Personally, I believe Saturday’s loss to Syracuse was a better indictment of where NC State Football is than the loss to Clemson. The Pack is a decent team. In some areas it’s elite or damn near elite, and it’s good in more areas than not. Football can be a weak link sport though, and when you run up against a team that’s built to attack that weak link, you can be made to look quite incompetent.
That’s what happened to NC State on Saturday. Despite some promising early returns against inferior opponents, the Pack’s secondary is not good, improved, or even on par with last year.