Recent content by billybud

Enjoyed the Wake-GT game...GT pulled it out in OT...

It was a great game for fans...double OT....If was a heart breaker as all double OT games are. Hate is corrosive you know. Fun football...Syracuse OT...FSU-VA...double OT..and watching GT-Wkle right now...23-20 Wake with 3 minutes left

My Uncle was a Pesavento...from Illinois and married my dad's sister (from Wisconsin)...he ran his dad's Italian restaurant in Chicago before inheriting...Pesavento's, on S. Front Street.

In Florida...with an immense shoreline...it is the beach...In North Carolina, it is the beach...must be a Jersey thing...like Snooki and guidos..all I know about the Garden State (Italian Americans are exotic in the deep south).

Being at a beach is a state of mind...although I spent decades near the prettiest beaches in the US (from Pensacola to Panama City), I find some NC mountain beaches to be relaxing and very pretty. Certainly better than the Jersey Shore... Huh ? Why do folks in New Jersey go to "the shore" and...

FSU has played 4 six home game schedules in the last 10 years...but they subbed a home game for a neutral site game in Dublin, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Atlanta. Every other year, either Florida or Miami is away...and there are 2 ND at home and 3 away through 2036.

Isn't that Lettuce Lake Park? Owned by Hillsborough County ?

LOL...the first time we tail gated in a parking garage, we were very skeptical...not our favorite, but it was a great party...cooking was limited but folks were handing out drinks, had TV's up, music on...even some old folks got up and danced...Over the last 50 years, tailgating at campus...

On Saturdays, USF will have a seven story parking garage and 17 surface lots available...They could run buses as a shuttle service from the more distant lots (FSU does this).

FSU scheduled H&H's with BAMA and Georgia..and has Notre Dame every other year from next year through 2036.... And Clemson signed a separate (non ACC) contract with the Irish to play every year. Notre Dame has Clemson (9X), FSU (5X), and Miami (5X) from 2026-36. Playing brands builds your brand.

A winning UConn team would be one of a handful of desirable matches. Especially for Eastern audiences.

With revenue sharing based on rolling five year viewership, I assume ACC schools will talk to ESPN about matches that might garner the better time slots and network. ABC, ESPN being favored…than ESPN2 and down to ACCN and ESPN plus.

well....I don't go back a decade...in the last three years...even in their two below .500 years...they are doing 39,000 or so.. They are comparable to USF, Oregon State, Cuse, Cincinnati, in attendance...and, last year in their 5-7 year.. higher attended than Duke, Wake, Houston, Maryland...

Kansas' 2023 average attendance was 45,888....their 2022 average was 43,076...there was a small bump between their losing 2022 season (6-7) and their 9-4 2023 season... In 2024, their record fell to 5-7 and attendance dropped to 39,408...