{"id":1930074,"date":"2026-08-28T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930074"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:43:57","slug":"the-athletic-just-called-nc-state-college-footballs-ultimate-high-floor-low-ceiling-program-is-that-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1930074","title":{"rendered":"The Athletic just called NC State \u201cCollege Football\u2019s Ultimate High-Floor, Low-Ceiling Program.\u201d Is that fair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Athletic, which is arguably the most recognized sports publisher out there today (it&#8217;s essentially the sports page of the New York Times), just published a feature on NC State football that cut right to the heart of a debate that&#8217;s been raging inside this fanbase for years. The premise was pretty straightforward: NC State [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/28\/the-athletic-just-called-nc-state-college-footballs-ultimate-high-floor-low-ceiling-program-are-they-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Athletic, which is arguably the most recognized sports publisher out there today (it&#8217;s essentially the sports page of the New York Times), just published a&#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-1930074","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\/1930074","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=1930074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930075,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930074\/revisions\/1930075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}