Football
Went to the Spring Football game Saturday. Didn't plan on it. Nuke and I went on a spur of the moment thing. Got there a little after it started. The parking lot was full.
The stadium holds 60,000. Roughly 10,000 each side line deck, upper and lower, for a total of 40,000 and 10,000 each end zone. The lower level decks on both side lines were about three-fourths filled and about a fourth of the south end zone. That gives me an estimate of about 15,000 plus people. I was really surprised to see that many fans for an NC State practice game. They say Alabama, LSU and Auburn fill their entire 100,000 seat stadiums for their spring football games. The SEC is the nations football conference. The ACC is basketball.
We looked really good. It was mostly about offense. Real defense hitting wasn't allowed. Jacoby Brissett wasn't allowed to run. No hitting the quarterback in the practice game. He was limited to handing off, throwing to receivers and throwing the ball away. He looked good but the defense knew what he was allowed to do so they could really key on his passing. When we get to real games where he has the option to run - he's gonna light it up.
Matt Dayes is going to be a name State fans will be hearing a lot more of this coming fall. He's a Junior who will be the go to running back. And he looked like an even better receiver today too. Made some big plays today - running and receiving.
The back up quarterback, Jalan McClendon, was fun to watch. He can really throw the ball. Very impressive. New punter and kicker. The punter looked good. Kicker needs some more reps.
Basketball
My personal opinion - Mike Krzyzewski is the best college basketball coach ever. Better than Wooden. During Wooden's day, they really did keep teams in their regions. And there was nobody to contest UCLA in the West. If he had coached in the east during that time, against NC State, UNC, Maryland, Kentucky, Louisville - there is no way he would have won as many Championships. Coach K's five is incredible.
NC State is going to be a top 25 team next year. In fact, the waaaay too early predictions are already out from CBS, ESPN, SB Nation and so on. State is solidly in every one's top 15 to 20 range. We will need to be consistent. No WTF games like Wofford, BC or Clemson this past year.
Up to now, State has no NBA draft prospect players. If these guys pick up where we left off and keep going - 2 or more are going to play their way into the NBA draft. And we're going to be in the upper level of the ACC and hopefully make even more noise in the NCAAT. State basketball is finally fun again.
But (there's always a caveat) - BUT - The ACC will be stacked with pre-season top 25 teams. Virginia, UNC, Dook, Notre Dame, NC State, and Louisville. Plus, Miami is on the verge of top 25 and Florida State isn't too far behind Miami. So we'll have 6, or possibly 7, teams in the top 25 playing each other and giving each other losses. Plus the non-top-25 ACC teams just aching to knock off the ranked teams. It is going to be hard for any ACC team to stay highly ranked.
I thought this last season was great fun.
Next year looks to be unbelievable.
Work and Home
Absolutely nothing new worth blogging about. Zippo. Nada.
I guess boring routine is good.
I'm waiting for pollen season to be over so I can clean the screen porch and deck. You can't even walk on the porch without the pollen swirling around with each footstep. Let alone sitting in the chairs or using the tables which are just covered in lite yellow-green. And I can't breath. I hate pollen season.
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