I will be there, Sec. 108, Row Y!

Go Pack!

12/20/2010 6:50:28 PM

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[Edited on December 21, 2010 at 9:05 AM. Reason : +]

12/21/2010 9:05:08 AM

fwiw, here are TOB's results vs. West Virginia while at BC:

1997: W 31-24
1998: L 35-10
1999: W 34-17
2000: L 14-34
2001: W 34-10
2002: L 14-24
2003: L 28-35
2004: W 36-17

If anything, at least TOB is familiar with them and knows how to beat them. Granted, he never faced Pat White (2005-08) or Slaton (05-07). But Coach Stewart was an offensive coach under Rich Rodriguez during his tenure, and still has a dual-threat QB in Smith and a dangerously fast RB in Devine.

[Edited on December 21, 2010 at 10:58 AM. Reason : g]

12/21/2010 10:56:10 AM

We'll have the bigger crowd in Orlando for sure.

http://dailymail.com/Sports/201012191588

12/21/2010 5:38:07 PM

^not to mention that just about everyone i've seen online has gotten their tickets from stubhub or some other means besides the wolfpack club and the official school allotment. We'll have a good crowd.

12/21/2010 7:20:43 PM

But then there are people like me, who bought more tickets than I should have, because I thought my family was going to be in Florida for Christmas this year.

If anyone needs two tickets, section 205, row X, let me know...

12/21/2010 7:30:42 PM

Not the endorsement the Papajohns bowl was hoping for im sure

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"N.C. State played in the PapaJohns.com Bowl in Birmingham, Ala., in 2008. Williams remembers a field as hard as concrete that he didn't want to fall on, and little went right for Cole on the trip. "It was cold," Cole said. "The town was empty because it was Christmas. The stadium was not the nicest. It wasn't in a really great area. And the comedy show was terrible. "But I'd say we had a good time all together. We made fun out of it and had a good time. But I think this one's going to be a lot better.""

12/22/2010 4:16:09 AM

"Good" news for us, bad news for this kid:

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"WHEN THE Mountaineers returned to workouts Saturday to prepare here for the Champs sports Bowl, starting cornerback Brandon Hogan still wasn't able to practice. Hogan suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in WVU's Dec. 4 victory over Rutgers."

[Edited on December 22, 2010 at 9:06 AM. Reason : insert "Hogan tore his knee, might be out" meme]

12/22/2010 9:06:07 AM

One more plug. If someone wants to do an impromtu trip in my small plane down to Orlando for the game (leave Tuesday, come back Wednesday), then let me know. I have one other definite. Not including any rental cars fees or hotel stay when we get down there (we'll make it as cheap as possible), I will want $100 per person for the gas in the plane. Send me a PM.

12/22/2010 9:21:21 AM

^Its a damn good deal and wish I could, but I have work

12/22/2010 9:34:54 AM

^^ WOW I really wish that I could take you up on that. That would be a kickass trip!

12/22/2010 9:57:38 AM

Yeah, post it up earlier for next year's bowl (knock on wood )

12/22/2010 10:00:51 AM

Well, its all weather dependent. The people that will be best for this trip are those who werent going to make the drive, or pay for an expensive airplane ticket, and will go if its cheap and easy. Weather forecasts are generally shit. So the decision will probably be made a day before the bowl game.

12/22/2010 10:24:29 AM

i'll probably take my G6

12/22/2010 10:37:12 AM

The WPC needs to overcome people's bad experience of inconvenience and slow turnaround of going through them. In the past, the NC State allotment has often been for worse seats than were available on ticketmaster or through the bowl, and you don't have the advantage and convenience of knowing what seat you are buying and purchasing it instantly online. I know they are trying to maintain integrity of the WPC rankings and look after the big donors, but I feel like many (maybe 50%?) more people would purchase tickets through the school if it could be done in an automated fashion. When people are accustomed to buying tickets online, they don't like to put an order in and wait for whatever tickets WPC assigns like the old days especially when bowl trips require such quick planning.

Honestly they should consider doing one of the following:

1) Scrap the WPC rankings entirely for the bowl and implement a sametime ticketmaster-style request online system on a first come, first served basis

2) Set aside a small percentage of the allotment for the WPC highest ranking donors, and do the rest online. Keep in mind if the remaining tickets in the NC State allotments are worse seats than are available to the general public through the bowl, people will not buy them.

