TOB adds running backs coach, makes staff changes; Seating changes at Carter-Finley

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In the past six years, Sands has coached three Bulldog running backs who were named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman team and had a back break the single-season and single-game school records for touchdowns. This was his second stint at The Citadel, as he also served as an assistant coach for the Bulldogs in 1999 and 2000.

Between his two coaching stints at The Citadel, Sands spent four years coaching the offensive backfield at Ohio University (2001-04). He coached the running backs at Elon from 1996-98…..

……Sands will replace Jason Swepson, a member of O’Brien’s staff at Boston College and NC State since 1999 who was recently named head coach at Elon. After having the same offensive staff in place for the past eight seasons (four at BC and four at NC State), O’Brien has made some adjustments in assignments. Jim Bridge, who has coached tight ends under O’Brien since 2003 will now coach the Wolfpack offensive line while Don Horton, who has coached O’Brien’s offensive line since 2003, will now coach the tight ends.

“With Jason’s departure and Everette’s arrival, we decided it was time to move some folks around and give our offensive staff a different look,” said O’Brien. “After eight years with the same offensive staff, this was a good time to do that. We are looking forward to this new structure and putting together some new concepts and coming up with new ideas.”

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Just saw this seating chart in the pdf of the 2011 season ticket information brochure and thought some things were interesting:

* Students have been given additional seats.  As far as I know, the entirety of 319-326 has always been non-LTR season ticket purchase.  This year the students have 323-326.  This must be a move in reaction to the problems we had with unmet student demand last season – which was only partially met by the installation of temporary bleachers. 

* The very small downstairs visitors section — where the band goes if they bring a band — has been moved from half of 17 to half of 1 — an even swap numbers-wise with half of the “Former Athletes” seats.  Here the downstairs visitors/band will be close to the visitors tunnel, so that makes logical sense.  It also shifts these visitors seats to a less favorable (in my opinion) area given the sun issues possible on the East side and the less-developed amenities on the East concourse. 

* The students continue to have all of the lower rings of both end zones.  I like this for a few reasons — more noise, faster seat access, and better TV appearance.

* Only 319-321 are apparently still available for non-LTR season ticket purchase.  This should drive LTR demand and make tickets scarcer in general.

* The faculty/staff seem to have gained some seats — section 322.

* We continue to splinter the visitors more than any other place I have been — I love it.

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23 Responses to TOB adds running backs coach, makes staff changes; Seating changes at Carter-Finley

  1. section2chuck 02/15/2011 at 1:23 PM #

    I say give the visitors one section, that’s it…screw them, they are the visitors…

    Go ‘Pack!!!

  2. johnboyNCSU 02/15/2011 at 1:42 PM #

    As a section 18 resident, I love it. We always had to take the brunt of the obnoxious visitors in the bathrooms. Glad to see it will get spread out a little better.

  3. Old MacDonald 02/15/2011 at 1:47 PM #

    @section2chuck: We are required to have 4,500 (IIRC) seats available to visiting schools per ACC agreement — all visitors are required to have at least that number available at every stadium.

  4. baxter 02/15/2011 at 2:08 PM #

    ^ ah but does it say they all have to be together? Lets give em 4500 seats, but spread them by four seat allotments all over the stadium.

    Or better yet, half of 9 and half of 15.

    Why not let the people who actually come for each game have dibs on the better seats?

  5. Alpha Wolf 02/15/2011 at 2:11 PM #

    Lets give em 4500 seats, but spread them by four seat allotments all over the stadium

    I would build temporary bleachers on top of Vaughn Towers and let them have those, but that’s just me.

  6. Plz2BStateFan 02/15/2011 at 2:18 PM #

    While I like all of these changes, it will make it harder for me to get non LTR season tickets and go to any games.

  7. Master 02/15/2011 at 2:47 PM #

    Plz2BStateFan – just get LTR tickets man. Its the honorable thing for ALL Wolfpack fans to do.

  8. PackInsider 02/15/2011 at 2:56 PM #

    I recall the visitor’s band being located in section 1 back in the early 90’s. Like that location better.

    Agree with Alpha on locating visiting fans.

  9. Radman 02/15/2011 at 3:12 PM #

    As a resident of section 2 I hate this change. I want the visitors as far away as possible.

  10. Texpack 02/15/2011 at 4:57 PM #

    Wow. How times have changed. Back in ancient times (79-84) the students got the grass bank plus one fourth of the stadium. It really is all about the $$ now.

  11. EdMar 02/15/2011 at 7:16 PM #

    I have bought season tikets for the last 6 or 7 years wihtout LTRs. The last few I have been in the 221 to 226 sections. Hopefully those will still be available!

  12. Pack78 02/15/2011 at 7:25 PM #

    Interesting about the coaching responsibilities switch with Bridge and Horton-OL is higher status than TE coach;wonder about the rationale?

  13. leewolf 02/15/2011 at 8:00 PM #

    Good idea moving the visitors over. And hopefully the tickets are allotted to them with in the following order: 1, 25, 15, 31, then 9 last. That further dilutes the concentration of fans except for those few fan bases that actually sell out their allotment.

    I like the Sands hire, he seems like a high energy guy, another young staff member that can connect with players that are closer to his age.

  14. mafpack 02/15/2011 at 9:07 PM #

    My guess is Sands is about 40… not exactly young, though I guess compared to TOB he’s a spring chicken 🙂

  15. goforit 02/15/2011 at 9:18 PM #

    I think “H” and “L” have been on the seating charts since the beginning of time, but for the life of me I don’t know what it means. And I think I am going to feel dumb when you tell me.

  16. Spacewolf 02/15/2011 at 9:29 PM #

    Pretty sure that H and L stand for High and Low seat numbers, respectively.

  17. 61Packer 02/15/2011 at 9:30 PM #

    The H and L stand for Herb and Lowe…..

  18. Master 02/15/2011 at 11:26 PM #

    L is for Low, usually seats 1 thru 14, H for high usually 15 thru 28. Not all sections the same width, so seat range changes

  19. ADS95 02/16/2011 at 8:58 AM #

    Faculty / Staff sure do get some prime seats, and they get them at a discount (10% or so).

  20. WolfWall.com 02/16/2011 at 10:26 AM #

    ^ A lot of those are tickets given to the players, at least they were the last few years.

  21. 87stategrad 02/16/2011 at 10:28 AM #

    I’ve got several ticket stubs from the 80’s, when I was a student. They were in Sections 13-15, 6-8, and “GG”. Section GG was the grass bank in the South end zone. I remember a few games in heavy rain, sliding down the hill in the mud to the shrubs at the bottom. Good times.

  22. Old MacDonald 02/16/2011 at 10:58 AM #

    We used to camp out and get awesome tickets in section 5 — half of 5 were student seats.

  23. Packster 02/20/2011 at 6:50 PM #

    Geez, the students really get shafted these days with seating. I can’t believe the faculty gets the best seats on the visitors side. This is a big change from the 90’s. The students should protest. I guess these changes were implemented slowly so no one really noticed until it was done. Like someone said earlier….everything is just about $$$ these days.

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