Plus, despite giving out lots of free ducats and expecting a "large" crowd, two of our security lines were closed.
Our tailgate group has no problem with the "no beer sold to the masses" inside WW rule.
In the last few years, we've been to games at ND, Northwestern x2, Wake, UWa and tOSU. All had a similar but less draconian bag policy than Duke and all we had to do at tOSU last month was hold up our arms and we were admitted with no metal detectors present or emptying of pockets.
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i'm too lazy to look (and I come to the games with little stuff)..what is the bag policy now?
edit: ok, i looked, a 5x8x1 bag, eh? that's pretty crazy, i'll agree...if the TSA can deal with a quart zip lock bag, these guys should, too. But they should also do other things, like have edible concessions.
Here's what bothers me in the big picture: the two most clearly competent people involved in Duke athletics are 70 plus and 65 plus respectively. One has been at Duke for 4 decades, preaching about the excellence that is Duke U. for that entire time. And yet, the athletic department still is burdened by gross incompetence, and no doubt cronyism and other unsavory internal politics. Within a few years, the two exceptional men will be gone. What will be left?
Seriously, of K and Cut can't demand these things get straightened out, who can?
It’s been this way for at least 50 years, why do we think it’ll change in the next 50. After years of buying cheap season tickets and sitting through the Alleva years, the massive parking and water fiascos did me in. With the games on TV, I only get to a home game every couple of years and an away game also that often. The game experience, food, etc. at UVA, State and WF is more enjoyable and organized.
I really don’t think the Duke administration will focus on football game days and policies.
Duke sent me a nice questionnaire today about how I liked the game day experience, and I got to tell them for the twentieth time how well they would be served by turning concessions over to some entity that knew how to serve good and interesting food that fans might want instead of the tired, old garbage now served by amiable but unmotivated servers, and I have no doubt they'll just keep doing stuff as they've done it because inertia is a wonderful thing, as are painful run on sentences like this one.
I don't even consider buying their food, and when fans around me return to their seats clutching their purchases, I get ample reinforcement in that decision.