QB scares me too much with his scrambling, looks like a Stone prodigy...but he does seem to throw his way out instead of run all the time and take the hit like stone

7/28/2006 12:49:01 AM

Quote :

"our defense will be top-20 in the nation this year."

If Tulloch would have only stayed one more year we would have been top 10. Linebacker is the weak spot. Lowery is solid, Rumph is ok, but other than that.....idk.

Our secondary should be sick....Heath, Scott, and AJ Davis have NFL potential. The Morgans and Neals should turn out to be good as well.

7/28/2006 1:44:03 AM

Pressure from the defensive ends is crucial in our defensive scheme. That looks like a weak point. But our tackles will make sure that teams don't just run us over.

7/28/2006 1:47:14 AM

If this stuff about Raymond Brooks playing again this year is true, then I think we'll be fine. I was also very impressed with Willie Young in the spring game. He's small, but very agressive and I liked the way he played. We wont be dominant up front, but we shouldnt be terrible either.

7/28/2006 9:04:06 AM

Raymond Brooks was badass his freshman year. Having him back will be huge for the front 4

7/28/2006 2:23:57 PM

he'll have 3 to play 3 right?

7/28/2006 2:33:40 PM

We picked up another committment, DB Justin Byers.

7/28/2006 3:22:43 PM

^^i haven't seen anything that says he will for sure be on the team

7/28/2006 4:41:09 PM

Quote :

"Raymond Brooks was badass his freshman year. Having him back will be huge for the front 4"

Raymond Brooks was our 2nd best DE... and I mean that to be taken seriously.





Also of note, I thought the "top 20" prediction was for offense on the last page.... hence why I said "We need to find some receivers, then". I was like "Surely tl isn't that stupid". I just realized he said defense

[Edited on July 28, 2006 at 6:02 PM. Reason : ]

7/28/2006 6:01:38 PM

He's on the roster, so I dont see why he wouldnt play unless something else comes up wierd.

7/28/2006 8:42:06 PM

if we have Raymond Brooks, Demarcus "Tank" Tyler, Demario Pressley, and either Willie Young/Littleton Wright on DL, we should be fairly good at stopping the run/containing the QB. Pat Lowery should have a good Senior year, but LB will still probably be the weakest area for us on D.

7/28/2006 9:34:05 PM

^Yeah, LB really worries me. Despite losing so much talent from the line, we're really still loaded up front.

7/28/2006 9:44:17 PM

NC State D-Line: we don't rebuild, we just re-load.

7/28/2006 9:49:48 PM

^hopefully

7/28/2006 11:18:18 PM

I thought I read somewhere that Amanchukwu was making a strong case to be our starting DE, opposite Willie Young

7/28/2006 11:26:34 PM

Seriously, people see the talent we lost on D and assume that we must be dropping off. I don't see it much. The D Line will not be better, but it will continue to be strong with Tank Tyler, Pressley, and Brooks/Amanchukwu an Brooks/Wright at end. All four ends will be pushing for a starting position and this will still be a top 25 Dline in the nation. No one would argue that our secondary will be strong. At linebacker, you have Pat Lowery, who is both talented and experienced. OLBs include Rumph and Reggie Davis, who is a project but has apparently shown some skill. So you have one possibly weak and inexperienced link in the Weakside LB.

All else being equal, we should have as much success on D as we've enjoyed in the past 3-4 years.

7/28/2006 11:38:01 PM

Quote :

"He's on the roster, so I dont see why he wouldnt play unless something else comes up wierd."

my bad, don't remember him being on it last time i looked at it.

But if that is the case, how come we haven't heard anything about him from amato and co.

7/29/2006 12:07:50 AM

ray brooks is listed on the roster, just not the depth chart. i think if brooks does qualify academically for sure they might move Amanchukwu back to o-line

7/31/2006 10:45:42 AM

after this past year in the draft, if we have any kind of success, I don't think we'll need to worry about DL for a long time. We will constantly reload.

7/31/2006 11:49:17 AM

btt for the Smith committment

[Edited on August 2, 2006 at 9:17 AM. Reason : smith]

8/2/2006 9:16:35 AM

I just want to say that although we may have SOME standouts coming in from the 2006 class, NC State, in general, didn't get a very good recruiting class this year...(last year's was awesome). I was playing around on Rivals.com and noticed the following recruiting stats regarding other ACC schools.

#2 DE in the nation: Committed to Clemson

#1 DE in the nation: Committed to Florida State

#2 RB in the nation: Committed to Miami

There are other highlights like that I had noticed, but in general, those teams mentioned above (along with VT) averaged a "four star" rating on their 2006 recruiting classes (incoming freshmen this year).

