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Pack bowl sales reach 5,500
Submitted by kentysiac on 12/18/2008 - 16:42
N.C. State’s ticket office has sold about 5,500 of the school’s allotment of 10,000 seats for the Papajohns.com Bowl, school assistant athletics director for ticket operations Brian Kelly said Thursday.
The Wolfpack (6-6) will meet Rutgers (7-5) on Dec. 29 in the game in Birmingham, Ala. Kelly said school officials still are taking orders daily. The school ticket office will take orders by phone through Tuesday and will continue accepting online orders through Dec. 26.
Bowl sales and marketing manager Bo Kerr said most of the ticket orders taken directly by the bowl are received online, so it’s impossible to tell for sure how many patrons of that outlet are N.C. State fans. But he said there are a lot of orders from fans who have phone numbers with North Carolina area codes.
“We’ve gotten very good response from N.C. State,” Kerr said. “We’re expecting to have a good crowd.”
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Ken Tysiac
Ken Tysiac has covered the ACC for The Charlotte Observer since 2003, and spent the previous eight years covering Clemson for the Anderson Independent-Mail and then The State in South Carolina. He grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
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Comments
interesting ... 45%
Fri, 12/19/2008 - 17:27 — gvillegatrso 4500 NCSU fans will by pass tickets from the school to march right up to the ticket counter and purchase them there. uumm, OK.
for better seats
Sat, 12/20/2008 - 08:20 — noneyabusinessyes. unfortunately, the schools usually dont get the choice seats for their allotments. That never made sense to me.
When we went to the Orange Bowl a couple years ago, Wake fans had one corner (from midfield to behind the goalpost), and Louisville had the other. We felt like fools buying from the school since our very low donor level put us in the endzone. A lot of deacon grads are loaded...
I think you'll see a fairly
Fri, 12/19/2008 - 11:46 — JamesinWillowSpringsI think you'll see a fairly healthy number of State fans there for the bowl. Probably close to 10K. Not bad for a lower-tier bowl 9 hours away on a Monday.