View from the 15-yard line
This certainly isn't the Charlotte Coliseum. First off, the media work room in the Carrier Dome isn't nearly as cramped. We're on a football field and have 150-foot high ceilings. I'm sitting at the 15-yard line while N.C. State practices on a basketball court on the other side of the curtain.
Wolfpack fans in town for the regional might flashback to a very nice football victory here a few years back.
Chased out of Greensboro by a tornado (or at least there was a warning and scary cloud formations), your intrepid News & Record crew landed in Syracuse late last night during snow showers that tapered this morning.
Cab driver tells us she's only been to the Carrier Dome twice: once for a Pink Floyd concert and once to a Syracuse intrasquad football scrimmage.
"You couldn't lose that one," Rob Daniels cracked.
"Coach P could," she shot back.
First pot shot at Paul Pasqualoni, who was relieved of his duties after the '04 season. But it probably won't be the last.
As for concerts, we'll be seeing the Fixx on Saturday night at Armory Square. I'm fired up. For some odd reason, nobody else seems to be.
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