are pretty humbled by the beatdown (how could you not be?)

I'll say this -- I haven't been happier with our football team since ... well ... ever.

11/22/2008 10:28:15 PM

Quote :

"^ is that person cleaning the sign?"

haha... that picture makes me laugh. i drove by the sign around noon today, and there was a big crew with power washers trying to get that thing clean. GG whoever paintballed that shit

11/22/2008 10:28:56 PM

^ hahahaha

Quote :

"The odd thing is NCSU playing UNC is States Super Bowl, but for UNC it actually is just another game."

you really are a fucking idiot. seriously.

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 10:29 PM. Reason : ^]

11/22/2008 10:29:09 PM

Quote :

"id rather us pull out in the end than start like ecu and choke .. and be a laughing stock"

agreed

see... chuck amato's last season here



you know russell wilson is amazing, but this O-line improvement has me in tears almost

11/22/2008 10:29:24 PM

i wasn't really meaning i wanted all our wins at the beginning of the season, just that i wished we could play to our full potential all year instead of waiting until half way through to finally realize what we are capable of.

[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 10:31 PM. Reason : jf]

11/22/2008 10:30:48 PM

The actions of UNC's Fever dont speak for the entire University.

UNC really doenst care that much about playing State in football. Sorry to let you down and all. And not that it devalues the outcome of the game cause State handily beat a good UNC team today. UNC simply played like shit and State brought their A game.

^^ ECU just won their division didnt they?



[Edited on November 22, 2008 at 10:32 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2008 10:30:53 PM

Quote :

"UNC really doenst care that much about playing State in football."

when we win they don't, right?

11/22/2008 10:31:55 PM

Quote :

"If I were State DUKE I would study some of GT's STATE'S playbook. That game was straight nasty."

11/22/2008 10:32:29 PM