UNC and ECU.

5/28/2009 12:33:51 PM

ECU was 15/17

http://www.gopack.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=41953&SPID=3730&DB_OEM_ID=9200&Q_SEASON=2008

5/28/2009 12:35:09 PM

5/28/2009 1:34:26 PM

^that's great. just change the date to game time and you have a winner.

5/28/2009 2:21:13 PM

Jaybee will be happy. NCSU vs Tennessee in 2012. http://northcarolinastate.scout.com/2/868077.html

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 2:24 PM. Reason : can't spell happy]

5/28/2009 2:23:45 PM

I thought Wake was ranked in the Top 25 in at least one of the polls when we played them?

5/28/2009 2:46:38 PM

24 on ESPN, I was thinking they were 21 on something else.

[Edited on May 28, 2009 at 4:47 PM. Reason : .]

5/28/2009 4:38:07 PM

Willie Young Days Left!!!

btw, i feel this guy is gonna break out bigtime this year......

5/29/2009 12:40:16 AM

I hope Tony Baker rushes for 1,000 yards this season. It woudl be nice for him to come back with a bang!

5/29/2009 3:57:54 AM

^ I doubt Toney rushes for 1,000 yards this year. Our system likes to spread the wealth in terms of carries. I fully expect Eugene and Baker to carry the load.

More Willie Young pics







please to see more of this this season

5/29/2009 8:17:33 AM

Willie getting away with a boarderline horse collar in that photo

5/29/2009 8:22:08 AM

That pic of Young tackling the UVA player was two years ago. I thought the horse collar tackle rule started last year.

5/29/2009 8:57:21 AM

Oh, well then, great perfectly-within-the-rules tackle Willie.

5/29/2009 9:02:20 AM

like he said the horse collar tackling rule wasn't in place yet, but also iirc on that play Willie kind of came from the side a little bit (like half behind and half from the side if that makes any sense), and wasn't completely pulling him down from behind. the picture doesn't really paint the whole picture. I think the UVA player was trying to turn the corner, and Willie reeled him in and took him down before he could get away.

Willie should act like he's fishing and reeling when he makes a big sack/tackle to end the opposing teams series. There was a piece on him during the Carolina game last year that was also seen on the TOB show where he talked about fishing. Just do it on the sidelines or as he's leaving the field so that we don't get an unsportsmanlike penalty.

[Edited on May 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM. Reason : ]

5/29/2009 9:51:21 AM

is there a gif of willie and some other player digging or whatever it was at the carolina game?

5/29/2009 12:20:49 PM

lol, yes, please to find those digging gifs

5/29/2009 12:26:48 PM

ok, so fuck YouTube.

I just wasted 3 hours of my life making a video to get hyped for the season, and when i try to upload on YouTube, it tells me that it cant play the damn soundtrack for it. so now its a worthless slideshow w/ no f'n soundtrack.

Help!?! where can i upload the video so i can link it to TWW, OR, who can i give the video to so that they can embed it somehow?

Here is the video, but you need to play Saliva - "Ladies and Gentlemen" with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naw5TamG_sY

[Edited on May 29, 2009 at 11:35 PM. Reason : ]

5/29/2009 11:18:10 PM

^^embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16GYpzqmI8&feature=related

5/30/2009 12:35:59 AM

5/30/2009 12:42:22 AM

I re-did my video with the same photo gallery, but with a different (legal) song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2j2mf2-UN8

feel free to embed

5/31/2009 12:17:12 PM

very nice work ^

5/31/2009 12:50:49 PM

5/31/2009 1:46:38 PM

http://collegefootball.rivals.com/photofeature.asp?fid=28351

Rivals is having a countdown for the top 100 college players for the 2009 season.

I would be interested in who people think should make the list from NC State and where they should rank.

My shoe-in picks are R. Wilson (top 20?), W. Young (top 50?), and N. Irving (top 50?)
Outside shots are Baker, Eugene, Spencer, Graham

Discuss...

5/31/2009 7:18:22 PM

^No way anybody but Young, Irving, or Wilson make it (although Cash should).

