4.16.2007

Class of '08 National Top 100 Released

It is mid-April and time for the first edition of the Scout.com National Top 100. Here are the NC State recruits on the list. All 3 are being recruited by Florida. Other notable schools like FSU, Clemson, Auburn, Alabama, Virginia, and UNC are in the mix too. It will be interesting to see if TOB can keep the NC recruits here, seeing as how CTC was criticized, albeit unfairly sometimes, for letting the top players in the state go to UNC or out of state schools.

#34 - Marcus Robinson, WLB, Florida
#57 - Terrell Manning, WLB, Scotland HS/Laurinburg, NC
#79 - Quinton Coples, DE, Kinston HS/Kinston, NC
(complete list)

4.15.2007

TOB brings New Traditions

Bringing a tradition he observed while coaching with George Welsh at Virginia, new Wolfpack coach Tom O'Brien took in the fruits of several months of planning by the football administration Friday.
More than 300 former Wolfpack football players – from Woody Jones (Class of 1941) to Tank Tyler and A.J. Davis (Class of 2006) – accepted the new head coach’s invitation to gather at the Dail Practice facility adjacent to Carter-Finley Stadium, something O’Brien hopes will become an annual spring tradition. Most of them joined O’Brien and his staff at a reception afterwards in Vaughn Towers Friday evening.