{"id":2565,"date":"2011-10-20T01:09:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2011-10-20T01:09:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:09:03","slug":"can-obrien-get-state-on-track-during-second-half-of-season-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"Can O&#8217;Brien get State on track during second half of season again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N.C. State is coming off a bye week to play Virginia. A healthier Wolfpack will be taking on the second half of the season, a time that Tom O&#8217;Brien coached teams have done well. How does he do it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our first year was a question of getting the right people in the lineup,&#8221; Coach O&#8217;Brien said. &#8220;We had the wrong people in the wrong spots and was able to restructure the defense and the offense. The second year, we were in a situation like we were now where we had so many injuries the first half of the year that we couldn&#8217;t get any continuity until we got to the off week and got people healthy and got back at it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, while bumps and bruises have healed, the Pack hasn&#8217;t gotten many players back from the injury list. &#8220;So we used the off week to try to get the guys that are going to have to play the second half of the year fundamentally sound and better football players,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said. &#8220;We are who we are, and we&#8217;re going to go play the second half of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Players who could possibly return for the game at Virginia are A.J. Ferguson (DT) and Curtis Underwood (HB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.C. State is coming off a bye week to play Virginia. A healthier Wolfpack will be taking on the second half of the season, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-uncategorized","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}