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Tidbits from Wolfpack Club Caravan event
Members of N.C. State’s athletics program were in attendance Thursday at Benvenue Country Club, as part of the Wolfpack Club Caravan.
In addition to athletics director Lee Fowler, there was Wolfpack Club Executive Director Bobby Purcell, football coach Tom O’Brien, women’s golf coach Page Marsh and women’s tennis coach Hans Olsen.
Overall, it was what Fowler said he wanted - a positive night.
Marsh said the Benvenue golf course was “wonderful.” She also said the school’s new golf course would be open by Spring 2009.
O’Brien spoke for 15 consecutive minutes, which is the longest I have ever seen him speak without interruption. He broke down what led to the team’s 1-5 start, then each game afterward. He said the team has seen “addition by subtraction” and there “seems to be a greater sense of trust” among the team since the start of the spring semester.
“You could sense a different attitude,” O’Brien said.
As far as any news, there was little. He said that Mike Glennon, the team’s heralded quarterback recruit, will have a chance to win the job this fall but that he doesn’t know if Glennon is ready to compete. Do not read too much into that statement, because that if fairly typical O’Brien, always downplaying obvious positives.
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By Rick Alston
April 27, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this
I had the pleasure of playing golf and riding 18 holes with Coach Obrien. He was a nice guy - very quiet, almost painfully so - until about the 4th hole - then he opened up. He likes Benvenue - and will come back to play here, said there was a lot less recruitable talent in the state this year compared to last year, and that the bottom lne is winning - and State will do that. He also hit a nice 5 foot birdie putt on 18. I like the guy - and I think he will deliver.