North Carolina State Wolfpack Rumors & News

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James Washington, who began the preseason as the No. 2 running back, leads the N.C. State injury report, which was released this morning.Washington has a hamstring injury and is out for Saturday's 6 p.m. game with Western Carolina. During the preseason, redshirt freshman Dean Haynes and freshman Mustafa Greene moved ahead of Washington and Curtis Underwood (who's now the No. 3 running back) on N.C. State's depth chart.Here is N.C. State's complete injury list. The players with asterisks next to their names are out for the season:Brandon Barnes, RB - ankleJarvis Byrd, CB - kneeSylvester Crawfor...

N.C. State backup quarterback Mike Glennon will play at some point during Saturday's 6 p.m. opener with Western Carolina, coach Tom O'Brien said today.O'Brien was the guest speaker at the Raleigh Sports Club's weekly luncheon, where he said Glennon needs to play some snaps in the opener."He definitely needs to get in the opening game," O'Brien said, "and it will have to be on a game-to-game basis from there."Russell Wilson, who remains the starter, threw an ACC-high 31 touchdown passes last season as a sophomore. But while Wilson played baseball during the spring and summer, Glennon took advan...

N.C. State has scheduled Central Michigan for nonconference football games in Raleigh in 2011 and 2013 and in Mount Pleasant, Mich., in 2014, Wolfpack executive senior associate athletic director David Horning said today.Horning said getting two home games in exchange for one road trip with a Mid-American Conference school was a good deal for the Wolfpack."Those are hard to come by," he said.N.C. State's nonconference schedule in 2011 consists of a visit to Cincinnati and home games against Central Michigan, South Alabama and Liberty.Ken Tysiac

Dean Haynes was so eager to learn N.C. State's running back playbook in a short time that he made flash cards to quiz himself on his assignments.Even Haynes admits that he was surprised that he was named the starting running back for Saturday's 6 p.m. opener against Western Carolina. He moved from cornerback to running back midway through fall camp after coach Tom O'Brien was disappointed with the play of the backs in the team's third preseason scrimmage.Heading into the preseason, junior Curtis Underwood was listed as the starter and sophomore James Washington was the backup. Now redshirt fre...

Dean Haynes, who began training camp as a starter at cornerback, has earned the starting running back job for N.C. State's opener at 6 p.m. Saturday against Western Carolina, according to a depth chart released this afternoon.Haynes, a redshirt freshman, moved to running back about two weeks ago, according to team spokeswoman Annabelle Myers. Coach Tom O'Brien referred on a couple occasions last week to personnel moves the staff had made on a tentative basis, but didn't specifically list them.Apparently Haynes' was the most significant move. He will be backed up by freshman Mustafa Greene.Juni...

James Washington, who began the preseason as the No. 2 running back, leads the N.C. State injury report, which was released this morning. Washington has a hamstring injury and is out for Saturday's 6 p.m. game with Western Carolina. During the preseason, redshirt freshman Dean Haynes and freshman Mustafa Greene moved ahead of Washington and Curtis Underwood (who's now the No. 3 running back) on N.C. State's depth chart. Here is N.C. State's complete injury list. The players with asterisks next to their names are out for the season: Brandon Barnes, RB - ankle       ...

Dean Haynes, who began training camp as a starter at cornerback, has earned the starting running back job for N.C. State's opener at 6 p.m. Saturday against Western Carolina, according to a depth chart released this afternoon. Haynes, a redshirt freshman, moved to running back about two weeks ago, according to team spokeswoman Annabelle Myers. Coach Tom O'Brien referred on a couple occasions last week to personnel moves the staff had made on a tentative basis, but didn't specifically list them. Apparently Haynes' was the most significant move. He will be backed up by freshman Mustafa Greene. J...

The news that former Boston College kicker Billy Bennett wasn't going to be joining N.C. State hurt the Wolfpack most on its kickoff team. Coach Tom O'Brien had hoped Bennett could boot kickoffs into the end zone to put N.C. State's defense in better field position, but Bennett didn't enroll this fall. O'Brien is eager to improve on the Wolfpack's net kickoff number, which at 37.3 yards per game was by far the lowest in the ACC. Senior kicker Josh Czajkowski, whom O'Brien said has improved his kickoffs since last season, will handle that duty now that the strong-legged Bennett isn't coming. &q...

N.C. State senior Jeffery Johnson never met Kay Yow, but after directing a student-lead project honoring the former Wolfpack women’s basketball coach he feels connected to her spirit. Johnson, a member of State’s student government, worked with fellow students for nearly a year to organize a memorial that pays tribute to Yow, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who died on Jan. 24, 2009 after a long battle with cancer.    Johnson and his peers will gather on Tuesday at 3 p.m., at the campus memorial site located between Reynolds Coliseum and the Talley Student Center for an...

APEX – Harnett Central senior quarterback Brian Taylor announced on Friday night that he intends to verbally accept an offer from N.C. State on Saturday to play football for the Wolfpack next season. After the Trojans defeated Apex 51-31 on Friday, Taylor said he received an offer from the Pack on Thursday and intends to call coach Tom O'Brien on Saturday morning. He was unable to speak with anyone from the staff on Friday. Taylor, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound quarterback, led the Trojans to the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4-A state championship game last season. Along the way, h...

ESPN has announced the pairings for the 2010 ACC-Big Ten Challenge, according to the Big Ten's official web site.Defending NCAA champion Duke will visit 2010 NCAA semifinalist Michigan State on Dec. 1 in one of the marquee games of the Challenge. That same day, N.C. State will travel to Wisconsin.North Carolina will visit Illinois on Nov. 30. The only home game in North Carolina during the Challenge will be Iowa's Nov. 30 visit to Wake Forest in new Deacons coach Jeff Bzdelik's Challenge debut.The Big Ten won last year's Challenge 6-5 after the ACC won the first 10 challenges in a row.The 2010...