more evidence UNC treats football as 2nd class citizen

law_bee said:
I have been to a UNC game and found it to be a typical parking experience (Uva, Ugag, GT, Dook, and etc.)

The UNC AD is being a tool to FB the same way ugag hangs out BB.

If this was a final four, ACC tourney or etc THEY WOULD SHUT DOWN 4 COUNTIES to make it work.
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No way. Parking at UNC is insane. Duke is easy, no matter how many fans show up. For that matter, parking for the Dean Dome is crazy, there just aren't as many people. You can end up walking 4-5 miles depending on where you get stuck.
 
law_bee said:
my issue it is ONE DAY a freaking year! They cannot endure that hardship.

To me this reeks of bush league but good for us. I am sure this will be making the recruiting rounds.

Recently some of these NC locals were complaining about Lowes motorspeedway so this guy started looking for a new place to put his racetrack. lol

It cost the local about ~$50 mil in tax breaks to keep the track in concord.

It seems these locals are a bunch of whiners and don't care about the ESPN exposure and etc.
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Huh? Lowe's Motor Speedway is in Charlotte...
 
I went to the UNC/GT game at NC a few years ago. It was a night game and the weather was suppose to be bad (we lost to an inferior team). All I know is I parked and walked to the stadium. It was a decent turnout around ~48k.

I think the most I walked was for the UVA game. The point of this post is as listed that UNC is not willing to be inconvenienced to the benefit of their football program.
 
law_bee said:
I went to the UNC/GT game at NC a few years ago. It was a night game and the weather was suppose to be bad (we lost to an inferior team). All I know is I parked and walked to the stadium. It was a decent turnout around ~48k.

I think the most I walked was for the UVA game. The point of this post is as listed that UNC is not willing to be inconvenienced to the benefit of their football program.
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U[sic]GA won't do Thursday night games either. I think they take their football pretty seriously. To be fair, I would guess that's because Thursday night games wouldn't allow time for all the rednecks to drive in to Athens, but still...just because a program can't do Thursday night games doesn't mean they are shunning football.
 
ncjacket said:
How many of you have been to a game at UNC? It's hard to find parking for women's soccer there, much less football. In fact, most of the parking for football is off campus, at shopping centers, etc., where you catch a bus to the stadium. I can understand why they wouldn't want to try to deal with a Thursday night game with their campus situation.

FWIW, there are plenty of students at UNC who can't park on campus for lack of parking and employees of the Medical Center and Hospital who park miles from their work and use a transit system to get to work. It's a really bad situation all around.
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I went to their game against GT back in '06 and I had to park at the Friday Center and wait for the bus along with about 300 UNC fans.
 
law_bee said:
I went to the UNC/GT game at NC a few years ago. It was a night game and the weather was suppose to be bad (we lost to an inferior team). All I know is I parked and walked to the stadium. It was a decent turnout around ~48k.

I think the most I walked was for the UVA game. The point of this post is as listed that UNC is not willing to be inconvenienced to the benefit of their football program.
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So you went to one game one time...I'd say that's a pretty meaningless sample size. I've been to numerous games over the years and parking in Chapel Hill is ridiculous. Not saying they're that serious about football, but also can't criticize them too much about not wanting a Thursday night game.
 
Did you read the article?

if your head coach is asking you to inconvenience yourself for ONE GAME a year and you blow him off it speaks volumes

It seems Mack Brown had similar feelings which allowed him to leave.

A school like UNC (struggling BUT TONS OF POTENTIAL) could use a national game to highlight its program.

How many programs in the ACC would blow off their head coach if he requested a thursday night game?
 
law_bee said:
It seems Mack Brown had similar feelings which allowed him to leave.
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I wasn't aware that Mack Brown said or implied that UNC was bad to him...any link to that being the reason he left for a big-time school in a big-time football conference?
 
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