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UNC ticket sales “tepid” for game at Maryland(updated by Thursday 5:30 pm))

Published by Daily Update on 11/12/2008 in '08 Football, ACC, Fans, General and Rivals. 46 Comments

Updated:

Since some UNC fans were wondering why the UNC ticket office informed them that the UNC allotment had been sold out, I wanted to provide the updated from the author at the Washington Times:

By: pstevens

All—

I just sent this in an e-mail to a curious Carolina fans, but figured I’d toss it out here as well:

Just heard back from Maryland officials, and here’s apparently what happened:

Maryland offers visiting schools 4,000 tickets. A school can accept whatever number of tickets it wants. North Carolina apparently only took 1,100-1,200 a month or so ago and declined the rest, which went back into the pool of available tickets to the general public.

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ESPN Road Trip @ NC State

Published by StateFans on 10/17/2008 in '08 Football, Campus News, Fans, General and Multimedia. 13 Comments

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Hmmm, Maybe The Power-That-Be Do Listen To Blogs

Published by Alpha Wolf on 10/16/2008 in '08 Football, Fans, Fun Stuff and General. 20 Comments

On May 14th of this year, over at my old site, Red and White From State, I made an entry that suggested something I thought that would look really neat at a home game:

Something Cool That NC State Should Do At Home Games

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Most of us have all see the flipcards that make graphic elements in the stands of a stadium: each seat in a given section has a card placed on it, and on a signal, everyone holds it up.

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Post-Game Thoughts

Published by BJD95 on 09/27/2008 in '08 Football and Fans. 52 Comments

* NC State took the field against a good, versatile QB and an excellent, athletic defense (justifiably a Top 15-20 caliber team, unlike ECU) without one single above-average player on either side of the ball. We could play USF 100 times, and we’d lose at least 99.

* USF clearly watched film of last week’s second half. They attacked the areas where Nate Irving would have been early and repeatedly - to incredibly good results (3 TDs on first 3 drives, rarely even getting to 3rd down). They are well-coached, and it showed.

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Video Look at Saturday

Published by StateFans on 09/21/2008 in '08 Football, Fans, General and Multimedia. 41 Comments

NCSU ends BS of ECU in BCS w/ W in OT

I would love to embed this video from the N&O but the “Old Reliable” (chuckle, chuckle) doesn’t share embed code in their videos. If you watch it, pay special attention to Jarvis Williams’ touchdown catch at about 1 minute and 30 seconds into the clip. WOW! That field-level angle provides a great sense for how awesome that catch - and throw - was.

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Potential Mass Suicide Saturday

Published by BJD95 on 09/20/2008 in '08 Football, ACC, Fans and Media. 7 Comments

In an amazingly tone-deaf article, Scott Fowler wants us to rejoice in the glory of today’s football possibilities. Of course, Fowler would be expected to be blissfully ignorant of the pulse of Wolfpack nation - he’s not from the improving N&O, but rather, the dogged Tarheel fluffing Charlotte Observer. This was my newspaper growing up, and it appears to never have gotten any better. There are now two worthless Ron Greens, instead of just one. And thanks to media consolidation, I get to read their excrement again from the Raleigh suburbs.

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Tudor: NC State has most loyal fan base in NC

Published by Daily Update on 09/19/2008 in AD, Basketball, Coaches, Fans, Football, General and Quotes of Note. 54 Comments

This may shock people, but some members of the media are starting to understand the frustrations of NC State’s supporters. On a morning where the Wall Street Journal did a feature on Bobby Purcell and the incredible fundraising efforts of NC State supporters, Caulton Tudor proves again (as he did last week) that he really has a grasp on NC State athletics:

N.C. State fans are grumbling, and they have a right to.

Various segments of the Wolfpack World are upset with football coach Tom O’Brien, basketball coach Sidney Lowe and/or athletics director Lee Fowler.

