{"id":319,"date":"2010-10-13T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=319"},"modified":"2010-10-13T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:08:00","slug":"obrien-raves-against-east-carolina-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brien raves against East Carolina fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TLXZ_XeN_wI\/AAAAAAAAAXw\/I3OIVxEAu9A\/s1600\/dowdy-ficklen-stadium-600w.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"214\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TLXZ_XeN_wI\/AAAAAAAAAXw\/I3OIVxEAu9A\/s320\/dowdy-ficklen-stadium-600w.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">One of Tom O\u2019Brien\u2019s better traits is he doesn\u2019t try to act like every game is the same. Every N.C. State fan knows the North Carolina game is bigger than Western Carolina, and every Wolfpack fan knows what it means to play East Carolina, too.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">N.C. State travels to Greenville for Saturday\u2019s 2 p.m. contest, a game that many ACC coaches might dread. But listening to the ACC teleconference, you got the feeling O\u2019Brien relishes a game like this.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cWe know how important this football game is within our state,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cThey are coming off a great victory Saturday in Hattiesburg [over Southern Miss]. We look forward to a tough game.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">O\u2019Brien didn\u2019t mince words when saying what Greenville was such a tough venue.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cThe fans. They are great. They are loud. They are enthusiastic,\u201d he said. \u201cWe go down there with a big bull\u2019s-eye on our chests. The whole atmosphere is, \u2018Whatever it takes to beat State.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By the way, O\u2019Brien is 9-3 at NCSU against in-state schools.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Tom O\u2019Brien\u2019s better traits is he doesn\u2019t try to act like every game is the same. Every N.C. State fan knows the North&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}