Beyond Getting “Roughed Up”

A friend from Florida forwarded this article to me from the ‘Palatka Daily News’.

A 10-run first inning was too much for the Peniel Baptist Academy softball season to overcome and the Crusaders saw their season — as well as Putnam County’s softball season — come to an end on Thursday in a 15-13 Florida Christian Athletic League semifinal loss to North Division champion Live Oak Melody Christian at the Newberry Recreation Complex.

Melody Christian was helped out by seven walks and three hit batsmen by losing hurler Ashley Williams in the opening frame.

That is the definition of suckage. 10 BB in the 1st inning! 3 of them HBP?!?! HAHAHAHA.

I would liked to have seen that. Poor girl…

Before They Were Pros…

Maybe a better title would be “When (If) They Had Stars”. I went through the list of players drafted this past weekend and made a talley of where they were ranked coming out of high school.

2007 NFL Draft

Taken	3-star	2-star	NR
1-50	9	9	3
50-100	11	14	10
Top 100	20	23	13

What can we deduce from this? Well, 56 of the top 100 players taken in the NFL draft were probably not highly recruited coming out of high school. So, there seem to be two hypothesis at work here.

1) Mediocre players become outstanding players due to great coaching.

2) The elite college recruiter/scout has an uncanny ability to recognized talent where others do not.

Either way, I think this shows the importance of finding the diamonds in the rough and shaping them into potential outstanding football players. I guess the other statistic needed here to give a complete picture is how many 4 and 5 star athletes there were. Even if it were low, the fact that 13 players drafted in the first 100 were unranked coming into college is eye-opening.

Who gave this chimp a keyboard?

Not only is THIS TOOL a playa (actually coach) hater, he’s a friggin idiot. Check out these wreckless remarks:

For those who did not partake in the oatmeal, the above is new NC State coach Tom O’Brien reading a list of all the players who attended all of NC State’s spring practice sessions so that the hundreds in attendance can clap for them. Except, like, practices are mandatory, aren’t they? Does Tom O’Brien just say “eff it, show up if you feel like it?” Did he later publicly laud everyone who had managed to not strangle a puppy since the bowl game? These are the mysteries of Tom O’Brien.

I can’t figure out how this guy has a sports blog, and for AOL it seems? I broke a piece of knowledge off for him: If you look at NCAA Bylaw 17.11.6, you will see that spring practices are under “student-athlete discretionary time”. This means that it is up to the athlete to decide whether or not he/she need attend practice. Thus, making spring practice non-mandatory.

Click on the link at the top and go let this blogger know that us Wolfpack fans know football and take pride in our coach and program. I don’t care if he’s a moron, but he need not attack TOB’s judgment and integrity.

A New Flagship in Town (Wed. PM update)

I can’t remember State games not being on 680AM. Wolfpack Sports Marketing has reached an agreement with CBC for WRAL 101.5 FM (woohoo!) to be the new flagship station for NCSU athletics through the 2017. The station is one of the most powerful (100k W) stations in the Triangle. The weekly Tom O’Brien and Sidney Lowe coach’s call-in shows will be broadcast…