The Associated Press
RALEIGH — Tom O’Brien and North Carolina State are bracing for another potential headache — one that could be just as tricky as Wake Forest’s offense.
After playing the Demon Deacons Saturday afternoon in Winston-Salem, the Wolfpack will have to navigate U2 concert traffic on their bus ride home. The rock band is performing at N.C. State’s home field, Carter-Finley Stadium, in front of some 60,000 fans.
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“They’re going to have to bus us in here somehow,” O’Brien said.
The N.C. State coach isn’t overly concerned damage to the Wolfpack’s grass playing field. Back-to-back U2 shows in Chicago left the turf at Soldier Field shredded, and by the time the Bears played their next game there, the surface had been resodded.
“I probably shouldn’t be so quick to say no, but it’s been done in the past, and I know there haven’t been problems,” O’Brien said. “We won’t know until it happens.”
O’Brien was the grand marshal of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Raleigh, but he shrugged off a suggestion to sneak into the stadium and listen to noted Irishman Bono.
“I really don’t know too much about (U2) … but (my son) asked me if I was still alive when the Steve Miller Band was playing,” O’Brien quipped. “I told him, ‘No, I’m still brain dead. I haven’t been around since then.’”
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