UNC hoping for 20,000 fans Saturday
One year removed from having no more than 2,000 fans at its Spring Game, officials in Chapel Hill are hoping to draw as many as 20,000 for this year’s game. Being on ESPN can’t hurt, but will 20,000 Holes really make it out to Kenan Saturday to watch TJ Yates (and every other UNC QB) throw interceptions to an NFL defense full of SEC speed? I find it hard to believe.
Here’s a preview of the UNC Spring Football Celebration from the N&O.
There’s a difference in the build-up for North Carolina’s spring football game on Saturday.
It’s April and UNC students are actually talking about football, senior Greg Little said.
“It’s just the buzz around campus,” Little said. “You can walk into class and it’s ‘Greg, that spring game is coming up.’ ”
And did anyone on campus ask him about the spring game in previous years?
“Not really, to be completely honest,” said the team’s top receiver and one of 19 returning starters for the Tar Heels.
The Tar Heels and ESPN, which will televise the game live, believe Saturday’s exhibition will be a big hit. A year after drawing about 2,000 fans, UNC officials are hoping big prizes and a day packed with events will entice at least 20,000 to Kenan Stadium for the free scrimmage at 3 p.m.
For those interested in ruining UNC’s ESPN debut Saturday, there are options for NC State fans to make their presence known in Kenan Stadium. Want to crash the Tar Heels spring game? Check this out.
In other pitiful Carolina news, the IFC at UNC is sponsoring a new event designed to rival NC State’s Krispy Kreme Challenge. The Chick-Fil-A challenge will require students to run two miles, eat 12 Chick-Fil-A nuugets and run back. Now the fact that this event, like the Krispy Kreme Challenge, will benefit the North Carolina Children’s Hospital is amazing and should be commended. But is this a challenge? A dozen donuts is 2,400 calories. 12 Chick-Fil-A Nuggets checks in at about 400.
Sorry IFC and Chi Omega sorority, but this isn’t even close.
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I’m hearing no TJ Yates this Saturday.
A dozen donuts has to be more then 2400. Maybe 5000.
200 each…
“It’s April and UNC students are actually talking about football, senior Greg Little said.”
I wonder how many cries of ‘Wait til football season’ were heard at MSG the other night?
Tossers…
They should have a “Greg Little Helmet Toss” competition.
Unfortunately, its quite a nice recruiting tool. Between this and the rest of the media jackasses trying to preseasonly talk UNC into the ACC championship game (like last year), this crap needs to stop. I imagine there is some advantage recruiting wise being gained from this. I hope these a$$holes completely flop this year.
well, they can think say advertise what they want/purchase but they will always be a shi# for brains fan base to me. i hope they continue to receive all this hype, it will make beating them all the more pleasant. i’m looking forward to our spring game, carter finley is the shiznizzle. 2010 will be a good year. PACK!
Interesting that we have never needed “prizes” or a “day packed with events” to draw 10,000 for our spring game. If 5000 do show up how many close-ups of the field can ESPN show without showing the stands? You know, like NASCAR does?
How convenient they were able to catch up with Greg-I’m a “LITTLE”-man on the one day he showed up for class. More like class-less overrated thug-punk.
Lol Mickey D! That was funny!
Like I said, give away some free TV’s and all of the WalMartNation will follow.
I agree with TOBtime, all we ever had to do to get 15-20K at our game is put it on the calendar.
A dozen nuggets? Thats weak…they need to take the word “challenge” out of that. Maybe if it was a nugget tray, then youd have a real test.
Maybe it should be noted that we play at UNC in baseball that night at 600. For those that dont want to drive to Chapel Hole just to crash their party, now theres more reason to go…would be great to fill up Kenan and Boshamer with red on the same day
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I apologize for being off topic, but Dino Gaudio has been fired from Wake Forest. 3 ACC coaches gone.
There’s a post up Wolfman300….thanks for bringing it up though. Big news indeed.
Butch certainly won’t mind that the basketball team was terrible his year.
Come on, do you think most people could even name the quarterback? If people go, it probably has nothing to do with actual football. What do you think the prizes are for?
Only ESPN will have the camera positioning skill to mask the poor attendance – 200% improvement from last year would only yield 6000 attendees. The excuses referenced in the N&O this AM for past poor attendance numbers was comical.
Carolina is going to be very good in football this year…but I don’t believe people are telling Greg Little about the spring game. I don’t believe any underclassmen at UNC even knows what a spring game is.
Easily 20,000 there. I’d say more like 25,000 plus