{"id":409,"date":"2010-11-15T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=409"},"modified":"2010-11-15T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:49:00","slug":"obrien-doesnt-downplay-impact-of-states-game-with-unc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brien doesn&#8217;t downplay impact of State&#8217;s game with UNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">Coaches love to downplay games, don&#8217;t they? Given that, isn&#8217;t it refreshing to hear N.C. State coach Tom O&#8217;Brien talk about the North Carolina game?<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TOGq5kODvDI\/AAAAAAAAAak\/sgaxXi5lQiU\/s1600\/tom_obrien.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TOGq5kODvDI\/AAAAAAAAAak\/sgaxXi5lQiU\/s1600\/tom_obrien.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>One aspect of the NCSU culture that Herb Sendek never seemed to embrace was the ferocity of this rivalry. O&#8217;Brien takes a totally different approach, as he did again Monday when addressing the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s  the carrot to win the game, to get to the ACC championship,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien told the media, according to newsobserver.com. &#8220;As I said Saturday, the road to Charlotte goes through Chapel  Hill. You have to get through Chapel Hill. Well, if you\u2019re at N.C. State  and you\u2019re part of this football program, you have to win in Chapel  Hill anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s something that is part of the culture here. We accept that fact  and our kids have really risen to the occasion, have played well  anytime we\u2019ve played against North Carolina since I\u2019ve been here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien, of course, is 3-0 against UNC and coach Butch Davis. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coaches love to downplay games, don&#8217;t they? Given that, isn&#8217;t it refreshing to hear N.C. State coach Tom O&#8217;Brien talk about the North Carolina game?One&#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-409","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\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}