Good press, for once, about a visitor's thoughts of tailgating here.

http://www.bcheights.com/news/2006/09/25/Sports/Welcome.To.Nc.State-2305084.shtml

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"RALEIGH, N.C.-"If you can't go to Carolina, go to State." That's the motto those crazy fans over at Duke in Durham, N.C. live by. And indeed, to the rest of the country, it would seem the same way as well. And I must confess, despite being a longtime follower and fanatic of the ACC myself, I was hesitant to group the big three from the Triangle together. There is of course Duke and North Carolina. And then there is North Carolina State, the seemingly proverbial third child of Tobacco Road. That's why head basketball coach Herb Sendek left at the end of last season for Arizona State. Too much pressure to compete with the other two. But ask any dedicated fan of the Wolfpack and they'll tell you different. "I'll tell you, up until around the '80s, the two schools were us and UNC. That's how we feel down here. Duke didn't come into the picture until sometime in the mid-'80s when Coach K put them on the map," said one alumnus (Class of '85) before the game. And perhaps he's right. Perhaps the school that dominates Raleigh with its 2,240 acre campus is just a book with a perceived bad cover. After all, when The Sporting News ranked the top athletic departments in the land, NC State measured in with a more than impressive No. 9 ranking. To add to that, NC State has had more alumni as head of the top 100 companies in North Carolina than any other university in the state. Yes, that means more than both Duke and UNC. Carter-Finley Stadium, while no Doak Campbell (Florida State) or Clemson Memorial Stadium, certainly holds its own with 57,082 screaming red-and-white clad fans delivering, at times, deafening noise. Not to mention their traveling fan base, which is always more than respectable. With brand new arenas, including the RBC Center (basketball) and Carter-Finley, athletes have access to state-of-the-art facilities rivaled by few other universities around the nation. But what's most impressive is the way their fans conduct themselves. Simply put, I've never met more polite strangers in my entire life. I even got to dine at the Strutting Wolf Grill - and free of charge. I just happened to be passing by a group of tailgaters when a lady asked me if I was hungry and looking for something to eat. It didn't even matter that I was from Boston College. "We're just always happy to meet strangers," she said with a smile. And I was happy to oblige. Actually, I was pulled-Barbecue-pork sandwich, noodle salad and snicker doodle cookies happy to oblige. When I told her how impressed I was with everything, she seemed dumbfounded that tailgating could be done any other way. It doesn't matter if the opponent is Appalachian State, Boston College, or Florida State. Tailgating is tailgating to our neighbors to the south. But what exactly is tailgating to the Wolfpack? It means showing your school pride: wearing your white and red, grilling everything barbecue in front of your monstrous RV or tent, and - if you're legal - throwing back a cold beer or two, from four hours before the game until whenever you choose. After all NC State has an in-and-out policy, allowing fans to come and go from the stadium as they please. So if you're feeling rather thirsty around halftime or just want to "stay in a nice mood," don't hesitate to head back to the tailgate and grab a drink. And if I could drink, I'd toast to this: NC State is no ugly duckling."

9/26/2006 1:53:10 PM

damn straight...

except for the part about being kind to opposing fans...that had to be one in a hundred.

9/26/2006 2:01:42 PM

That's a first...........especially after the shooting incident.........

9/26/2006 2:02:16 PM

how nice of them

9/26/2006 2:02:19 PM

nice write up

9/26/2006 2:07:55 PM

he must have been walking around in that rich-camper section...........

9/26/2006 2:08:50 PM

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""If you can't go to Carolina college, go to State." "

i'm pretty sure that is the chant

9/26/2006 2:10:41 PM

we should've shot them.

9/26/2006 2:12:12 PM

awwww

9/26/2006 2:12:52 PM

grown ups are always nice to visiting fans

its us kids that are always jackasses

9/26/2006 2:13:14 PM

as much as we complain about our tailgating restrictions, it's a whole heck of a lot worse for those poor bastards up there.

9/26/2006 2:14:14 PM

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"its us kids that are always jackasses"

drunk kids that is..........

9/26/2006 2:14:48 PM

yeah, but for those of us who remember the tailgating of 2002 and 2003... NCSU tailgates were legendary...

9/26/2006 2:15:29 PM

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"he must have been walking around in that rich-camper section..........."

haha, no shit.

If you can't go to State, go to UNC.

9/26/2006 2:17:22 PM

Yeah.... legendary for me.

That was when I got my drinking ticket, NCSU vs UNC, 2003. That was right when the ALE starting ruining things.

9/26/2006 2:17:40 PM

gg

9/26/2006 2:28:57 PM

great article, I'm proud of our fans. When VT brought so many people last year, we had their fans tailgate next to us. As much as I hate VT football and what they stand for, I must say their fans were cool and we let them hang with us. Of course we talked trash some and ALMOST backed it up in the game. oh well

9/26/2006 2:45:31 PM

some of our fans are drunk idiots, but the vast majority are pretty friendly when it comes down to it.

Every last one of our fans will be rude to people who come to raleigh with an attitude (UMD...fuck the turtle) but for the most part thats not a problem. Its worse with students just becaues of the BAC.

9/26/2006 3:53:01 PM

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"grown ups are always nice to visiting fans"

not always, I've seen some older rednecks that were shouting and talking shit, both at the tailgate and in the game.

9/26/2006 4:01:35 PM

NC STATE RULES!






























































the shitter

9/26/2006 4:02:25 PM

does BC have a version of the wolf web?

9/26/2006 4:04:43 PM

UNC fans like to walk through our tailgate parties and start shit. Its like a right of passage for tarnuggets to go with their dads and tramp through our parties and get their asses kicked.