3) Implement a short (1-2 day) electronic window after the bowl invite for WPC members/fans to request tickets, be assigned by ranking, and maybe even have an option on whether to claim or reject tickets.

4) Work with the ticket sales vendor to get a group code, so NC State commits to buying a fixed number of tickets rather than a block of seats. Any seats purchased through that code count against the NC State allotment.


Obviously the WPC wants to assign everything possible by rankings, which makes sense for season tickets/parking (season-long events with a long turnaround time) but is it worth missing bowl allotments (even when we take enough fans to the game to fill it)?


For what it's worth, the timing of the game midweek so soon after Christmas and the fact that we haven't gone to bowls with any consistency in recent years, and thus don't make holiday plans expecting it are both also responsible for driving down tickets IMO. I do like that Chris Kingston was pointing out that most of the Ticketmaster sales are going to NC addresses as well, which at least helps from a PR/bowl portfolio perspective if not the bottom line.

[Edited on December 22, 2010 at 11:39 AM. Reason : .]

12/22/2010 11:35:58 AM

sec 108, row CC

12/23/2010 11:07:06 AM

Ive got three tickets for sale in the endzone, 3 rows up from the field.

I had some people bail on me after I bought the tickets, pm me if youre interested

12/23/2010 12:09:39 PM

More good news

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"Stewart confirms academic casualties By Dave Hickman MORGANTOWN - Bill Stewart confirmed Wednesday that West Virginia will be without a handful of academic casualties for its bowl game on Tuesday, but would not identify them specifically because some of the cases may still be resolved. Still, it appears likely that at least one starter and one backup will be affected. The starter is believed to be center Joe Madsen, while the backup is thought to be defensive lineman Josh Taylor. The Mountaineers leave today for their appearance against North Carolina State in the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando. In addition to Madsen and Taylor, there could be other casualties because of grades. As it turns out, though, one doesn't matter. Cornerback Brandon Hogan is also believed to be academically ineligible, but he has been ruled out anyway because of his knee injury."

12/23/2010 12:20:23 PM

lol <3 Irving

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"Things I thought I would never say on a plane: #1 my seat go back too far #2 I got too much room up here #3 what we need all this space for? #4 ain't this the music they play in spas??? #5 damn I actually do get cell phone service up here!!!"

[Edited on December 23, 2010 at 12:53 PM. Reason : ]

12/23/2010 12:52:54 PM

After scanning the thread, will this be on espn3 or whatever the special twc espn online stream is?

12/24/2010 3:11:07 PM

ive got 3 tickets in section 106 4th row back. pm me if anyone wants them

12/24/2010 4:59:41 PM

all of ESPN's bowl games are ESPN3 / ESPN Mobile TV

that ESPN Networks always works for something on ESPN even if it isn't on ESPN3, i think.

12/24/2010 5:20:30 PM

Anybody want some tickets

12/25/2010 2:30:30 PM

I've got 2 in section 205, row X. I'm trying to get rid of them for $45/per, but I'll part with them for less if they go to a tww'er. Just make an offer. I got them for $65/per through the Wolpfack Club, but then I realized that I wasn't going go be in FL for Christmas as I had thought. I just don't want to lose too much money...

I'll be at the game in the student section (202), so we can either exchange them here or there, but preferably somewhere before I leave early Tuesday morning.

12/25/2010 8:03:12 PM

Quote :

"but then I realized that I wasn't going go be in FL for Christmas as I had thought. I just don't want to lose too much money..."

Quote :

"I'll be at the game"

12/25/2010 8:36:18 PM

I'm with Jaybee, sounds to me like a bunch of mularkey to me.

12/25/2010 8:52:32 PM

probably means the basketball game

12/25/2010 8:54:07 PM

Nah. I thought I would be in FL with the family for Christmas, so I bought 2 tickets through the WPC lottery, thinking that I would bring my dad. Then I found out we wouldn't be in FL less than a week later. Then I found out that Student Government got a charter bus to bring students down to Orlando. It's free for students, so I just got a regular student ticket (which ended up being a bit better - in section 202, row E), and will take that down.

But now I'm stuck with those original 2 tickets I purchased since no other family will be down there, and I wouldn't have any way of getting down there unless I go by myself. Luckily, a couple friends are also taking that bus down, so I won't be bored out of my mind for 20 hours.

EDIT: Oh yeah...if anyone wants my student tickets for the Alabama A&M game, let me know. Section 120, Row D. Needs a student id.

