{"id":1929327,"date":"2026-08-24T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929327"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:13:57","slug":"plenty-of-familiar-faces-between-nc-state-and-virginia-ahead-of-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929327","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of Familiar Faces Between NC State and Virginia Ahead of Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When NC State and Virginia kick off the 2026 season in Charlottesville on Saturday, there will be plenty of familiarity on both sidelines. The connections between the Wolfpack and Cavaliers stretch from the coaching staffs all the way up to NC State Director of Athletics Boo Corrigan. Ruffin McNeill Spent a Season at Virginia NC [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/24\/nc-state-virginia-connections-2026-season-opener\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When NC State and Virginia kick off the 2026 season in Charlottesville on Saturday, there will be plenty of familiarity on both sidelines. The connections between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929327","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=1929327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929328,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929327\/revisions\/1929328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}