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"and yes we have beaten them in back to back years now but they were UPSETS."

Both years we have outplayed them and clearly had more talent IMO. How could these be upsets? Lots of people expected us to beat them myself included. Not sure what you are driving at here. CUSA is better than 1-AA but ASU could give some of those schools games and possibly beat them.

9/22/2008 2:34:29 PM

dude we were 1-5 last year and 1-2 this year coming in. last year they went to a bowl game and beat a good boise state team. they are 10-3 in their last 13 games with 2 of the 3 losses coming from us and the other from marshall. i was simply acknowledging that ecu is a respectable program now and it was kind of silly to continue to act as if we were still being charitable by scheduling games with them.

9/22/2008 2:37:59 PM

nm

[Edited on September 22, 2008 at 2:39 PM. Reason : ]

9/22/2008 2:38:02 PM

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"Yeah their program is just light years ahead of us. That is why we have beaten them both years now. "

Hey, ECU had a 2 game winning streak over the Miami Hurricanes in the 90's but it didn't mean we were better....maybe on those days. Our program is not LIGHT YEARS ahead of nc state's as you put it......not quite sure where you got that from

9/22/2008 2:41:30 PM

Why is everyone so mad?

9/22/2008 2:48:25 PM

i dont know. who's up for some Smithfields?

9/22/2008 3:06:44 PM

the way i see it every team in the state is a rival - everyone works or will work with someone from some school in north carolina

hell we have to beat duke this year because i work right next to a guy who graduated from there

i would like to thank the ecu fans for hating us so much and making me care more about this win

9/22/2008 3:06:55 PM

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"i wish people would learn to shut the hell up when we're on offense."

also, BOO to the 20 frat guys in the SEZ wearing white shirts and ties. red is where it's at.

p.s. - the wave is gay. it's what you do when you're bored at a baseball game. it has no place in college football.

9/22/2008 3:30:09 PM

^ they really did stick out. lameos.

9/22/2008 3:40:47 PM

it looked like a freaking bullseye of gay

9/22/2008 4:04:30 PM

replay on espn tomorrow at 3am for those with dvr's and didn't record it the first time around

9/22/2008 5:59:28 PM

Gotta love all this bottom feeder school talk is complete shit. NCCU is way worse than ECU.

9/22/2008 6:12:51 PM

^*giggle*

9/22/2008 6:17:06 PM

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"replay on espn tomorrow at 3am for those with dvr's and didn't record it the first time around"

Thanks Homey! I hope all you ECU fans got that too, go back and watch some tape you purple penis eaters!

9/22/2008 6:27:12 PM

pretty good article from the technician:

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" Commentary: Let's be realistic Samuel T.O. Branch Issue date: 9/22/08 Section: Sports College sports fans are some of the truest fans in all of sports. They support their team fully in almost every respect. But in some areas, they have the tendency to overreact, especially after a big win. Let me preface this article with this: I was just as excited as I'm sure you were after Saturday's huge win over No. 15 East Carolina. I wanted so much to rip off my media pass and celebrate the victory with my fellow students. But please, let's not overreact. Even though this was a huge win for N.C. State, we cannot expect these types of results for the rest of the season. ECU is still the better football team, and I hate to see my fellow fans embarrass themselves by saying dumb things like "the Pirates are a bunch of (censored)." State would not have even had a chance to tie on its last drive if ECU coach Skip Holtz would have kicked a field goal on fourth and goal instead of going for it. "We make too many mistakes to be a good football team," Coach Tom O'Brien said after the game. This win does not show us that since the Pack beat a top 15 team they will go on to have a 10-2 season. O'Brien said himself in his post-game press conference that Saturday was the first time his team had played a full 60 minutes of football. I think the reason for the poor play is State's youth. O'Brien is clearly planning for the future. State is relying on young players like T.J. Graham, Russell Wilson, George Bryan and others. It is no surprise the Pack has been inconsistent. Saturday's game did give reason for some optimism. I can see a lot of improvement from the 34-0 trouncing in Columbia a few weeks ago. Russell Wilson is coming into his own. The young players are getting valuable experience which will help State in seasons to come. But the rest of this season very well might be a rough road. I don't expect a first year starter at quarterback to go for nine more games without having quite a few mistakes. I expect the Pack to struggle against South Florida next week. Both the following games are winnable, when they host Boston College and then Florida State. The key though, is that all three of these games are at home. The results of the matchups will likely set the tone for the rest of the season. Honestly, I hope that I am wrong. But I don't think there is any way that State will be on the national radar come December."

9/22/2008 6:39:14 PM

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"Russell Wilson is coming into his own. The young players are getting valuable experience which will help State in seasons to come. But the rest of this season very well might be a rough road. I don't expect a first year starter at quarterback to go for nine more games without having quite a few mistakes."

fail

9/22/2008 6:41:00 PM

I don't think I've heard a single state fan claim any kind of 10-2 season. If so they must be retarded or something.

More importantly, I hope the Pirates and their fans are realistic in the rest of their season

[Edited on September 22, 2008 at 6:44 PM. Reason : s]

9/22/2008 6:42:15 PM

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"State would not have even had a chance to tie on its last drive if ECU coach Skip Holtz would have kicked a field goal on fourth and goal instead of going for it."

i stopped reading after that line. that is completely retarded. if he had kicked the field goal there, we woudln't have been backed up on our own 5 to start our next drive. they would have kicked off and there's no way to know what would have happened from that point on other than that it would have been a 7 point game with around 10 minutes to go. you can't just assume we still would have gone 3 and out and they still would have driven down (further) and kicked another field goal.

