Well I'm starting early this year. There are 278 days till Tom O'Brien and the Wolfpack take on Steve Spurrier and the South Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia on August 28th, 2008 at Williams-Brice Stadium. Let's get it on!

11/24/2007 4:18:26 PM

-1 day(s)

11/24/2007 4:19:01 PM

that means it's only 278 days and five minutes until daniel evans' next interception!

11/24/2007 4:19:21 PM

This should be great exposure for us. A nationally televised game against an SEC opponent. It's also the first game of the year.

11/24/2007 4:21:11 PM

^^ you forgot the spring game. That's only if he doesn't decide to just hang up the cleats when he graduates eventhough he still has eligibility left.

[Edited on November 24, 2007 at 4:33 PM. Reason : ]

11/24/2007 4:25:29 PM

^spring game? you actually think our defense can pick something off?

11/24/2007 5:11:18 PM

Williams-Brice Stadium
Capacity:
80,250 (official)
85,000 (record)






The only place in the world where you'll see the word cocks everywhere and it be appropriate.

11/24/2007 6:59:38 PM

Quote :

"^spring game? you actually think our defense can pick something off?"

lol. Evans is good for at least 1 throw to the other side of the ball no matter who it is. Here's to hoping he graduates and calls it a career though.

[Edited on November 24, 2007 at 7:04 PM. Reason : ]

11/24/2007 7:03:46 PM

Players that we lose:

Darrell Blackman
John Dunlap
Ryan Goodman
DeMario Pressley
Miguel Scott
Steven Hauschka (who will replace him, the ACC leader in FG%)
Pat Bedics
Martrel Brown
Guerlin Dervil
Kalani Heppe
Ernest Jones
Garret Kline
James Martin II
Yomi Ojo
LeRue Rumph
Marcus Stone (hopefully he gets drafted)
Jimmie Sutton III
Littleton Wright
Phillip Holloman

11/24/2007 7:26:17 PM

I'll be suprised if any of them get drafted, but some will get picked up (at least for a little while) as free agents.

11/24/2007 7:34:53 PM

Pressly will get drafted 3rd or 4th round
Blackman probably 6th or 7th as a returner


The rest of these guys are on their own

11/24/2007 7:39:34 PM

Players that we hope retire:

Daniel Evans

11/24/2007 7:52:17 PM

2008 Incoming Players (so far):

FB Colby Jackson
S Roy Mangram
OT Andrew Wallace
OG Zach Allen
WLB Terrell Manning
SLB William Beasley
QB Mike Glennon
S Earl Wolff
RB Brandon Barnes
WR T.J. Graham
MLB Dwayne Maddox
TE Mario Carter
CB Tobias Palmer
DT Kyle Linney
S Dominique Ellis

11/24/2007 8:04:20 PM

SC 45
State 3

11/24/2007 8:47:39 PM

How do you guys think the depth chart will look next year?

11/24/2007 8:58:44 PM

I think we'll be lucky to even HAVE a depth chart next year

11/24/2007 9:00:06 PM

links to a tentative schedule for next year?

11/24/2007 9:10:35 PM

ACC
at Clemson
at Maryland
Wake Forest
Boston College
Florida State

at North Carolina
at Duke
Miami

OOC
Aug 28 at South Carolina
Sept 27 South Florida
ECU
William & Mary ??

[Edited on November 24, 2007 at 9:24 PM. Reason : ]

11/24/2007 9:17:16 PM

That's a pretty solid OOC minus W&M, but still, SC and USF should be tough teams again next year

11/24/2007 9:24:15 PM

QB
Fucking A, who knows! Candidates - Evans, Beck, Burke, Wilson, Glennon, hell lets just let Andre Brown impersonate Darren McFadden in the backfield

RB
Who knows again. Brown, Baker, and Eugene will all get snaps. Underwood and Barnes may be able to get some PT too.

WR
Bowens No. 1
Jarvis Williams and Darrell Davis time to shine and see which one grabs the No. 2 spot. Owen Spencer will certainly get more balls thrown his way as he'll probably be one of the backups. It'll be time to see what Jay Smith and Steven Howard can do.

TE
Anthony Hill comes back from injury and regains his No. 1 spot. I'm guessing Matt Kushner will be the backup.

OL
Curtis Crouch, Jake Vermiglio, Meares Green, Jeraill McCuller, and Julian Williams seem like they would be the starters.

