7/31/2006 11:18:35 PM

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"looks like we got more quality student seating. Is this true?"

i believe there is a small gain in the amount of student seating, but not a great amount over that of the grass seating standing area. we will now have students on 3 of the 4 sides of the stadium. hopefully those students in the NEZ can help excite the LTR holders in the Redzone, and get them out of their seats often.

8/1/2006 1:25:27 AM

well im glad we won't be needing this, since the band's been moved back to the SEZ

maybe they should change their name to powersound of the south endzone

8/1/2006 6:13:56 AM

I agree with the ppl back on the other page about winning some damn games now.... It's great that our stadium has taken a big jump this summer by adding roughly 6,000 new seats and new outside decorations (brick statues & all that other jazz), but it really doesn't say much if we don't keep on having winning seasons and can't keep all those extra seats full.

I haven't heard much from the football program on gopack.com like the million stories they put up about the pre-season last year (this scares me).

I just surely hope that the Pack football team (esp. AB and TB, along with Stone) will bring the momentum that M&M created at the end of last season into this one b/c if we can't get any offense going in a league that ranks highest in total defense among the major conferences, then we are VERY SCREWED.

On another note, GO PACK!

8/1/2006 8:11:44 AM

all the expansion is great but if we can't win it doesn't mean shit

8/1/2006 10:40:43 AM

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"I haven't heard much from the football program on gopack.com like the million stories they put up about the pre-season last year (this scares me). "

I think its a concerted effort to not get our fanbase hyped up.

Less pre-existing expectations == not as much pressure on the coach.

8/1/2006 11:23:51 AM

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"all the expansion is great but if we can't win it doesn't mean shit"

yeah, because you can't enjoy the game if we're losing

8/1/2006 11:39:42 AM

^^^^^ lmao

8/1/2006 11:41:18 AM

Any new findings/photos/publications on the RED ZONE (Carter-Finley expansion) project?

Is it true that we're supposed to get 2 new screens behind the sides of the Red Zone?

8/2/2006 12:18:39 PM

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"help excite the LTR holders in the Redzone, and get them out of their seats often"

i'd say the red zone will have a different LTR crowd in it, probably more of the young alumni type crowd that's not too removed from sitting in the student section. I could be wrong, but i'd say there will probably be more of these type fans in the new red zone than in other LTR areas...

8/2/2006 1:12:50 PM

I know the plan is 2 new screens...I don't know the exact location.

8/2/2006 1:27:09 PM

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"I haven't heard much from the football program on gopack.com like the million stories they put up about the pre-season last year "

thats b/c practice does not start until tomorrow....so there isn't really anything to write about


and yes, there will be two screens, placed on the concourse in the corners of the south endzone, there are heavy machines in position, and it looks like this process has started, but there has been some speculation as to whether they will be ready for the first game....we shall see, there is a lot of work being done to run the necessary wiring, etc. under the concourse from the murphy center, which is probably a huge pain in the ass.

screens should be about 20ft wide from what i have read, made by dactronics....same folks who made the big scoreboard! which looks a lot better now that the NEZ is done

8/2/2006 2:09:56 PM

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"i'd say the red zone will have a different LTR crowd in it, probably more of the young alumni type crowd that's not too removed from sitting in the student section. I could be wrong, but i'd say there will probably be more of these type fans in the new red zone than in other LTR areas..."

I hope so too, I've got LTR there and we def raised it up last year in the temporary bleachers...

8/2/2006 6:31:08 PM

will they be hd like the dolphins new screen?

8/2/2006 6:35:37 PM

U Texas has something like this being built. I think its supposed to be the biggest outdoor screen ever

8/2/2006 7:06:52 PM

i hope they put them over the gates. then everone who comes in will have already been through screening.

8/2/2006 7:10:18 PM

I don't believe these screens are going to be HiDef, should be nice, but not HD

8/2/2006 9:50:19 PM

now when stone's inaccurate passses go into the stands he can add a whole new meaning to the term "screen pass"

8/2/2006 11:10:36 PM

hyuk hyuk

8/2/2006 11:45:51 PM

one of the screens will show stats during or in between the play, while the other will be basically show what the big jumbotron shows. both will show the instant replays though. the stats thing is cool. i remember being up in VT and they had their stats on their board. it wasn't the actual video board but just below it. i remember looking at the stats, and saying, thank god for our defense. i think i remember someone posting a pic of the scoreboard right before they had that long drive to try and set up that last field goal, and they had only something like 8 or 31 yards of offense.

8/3/2006 12:05:14 AM

^ How do you know this information?

Just curious

If you can point me to a real source regarding these screens, that would be nice.

Thanks.

8/3/2006 8:14:05 AM

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"8 or 31 yards "

really narrowed it down there eh

8/3/2006 8:29:12 AM

i'm just glad they put that little partition thingie in there. between the students and LTR people. that way i won't have to stand up to see over the person in front of me.

8/3/2006 8:37:16 AM

it'd have been sweet if they had the cash to red-anodize the student bleachers. so the whole NEZ would be red, rather than just the upper half.

