http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/08/16/acc-football-preview-07-the-dregs/#cont

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"Last season: 3-9 overall, 2-6 ACC Why They'll Win: Talent and coaching. Former NC State Chuck Amato may have lacked when it came to play calling, but he was certainly a good recruiter. New coach Tom O'Brien inherits a team with many playmakers including the talented backfield of Andre Brown and Tony Baker. The talent combined with the increased coaching competency should turn some of last season's narrow losses into wins. Why They Won't: Quarterback play. New offensive coordinator Dana Bible's scheme calls on the QB to make quick decisions and accurate throws. When it works it can elevate a player to all conference (see Matt Ryan). When it doesn't, it can be a frustrating, stagnant mess. Unfortunately for Pack fans there isn't a Matt Ryan on the roster. Daniel Evans, Harrison Beck and Justin Burke are all competing for the starting role and none have distinguished himself so far. If none of them are able to grasp the new offense, NC State will have a hard time improving on last season's win total. Prognosis: The schedule is tough with only Wofford as a sure thing. But even with the growing pains of the new staff NC State has enough talent to beat any team on their schedule. Look for Tom O'Brien to pull an upset or two and the Pack to make babysteps back to respectability."

8/17/2007 8:59:59 AM

^ seems like a reasonable analysis IMO. We really do not know what to expect from this team so in reality Wofford is our only sure bet.

8/17/2007 9:05:26 AM

didnt have a problem with that, had a problem being grouped on the same level as Duke

8/17/2007 9:07:07 AM

^ oh okay - I didn't click on the link because I am at work and I can't access sports sites.

8/17/2007 9:11:59 AM

but you can access TWW?
nutso

8/17/2007 9:14:17 AM

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"^ seems like a reasonable analysis IMO. We really do not know what to expect from this team so in reality Wofford is our only sure bet."

8/17/2007 9:17:51 AM

nice thread

8/17/2007 9:20:34 AM

thanks

8/17/2007 9:25:58 AM

had a dream the other day that I was in Mitch's and TOB came up to me and told me Beck had the job. I woke up and entered into rehab because I'm addicted to football.

8/17/2007 10:02:44 AM

What is funny is that Wofford is actually a very good 1-AA team. They are ranked #5 in the first poll.

We barely got by ASU and Wofford is about on their level....not saying we will lose but we still need to show up.

[Edited on August 17, 2007 at 10:23 AM. Reason : V They are #5 according to my Wolfpacker mag so must be different poll]

8/17/2007 10:16:23 AM

I agree

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"Preseason Sports Network's FCS Football Rankings (As of 08/14/2007) Rank School Points Prev 1 Appalachian State (67) 1771 1 2 Montana (3) 1680 3 3 UMass 1551 2 4 North Dakota State 1548 5 5 Youngstown State 1417 4 6 UNH (1) 1393 6 7 Illinois State 1227 8 8 James Madison 1149 9 9 UNI 1141 17 10 McNeese State 1059 21 11 Furman 1058 12 12 Southern Illinois 935 7 13 Portland State 866 19 14 Wofford 810 23 15 Cal Poly 719 16 16 Hampton 567 11 17 Eastern Illinois 546 15 18 Sam Houston 352 NR 19 Delaware 340 NR 20 South Dakota State 336 22 21 Montana State 332 10 22 Tennessee-Martin 300 13 23 Coastal Carolina 272 14 24 Yale 166 25 25 South Carolina State 133 NR"

8/17/2007 10:21:19 AM

This is NC State. Nothing is a sure thing.

8/17/2007 10:21:57 AM

The glass is half full people, not half empty!

8/17/2007 10:28:18 AM

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"but you can access TWW? nutso"

most work filters go by url keywords instead of page content.

for me, anything with sports.* or fantasysports.* or *games* is autoblocked

8/17/2007 10:38:50 AM

^ ditto

8/17/2007 12:38:20 PM

seems to be a pessimistic outlook...i mean we've consistently been a bowl team until last year...the 3-9 is an outlier on the bad side just like the 11-3 was an outlier on the good side during rivers' junior year...we are a 6-6 team this year at least

8/17/2007 12:48:30 PM

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"We barely got by ASU and Wofford is about on their level....not saying we will lose but we still need to show up."

ASU got across the 50-yard line twice in the entire game, and both of them were due to us giving up turnovers on our own half of the field.

8/17/2007 12:56:29 PM

we barely beat BC and barely lost to Akron

hopefully this year our offensive linemen will barely NOT false start all the time and our d-linemen will barely NOT be offisides when the opposing QB snaps the ball

8/17/2007 12:58:26 PM

Everyone that I work with who is a fan of a different team (UT, VT, Duke, ECU, etc) have all said that we were nowhere near as bad as our record indicated last year. We played well below what we were capable of. A bad season for last years team should have only been 5-7 at the worst.

8/17/2007 2:41:40 PM

^^ or barely not LINE THE FUCK UP offsides... I mean, offsides for a lineman anticipating the snap is one thing... LINING UP OFFSIDES is completely baffling and a CTC forte.

8/17/2007 6:08:32 PM

^ we play pee wee football here at ncsu .. the coaches go out each play and line up the players

8/17/2007 6:16:08 PM

obviously our players had a hard time lining up on sides, so maybe he should've.


You know you can do those things during practice.

8/17/2007 6:56:52 PM