9/26/2006 4:44:20 PM

someone post the articles on the game from their paper, i dont want to register

9/26/2006 4:49:21 PM

As much as I'm against the tailgating restrictions, this article in a way justifys them. There is no way this person would have had the same impression if he/she had walked through a student section that had been drinking since sunrise. This is the kind of press the administration is starving for.

9/26/2006 6:05:33 PM

as DC Talk is to rap, NC State is to tailgating

9/26/2006 6:43:58 PM

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"After all, when The Sporting News ranked the top athletic departments in the land, NC State measured in with a more than impressive No. 9 ranking. "

OMG FIRE FOWLER AND ALL OUR COACHES!!!! 8 SCHOOLS ARE BETTER THAN WE ARE!

9/26/2006 7:28:35 PM

^^And you are to being a douchebag as michael jackson is to child molester

9/26/2006 7:54:27 PM

i love this college

9/26/2006 8:39:17 PM

Someone else needs to find a forum they have, if any, for me.

many thanks

9/26/2006 8:43:01 PM

http://bostoncollege.rivals.com/forum.asp?style=1&sid=1007&fid=603&pid=79791994

only one i can find, it's lame.

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"the bottom line is, from top to bottom, this program is not good enough to win the ACC. There is blame to go all around, but really good teams do not lose the way we lose. We were flat out lucky to be 3-0 given the level of talent and experience we have, not to mention the playcalling liability."

glad to see that not all BC fans are delusional

[Edited on September 26, 2006 at 9:06 PM. Reason : ]

9/26/2006 8:48:11 PM

look at that wolfpack bringing some class to the table

9/26/2006 9:14:10 PM

class?


thats laughable

9/26/2006 9:15:13 PM

POST-STALKER

9/26/2006 9:18:21 PM

fuck you n00b

9/26/2006 9:21:55 PM

how kind of them

9/26/2006 9:24:47 PM

^^ you're gonna get the most hideous concoction i can think of

i wonder tailgating at bc is like

probably a bunch of dudes standing around talking about how the bosox didn't make the playoffs

9/26/2006 9:29:30 PM

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"I just happened to be passing by a group of tailgaters when a lady asked me if I was hungry and looking for something to eat. It didn't even matter that I was from Boston College. "We're just always happy to meet strangers," she said with a smile."

first you get on their good side. then you feed them a couple of zimas. then that sweet ass is all yours.

9/26/2006 9:44:56 PM

9/26/2006 9:59:48 PM

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"i wonder tailgating at bc is like probably a bunch of dudes standing around talking about how the bosox didn't make the playoffs"

i went up there last year. the parking situation sucks if you're not a student or high dollar donating alumni of BC. i believe tailgating is restricted to 3 hours prior to the game. i think the police come through 30 mins prior to the game telling people to pack it up. some tailgate on the baseball field, and others tailgate in the parking deck connected to the stadium. some kind of body of water (lake/river) goes by near there. also no tailgating is allowed afterwards if it's not a noon game. the stadium is close to the Newton line, which from what i hear is mainly a bunch of old jewish people that hate BC. inside the stadium, the lower level seats are all aluminum bleachers. i mean not just the actual benches, the actual stands are too. the students stomp on the aluminum to create a kind of booming, thunder sound on 3rd downs. i don't know what the upper decks are made out of since i didn't go up there. the concourses are a little weird, with half of them underneath the lower level bleachers and some in-between the upper and lower levels. for the lower levels, the entrances come out at the bottom of the stands. there are two screens in the endzones. they're in-between the lower levels and the upper decks. also the upper decks in the endzones are pretty poorly lit. i could barely see the people up there. i guess BC likes it that way so that you can't see when those two decks are not filled up.

9/26/2006 10:31:35 PM

its always nice when someone actually says something good about us

9/26/2006 10:58:49 PM

cuz you know damn well WE wont say anything good about ourselves

9/26/2006 11:10:19 PM

^^^yea we "tailgated" from somebody's apartment a few blocks away

I laughed when I bought a coke and it came in a paper cup (not the usual souvenir plastic!)

9/26/2006 11:22:19 PM

Aww yay! It's nice to read something positive for a change...

9/26/2006 11:47:56 PM

99% of the bad rap we get for bad fans happens to be because previously, student parking and visitor parking were together. This = disaster. And yes, UNC fans do offer the bait, but instead of just firing back with words, NC State fans do not hesititate to be the first to engage in fist fights. It's kind of like in football where the second person to react always gets the flag. If this BC guy had been a tarhole, he'd be lucky to make it out on both legs. I've seen 65 year old women of the opposing team get harassed from our "tough" fanbase.

9/26/2006 11:50:40 PM

which one of you offered them our pulled pork? that is WOLFPACK pulled pork. NOT golden eagle pulled pork. for shame....

9/27/2006 12:09:59 AM

We are so NICE! yea!

9/27/2006 1:40:35 AM

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"After all, when The Sporting News ranked the top athletic departments in the land, NC State measured in with a more than impressive No. 9 ranking."

can anyone find this article?

9/27/2006 2:05:51 AM

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"If this BC guy had been a tarhole, he'd be lucky to make it out on both legs."

to be fair, most primary rivalries are like that. tOSU fans were cool as shit to us, but they all qualified their kindness by saying "its not like this for michigan"

9/27/2006 2:30:19 PM

^^I used to subscribe to TSN....I have it here somewhere.

Im pretty sure that is accurate if that is what you are wondering.

9/27/2006 3:28:29 PM

This is because BC is new to the ACC and we haven't learned to hate them yet.

They'll get their turn...

9/27/2006 5:20:58 PM