- October 17th, 2011, 9:21 am
#361161
First of, before anything else, congrats on the jerk-whipping you delivered to us.
The drive up there was ridiculous. There is no main road (interstate) to get up there other than being on 85 for a whole 4 miles lol so we had to take a lot of back roads. I followed SJ's directions and they did get us there. We were tempted to just drive east until we got to 95 and then just take that South, but it was way out of the way. We stayed at the Sleep Inn right across the street from the campus and there were some LU fans there who were giving me the stink eye as I walked through the hotel in a teal hat, and shirt with CCU wind pants on
On Saturday, we checked out around 10:45 and drove over to campus and drove through it to see what it looked like, the facilities etc. After that we went up to Appomattox to see the Court House etc and it was really nice, and a good thing to kill the 4 hours we had between checkout and kick-off. We left there and grabbed lunch before heading over to the stadium around 2:30 - I'm not huge on tailgating as I don't drink.
Fans: I had no issues with fans. Some people driving by would say Go LU, or CCU sucks, but that was about as bad as it got. The people I asked questions to were more than helpful. I got to meet the almighty SJ at halftime on the concourse. You're a good guy SJ
One fan that was sitting near us was...interesting he looked like he was stuck in a 1980s time warp and had some really old Liberty Lacross jacket.
Campus: Very nice views of the mountains. Some buildings looked very nice from the outside, while others looked too "sanitary" to me. More like a hospital. The first time I noticed the ski slope was from an angle (from our hotel) and I thought it was a mansion, but when we (g/f and I) turned the corner we saw the slope and that looks amazing! SJ told me that we needed to go up there just to look at the chalet, but we were heading home that night after the game and did not get a chance to...next time we will and maybe (if we are allowed to) I will embarrass myself by trying to ski/snowboard down that mountain
If I was an outsider to CCU/LU/BSC and someone had told me that LU and CCU were in the same conference and rivals etc I would think that either CCU's campus is minor league or that LU is full of richa** kids. I know both are generalizations.
Stadium: Very nice. Only a few things that I had a gripe with. The first was the volume of the scoreboard, but that might have been b/c we were in the section right next to it. The other thing was that horrific video/music video of the guy rapping about Liberty. That was just way too over the top, and probably the longest music video ever lol!
Area around the campus: It didn't seem like there is a whole helluva lot to do off campus other than going to Appomattox and maybe Charlottsville. I talked to SJ about it and he said there isn't too much, but since you guys have so much on campus, that definitely makes up for it.
Overall: Good trip minus the football game lol.
The drive up there was ridiculous. There is no main road (interstate) to get up there other than being on 85 for a whole 4 miles lol so we had to take a lot of back roads. I followed SJ's directions and they did get us there. We were tempted to just drive east until we got to 95 and then just take that South, but it was way out of the way. We stayed at the Sleep Inn right across the street from the campus and there were some LU fans there who were giving me the stink eye as I walked through the hotel in a teal hat, and shirt with CCU wind pants on
On Saturday, we checked out around 10:45 and drove over to campus and drove through it to see what it looked like, the facilities etc. After that we went up to Appomattox to see the Court House etc and it was really nice, and a good thing to kill the 4 hours we had between checkout and kick-off. We left there and grabbed lunch before heading over to the stadium around 2:30 - I'm not huge on tailgating as I don't drink. Fans: I had no issues with fans. Some people driving by would say Go LU, or CCU sucks, but that was about as bad as it got. The people I asked questions to were more than helpful. I got to meet the almighty SJ at halftime on the concourse. You're a good guy SJ
One fan that was sitting near us was...interesting he looked like he was stuck in a 1980s time warp and had some really old Liberty Lacross jacket.Campus: Very nice views of the mountains. Some buildings looked very nice from the outside, while others looked too "sanitary" to me. More like a hospital. The first time I noticed the ski slope was from an angle (from our hotel) and I thought it was a mansion, but when we (g/f and I) turned the corner we saw the slope and that looks amazing! SJ told me that we needed to go up there just to look at the chalet, but we were heading home that night after the game and did not get a chance to...next time we will and maybe (if we are allowed to) I will embarrass myself by trying to ski/snowboard down that mountain
If I was an outsider to CCU/LU/BSC and someone had told me that LU and CCU were in the same conference and rivals etc I would think that either CCU's campus is minor league or that LU is full of richa** kids. I know both are generalizations. Stadium: Very nice. Only a few things that I had a gripe with. The first was the volume of the scoreboard, but that might have been b/c we were in the section right next to it. The other thing was that horrific video/music video of the guy rapping about Liberty. That was just way too over the top, and probably the longest music video ever lol!
Area around the campus: It didn't seem like there is a whole helluva lot to do off campus other than going to Appomattox and maybe Charlottsville. I talked to SJ about it and he said there isn't too much, but since you guys have so much on campus, that definitely makes up for it.
Overall: Good trip minus the football game lol.
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