If I was an NC State fan, I would leave all this recruiting talk alone, and just hope and pray for the best.

8/2/2006 9:54:36 AM

Star rankings are to be taken with a grain of salt. 2 of our 3 first rounders were nobodies coming out of highschool (Heck, McCargo's only other offer was from Richmond)

8/2/2006 11:41:23 AM

Some blurb on ESPN.com says that Brent Schaeffer might not qualify at Ole Miss.



My how I hope this is true!!!!!!!!!!!

8/2/2006 12:26:56 PM

^ I thought this was NC State Football recruiting, NOT Ole Miss!

8/2/2006 12:29:00 PM

^^Fuck-A that is awesome.

fuck that douchebag

^shut the fuck up.

8/2/2006 12:38:34 PM

^^idiot, he was toying with NCSU about attending here

Quote :

"Some blurb on ESPN.com says that Brent Schaeffer might not qualify at Ole Miss"

my god, i hope that is true

8/2/2006 1:36:42 PM

Quote :

"Some blurb on ESPN.com says that Brent Schaeffer might not qualify at Ole Miss. "

he has currently not arrived in oxford, miss. had some problems with his credits, which is fucking ludicrous....if you can't get your academics together to get by the clearinghouse with 1yr+ at a JUCO, you should be taken out back and put out of your misery. he told the coaches at miss that he was going to take internet correspondence courses to clear it up, but they were open ended and BS is a lazy fuck, so the coach made sure that he was shipped from florida back to cali to sit his ass in a class and get his credits. i think exams were today or tomorrow, but practice is about to start and the staff already named the kid the starter at 'ole miss. so that means he is going to have about 15 practices and 3 weeks to get ready to start a game under the new system at the very best.

and this is plenty relavant....this fuck shitted on us not once, but twice in the last three years, i would like to take both of those fat, fake diamond earings out of his ears one by one and shove them up his ass. this kid is nothing but a problem, and with this new development and his apparent laziness i am now convinced of three things (1) he was paid to go to miss (2) we are better without him (3) and he will be at miss for the least amount of time possible before attempting a jump to the league

8/2/2006 2:05:26 PM

verbal #10.

http://ncstate.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=48996

8/8/2006 5:41:23 PM

WOW 1130 on the SAT

8/8/2006 5:46:59 PM

i was just about to post about the new commit. it first confused me when they said he was from Gaston, NC. i was like, "do they mean Gaston County", then looked it up and found out that there's a small town called Gaston close to the NC/VA border. glad to have you Mr. Desmond Roberts. i'm really impressed with the O-line recruiting so far. hopefully we can add a LB or two to the class. getting 4* LB Greg Little would be nice, but that's just wishful thinking on my part. he has a lot of high profile offers, and plans to visit Notre Dame in Sept. he did attend our camp though.

8/8/2006 6:02:06 PM

If we get one more commitment from a north carolina prospect I think chuck's head might just explode cause he doesnt recruit NC.


WolfMiami....gg....word is that he IS eligible though....probably paid his way in with the cash they gave him to commit.

[Edited on August 8, 2006 at 6:18 PM. Reason : ]

8/8/2006 6:17:51 PM

Only stat that worries me is 2 reps of bench press at 185 pounds

that is pretty weak for a 6'4" guy who weighs 260+

8/8/2006 7:31:56 PM

Quote :

"Ht: 6-foot-5 Wt: 265 lbs Forty: 5.1 secs Bench max: 275 pounds "

If his max is 275, he can get 185 AT LEAST 10 times.

8/8/2006 7:48:25 PM

^they were from an allstar game combine, stats are on statefans, i did not make them up

i will check, as maybe they have been corrected, but don't want to post the info from the premie board over there for fear of castration

8/8/2006 10:36:14 PM

He can definitely bench 185 more than 2 times. If his max is 275, he can do it probably bench 185 lbs 12 times if he was tired in the combine. Its probably a typo.

He looks like he's got some brains, which is definitely a plus.

8/8/2006 10:51:44 PM

Who cares what his strength numbers are. Kid probably won't play until 2009 or so. He's a 16 year old, about to be a senior in HS. He'll have this year and a redshirt year to work on S&C before even thinking of player. I think it'll be ok.

8/8/2006 10:53:49 PM

Definitely. He's got the size and probably a good head on his shoulders.