I'm prediciting Russell top 25, Nate top 50, Willie top 75

6/1/2009 10:39:40 AM

I think Wilson, Young, and Irving are all great. But don't get your expectations too high. I think they could all be the Top 100, but I'm not expecting any of them to break the top 50.

6/1/2009 12:14:06 PM

LOLZ

6/1/2009 1:57:47 PM

I think Wilson might be the only one on there and maybe in the 50-75 range. If you look at rivals power rankings for qbs, he's starting the season ~13, one higher than God's second son Jimmy Clausen.

6/1/2009 2:05:02 PM

Willie Young will make that list. Some publications had him going 2-3rd round last year in the draft, now they're seeing him even higher with a solid senior year, so I really doubt he doesn't make the top 100. Nate Irving has a solid chance, and I'd say R. Wilson has a decent chance, just depends on what positions they put emphasis on, because Clausen is 95 and I'd say he's better than him, so who knows.

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2009 2:10:00 PM

O'Brien wary of preseason picks

Quote :

" Tom O'Brien has a live chat scheduled for 4 p.m. today on gopack.com. The Wolfpack football coach will no doubt be asked about the increased expectations for Year 3. Some yahoo already picked State to win the Atlantic Division, which O'Brien found amusing. "If you guys knew what the heck you were doing, you would be doing something else," O'Brien said. "As I told the team, nobody picked Boston College last year." The Eagles, picked to finish fourth in the division by the media, repeated as division champs in '08. O'Brien, who coached at BC from 1996 to 2006, recruited the bulk of the players on the BC roster that won the division in '07 and '08. O'Brien told his current team that he doesn't think they're as good as the team he left in Boston College. "It doesn't mean we can't be that good," O'Brien said. "Today, we're not that good, let's see if we can get to be that good. That's the challenge." One aspect working in O'Brien's favor — State doesn't play an ACC game until October. Given the way O'Brien's first two teams started — 1-5 and 2-5 — a four-game prep for the conference schedule can only help. "

http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/obrien-wary-of-preseason-picks

TOB also just missed the cut in Southern Pigskin's ACC/SEC coaches ranking:

Quote :

"Watch Out For - Tom O'Brien, NC State - Got the Wolfpack into the postseason last year and, with quarterback Russell Wilson entering his sophomore season, has the future look bright for NC State."

http://www.southernpigskin.com/index.php/site/acc_sec_coaching_rankings/

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 2:44 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2009 2:26:37 PM

Quote :

"N.C. State coach Tom O'Brien doesn't know how long Russell Wilson, who continues to split time between football and baseball, will be his quarterback. Wilson, who was taken in the 41st round of the Major League Baseball draft out of high school, is eligible for the baseball draft again in 2010. That could mean just one more season of college football, even with three years of eligibility remaining. “He likes to play baseball, and his future may be in baseball, so we have to do what's best for him,” O'Brien said. “You try to make long-range plans, but you never know what's going to happen.” O'Brien has been unusually vocal this offseason about Mike Glennon's chances for playing time, despite the return of Wilson, the best quarterback in the ACC. You can bet O'Brien will get Glennon meaningful reps this season and prepare him for Wilson's eventual exit. Ideally, Wilson stays two more seasons, which would get them through the 2010 football season, and O'Brien would have a seasoned Glennon, who redshirted last season, to run the program through 2012. As for Wilson's immediate future, he is set to play baseball for Gastonia in the Coastal Plain League before joining the Wolfpack's offseason workouts in early July."

6/1/2009 4:04:41 PM

source?

6/1/2009 5:08:42 PM

^Found it from google, I assume this is the same source.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/college-football/story/755119.html

6/1/2009 7:10:42 PM

93 days....so close, but so far away!

6/2/2009 9:01:58 AM

yea sorry, same source.

6/2/2009 10:42:14 AM

Season tickets purchased. Let's do this shit.

