Tag Archive | "Attendance"

Basketball attendance falls in 2009-2010, but Pack remain in top 25

Thursday, May 13, 2010

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Although NC State’s attendance numbers fell in 2009-2010, the Wolfpack was still able to remain in the top-25 nationally and pull in more than 13,000 fans per contest. Make no mistake, less fans in the seats (even if it’s less than 300 per contest) is a bad thing. But considering the struggles of the basketball [...]

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Exploring the meaning of Spring Football attendance numbers

Monday, May 10, 2010

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Now that all the major schools have finished spring practice schedules and held some version of a spring game (each school does things slightly differently), let’s take a quick look at how fan bases across the state and country represented for their favorite squad. The Sporting News does a good job compiling attendance numbers every [...]

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Nine Years of Sellouts – What Have We Gotten In Return?

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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Nine Years of Sellouts – What Have We Gotten In Return?

This season is the 9th consecutive where football season tickets have sold out at Carter-Finley. Here is a recent entry about selling out season tickets. For this entry, I am going to focus only on home football games. Set aside the LTRs, gas, hotel and airfare for road trips, donations to the Wolfpack Club, merchandise, [...]

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Wednesday Bytes

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

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  CHANGE IS COMING!  And we need your help.  If you have any computer or creative skills then please click here and think about submitting a new banner for the site as a part of our coming re-design.  Thanks so much!   While we are discussing the site, we would again like to thank the [...]

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Spring Game

Saturday, April 18, 2009

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I am out of town, but eager to hear the observations of SFN readers who do attend. Please post your thoughts below. RALEIGH, NC – The Kay Yow Spring Football game drew 21,075 fans on Saturday afternoon to watch the White team win 10-7 over the Red team. The event raised over $28,000 for charity. [...]

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Good Seats Are Still Available to the ACC Title Game (updated)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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Heather Dinich of ESPN is reporting that Virginia Tech has sold 3,000 tickets and Boston College just under 2,000 tickets to this weekend’s ACC Title Game in Tampa. This is probably due to two factors: first and foremost, the overall economy has either negatively affected people or if it hasn’t, a lot of folks are [...]

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A View from the Cheap Seats

Thursday, March 27, 2008

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Ya’ll know this is all our fault – mine and yours – right? It’s simple, really. There is a profound dichotomy to the average State fan, a great paradox that makes each of us our own worst enemy: we are intensely loyal…to a fault. As long as we continue to feed this monster, improvement won’t [...]

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Dear ‘Jags’, The Feeling is Mutual

Friday, December 28, 2007

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The Boston College Eagles are gearing up to play Michigan State today in the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando..and evidently, the Eagles aren’t very happy to be there. We provide the following from BC’s top blogger, Eagle in Atlanta: Let me echo what Jags is saying — this is not where we wanted to be, [...]

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More Info On Lack Of UVA’s Gator Bowl Ticket Sales

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

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Even though this article is 10 days old, we thought everyone might want to read it. We also want to save it for future years when iit is bowl selection time. Before we explain why we’ve come to that point, let’s rewind to 2002. I remember all the whining and complaining by Virginia fans that [...]

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