N&O: Pack to Play More Games at Reynolds

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N.C. State’s men’s basketball team will have an increased presence at its former home, Reynolds Coliseum, this season.

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33 Responses to N&O: Pack to Play More Games at Reynolds

  1. ADS95 08/11/2008 at 8:25 AM #

    I’m nearly certain there are more LTR holders in the RBC center than there are seats in Reynolds these days.

    Reynolds only holds about 8000 since the renovation(? feel free to correct me if I’m wrong here…I can’t remember the number).

  2. crackdog 08/11/2008 at 9:36 AM #

    “Sounds like Fowler is trying to take all the credit for this, but the real reason is just because of scheduling conflicts. Typical.”

    No, the real reason is to hold down the cost of using the RBC center…

  3. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 08/11/2008 at 10:42 AM #

    NC State’s desire to build the ESA was a bad idea 15 years ago. It proved to be a bad move 10 years ago and it is still an awful place for NC State basketball.

    I would RATHER listen to a game on the radio than be stuck in that miserable arena for a game. You can see the game better on the radio than from that god-awful third level.

    I do forget of how great State’s basketball program will be once we have a new facility but State basketball has been pretty bad every since Lester Robinson removed the rubber floor.

    I will agree that the RBC is a great place to watch a hockey game regardless of the seats.

  4. Girlfriend in a Coma 08/11/2008 at 11:09 AM #

    I think it is super that my RBC LTRs are being further devalued.

    This is just another example of our AD taking a huge dump on the people who fund everything.

  5. tcthdi-tgsf-twhwtnc 08/11/2008 at 1:13 PM #

    ^^^ I agree. If you got suckered into buying “LTR” that is your fault. I had never heard of a losing athletic program at a public institution trying to lock people into ‘lifetime’ rights. LTR are nothing more than a slap in the face to the fan base.

  6. Girlfriend in a Coma 08/11/2008 at 2:56 PM #

    So you are blaming the victim?

    Seriously, I look at the LTR thing as a vehicle for me to donate to the WPC, not necessarily as a quid pro quo transaction purchasing anything. Also, there is no way we could have raised the vast amounts of money in Pride or Goal Line Drive without them, and obviously we needed those vast amounts of capital given the state of our athletic buildings in the mid 90s.

    Also, I hated Reynolds. People who “love” Reynolds, are people, in my experience, who didn’t buy tickets and go to games. 75% (if not more) of the seats have horrible sight lines and you couldn’t even take a dump there without the whole world watching.

    The RBC is light years superior from a fan perspective. (At least those fans who actually buy tickets and attend games). TV fans almost always prefer Reynolds I would guess.

  7. budfox88 08/12/2008 at 4:25 PM #

    GIAC, I cannot sit back and read this garbage without giving you (and others alike) some perspective. Simply, you don’t have a clue. If you can put hate and Reynolds Coliseum in the same sentence then you are not a Wolfpack fan. And if you think it’s still about winning at RBC, then you should sign up for business classes in the fall. Even the younger REAL fans know what we left behind at RC. I’m sure I stand with many who have been to more games in RC than RBC, not because we had “good seats” or a lavishly apptd building, or even privacy peeing(take a dump before the game, DA!). We loved RC because of the unlimited sense of energy, the deafening sound(remember the sound meter), the winning spirit, and the excitement generated in the stands AND ON THE FLOOR! We loved RC because we love NCSU at the core, and there was a time when NO OTHER PLACE ON EARTH could extol such personal fanaticism (not Cameron, not Carmichael). We loved RC because IT WAS OURS – an integral part of NCSU campus life. From hellday (you wouldn’t know!), to Ronnie Reagan, to camping out for tickets (and breaking in to shoot some hoops occly), RC was everything that RBC can never be. If you want a good seat I suggest you stay at home and watch on TV, or, better yet, take a radio to RC and sit in the stands to listen. If all you want is a good view, then I guess RBC is perfect for you. The legacy that was built in RC didn’t require money or box seats or LTRs…just the unbreakable bond between fan, player, and university. Of course, RBC or ESA (or whatever you want to call it) is big and beautiful but it’s just a building…that we have to share! I don’t hate RBC, we just need to make it OURS!!! It can be done! Pride and Goal Line Drive are great cap investment projects but money only buys bricks and coaches. It will not buy spirit or integrity or WINS!!! Until you get it, you should check your position as a fan and quit passing yourself off as such because of your donorship. Real Wolfpack fans, though naturally generous to the AA and WC, are not quantified by the contents of their wallets, but are qualified by a core sense of loyalty against ANY ODDS and a pride that radiates from the heart and connects us with each other!!!!! WE ARE NC STATE! These comments are not up for debate

  8. EverettBeez 08/14/2008 at 9:30 AM #

    Nice sentiments budfox88.
    the RBC is a nice, fancy place with plenty of parking and no blocked sight lines – exactly what The Barn wasn’t. But it has no tradition yet – and it will NEVER be the center of campus life that Reynolds was. No standing in line for drop/add at the RBC (yes you whipper snappers, you had to stand in line and they’d erase your name off one class and put you in another!) no dances or anything else. Its not just that the entire ACC basketball tradition originates in Reynolds, and continues to haunt it, its that it was also, in many ways, the heart of campus.

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