6/2/2009 2:11:45 PM

from The Wolfpacker (Rivals equivalent of Pack Pride):

Quote :

"North Carolina State football coach Tom O'Brien took some time Monday to answer questions during an online chat on the school's website, GoPack.com. Among the highlights from the chat: • When discussing the quarterback situation, O'Brien said it's good to have both sophomore Russell Wilson and redshirt freshman Mike Glennon on the team. "Many coaches have been reluctant to play two quarterbacks, but I've always been on the mindset that you want to get your backup in a football game early in the year. You don't want to get in the ninth, 10th, 11th game with your backup never having seen action. Certainly if Russell is the starter, and he's the odds-on favorite now, we will certainly look to get Mike Glennon playing time through the first month of the season so that he's prepared so that, should we lose Russell, he can step in and handle the duties at quarterback." • O'Brien noted that the staff does not plan on signing a kicker before redshirt junior Josh Czajkowski's eligibility is up. • O'Brien said there could be as many as eight to 10 redshirt freshmen on the two-deep roster this fall. • Redshirt junior Javon Walker has not been cleared for the strength and conditioning program yet, but he is possible to return to field during camp in August. O'Brien did note that junior receiver Donald Bowens is the only person who might not be back for the start of fall camp, saying he could be returning from a knee injury in September or October. • O'Brien complimented senior punter Jeff Ruiz for his work in the spring, and he said that there should be a spirited battle with incoming freshman Chris Ward to be the punter. • O'Brien also complimented redshirt sophomore Audie Cole when asked who could replace Robbie Leonard at strongside linebacker. • O'Brien also made a pitch for an indoor practice facility: "That would be on my wish list for what we should do next for our program. The importance of an indoor facility is evident in those early morning workouts in January and February before the sun comes up and there is frost on the practice fields while we are running and trying to get faster and better. Under those conditions, an injury is always a major concern. During summer camp, the constant threat of thunderstorms causes us to lose time standing under the overhang limits our preparation. And as we prepare for bowl games, sometimes we get days in December here that would cost us practice time. An indoor facility would help in our preparation to become the best football team in the ACC.""

http://ncstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=951744

6/2/2009 2:20:02 PM

RUSSELL 3:16???

6/2/2009 2:28:34 PM

^^thats just a breakdown of his live chat from monday

6/2/2009 3:04:11 PM

Quote :

"Donald Bowens is the only person who might not be back for the start of fall camp, saying he could be returning from a knee injury in September or October"

damn, was hoping he'd be ready for the start of the season

6/2/2009 3:06:19 PM

Quote :

"thats just a breakdown of his live chat from monday"

I understand that, but I didn't get a chance to read that yesterday and I felt like it was a pretty good summary...I'm sure a lot of other people either didn't know about it or didn't read it yesterday.

6/2/2009 3:10:28 PM

With each interview, I become more of a fan of Tom O!

6/3/2009 10:43:34 AM

Quote :

"Nate is working extremely hard in this present strength and conditioning cycle, as he did in spring practice, to become a better football player. He has some God-Given physical tools. He recognizes and anticipates things that some players don't have the ability to do. We are hoping that he becomes one of the best linebackers in NC State history. "

6/3/2009 3:39:11 PM

NATHAN MAGEO/ERIC WEAVER DAYS LEFT






[Edited on June 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM. Reason : ]

6/5/2009 12:31:44 AM

Countdown timer needs to be updated. Game is at 7PM now.

6/5/2009 1:12:20 AM

I hope they move Eric Weaver up teh tight end depth chart, the dude has good hands and at 6'7" he can easily look over defenders.


Any update on his progress after the spring game??

6/5/2009 2:41:28 AM

^you want weaver over Bryan, kushner and Carter?

6/5/2009 7:22:48 AM

Yeah, that's a little boggling. George Bryan and Mario Carter looked great in the Spring game and I thought Bryan looked better than Anthony Hill last year.

6/5/2009 7:35:01 AM

mad kudos to Bryan ITT

6/5/2009 8:25:02 AM

Id like to see Weaver get more playing time then he did last year, btu basically any tight end who can open up big holes for our running game or pick up 6 or 7 yards when we need it on a crucial third down.

Id like to see them all get playing time, but yeah I want to see what Weaver brings to the table.

6/5/2009 12:11:53 PM

george bryan is definitely the fucking man

he's a redzone monster. and he was only a freshman.

6/5/2009 12:29:34 PM