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The Don of Donations (must read)

Published by Daily Update on 09/19/2008 in Fans, General and NCS Administration. 14 Comments

Out of all fundraisers in college athletics, the Wall Street Journal chose our very own Bobby Purcell to feature in this article. Some may be surprised that there wasn’t a single mention of Lee Fowler and others probably wonder how Bobby can raise so much money since NC State has such “bad” fans. Maybe the only person left out that deserves some credit for the flood of donations and record levels of attendance at football and basketball games is former football coach Chuck Amato (who at the same time deserves a lot credit for the current state of the football program).

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Saturday’s Inevitable Purple Tide

Published by BJD95 on 09/18/2008 in AD, Fans and Football. 79 Comments

At noon on Saturday, NC State will play East Carolina - in a game we were not forced to schedule by the legislature. SFN’s original discussion of Lee Fowler adding this game and grabbing his ankles for Terry Holland yet again is here. Search our archive under “Terry Holland” for much more, if you’re a glutton for punishment.

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Newsflash! Rutgers fans boo entire 2nd half (Updated Fri 10:50am)

Published by StateFans on 09/12/2008 in '08 Football, Fans, General and Media. 28 Comments

BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS!

After booing on the kickoff of the second half of thursday’s game against North Carolina, Rutgers fans continued to boo on almost every play from scrimmage throughout the rest of the game. (Those fans that actually stayed and didn’t leave early to beat traffic)

RUTGERS!?! This is same program that was easily one of the worst programs in all of college football for decades prior to the last few years and with fans with credentials nowhere close to fans with these credentials. This is not hyperbole. This program was Duke-like in their futility. It sure doesn’t take long for fans to get ridiculously irrational with a little success.

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The Natives are Restless in Blacksburg

Published by Daily Update on 09/11/2008 in ACC, Fans, Football and General. 21 Comments

Apparently it isn’t just NC State fans who dare to question the leaders of their athletic department.

While NC State’s athletics department has struggled as one of the ACC’s worst overall programs during the last decade, our fans have responded by supporting NC State at record levels.

Conversely, Virginia Tech has actually been one of the success stories in the Atlantic Coast Conference the past several years. Their athletics department finished #37 in last year’s Sears Director Cup standings, an ALL-TIME high for the Hokies!

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TOB Comments on the booing; Caulton Tudor gets it right

Published by Daily Update on 09/10/2008 in AD, Basketball, Fans, Football, General, Media, NCS Administration and Required Reading. 81 Comments

A question about the boos in Carter Finley Stadium was bound to be asked, so Tom O’Brien had no choice but to respond last night on his weekly radio show hosted at Sullivan’s in Raleigh.

Coach Tom O’Brien talked about how annoyed he was with the fan’s reactions to Evans play on his weekly radio show.

“It’s pretty frustrating to listen to people boo thinking it’s going to make somebody better,” O’Brien said Tuesday “By booing somebody, you don’t make them better.”

O’Brien went on to talk about how the boos could be a turnoff to potential recruits who attend games.

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41% attrition rate from 2005 & 2006 classes

Published by Daily Update on 09/09/2008 in '08 Football, Fans, General and Recruiting - FBall. 95 Comments

Here is a good article from Rob Daniels of the Greensboro News & Record that provides some statistical insight into what we all know and are feeling - NC State’s football program is depleted of depth and currently undergoing a major rebuilding project.

Hopefully our fans have begun to realize that we are in a total rebuild mode and potentially several years behind other schools who made coaching changes at the same time we hired TOB.

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Carter-Finley Karaoke

Published by WV Wolf on 08/20/2008 in Fans, Football and Tradition. 107 Comments

NC State’s athletic department is currently taking votes for a sing-along anthem to be played between the third and fourth quarters at Carter-Finley Stadium. You can find the article and vote here.

Let’s take a look at the 3 songs mentioned in the first paragraph of the gopack.com article. First, “Sweet Caroline” was played at Red Sox games because Fenway’s music director had heard it played at other sporting events and would play it at random late in the game if the Sox were winning. The fans soon began to anticipate the song as a good luck charm and is now a tradition.