9/22/2008 6:48:42 PM

yeah, all of the other fans i have talked to were excited for the future. i haven't heard anyone being unrealistic about the rest of the season.

9/22/2008 6:51:29 PM

Anything i've ever read in the Technician sports section is either ripped off from PP, or complete garbage.

I only grab a technician for the crosswords.

9/22/2008 6:54:27 PM

^Did they ever buy usage rights to more that 4 different crosswords? 'Cause that's all they had while I was there.

9/22/2008 6:56:13 PM

ECU needs to rip the red shirt off glennon!!

9/22/2008 8:27:49 PM

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"Anything i've ever read in the Technician sports section is either ripped off from PP, or complete garbage."

Some times I just end up reading what is essentially a copypaste of the N&O's same article.

9/22/2008 9:09:47 PM

^^ wat?

9/22/2008 9:29:39 PM

^^ lol that falls under complete garbage.

9/22/2008 9:41:07 PM

seriously if you read PP, or even tdub sports talk, you know everything in the technician sports section.

9/22/2008 10:26:03 PM

http://www.theacc.com/ot/08-acc-pick-the-play.html?DB_OEM_ID=9200

where can i find the full clip of andres play? I want to watch a little before the play and the after not just the 10 second clip.

9/22/2008 10:36:28 PM

the replay of the game is on ESPN for anyone up and interested

9/23/2008 3:13:25 AM

^ Sweet! Thanks!

9/23/2008 4:09:36 AM

haha I listen to Jim Rome on a streaming Greenville based radio station and they've been running an annoying fucking clip from one of the shows during commercial breaks talking about a non-BCS team going undefeated and getting into a BCS game, and even though they don't actually say ECU, he says shit like "maybe, just maybe it could happen again"

it's been annoying as shit and I heard it today... I guess they didn't have time to put a new one in there

9/23/2008 2:36:37 PM

^^^son of a bitch, the replay was last night??? GAH! i thought it was gonna be tonight

9/23/2008 8:01:14 PM

there were parts cut out of it though.

9/23/2008 8:21:44 PM

Sorry to reply but going back to the plays of the week how the hell did Andre Browns lose? He was up 600 votes over the next competitor yesterday. Something isn't right...

9/24/2008 6:26:49 PM

surely tdub did not get out-pollskewed.

9/24/2008 6:28:33 PM

I think it's coming on ESPN U at 9:30. I haven't gotten to see the game yet, b/c I was in NYC for a Yankees game, and forgot to DVR the game.

9/24/2008 9:23:47 PM

Its on right now

9/24/2008 9:30:52 PM

nice I wanted to see this again, actually gonna record it this time but my tvr is a pos and this apartment's shitty cable signal doesn't help

9/24/2008 9:37:12 PM

why would you guys record it and/or watch it again? I thought nobody cared about ECU and that you are clearly the better team and that everyone expected state to win and that ECU couldn't beat a girls team and NC State is loaded with five star players that USC wanted while ECU has an unfair advantage because they recruit guys on Mike Vick's prison squad

I know that didn't make much sense, but that's basically the point of this whole thread

9/25/2008 10:53:50 AM

what was annoying is that they cut a ton of plays and they cut the whole last drive. Stupid trimming the game to 2 hours

9/25/2008 10:55:00 AM

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"i would like to thank the ecu fans for hating ustalking shit so much and making me care more about this win"

[Edited on September 25, 2008 at 11:22 AM. Reason : [/quote]]

9/25/2008 11:22:05 AM

^^^because it's quite refreshing to see us have some resemblence of an offense. We havent seen one since last year. It's been awhile


ps. I didnt watch the game again but that would be why i would

9/25/2008 11:52:42 AM

How dare we want to see a game WE WON in OVERTIME again.

You can try all you want but we are not your rival. Hell we don't even play next year.

9/25/2008 11:56:11 AM

I never fucking said you were our rival. I was just saying that you cared about the game. The rival argument is as lame as they come. who gives a fuck

9/25/2008 12:08:39 PM

um... we care about every game, no one denied that

i cared about beating william and mary... didnt ecu care about beating tulane??? i sure hope so

9/25/2008 12:12:23 PM

We will play next year, that was a misunderstanding b/w the two directors. If Fowler claims we are easy to beat then he shouldn't have a problem playing us. Holland is a limp dick anyways, just about everyone hates him here

9/25/2008 12:25:05 PM

^^well, apparently you didn't read the whole thread

9/25/2008 1:11:08 PM

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"why would you guys record it and/or watch it again? I thought nobody cared about ECU and that you are clearly the better team and that everyone expected state to win and that ECU couldn't beat a girls team and NC State is loaded with five star players that USC wanted while ECU has an unfair advantage because they recruit guys on Mike Vick's prison squad"

Well I wanted to record it mainly because I was at the game and didn't have the best view of what happened some plays and some drives but also because it was a good exciting game and a win and the first semblance of any coherent offense.

It's not like I'm gonna burn it to a disc or something as a triumphant moment in the 'rivalry,' I just like seeing us play well and wanted to see some things again from the tv perspective. (also to see how loud we sounded on tv and other junk)

9/25/2008 3:49:53 PM

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""why would you guys record it and/or watch it again?"

because I FUCKING want to.

9/25/2008 3:52:21 PM

because it was a really exciting ending?

9/25/2008 3:56:18 PM

TOB owns Holtz

9/25/2008 3:58:28 PM