RE: Two questions for Statefan
No I live in NC.
We played at Arizona State in 1975 and in the late 1960's IIRC.
We played at UCLA in 1958 and 1960 of there abouts.
No return on these games.
We played Arizona in the Copper Bowl back in the late 1980's and ASU in the Sun bowl back in 2017.
PSU lowered itself to play us 2 for 1 and most of the games were the games of the year for us.
Riddick Stadium was a matchstick box compared to Kenan and Wallace Wade, even back in the 1930's. Without a real stadium we played a lot of games away and often played teams like VT or UVa at "neutral" sites in Richmond or in Hampton Roads.
NC State has no multi generational wealth to tap like ND, Pitt, UVa, BC, Duke, and UNC. Without a dental, medical, pharmacy, or business school that avenue to wealthy alums is not in the cards for NC State. Unlike Clemson who puts their eggs in one basket and pushes that basket, NC State attempts to fund football and basketball but we do not control our own facilities. We lose CF to the NC State fair for two weekends in October, we lose the Basketball arena to the Carolina Hurricanes from time to time.
The issue of how far you can take the equipment before flying it is an issue and since NC State is tight with money you can see how playing west of Lubbock just does not happen. More importantly if you **** up the tail gate the AD never hears the end of it. Bad tailgating at BC, Syracuse, and UNC are all problems for the fans.
GT always got a pass because the Varsity is just across the highway.
UVa, VT, WF, Clemson, FSU, and Miami are good tailgates. Outside the league, UGA, Auburn, Florida, PSU, and the absolute grand daddy - Ole Miss (double damn).
I would love to play UCLA, Washington State, Utah, Colorado, Oregon State, as well as PSU, MSU, Minnesotta, Texas, TAMU, Bama, Auburn, TN, and KY.
We only seat 60K. We can't provide enough seating space for Bama, PSU, TN, Auburn, UGa, etc., because we will sell all those tickets to our own fans. Carter Finley needs to seat about 68-72K, but that means 10-12K empty seats for Southwest Bum **** State U (however we will still sell half those seats).
That means we are back to some 1-2 or 2 and 3 deal, or something home, away, and in Fed Ex, Charlotte, or Atlanta.
It just becomes easier to play Elon.
(This post was last modified: 11-25-2019 04:54 PM by Statefan.)
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