Raleigh — About 100 people at the N.C. State game, and 11 who played defense at Carter-Finley Stadium were treated Saturday afternoon for heat exhaustion and dehydration.
It was definitely HOT today…but, I’ve been to much hotter. However, I have never been to a game this hot with an organization where the ENTIRE STADIUM was SOLD OUT of water before halftime!!!
Absurd!!! Completely inexcusable!!! To quote NeverQuitPacker from Pack Pride’s conversation on this topic:
Simple fact is that Athletics Programs such as ours are multi, multi-million dollar business operations being run by people who do not have the experience or proven skills to run such operations. Most are former jocks or career state “webe”employees who are fine work-a-day folk, but are WAY out of their league when it comes to management of an operation this size.
Just for a moment -stop thinking of this as an indication of the inconvenience stupidity and DANGEROUSNESS of this situation.
Think about this as an indication of just how poorly mis-managed so much of the department that you never hear about must be.
We ALWAYS hear about the importance of money to Athletics Department. On a day like today they literally left tens of thousands of dollars on the table because of their ineptitude. You can only wonder where else ‘they’ fail to maximize revenue and control expenses (see any year’s woman’s basketball schedule and travel itinerary).
Heck…just a few days like today and MAYBE they could have enough money to start building the new concourse, entrance gates and bathrooms on the East Side that were promised with C-F expansion but seem to have been forgotten.
