As an avid reader of your blog, I have often said, I should do
this for my trips, too. I thought this
would be a great night to document. One
of the coolest things about living in the Research Triangle Park area (Raleigh,
Durham, and Chapel Hill) is the 3 BCS schools located about 20 minutes from
each other. NC State is in Raleigh, Duke
is in Durham, and UNC is of course in Chapel Hill. I know of no other BCS schools that are this
close in proximity. It really is pretty cool to be around this great group of
guys not only in RTP, but the ACC as a whole because every weekend someone is
coming to visit. Most teams stay in
hotels in RTP when they come to play. This weekend was no different. Maryland stayed next door to UNC as we both
prepared for our games against NC State and Duke respectively. There have been as many as 6 schools staying
in RTP on a given weekend. Earlier this year, I hosted Miami and Florida State
in the same weekend in October. It
really is a unique situation here in North Carolina. Hooter’s is usually our place of choice
simply because it is centrally located near the airport and all of the hotels.
Tom Long of Duke is a Maryland grad so this weekend was also
a great time to catch up with the ACC’s newest Video Director, Will Brown of
Maryland, where Tom once worked in the Video Office. I
have known Will for a number of years at his previous stops of UCONN and Middle
Tennessee State.
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| Tom Long (left) and Will Brown |
Hud Jordan, not pictured, is the assistant Video Director at
NC State, but is essentially in charge of the day to day operations for the
team in Raleigh. Hud arrived late but he
was able to enjoy our mini CSVA convention.
Since we are all DVSport users, we also got to talk about features of
DVSport’s Gameday application, issues we have been dealing with that piece of
software, conference and NFL video exchange, and future non-conference teams
video we all needed to find this off season.
We also had a good discussion about our iPAD DVSport application called
Shuttle, as Duke, Maryland, and UNC have used it this season. All in all, it was a great night to catch up
with friends in the video business.
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| Victory Bell fought between Duke and North Carolina Football |
Duke’s Video Director Tom Long and I have become really good
friends since we both took similar jobs in July of 2008 here in North
Carolina. Our wives are pretty good
friends and we both have 2 boys (Megan Long is pregnant with their second and
is due this spring) For the 3rd and final time this fall I drove my
opponent’s Video Director to work on game day.
I did this earlier in the year for Luke Goldstein at Virginia and
Stewart Cramer at Miami as I live in the RTP near all the host hotels. My wife Sabra and Megan Long brought our boys
later and sat inside the 5th floor of the Kenan Football Center
where my office is located during the game.
UNC kept the Victory Bell, one of the few trophy games in the ACC, for
an 8th consecutive year by a score of 37-21.
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| Kenan Football Complex, home to North Carolina Football |
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