NC State 2009 Football Schedule Released

The NC State 2009 football schedule was released by the ACC today.   For the first time in history the Wolfpack will be playing 8, count them 8, home games.  On top of that the first four football games of the season will be at NC State.  With the 2009 football schedule the Wolfpack will not leave the state of North Carolina until October 17th, when the take on Boston College.  NC State will host UNC in the final game of the season, making the rivalry even more intense.  Tickets are currently on sale for the season, check out gopack.com for further details.  Get ready for Russell Wilson, Nate Irving and my boy Willie Young to rip through ACC competition in 2009.

NC State 2009 Football Schedule

Date	Opponent	Time
Sept. 3	South Carolina	TBA
Sept. 12	Murray State	6 pm
Sept. 19	Gardner Webb	6 pm
Sept. 26	Pittsburgh	TBA
Oct. 3	@ Wake Forest	TBA
Oct. 10	Duke	TBA
Oct. 17	@ Boston College	TBA
Oct. 24	OPEN
Oct. 31	@ Florida State	TBA
Nov. 7	Maryland	TBA
Nov. 14	Clemson	TBA
Nov. 21	@ Virginia Tech	TBA
Nov. 28	North Carolina	TBA

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NC State Football Signing Day Results

 

NC State Football signing day has come to a close and the Wolfpack have picked up 28 new athletes.  To be honest, it was not as impressive as I thought it was going to be, nationally we are ranked about #51.  With Florida State at #6, North Carolina at #8, Miami at #11 and VA Tech at #24.  GA Tech, Maryland, Clemson, Virgina and Duke all finished ahead of the Wolfpack according to Rivals.com.  NC State ended up picking up zero five star, one four star and nineteen three star athletes.    Keep in mind that the ranking system is not much more than a guessing game and what the actual players can drastically change by game time.   Here are a list of the newest members of the NC State Wolfpack family.

A.J. Ferguson	250	DL	Southport, N.C.	South Brunswick HS
Anthony Talbert	230	TE	Cincinnati, Ohio	Winton Woods HS
Asa Watson	225	TE	Rock Hill, S.C.	Rock Hill HS
Brandan Bishop	200	SAF	Boca Raton, Fla.	Boca Raton HS
Brian Slay	290	DT	Ashburn, Va.	Stone Bridge HS
Bryan Underwood	170	WR	University Heights, Ohio	Cleveland Heights HS
Camden Wentz	290	OL	Marietta, Ga.	Lassiter HS
Chris Ward	175	P	Fayetteville, Ga.	Stars Mill HS
Darryl Cato-Bishop	250	DE	Groton, Mass.	Lawrence Academy
Dean Haynes	178	CB	Tunnel Hill, Ga.	NW Whitfield County HS
Deion Roberson	275	DT	Tucker, Ga.	Tucker HS
Denzelle Good	325	OL	Gaffney, S.C.	Gaffney HS
Donald Coleman	207	SAF	Detroit, Mi.	The Hun School (N.J.)
Duran Christophe	285	OL	Woodstock, Ga.	Woodstock HS
Everett Proctor	200	QB	Fayetteville, N.C.	Jack Britt HS
Hans Rice	205	LB	Eufaula, Ala.	Eufaula HS
James Washington III	180	RB	Orlando, Fla.	Boone HS
Jarvis Byrd	180	CB	Pahokee, Fla.	Pahokee HS
Morgan Alexander	180	ATH	Cartersville, Ga.	Cartersville HS
Nathan Mageo	280	DT	Pago Pago, American Samoa	Samoana HS/NM Military JUCO
Quintin Payton	190	WR	Anderson, S.C.	T.L. Hanna HS
Rashard Smith	175	CB	Dublin, Ga.	Dublin HS
Raynard Randolph	320	DT	Brandywine, Md.	Gwynn Park HS
Rickey Dowdy	225	LB	High Point, N.C.	High Point Central HS
Ryan Cheek	230	LB	Lancaster, Ohio	Lancaster HS
Sam Jones	295	OL	Fuquay-Varina, N.C.	Fuquay-Varina HS/Hargrave Milt. Acad.
Sylvester Crawford	225	DE	Charlotte, N.C.	Northside Christian Academy
Tyson Chandler	340	OL	North Plainfield, N.J.	North Plainfield HS

NC State Loses to Rutgers in PapaJohns.com Bowl

Just as we all thought the injury stricken season was over, it came back to bite us in a 29-23 loss in the PapaJohns.com bowl to Rugters on Monday. With an estimated 9,000 to 10,000 of the total 38,000 fans to be the Wolfpack Faithful, it brought record attendance for the bowl only in it’s third year.

NC State was up 17-6 at halftime, led by starting quarterback Russell Wilson who went 11-23 passing for 186 yards and a score. Late in the first half however Wilson left the game with a strained knee and did not return. The second half didn’t fair so good for second and third string quarterbacks Harrison Beck and Daniel Evans, who threw a combined 5-16 passing, 3 interceptions and one score for a total of 83 yards.

With scoring a mere impossibility with Wilson out, NC State turned to it’s defense to try and hold the 11 point lead. The defense however turned out a disappointing performance and left the game with 0 sacks, 3 quarterback hurries, and a single interception.  With the Wolfpack defense not playing its A game, Rutgers offense came alive and put up 23 points in the second half.  With the loss, NC State fell to 6-7, for its third straight losing season.  The game really showed how much Russell Wilson contributed to the Wolfpack’s success, and why he deserved to be ACC rookie of the year.

Looking forward to next years starters, Willie Young, the Wolfpack’s sack leader, should be back at defensive end. Solid safety Clem Johnson will be a senior and returning next year as well as Javon Walker who will be coming back from injury.   At the quarterback spot look for current starter Russell Wilson and Redshirt Freshmen Mike Glennon to battle it out.

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NC State Wolfpack Accept Papajohn.com Bowl Bid

It’s official the NC State Wolfpack Football team has accepted its invitation to play in the Papajohns.com bowl against Rutgers(7-5).  The bowl will be played at legion field in Birmingham, Alabama on Dec 29th at 2pm (central).  This will mark the 24th all time bowl appearance and 1st for Tom O’Brien as head coach of the Wolfpack.  

Tickets will be sold through www.gopack.com at about $40 and at Stubhub.com. This really is great news for a team that much deserves it.  I don’t know about everyone else, but I ready to show ESPN and the rest of the college football nation what NC State Football is all about.  As far as Rutgers goes all I remember is a North Carolina spanking early in the season to give them one of those five losses.

Bowl Bound?

That’s the current question right?  In the end will the Wolfpack get a bowl bid?  With all the latest scrutiny in the sports world about the BCS system, what better way to get a feel for it then a 6-6 Wolfpack.  It seems that now, almost a week after NC States victory over Miami, the Wolfpack at best will get a at-large bid for a bowl.  NCAA and ACC officials have pretty much canned the idea that NC State would get one of the 9 bowl bids associated with the ACC.  I remember back in early November when they started the, “…if the wolfpack win out they are going to a bowl,” talk; let’s just hope it will be true.  Just think, if we would have taken down Maryland we would be a number one seed in the ACC.  Here is what the bowl picture looks like.

·     Orange Bowl — Winner ACC Championship

·     Champs Bowl – Looks like FSU

·     Meineke Bowl – ? (more than likely the scum of the earth UNC) 

·     Gator Bowl: Clemson (what the?)

·     Chick-fil-A – Ga Tech

·     Music City Bowl – Loser ACC Championship

·     EagleBank Bowl – ? (ACC)

·     Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl — ? (ACC)