{"id":1926266,"date":"2026-08-02T07:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926266"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:22:02","slug":"podcast-howell-and-thornton-talk-rothestein-ranking-nc-state-12th-in-the-acc-and-how-it-will-motivate-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926266","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Howell and Thornton talk Rothestein ranking NC State 12th in the ACC and how it will motivate the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NC State stars Richard Howell and Damon Thornton discuss Jon Rothstein ranking NC State 12th in ACC preseason power rankings. Rich loses it and throws his glass at the camera while Damon explains low expectations aren&#8217;t always a bad thing. They also discuss if rankings have an effect on players&#8217; mentality. \u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m speaking for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/02\/podcast-howell-and-thornton-talk-rothestein-ranking-nc-state-12th-in-the-acc-and-how-it-will-motivate-the-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NC State stars Richard Howell and Damon Thornton discuss Jon Rothstein ranking NC State 12th in ACC preseason power rankings. Rich loses it and throws&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1926274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926267,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926266\/revisions\/1926267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}