Had a good time and enjoyed listening to the various coaches speak. The main speakers were Bobby Purcell, long time head of the Wolfpack Club, and Sidney Lowe, head basketball coach.
We didn’t stay afterwards for the meet and mingle part – Nuke has a shoulder fracture and was hurting pretty bad. Plus, it already lasted a couple hours and I was tired and wanted to get home.
Here's a pretty accurate joke I heard:
Q - What does a Carolina fan and a State fan have in common?
A - Neither of them went to UNC.
I've mentioned numerious times in this Journal about how NC State has big time football aspirations.
Bobby Purcell reported to us that we had about 25,000 attend the Spring Football Game last month. Nothing like they get at Nebraska or Ohio State (yet!) for their spring games - but here's the telling factoid -
Add up the Spring Football Game attendence for UNC + Duke + East Carolina + Wake Forest. Their combined attendence is less that for our (NC State) practice game.
Now - if we could only get better than a 6 and 6 season . . . . .
LOL
Food
The meeting was held at Ron’s Barn Restaurant. First time I've been there. Pretty standard local BBQ and fried seafood buffet. OK - but nothing you’d go out of your way for. The right kind of place for this type of gathering.
Carolina Hurricanes
Got home in time to see the third period and the overtime of the 'Canes - 'Bruins playoff game.
I'm not a big Hockey fan - but that was a furiously played period and overtime. It was exciting to watch. You could tell from the TV that the 'Canes fans had the RBC rocking.
2 comments:
Did you say goodbye to Coach Lowe? If he does not have a stellar season, he will be on the unemployment line. He was horrible choice, and now the rest of the NCSU fans are beginning to realize that. When you hear the sports radio guys reminisce fondly for HERB SENDEK, you know times are baddddddd.......
reminiscing fondly for Herb Sendek, 20 wins a year, sweet 16 every now and then . . .
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