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8/8/2006 4:07:40 PM

Some folks on PackPride said that C-F's capacity would be under 60k. I've heard that it will be between 61-62k seats.

Anyone know the real capacity? Per Murphy Center employees, it will be between 61-62k, but something was announced on 850 Buzz that it will be 58k.

I am confused now.

8/9/2006 12:09:34 PM

we probably won't really know till the first game of the season. or the first big game. i thought our permanent seating capacity for the stadium with the vaughn towers was somewhere between 53-53,800. now add on over 7k with the NEZ and take away 1,000 or so grass hill and the few people that sat in the balcony of the old field house and you've got perhaps right under or right at 60k. i wanted it to be more.

8/9/2006 12:15:11 PM

yea me too. I was hoping atleast a few hundred over 60k

8/9/2006 12:20:42 PM

Quote :

""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." "

Shows me how little you know about recruiting. Have 3 DL go in Rnd 1 was huge for recruiting other DL. I know what you are saying but for in-state recruiting its huge. Recruits have been quoted over and over how impressed they are that we had the #1 overall pick...they see that as good coaching and they see themselves benefiting from that. Name the last good Defensive Lineman from VT to go to the NFL....Bruce Smith...and don't say Tapp b/c he's nothing special. Miami has had a few DL in the past few years but they haven't had 3 go in round 1. Now we still get killed in recruiting skill position players b/c we have had little to no success in the NFL. Miami and VT on the other hand puts LBs, DBs, WRs, RBs all over the NFL...we need a few break through players at those positions so we can start "re loading" instead of rebuilding. With Ray Brooks back at DE, Id say we are re loading at DL but we are thin at LB.

It would be nice if Heath and Scott had huge years at saftey b/c we have some young guys behind them...LB needs some to step up so we stop lossing the top LBs in the state to Florida, etc.

8/9/2006 12:26:58 PM

you must also look at the playing time option. Some of the more consistent powerhouses might have extra shit for the players to have to go through like competition for positions, limited playing time, etc...

8/9/2006 12:31:25 PM

construction thread, right?

8/9/2006 1:51:03 PM

bttt

because it's been 3 days since the last photo update on webshots

[Edited on August 10, 2006 at 7:57 AM. Reason : and i want more, but don't have time to go to the stadium]

8/10/2006 7:57:32 AM

I doubt anything has really changed much.

atleast what you see on the outside. A lot of the work now is trying to finish things inside.

[Edited on August 10, 2006 at 8:32 AM. Reason : ]

8/10/2006 8:31:38 AM

last i saw there was a solid amount of work to be done outside (pavers in dail plaza, etc). anyone have any friends working for TA loving?

8/10/2006 8:51:25 AM

yeah, they need to put down a bunch of pavers, and assemble the bleachers, and put up the video boards, and a bunch of other things

what I was saying is that a lot of the things left are "small" things that when taken together are a lot. But you wouldn't necessarily notice that big of a change with the completion of any one thing.

8/10/2006 9:03:39 AM

a poster on PP said that they had already started working on assembling the "permanent" bleachers. this was a day or two ago. those should go up fairly quickly

oh and in talking about recruiting, if i was a highly touted recruit, one of the most important things to me besides the amount of playing time i could get would be how much the girls at the school like to suck penis, but hey that's just me.

[Edited on August 10, 2006 at 9:12 AM. Reason : ]

8/10/2006 9:08:52 AM

it's going to be frustrating for nez people if the scoreboards don't get up in time =X

8/10/2006 9:31:25 AM

well i'm leaving school . . . prolly gonna swing by and check things out on my way home




[Edited on August 10, 2006 at 10:03 AM. Reason : meh, I didn't have my camera so I justwent home. Maybe I'll swing by later.]

8/10/2006 9:38:33 AM

^throw us an update when you get home

8/10/2006 9:45:18 AM

reviving this thread...

8/11/2006 1:38:08 PM

I drove by this afternoon. No camera in hand, but damn, the stadium really does feel complete now. No more glaring weaknesses. They are about 1/2 way done framing the semi-permanent bleachers, and they are bricking in the "dail plaza" and working on the entrance. Wolf statute on the west side looks good too. only thing I did not see was any work being done where the new video-boards are being installed. I am sure they will be put up in a day or two once the process starts, and they are delivered, just prep work, and wiring underground for now.

8/11/2006 1:40:18 PM

photo from a few weeks back


photo from earlier this week

8/11/2006 2:26:49 PM

They have replaced the endzone w/ a red x

8/11/2006 2:29:07 PM

i see it. no red x for me.

8/11/2006 2:33:22 PM

yay, maybe we could get the whole lower section to do "the wave" That would be so radical.

8/11/2006 2:34:44 PM

shit that went up faster than i thought. look how big it is.

