Ryan Finley wasn’t a baseball player growing up, so he wondered how awkward his quarterback slide would look at NC State. He expected he’d need to learn considering the Wolfpack quarterbacks ran for nearly 900 yards the two seasons prior.
It turns out it wasn’t the sliding that would be a concern for the 2016 transfer in the Wolfpack’s offense. It was the running that would precede it.
“We didn’t work on running much,” Finley said of last season, “so when I did it in the game I kind of looked like an idiot.”
Finley’s strides, no matter how ungainly at times, weren’t the issue so much as there weren’t enough of them from the quarterback during a 7-6 season.