8/8/2006 11:17:02 PM

Quote :

"i will check, as maybe they have been corrected, but don't want to post the info from the premie board over there for fear of castration"

It's not premium. I provide free links with every one of my posts.
http://www.shrine-bowl.com/2006%20information/Green%20Central%20HS.htm

8/9/2006 12:18:25 AM

looks like we might end up with Harrison Beck, 4* QB we wanted 2 years ago, but ended up buried in the depth chart at Nebraska

situation should shake out in the next few days

8/10/2006 4:17:13 PM

looks like we'll be adding Culliver.

8/10/2006 5:19:40 PM

where did you see that?

8/10/2006 5:33:31 PM

don't question my authority

8/10/2006 5:36:54 PM

don't forget Sweezy too.

8/10/2006 5:38:06 PM

if Culliver was a bball player for State he would get called for travelling

...

8/10/2006 5:47:18 PM

Quote :

"looks like we might end up with Harrison Beck, 4* QB we wanted 2 years ago, but ended up buried in the depth chart at Nebraska situation should shake out in the next few days "

Honestly, I would be shocked if this happens. I by no means doubting your info it just doesnt make much sense. The kid leaves Nebraska because he was not getting enought reps in practice and/or was homesick. So he would come here and in 2007 be battling (in likelyhood) a returning RS senior starter, a RS Junior backup, and highly touted RS Freshman for playing time. Maybe more was going at NE than is being reveled?

[Edited on August 10, 2006 at 9:26 PM. Reason : d]

8/10/2006 9:25:28 PM

What's with all these Nebraska QBs transferring?

8/10/2006 9:27:11 PM

Multiple coaching changes... perhaps the Nebraska wrestler/QB we got is the reason he's coming here also.

8/10/2006 10:36:29 PM

^^^

first, this "can" and in all likelihood "will" happen. the kid is in raleigh with his family tonight, and has a meeting with the admissions department set for tomorrow. so, unless he does not like the campus/coaches/etc (we recruited him 2 years ago, and i am fairly certain that he took an official visit here) he will be suiting up for practice this year

Evans will never be a productive college qb, may look good in practice, but he is thin, frail, and will never play (seems like the coaches are scared as shit that he may be the back up this year, especially since stone tends to get bounced around more than the average QB.) all you message board geeks and wolfpack faithful have pumped up daniel evans WAY, WAY, WAY beyond his actual ability. nice highschool stats, for a normally shitty football school in raleigh, and no physical dimensions to withstand the punsihment. for every fans sake that has donated money over the last 5 years, daniel evans need not see the field, unless it is in mop up duty

justin burke is going to be good in my opinion, but the truth is that this kid harrison beck was ranked higher than burke coming out of highschool. he was an "elite 11" qb, and had offers from about 7-10 top programs, all firm, commitable offers. so why not take him. shit does not work out sometimes, he may not have liked nebraska, his coach, people, the dorms may have stunk, who the hell knows, but i am willing to let the coaches analyze his character, and by all means if he passes their sniff test, then let the kid in.

he will have to sit for a year, but will push burke, and russell wilson into realizing their potential, and if nothing else he will be a solid backup. and for his ego, he was 3rd string at nebraska, not many people will be calling with an automatic starting job, so i am sure that he will take what he can get on the D1 level. look at a guy like greco, where as he was not as highly recruited at QB, he is forced to go to middle of bumfuck community college to be a starting qb. (and he was 3rd string here)

if this guy can play, bring him in, recruits get hyped all the time, stone was so over inflated that i thought he was instantly going to be the next rivers. fact is that shit does not always work out, and fans on message boards always like recruits better because they are ALL UPSIDE and have not been tested yet.

my view now is bring in ALL the talent you can, from anywhere it will come, and let everyone compete and push each other on the field to make NCSU the best it can be.

8/10/2006 11:34:08 PM

I don't know how frail Evans is. Him and his twin brother are meatheads.

But by all means, Burke is definitely going to be a solid QB. Louisville is still pissed they didn't get him.

8/10/2006 11:54:16 PM

^^you're absolutely right, but I feel like something fishy is going on based on what I read from those articles.

It seems like he flaked out and just up and left cause he was unhappy with his situation. The problem is that if he thought he wasnt getting enough reps at Nebraska, he's sure as hell not going to want to ride the pine here as the 3rd string, cause Tressman gives like 80-90 percent of the practice snaps to the first string qb. He even mentioned that as one possible reason stone wasnt as far along as he could have been last year....but he's an NFL coach, he runs NFL style practices. pre-season seems to be different, but once the season starts, its all about the starter.


I just think the worst thing we can do is sign this guy and in turn scare off Russel Wilson...who seems to be a great kid with some great skill.

8/11/2006 12:13:21 AM