[Edited on August 3, 2006 at 10:20 AM. Reason : and the color would never fade out]

8/3/2006 10:20:31 AM

I dont normally sit down at the games

8/3/2006 10:21:49 AM

i didn't think any students did

8/3/2006 10:27:02 AM

they dont

8/3/2006 10:28:25 AM

^x6 yeah i was trying to think about what it was, but those were the only two numbers that i pictured in my head.

8/3/2006 3:27:45 PM

bump

any new pics, have not seen any since july 27th, 8 days ago....i am sure the landscaping for the dail plaza must be shaping up

8/4/2006 2:40:27 PM

zoom in if you can... This is from the start of the 4th quarter. VT has 35 yards of total offense.

8/4/2006 6:17:17 PM

^probably one of my favorite games ive ever been to

8/4/2006 6:37:51 PM

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"i am sure the landscaping for the dail plaza must be shaping up "

was just out there, but didn't have a camera

looks like they have all the concrete work done for that, but haven't filled in all the squares with pavers yet.


also looked like there was some football clinic for little kids in the RBC center parking lot

8/4/2006 7:58:39 PM

fav game was when we beat FSU at home.....memories......too bad this season will be nothing but disappointments.....Amato cant coach(proved the past 2 years without Rivers)....oh well.....

8/5/2006 6:00:48 AM

I still get chills thinking about the VTech game in Bburg 2 years ago... one game i am def glad i attended

8/5/2006 8:13:36 AM

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"also looked like there was some football clinic for little kids in the RBC center parking lot"

a poster on statefans was talking about this, apparently his sons team got kicked off their field, probably either at gibbons, or some other park in the area, so they just went to the ESA parking lot to finish practice.....a little strange

8/5/2006 10:46:28 AM

VT game....greatest game ive been to.


in that picture, i was front row in their student endzone wearing my red wig and facepaint. boy did i get some shit.


totally worth it, and 1 of the best college weekends evarrrr

8/5/2006 10:54:42 AM

I have a felling those video boards aren't going to be done by the app. st. game. just a hunch. I am sure the underground wiring takes most of the time, and they will go up quickly once they arrive, but still doesn't seem like there has been enough progress down there, as efforts are focused at getting the other end through inspection

8/5/2006 11:12:11 AM

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"probably one of my favorite games ive ever been to"

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"I still get chills thinking about the VTech game in Bburg 2 years ago... one game i am def glad i attended"

I got chills reading those two.... I was on the field for that game in Blacksburg 2 years ago. That's the best game I've ever been at...

Other good games/events

2) Us getting 2 punts blocked last year vs FSU, and Picking them off 3 times at the end to win...
3) Last year's Interception at GT to win the game.

8/5/2006 1:52:59 PM

^^ I think they'll be done. They can probably trench everything in a week or so, run the wire and hook it up. Trenching the concrete doesn't take as long as it may seem; also, TA Loving probably has some serious performance clauses in their contract, so they could be in shit if they don't get it done by 9/2. They'll be pushing hard the last few weeks but it oughta get done.

8/5/2006 2:01:01 PM

^yeah, i agree. should all be done, just have a bad feeling for some reason, can't explain it

also have heard they are having some soil problems when running wiring/pipes/etc. for the new scoreboards.

those will be nervewracking, b/c it will all be prep work, then one night they will just go up when daktroniks delivers them

8/5/2006 3:18:49 PM

went to the stadium today...played football in CF

it was awesome


Amato came down and asked me to be QB, so i'm walking on

8/5/2006 3:21:40 PM

^

8/5/2006 3:28:30 PM

8/5/2006 3:38:29 PM

Hey everyone, any new links, updates, or stories on the NEZ expansion/Dail Plaza project going on over at Carter-Finley?

[Edited on August 7, 2006 at 3:24 PM. Reason : Carter Finley is going to be rockin' in Sept!]

8/7/2006 3:24:15 PM

heres a pic of me in the new red zone





i am quarterbacking us to national championship glory

8/7/2006 3:49:36 PM

looks to me like your in the old part of the stadium

8/7/2006 4:27:57 PM

was out there this morning, here's some pics http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=viewAllPhotos&albumID=552926924&security=bZATZJ

8/7/2006 5:36:42 PM

looking sexy. i'm optimistic that w/ the new additions and murphy center as well as hopeful good seasons from rivers and williams we can get some good recruiting classes.

might be too much to hope for.

8/8/2006 9:44:55 AM

^ No top HS prospect recruit is going to care about how some former players of NCSU are doing in the NFL when he's trying to make a choice between attending NCSU or Miami or Virginia Tech


In other words, no good HS recruit is going to be saying this to himself...

"hmmm, lemme see, should I go to a school with a 5-6 record or a 11-2 record, a team that goes to the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl or the Care Care Bowl, a team that's had at least 1 first round draft pick every season since 1991, or 6 draft picks every decade. But Philip and Torry's doing well in the pros, so that means I'm going to go automatically to the pros. I must go to NCSU."

Not likely...

8/8/2006 3:53:34 PM

but highly ranked players know that they can get to the league just as easy from NC State as they can from VT, maybe easier, because our depth chart is MUCH weaker.

8/8/2006 3:55:49 PM