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WRAL: Small town Raleigh marveled at 74 Wolfpack

Published by StateFans on 07/16/2008 in Basketball, Fans, General and Tradition. 63 Comments

A great retrospective done by Dane Huffman at WRAL.com. Click here.

Then came in 1974 – and Raleigh became the epicenter of a story that would change college basketball. Duke was amazing in 1992, and North Carolina was phenomenal in ’82. But State was unique, in its talent and its time. The fading films and black and white photos still evoke an amazing team that remains the ACC’s best.

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ESPN.com: Carter-Finley 11th Toughest Stadium In The ACC (Updated 1:45pm)

Published by RAWFS on 07/14/2008 in ACC, Fans, Football, General, Media and Rankings / Lists. 26 Comments

It’s almost the official middle of summertime - about six weeks past Memorial Day and about six weeks until the start of the college football season - so it is obviously a slow time where college sports are concerned.  Fall practices are still several weeks out, and it’s really too soon for the major media outlets to start covering upcoming games.  Still, it’s a 24×7 news cycle and the media needs to drive traffic in order to get paid for their ads. Lacking news, they quite often they come up with meaningless lists like ESPN.com’s “Toughest Places To Play In The ACC.”

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NC State supporters highlight Lee Fowler’s 2007-2008 annual report

Published by Daily Update on 06/25/2008 in AD, Fans, General, NCS Administration and Non-Revenue. 25 Comments

Athletic Director Lee Fowler released the 2007-2008 annual report for NC State Athletics. Except for a few individual student-athletes and a couple individual programs, it was the accomplishments of NC State’s fantastic supporters and fans that received the most attention in the report.

First, the NC State fans helped land Head Football Coach, Tom O’Brien; now, the support of the very fans that Lee Fowler so often criticizes provides his athletics program its primary success story of the year. (Oh the irony)

Here are a few of the highlights:

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Report: Tarheel Trio To Return Despite Criticisms & Attacks of UNC Fans

Published by StateFans on 06/16/2008 in '08-09 Basketball, AD, Fans, General, Media, NCS Administration and Rivals. 57 Comments

Inside Carolina is reporting that Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green will all return to Chapel Hill for the 2008-2009 college basketball season, virtually guaranteeing that the Tarheels will hold the #1 preseason ranking as the heavy favorite to win the 2009 National Championship.

Lawson, Ellington and Green had become the targets of significant criticism brought about by UNC-CH fans, students and internet community members. The situation between Tarheel faithful and the players got so nasty that CBS Sportsline actually elevated the fans’ criticisms in a national article discussing the situation and criticizing the Tarheel faithful.

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Friday Morning: Lee Fowler on 850 The Buzz Friday; Audio Link Now Up

Published by StateFans on 05/16/2008 in AD, Basketball, Fans and Football. 87 Comments

Thanks to all of you who have posted 30 updates and comments regarding Fowler’s “interview” this morning. We’ll continue to have more commentary as time goes by.

11:15 Update

Here’s a link to the audio of the interview:

Lee Fowler Takes Your Calls (850 The Buzz’s Blog)

My apologies if I wasn’t the smoothest reader on the air, but I had an office visitor come in past a closed door and distract me while I was reading Sw0rdf1sh’s quote.

–RAWFS

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Where Amazing Happens…Happened

Published by StateFans on 04/13/2008 in ACC, Basketball, Fans, Football, Fun Stuff, General, Multimedia, NCS Administration and Tradition. 35 Comments

Tip of the hat to the Pack Pride message boards for highlighting this fantastic YouTube Video titled, “Where Amazing Happens - NC State”.

Without explicitly stating it, this video provides a damning commentary of the current nature of the NC State athletics program as the bulk of the actual achievements in the video all took place in the past with none taking place within the last four years. How about we rename it, “Where Amazing Happened”?

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