N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien saw positives and negatives in the Wolfpack’s first scrimmage of the spring Saturday – which is about what he expected.

O’Brien enjoyed watching quarterback Mike Glennon throw against the first-team secondary. In 75 plays, the offense scored two touchdowns, both on passes. The defense, which had 27 interceptions last season, picked off two passes in the scrimmage.

O’Brien said Glennon and the secondary are improving.

“(The secondary) is operating at a high level, which is good for them and our quarterback,” O’Brien said. “It’s all about making each other better.”

The ACC announced on Friday new scheduling formats that will take effect when Pittsburgh and Syracuse begin league play, officially making the ACC a 14-team conference. Among the changes:

-A nine-game conference schedule in football.
-And an 18-game conference schedule in basketball, in which each of the 14 teams will play twice a year against one permanent partner. Games between permanent partners are only ones that will be guaranteed to happen twice per season. Given that North Carolina’s permanent partner is Duke, that means that in two out of every three seasons North Carolina and N.C. State will play just once during the regular season.

John Swofford, ACC Commissioner, spoke on Friday with The News & Observer about several issues related to the announcement of the new scheduling formats. Here’s the Q-and-A:

N.C. State's defense got the best of the Wolfpack's offense in the team's second scrimmage on Friday.

Actually, the defense was the only side to score a touchdown in the 100-play scrimmage.
 

Cary 35, Apex 21 (FINAL)

Chapel Hill 40, East Chapel Hill 28 (FINAL, THURSDAY)

Fayetteville Britt 40, Broughton 30 (FINAL): Caps' Burris, N.C. State recruit, has long TD catch and interception return for TD

Fayetteville Christian 46, Ravenscroft 45 (FINAL, THURSDAY)

Garner 45, West Johnston 6 (FINAL): Trojans scored 45 straight

Harnett Central 50, East Wake 7 (FINAL)

Hillside 33, Greensboro Dudley 8 (FINAL) QB Vad Lee, Georgia Tech recruit, rushes for 5 TD in front of Tech coach Paul Johnson

Jordan 28, Enloe 8 (FINAL)

Leesville Road 48, Southern Lee 6 (FINAL): Southern Lee has lost 22 straight

Knightdale 37, Smithfield-Selma 0 (FINAL)

Middle Creek 37, Green Hope 0 (FINAL): Green Hope has lost 31 straight.

Millbrook 28, Southern Durham 18 (FINAL)

North Johnston 45, Rosewood 0 (FINAL)

Northern Nash 33, South Johnston 25 (FINAL)

Panther Creek 38, Fuquay-Varina 37 (FINAL) Panther Creek converts two-point conversion in overtime for win).

Southeast Raleigh 23, Clayton 14 (FINAL)

Southern Pines Pinecrest 17, Western Harnett 0 (3rd)

Wake Christian 30, Chatham Central 14 (FINAL)

Wake Forest-Rolesville 29, Northern Durham 26 (FINAL)

Wakefield 27, Riverside 0 (FINAL): Conner Mitch is 14 of 18 for 247 yards at the half

Durham Hillside's Vad Lee, a Georgia Tech commitment, is passing for 266.5 yards per game. Brian Taylor, an N.C. State recruit, is averaging 261.5 passing yards per game.

Durham Hillside football coach Antonio King expects between 160 and 170 football candidates to attend the first of preseason workouts on Monday.

The Hornets averaged more than 130 players during voluntary workouts during the summer and in last week's three-day minicamp had 152, 153 and 155 players on successive days.

Brian Taylor, The News & Observer's 2009-10 male high school athlete of the year, will report to football practice at Harnett Central on Monday.

Fuquay-Varina defensive tackle Shaun Underwood has his pick from about a dozen college scholarship offers.

Wake Forest-Rolesville's Terrell Hartsfield, a 6-foot-4, 225-pound two-time defensive conference player
of the year, has committed to Texas Tech.

Hartsfield was
too old to play for the high school team last fall and is expected to
attend Hargrave Military this fall before going to Texas Tech.

Wake Forest juniors Ryan Doyle (6-6, 265) and Dylan Intemann (6-6, 300) are landing some college scholarship offers as well.

Doyle already has an offer from Maryland while N.C. State and Wake Forest have offered Intemann, who also had an offer from East Carolina when Skip Holtz was the Pirates’ coach.

Fre'Shad Hunter, Cary High's exceptional defensive lineman, is not expected top sign a national letter of intent today.

Hunter had committed to N.C. State, but had dropped off the Cary High team during the season to concentrate on his academics.

"He is not going to sign with State," said Cary coach Ben Kolstad. "Right now, it is a little up in the air. I expect he'll go to a prep school or to a junior college."

The 6-foot-4, 245-pound defensive end is ranked No. 13 on The Charlotte Observer's Top 25 list.