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O'Brien keeps tighter rein on Thanksgiving

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A year ago, coach Tom O’Brien altered N.C. State’s practice schedule a bit during Thanksgiving week.

He held practice early so players who live nearby could have Thanksgiving dinner with their families. After the Wolfpack was hammered 37-0 by Maryland two days later with bowl eligibility at stake, O’Brien concluded that he might have given the team too much freedom.

“It wasn’t the best result,” he said.

This year, N.C. State (5-6, 3-4 ACC) will stick with its normal practice routine with bowl eligibility at stake again in Saturday’s noon finale against Miami (7-4, 4-3) at Carter-Finley Stadium. But don’t feel too sorry for the players.

They will be eating Thanksgiving dinner as a team at The Angus Barn restaurant.

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I love it!!

if this blog was inserted with UNC and Butch Davis this would be another excuse as to why UNC lost. not, thats awesome ...

haha

that's awesome, TOB means business. Best Program in the State of North Carolina. keepin it realz.

I wish i was home, i'd swing by the Angus Barn.

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About the blogger

Ken Tysiac has covered the ACC for The Charlotte Observer since 2003, and spent the previous eight years covering Clemson for the Anderson Independent-Mail and then The State in South Carolina. He grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.

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