11/24/2007 9:25:29 PM

Anyone know anything about the comments on packpride about Geron James being back with the team in the spring?

11/24/2007 9:40:19 PM

DL
Cash, Young, Kuhn, Larsen, Bedics, and Holmes should all be the ones in the mix for starting on the D-line.

LB
Michel, Irving, Ware, and Barnes should be in the mix. Terrell Manning if he gets over his injury is the only freshman that I think can be able to come in and play right away.

DB
Our defensive backs seem to be the strength for the upcoming year. We'll have a lot of experience with DaJuan "Captain" Morgan, J.C. Neal, DeAndre Morgan, and Javon Walker that all seem to have the lockdown on the cornerback and safety positions for next year.

11/24/2007 9:41:00 PM

KR
Bowens, Eugene, and Brandon Barnes all might get PT here.

PR
Same group as above.

PK
Does Czajkowski get this by default?

P
Pierson more than likely.

KOS
Czajkowski or perhaps Pierson. It'd be good to get Ruiz, the JUCO transfer, some time and get some work out of that scholarship money.

LS
Whoever does it now.

11/24/2007 9:49:08 PM

Wolfpack fans, OUR TIME IS NOW, again

11/24/2007 10:06:14 PM

Who all is planning on going to this game? I know I am. I want to see what the SEC game day is like. Plus we will be 0-0 so there will be some hope! GO PACK!

11/25/2007 1:05:34 AM

Giv'em da business!

11/25/2007 1:07:17 AM

^^ Most of the SEC would like to boot them out to the ACC...but the tailgating is alright, the area around the stadium is kind of shitty, out in the middle of nowhere kinda, not really near campus

11/25/2007 1:10:13 AM

I still remember going down to Columbia as a child to see a Redskins vs. Jets pre-season game. It was the whole push to "Bring Football to the Carolinas". Place was packed out. I remember folks standing in the stairwells. I have been to Columbia since then and the downtown area along with USC's campus is beautiful. I am planning on making my first trip back to Williams-Bryce since then though. Hopefully we can steal a road win to start the year and we will have some other option at qb other than Mr. Pick Six!

I have always wondered why the hell did South Carolina peace out on the ACC?? They leave their primary rival in the other conference, join the toughest football conference in the country (and take plenty of lumps in doing so), and leave behind America's best basketball conference. Anybody have any insight to this?

11/25/2007 1:36:37 AM

$$$$

11/25/2007 1:42:35 AM

You stay classy Columbia.

11/25/2007 11:02:19 AM

Quote :

"I have always wondered why the hell did South Carolina peace out on the ACC?? They leave their primary rival in the other conference, join the toughest football conference in the country (and take plenty of lumps in doing so), and leave behind America's best basketball conference. Anybody have any insight to this? "

Essentially, they didn't want to have to adhere to the strict grade requirements imposed on college athletes by the ACC. There are more details, but that's pretty much what it came down to.

I'm in graduate school at USC, and I wish like HELL they were still in the ACC. I can catch most of the ACC basketball games on TV, but it'd be awesome to be able to go see them every week. Granted, SEC football is awesome, and SEC basketball is okay... but I was born and bred on ACC b-ball

[Edited on November 25, 2007 at 11:08 AM. Reason : dur]

11/25/2007 11:07:33 AM

in on page 1.

11/25/2007 11:22:15 AM

i'd like to go to this game too... wonder what kind of tickets i can get

11/25/2007 12:08:51 PM

Thanks for the info Jaybee and Numbwall. Y'all be sure to let us know about some details about the tailgaiting as it gets closer to that time.

^^^^ I like how the lady holding the umbrella is the only one not really participating but she kinda has the heheheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee look going on lol

11/25/2007 1:05:18 PM

^ will do... SEC game day is a lot of fun... people down here make it an EVENT

11/25/2007 1:15:10 PM

I've been there a half-dozen times to see Florida play, and the fans there usually aren't too obnoxious. The stadium is well away from the campus (not unlike Carter-Finley), but the tailgating atmosphere is decent. Outside of the stadium, there is a restored old train that is rented by wealthy alumni for tailgating. Their fans are very loyal; if they went 0-11, the place would still be sold out for every game; however, they start pouring out of the stadium in the 3rd quarter if the team is behind.

Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Auburn, Bama, and Ole Miss are all better road trips to see an SEC game, but it's still a better atmosphere than a lot of the places in the ACC.