[Edited on December 25, 2010 at 9:52 PM. Reason : -]

12/25/2010 9:50:55 PM

I'll be in downton DC Tuesday night. Any State bars up there?

12/26/2010 11:57:57 AM

^shut up, not relevant.

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"Student Government got a charter bus"

YES one whole charter bus full of fans. we travel in packs

12/26/2010 12:03:56 PM

Quote :

"Wilson has watched film of West Virginia for more than a week and also sees some similarities with the Pirates' offense. "They remind you a lot of ECU because they run a lot of bubble screens, tunnel screens and quick routes to the receivers," Wilson said. "They are such good athletes that they like to get the ball in their hands and let them move from then on. [Open-field] tackling is going to be real important. "

http://ncstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1168780

12/26/2010 12:13:23 PM

warm up the dancing L

12/26/2010 12:21:33 PM

Well I'll be there, finally giving back for the several free trips and all the games I went to over the years. Hopefully I won't regret it.

12/26/2010 1:44:13 PM

Whatever small amount of national exposure we were going to get from this game just got cut with the NFL moving the Eagles game to Tuesday.

12/26/2010 1:55:06 PM

Yep

Fucking BLOWS

will probably end up being one of the lowest rated bowl games this year

[Edited on December 26, 2010 at 2:28 PM. Reason : .]

12/26/2010 2:27:46 PM

good, less people to see us shit the bed in comical fashion

12/26/2010 2:43:03 PM

It hurts to look at the posts in all these fucking threads. Why on earth do people think the pack is gonna "shit the bed". For a team picked to only win 5 games this year I'm pretty fucking happy about the entire season and a way to end it on a good note.

12/26/2010 3:31:12 PM

fucking blizzards, always stealing our thunder

12/26/2010 4:06:50 PM

someone is selling 2 tickets for $50
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/tix/2129729671.html

[Edited on December 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM. Reason : ]

12/26/2010 7:24:07 PM

Quote :

"The NC State Champs Sports Bowl pep rally, which was scheduled for 5:45 p.m. on Monday at Pointe Orlando, has been cancelled. The Wolfpack band and cheerleaders had planned to leave from campus on Sunday morning to travel to Orlando, but due to the snow in the area, students in both groups were unable to get back to Raleigh after spending Christmas at home. The band and cheerleaders are now scheduled to leave Raleigh tomorrow morning and will be in Orlando in plenty of time for game day activities on Tuesday."

12/26/2010 7:40:55 PM

Last attempt. Right now I really only have one other person that wants to split the costs to fly in my small plane on Tuesday to return Wednesday. Forecast looks good. Send me a PM now if you are interested. Last post, I promise.

12/26/2010 9:03:39 PM

Anyone know of a way to listen to the radio broadcast on iphone?

12/27/2010 2:40:43 PM

theres a number of radio apps for the iphone, can't look them up atm. check out the iphone thread in tech talk and ask there...

12/27/2010 4:24:26 PM

Carzin, I'm in if you let me sit in your lap and steer for a while.

12/27/2010 4:29:11 PM

Made it down here around 3pm despite the horrendous road conditions. Only people we saw were ncstate cars on the road, and 2 wvu fans. Stayin across from the team hotel and we're about to go out in Pointe Orlando and represent!

What better place to start than Howl at the Moon!!!!!

GO PACK!!!!!!

12/27/2010 7:05:09 PM

^ seriously, south carolinians cant fucking drive. we got here 2 hrs late because of the pointless backup caused by a car in the median.

staying at the days inn off the I-4 exit. quite a few wvu folks staying here i think. we'll bein section 111

12/27/2010 9:42:25 PM

^staying in the same hotel with 4 other wolfpack fans. Currently downtown at Pipers getting beer and pizza and repping the wolfpack with WOLF! PACK! cheers among the other fans.

GO PACK!

12/27/2010 10:00:46 PM

Anyone tailgating tomorrow?

12/27/2010 10:01:55 PM

not bowl related, but SportsSouth's 'Spotlight' program is on right now (10pm-11pm) and its about State

12/27/2010 10:13:54 PM

We went to the Champ's Sports Kickoff luncheon today, both teams were there. It was pretty cool. The WVU players were pretty full of themselves - our guys just sat back and kept their mouths shut. Talked to Debbie for a few minutes. Went to Tampa for the night - gonna hit up the aquarium tomorrow then head back to Orlando for the pregame festivities and such.

Go PACK!

12/27/2010 10:21:15 PM