NC STATE HAS ANNOUNCED A NEW HEAD FOOTBALL COACH, ALL WELCOME PHILIP RIVERS!!!
I am so excited to see how the home crowd welcomes one of their own, and to see how good ‘ole #17 does in his first game as coach…. wait, sorry, I’m getting a message… yes, what’s that? you’re saying… what’s that now? He was hired, yes I know that! Uh huh… uh huh… what do you mean he doesn’t start actually coaching until next season!?!?! Uh huh… well, is there any he can just start now??? There’s still three games left!! You’re saying that’s not how it works… well, hiring a high school coach to a P4 job isn’t either but here we are!
Okay, I’m back. Wellll, looks like we will have to wait an excruciating amount of months to see Mr. Rivers and son actually be on the field for NC State. In the meantime, I guess we have to ride it out with the current interim staff and players. The players are just as much an interim group as the coaches, since we have to expect most of the roster to turn over in a month.
Alright, so where are we with NC State? flips open the newspaper to the sports section. It would appear this the matchup this week: NC State, 4-5 (2-4) vs Syracuse, 4-5 (2-5). There is a logjam in the ACC from 9th to… (counts all the teams because this league is stupid big) 16th, all these teams with just two conference wins. Don’t you just love conference expansion!
Syracuse is like, not good this year. But then so is NC State. Last week against Duke, the Wolfpack tried to kick a 50 yard field goal in an attempt to bring the halftime deficit to just 24-6. Instead, it fell short and they haplessly gave up a 110 yard kick-6. On the plus side, the Pack only allowed 10 points after halftime… but then they were scoreless themselves, eventually losing 41-3. NC State has three games left just to get to bowl qualification, and at this point it’s definitely looking like that won’t happen.
The final three games: senior day final home game vs Syracuse, then @FSU, and at @UNC. Not feeling good about really any of that. I really hate this feeling of helplessness, and many others do as well, hence the move to Wolfpack legend Philip Rivers.
Sigh, let’s just get to the picks already…
