A co-worker told me today that less than 5000 tickets have been sold for tonight’s downtown arena matchups which feature both unc-chapel hill and Winthrop. I thought the tarholes were suppose to be the big team in town. Of course, he is a State grad and dislikes the blue fairies more than anyone I know, so who knows.
Maybe they’ll sell a bunch of walk-up tickets to this. The Observer does have at least TWO PRE-GAME articles on the game in today’s paper.
duh…the Bobcats are on the road on TV tonight…
Bobcats > >>> >>> >>>> chapel hill
seats are expensive, but I still would have thought more than that would have been sold.
I have not read the pre-game articles. I imagine it must have looked very similar to this:
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[B]CLEMSON VS. TEMPLE[/B]
[B]Low turnout expected for Clemson-Temple[/B]
[B]Charlotte struggles to draw high-profile college games[/B]
[B]KEN TYSIAC[/B]
[B]ktysiac@charlotteobserver.com[/B]
Dallas gets Texas-Oklahoma.
Jacksonville, Fla., gets Georgia-Florida every year and Florida State-Alabama in 2007.
Charlotte isn’t having as much success landing high-profile, regular-season college football games. Its offering this year – Clemson vs. Temple at 7:30 tonight at Bank of America Stadium – hasn’t generated huge advance ticket sales.
Though Clemson is 5-1 and ranked No. 12 in The Associated Press’ poll, fewer than 30,000 tickets have been sold.
“Maybe we’ll be surprised by the walk-up,” said Raycom Sports president and CEO Ken Haines, whose company is promoting the game.
Haines hoped to sell as many as 50,000 tickets because he thought Clemson fans would be excited about the game in what was forecasted to be a promising season for the Tigers.
But Temple (0-6) isn’t a formidable opponent, and the game is on a Thursday night.
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That’s exactly what it looked like, right?
…right?
Has anyone written to the Observer guy who said they don’t cover pre-game when they’re covering it for UNC & Winthrop, & the Clemson-Temple game.
Let’s just amuse our selves and say that the town used to pull for the “blue faries” but have Niner green running through their blood now… LOL, I know, I know. We can dream right?
Tarheel fans won’t turn out because they are shunning their team. A #2 pre-season ranking is clearly unacceptable to the tarheel fans. If the tarheels reach #1, only then will their fans support them.
[QUOTE=stonecoldken;199009]Has anyone written to the Observer guy who said they don’t cover pre-game when they’re covering it for UNC & Winthrop, & the Clemson-Temple game.[/QUOTE]
We don’t have to write to him. :rolleyes:
He knows what he’s doing. My money says he does a huge pre-game tomorrow to try to get some more of the tarhole faithful to show up.
Actually there was a fire at the Observer last night causing damage to the printing equipment. I don’t think many papers went out. I assume everyone is ok over there.
[URL=http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/16007131.htm][B]Observer resumes publishing Wednesday[/B][/URL]
ANDREW SHAIN
The Charlotte Observer will resume publishing the newspaper on its uptown presses Wednesday - after a power failure early this morning prevented the Carolinas’ largest newspaper from printing and delivering 70 percent of its copies on time.
Crews are spending much of today delivering papers that were published at an alternate site to homes, stores and news racks.
A pressroom power failure meant 156,000 copies sent to readers in Mecklenburg County and parts of 10 surrounding counties were not printed at the normal time. The Observer printed 156,000 black-and-white copies at a Wall Street Journal plant in University City later in the morning. Many of those papers will be delivered with Wednesday’s edition.
Duke Power restored electricity to the Observer pressroom shortly before noon Tuesday.
The problem was believed to be a frayed electrical wire, said Chuck Griffiths, the Observer’s vice president of operations, said Tuesday. No other outages were reported in uptown, a Duke spokesman said.
The office side of the Observer building remained powered.
Many subscribers said they were unable to reach the circulation department because of the high volume of calls.
“We deeply apologize to our readers,” Vice President of Circulation Jim Lamm said.
[QUOTE=LeftyNiner;199065]Actually there was a fire at the Observer last night causing damage to the printing equipment. I don’t think many papers went out. I assume everyone is ok over there.[/QUOTE]
The articles I read were on-line.
7060 people showed up last night to watch the tarheels, thats just a little more than we had against Hofstra, and hofstra didn’t bring any fans.
Gone are the days when a ticket in Charlotte to the the Tar Heels was like holding diamonds.
Gone are the days when a ticket in Charlotte to the the Tar Heels was like holding diamonds.
I am assuming if you were a Winthrop fan who bought a ticket you would get counted in the tar heel numbers correct? So we can subtract probably 2500 (Very conservative) winthrop fans from that number.
[QUOTE=ninerID;199076]I am assuming if you were a Winthrop fan who bought a ticket you would get counted in the tar heel numbers correct? So we can subtract probably 2500 (Very conservative) winthrop fans from that number.[/QUOTE]
7000 - 2500 = 4500 (not counting the fans from the other 2 schools)
That’s not exactly a sign of strong “local” support for the number 2 ranked team in the country that only plays here once this season. One would think all of those fans would have packed the arena since it is their ONLY opportunity to see THEIR team in person this year.
i have two theories.
this town isn’t what it used to be with its love of the “Big 4” There are so many transplants now that your Clemsons, Ohio States, Georgias, etc have flooded the market area.
on the tail end of number 1, and the addition of the panthers and subtraction of the hornets, this town and area flipped from basketball to football at some point
People perhaps also didn’t want to drive into uptown Charlotte 2 nights in a row as well.
Personally, I think it’s a combination of “high” ticket costs for events like that and an over saturation of televised games. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy seeing the games on the tube, but there are so, so many now that it’s ridiculous.
[QUOTE=ninerID;199076]I am assuming if you were a Winthrop fan who bought a ticket you would get counted in the tar heel numbers correct? So we can subtract probably 2500 (Very conservative) winthrop fans from that number.[/QUOTE]
Being at the games yesterday, 2500 is an extremely aggressive number. The arena was Carolina blue with a very small section of Winthrop supporters.
i wasn’t at the game so i don’t know. I would have hoped that winthrop could have put 2500 in there.
I’m surprised the UNC Wal-Mart shoppers don’t support the college that they didn’t go to. Is that what they teach you when you don’t go to college about supporting your team? LOL.