Inside Scoop

1) and please listen very carefully -- ....(.....)...insert the two words of your choice and neither one is Merry Christmas-- no one has ever told me what to say -- or when to say it -- ever. If you think that is the case I will give you any number of Maryland Administration's staff's cell phone numbers -- and if that doesn't do it for you you we could move to some regents, the president of the state senate, the current or past Gov. of the state

2) go back and reread -- did I simply say students? No I said fans and students -- fans means everyone that has tickets and supports the teams.

There are people who come here and pay to bitch who don't go to games or give a dime -- in my mind they suck.

Yes I think our students and fans could be better -- a lot better -- and you know what I've been in about 50 more college gyms than you have so I've got a pretty decent idea about that.

no it was not and I have a very good view of it -- the early acc games got good crowds because it was break and we sold the student tickets.

Fans, especially students, were fine this year given product and recent history. A couple of things re: Cole:

1. It seated about 4,000 less people so it was a tougher ticket in general.
2. It's complete revisionist history to suggest that Cole was consistently packed for games against weak opponents.

again let me circle back to "fans and students"-- in cole sections D E F were always full from 1970 forward. That was the none student section -- when we went to Comcast those sections went to $$ not to loyalty. Now they are never full -- except for the biggest games

I want to take this thread out back and have Dez Wells dunk on it like its Justin Anderson.

3. There was no point getting up at halftime at Cole unless you were leaving.

I'm half serious about this one. One of the huge momentum killers in Comcast is having half the crowd out getting a Dove bar (?) instead of in their seats for the start of the second half. Get up, go pee, get back, sit down and be ready. Oh, and wait for a timeout to walk to your seat.

And stay off my lawn, damn it.

Having few bathrooms didn't help either. I can remember standing up at halftime and that was it. Part of why I liked it so much; it was a place you went to watch the game not shop for t-shirts.