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36 Responses to This is NC State Basketball

  1. hoop 12/26/2011 at 2:34 PM #

    A new on campus arena? Some of you guys are smokin the good stuff.

    The video voice over and words are a little cheesy but what makes it bad is that there are lots of highlights with little or even NO fans watching the games. And no crowd noise either. Normally I’d be opposed to piping in crowd noise but I’d make an except for that video.

  2. Dogbreath 12/26/2011 at 2:56 PM #

    We should just stop all the attempt at glitz and glam to rehabilitate our dead brand. It looks ridiculous and pathetic. My guess is that other dead basketball brands, like Depaul, University of San Francisco, Houston, St. johns, etc., don’t do stupid videos like this.

  3. Tau837 12/26/2011 at 4:24 PM #

    Embarassing video.

    There is no reason to make a video like this until there is something to celebrate that is more recent than 20 years ago.

  4. choppack1 12/26/2011 at 4:33 PM #

    I agree that we are stuck in the rbc for a long time.

  5. hoop 12/26/2011 at 4:40 PM #

    Dogbreath, that is a status quo attitude.

  6. Dogbreath 12/26/2011 at 4:46 PM #

    Hoop, with all due respect, this video embodies the status quo approach of the past 23 years. We spend more time on corny promotional videos, the annual new uniform photo shoots, and 15 minute pregame animation, when we should be spending time on the actual product on the floor. It’s all veneer. We need to concern ourselves with the branding fundamentals, like winning.

  7. hoop 12/26/2011 at 5:24 PM #

    We *are* concerning ourselves with winning. Look no further than Coach Gottfried, what he brings, and how the team and recruiting and even excitement have changed from just a year ago.

    The problem is the video just isn’t very good. That’s all. It would be much better if it respected our past, acknowledged our predicament, and told a story of excitement for the present and future.

  8. Dogbreath 12/26/2011 at 5:52 PM #

    I do believe Gottfried is the man for the job right now. He’s earnest, comes from a winning pedigree, and doesn’t sugarcoat the dogshit situation he came into.

    Our sports marketing and overall approach to promotions is horrid, that’s my beef.

  9. packalum44 12/26/2011 at 6:26 PM #

    “…but when you compare to the other new arenas in the ACC – it sucks.”

    Matter of opinion. Comcast Center in MD is new and is basically a poor man’s RBC. It is just smaller and not as nice. Our arena is nicer than half the professional b-ball arenas.

    17 year old kids don’t care about the nostalgia of the 70/80s. They want to play in a pro style arena. It is a huge selling point for us recruiting wise.

  10. 87GloryDays 12/26/2011 at 7:48 PM #

    The arena has nothing to do with the atmosphere, it is the product on the floor. I remember watching the Dook-UNX documentary on HBO, in which a Dook student in the mid 70’s said that she never went to games beacuse the team sucked and Cameron was a dump. Coach K came and now Cameron is a cathedral. I remember my time at State in the mid 80’s when Reynolds was the loudest and best arena around. I take my daughters to gymnastics now and can’t beleive what a dump it has become with the worst sitelines ever. As far as the RBC, it is almost an exact replica of Staples Center and the Lakers have done pretty well developing an atmosphere. Coach Gott will turn RBC into the same.

  11. Gene 12/27/2011 at 5:37 AM #

    “17 year old kids don’t care about the nostalgia of the 70/80s. They want to play in a pro style arena. It is a huge selling point for us recruiting wise.”

    Ding. Ding. Ding. We have a winner.

    College sports is an “arms race” to get the best facilities out there to impress teenage athletes. The RBC Center is a huge selling point for us.

    I think it’s one reason we can get on the radar of so many top athletes, even though we’ve been irrelevant for decades.

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