Let’s see – went to the annual Sanford Pottery Festival. Haven’t been in a couple of years. I’m not much of a pottery fan – but I did see a couple of cool things. The library had a used book sale tent set up. Picked up a couple of reads.
NCSU Sports
I need to remember to order my season tickets for NCSU football. Orders are due . . . . . Tuesday? I think. Thursday maybe?
I’m going to try and do it on line. I’ve tried using their web site in the past – without success. Each time I end up going to the Wolfpack Club offices to give them my check. And - each time they apologize and tell me that a lot of people have trouble getting the site to work. For a high technology school, the ticket office should be embarrassed to have such a crappy web site. Or, better yet, they should fire the people / contractor responsible.
Between the crown, filling and season tickets – I’m out a bunch of $ this month.
Speaking of NCSU sports . . .
On the basketball front – Coach Lowe has pulled together one of the top recruiting classes in the entire country. We’re talking top 10 – maybe top 5. It’s a given expectation that State will be back in the NCAAT next year. Frankly, with this class – along with the returning players – I think we should make it to the Sweet Sixteen.
Nay, I demand we make it to the Sweet Sixteen!
LOL
I think Coach Lowe is becoming a really good coach. With all this talent we’ll know for sure one way or the other.
Also, our Athletic Director was fired this week. That's positive news too. He wasn't bad - just mediocre.
Actually, Lee Fowler did a good job running a clean program and raising money (via the Wolfpack Club including yours truly) for well planned facility upgrades. Not just the obvious RBC Center and Carter-Finley Stadium - we now have a fantastic baseball stadium (Doak Field); Tennis Complex; updated Track and Field facilities; updated Aquatics Center (Olympic Pool and Diving Complex); and so on. Lee should be applauded and thanked for this.
However, NCSU has lagged in basketball and football on field performance (although both are headed in the right direction and I think results will start showing up). And - the on field performance in the non-major sports has been even worse.
I wasn't one of the rabid Internet fans who've been trying to get him fired. But there's no doubt in my mind - we can do better than Lee Fowler.
We've had a string of crappy ADs for the past couple of decades.
Todd Turner - possibly the worst AD in the entire country. Followed by Les Robinson - terrible coach, not quite as terrible AD. Then Lee Fowler, who was above average on his best day.
At least each AD was better than the last. Let's hope the trend continues and we get a really good one this time.
Weather
It's been unusually dry for at least the past month. I'm beginning to wonder if we're in for another drought like a few years ago.
The raccoons have been coming to the door to get fed earlier and earlier. Today, two of them showed up at 1300. I think they are having trouble catching food with the dry weather. They did the same thing, showing up during daylight, during the last drought.
Addendum
Just ordered my football tickets on-line. The site worked!
It's still very poorly designed and some parts are unclear (the user interface just plain sucks) - but at least it worked.
Football ticket math for 2010 works out as follows:
4 season tickets @ $1220
1 season parking pass @ $120
processing fee @ $23
1/2 of annual Life Time Rights payments @ $300
1/2 of annual required Wolfpack Club donation @ $210
Adds up to $1,873.
4 season tickets times 6 home games = 24 tickets.
$1,873 / 24 = $78.04 per ticket.
Or, $312.16 per game.
That's a lot of moola for about 4 hours of Saturday entertainment.
Ahhhh . . . . Coach O'B - I'd really like to see some more W's this year.
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