11/25/2007 1:23:25 PM

http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/2/706686.html

Quote :

"When is spring practice? I intend to start on March 18th, a Tuesday, and we'll basically go Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. That first Saturday is Easter Saturday so we won't go then... I believe April 19th is the Spring Game."

also there is 272 days till we beat those Cocks!

[Edited on November 30, 2007 at 10:23 PM. Reason : ]

11/30/2007 10:20:37 PM

will there be a hurricane this time?

11/30/2007 10:27:08 PM

^That game was bad ass! We had just come off of the block party win in a kickoff classic down in Texas. I remember Terrance Holt had his coming out party in the Texas game!
The SC game in the hurricane was great. I remember the hype surrounding it as Lou Holtz made his first trip back to Raleigh. Game was the Saturday nighter on ESPN, too. I liked the uniforms we had that year even though many people accuse them of being too 'Georgia-esque'. Levar Fisher had a monster game and we slugged it out in the downpour 10-0.

Augsust can't get here fast enough. I already feel this huge emptiness in my life knowing we don't play tomorrow

11/30/2007 10:54:02 PM

lol @ SFN

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/2586/butchtodolistly6.jpg

click, no hotlinking bullshit

11/30/2007 11:20:08 PM

^^ the band had brand new uniforms for that game

brand new red and white uniforms

after the game, the band had pink shirts

11/30/2007 11:43:15 PM

Quote :

"Who all is planning on going to this game? I know I am. I want to see what the SEC game day is like"

i'm planning to go, a friend of mine has been at USC for 4 years so we've been to a couple games down there already. i'm usually pretty well and drunk when we're tailgating down there, but i do remember some stuff.

their tailgating is pretty good, its in the fairgrounds similar to ours, but they surround the stadium. there isn't really student vs non-student parking as far as i know. parking is like $20 in the fairgrounds lots though, unless its the state fair weekend when parking is free.

usually, except for big games, you can get tickets right outside the stadium. their stadium is large, and they play that annoying as fighting rooster noise ALL THE TIME. it gets loud, but usually the noise isn't sustained. like a lot of SEC schools, the game is a social event as much as anything else.

lots of people, lots of food and lots of liquor.

12/1/2007 2:07:48 AM

So who do you have in your preseason Top 25 for next year. I can tell you who are my top 3 right now.

1. Oklahoma (bring back a ton from a team that won the Big XII and at times looked scary good)
2. Florida (bring back Tebow and a lot of other things. a lot of hype will follow this team)
3. USC (could be #1 as well)
4. LSU (despite losing Flynn and Dorsey as well as some others, they still return a lot. this is pending Miles return)


don't really know who else might be up there. Mizzou? Kansas? Georgia? VT?


25. NC State

12/2/2007 7:47:40 AM

http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/future_schedules/northcarolinastate_future.htm

12/2/2007 9:50:08 AM

after the game

Platinum Plus

12/2/2007 3:28:57 PM

SC 52
Us 3

Evan's 3 picks for six

[Edited on December 2, 2007 at 4:06 PM. Reason : w]

12/2/2007 4:05:28 PM

I see one of your Evan's pick six's for 3 Wilson/Glennon TD's after the first quarter for a 28-17 State win.

12/2/2007 4:34:40 PM

This is preseason Top 25, so anything can happen from the preseason all the way to the final.

1. Oklahoma
2. Florida
3. USC
4. LSU
5. Ohio State
6. Virginia Tech
7. Georgia
8. Mizzou
9. West Virginia (either them or whoever's on the top of the Big East)
10. Kansas (they return enough to be a 2 loss, maybe 3 loss at the most. we'll see if they can do that though.)
11. Texas
12. Clemson
13. Arizona State
14. Boise State (or some other non-BCS conference team predicted to go undefeated)
15. Illinois
16. Tennessee
17. Wisconsin
18. Auburn
19. Cal
20. USF
21. Florida State (b/c despite seeing what FSU has given us these past couple of years, the writers will say "oh it's their year to break out" and crap like that.
22. Rutgers (lot of hype if Rice returns would get them this kind of ranking)
23. Michigan
24. Alabama
25. NC State

12/2/2007 5:36:29 PM

Others receiving votes: Duke-1

12/2/2007 5:52:24 PM

Quote :

"Anyone know anything about the comments on packpride about Geron James being back with the team in the spring?"

I thought he left the team entirely, though I could be wrong...

12/2/2007 5:55:27 PM