[Edited on August 11, 2006 at 3:14 PM. Reason : you might have to right click and view image]

8/11/2006 3:13:01 PM

whats it a pic of, i cant get it to show

8/11/2006 3:17:21 PM

the permanent bleachers. it's just the steel structure right now, but it gives you a great idea of how it will look.

8/11/2006 3:20:59 PM

http://www.gopack.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9200&ATCLID=537499

8/11/2006 4:52:29 PM

Quote :

"both the east and west grandstands went through an extensive concrete restoration that included sand-blasting, acid cleaning, minor repairs and resealing the concrete."

money money money...MONEY

some concrete finisher got PAID offa that shit.

8/11/2006 5:29:57 PM

the 300 section of the new endzone (permanent bleacher seats) are high as hell, they go all the way up to the bottom of the scoreboard on the concourse!

8/11/2006 5:29:58 PM

Quote :

"There is still work to be done, Brincefield said, between now and the home opener, including the Jacqueline and Curtis Dail plaza that connects Carter-Finley and the RBC Center, the completion of two sets of 300-level bleachers that rise above the north end zone concourse and the installation of two large video boards in the south end zone of the stadium, which will allow fans in the Red Zone seats to see the same replays that are shown on the main video board behind them."

where did the team practice before the practice facility was built by CF?

[Edited on August 11, 2006 at 11:01 PM. Reason : ]

8/11/2006 10:42:55 PM

IM fields i thought

8/11/2006 11:18:23 PM

bloody rookies...they practiced on that field east of derr track

damn im old

i think its a softball or soccer practice area now...i dunno, i haven't been in NC for a while

you damn kids

8/11/2006 11:51:04 PM

so this field?

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&ll=35.781039,-78.667774&spn=0.00302,0.005676

8/12/2006 12:23:54 AM

Quote :

"Students will also have a fourth gate to enter the stadium, all located near the northeast corner of the stadium."

you're welcome

8/12/2006 9:29:53 AM

^shameless self promotion

looks like youre learning the game pretty well

8/12/2006 9:43:53 AM

^^ but seriously... THANK YOU

I can't tell you the number of times I got into an argument with event staff over where they would let us in. For the wolfpack club tickets they always changed their minds about what gate we could use.

8/12/2006 9:51:58 AM

they may have changed it like once.

the majority of the season was you could go in any gate because you had a non scannable ticket with a stub.

8/12/2006 1:43:36 PM

^^^haha, yeah, but I'm getting out of it all...how's ohio going? and you still got tickets for the games?

8/12/2006 10:06:11 PM

They have the steel supports up for both new scoreboards. They are in the process of paving the parking lot on the north side of the stadium.

http://community.webshots.com/album/553218699nysHrx



[Edited on August 17, 2006 at 5:25 PM. Reason : ]

8/17/2006 5:10:21 PM

^what picture is the supports for the new screens? i dont think i understood where they're putting both of them? anyone?

8/17/2006 5:17:18 PM

they are on the concourse in the south endzone. one on each side of the Murphy Center

http://community.webshots.com/album/553218699nysHrx

8/17/2006 5:28:02 PM

http://community.webshots.com/photo/553218699/2296791100095730669hbeWYZ
and the mirror image over on the southeast corner.

8/17/2006 8:49:15 PM

took this pic an hour ago


the metal beams are for the new jumbotron

bleachers reach the screen!

8/22/2006 2:00:00 PM

they better not be so high that we can't see the whole scoreboard

8/22/2006 2:07:47 PM

does this mean that the bleachers that were set up in the corners of the stadium will no longer be there?

8/22/2006 2:28:16 PM

what the hell is going on over there

8/22/2006 2:39:41 PM

http://community.webshots.com/album/553368142VhxBDJ

8/22/2006 2:56:15 PM

what are your opinions on the new digits on the main scoreboard

they are red now, and smaller

8/22/2006 6:45:40 PM

Quote :

"does this mean that the bleachers that were set up in the corners of the stadium will no longer be there?"

yes, these are "permenant" bleachers, as opposed to the temp ones of years past. They are nicer looking and really don't take away from the look of the stadium, esp. when they are filled up with fans in red this fall. If/when the need for tickets is high enough there is potential to put more "permenant" sytle seats in place...

8/22/2006 7:00:16 PM

they don't look smaller.. it kind of looks cool


(for those too lazy to look:

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[Edited on August 23, 2006 at 12:30 AM. Reason : i didn't take this i just linked it off of webshots]

[Edited on August 23, 2006 at 12:43 AM. Reason : might have to right click and view image]

8/23/2006 12:29:45 AM

anyone notice that they put up the block logo in the bricks but didn't put the updated logo instead using the older logo.

8/23/2006 12:34:09 AM

good, the new logo looks like a piece of shit

8/23/2006 1:03:51 AM