North Carolina State University Athletics
Murphy Center flood causes football to temporarily relocate
9/12/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
A burst pipe in the Murphy Center caused significant damage in the first three floors of NC State’s football building, forcing the Wolfpack football team to relocate indefinitely to the new Finley Fieldhouse in the north end zone of Carter-Finley Stadium.
The damage occurred Monday afternoon in a third-floor restroom in the five-year-old building. It was discovered quickly but a large amount of water still managed to inundate the top three floors. A water damage company was on site all of Tuesday removing soaked items from the building and to clean out the standing water.
“The great thing was that our administration and our facilities people were on it immediately,” said Wolfpack football coach Chuck Amato. “We had a staff meeting this morning at 8:30 to discuss what we would do.’
The first order of business was to move the players into the two new lockerrooms in the new Finley Fieldhouse, which is underneath the new grandstands on the opposite end of the stadium from the Murphy Center.
“We have an awful lot of room underneath there,” Amato said. “We have split the lockerrooms that we have in there. It has really worked out pretty smoothly, to be perfectly honest with you.”
The team will also make use of the dining facilities in Vaughn Towers and the study halls in the Weisiger-Brown Building on the main campus.
“The only thing that has been a little bit of a disruption is that we will have study hall a half-hour or so later because we are moving it over to Weisiger-Brown.”
There will be other adjustments, as the football team goes about its preparation for its first road game of the season on Saturday, when the Wolfpack travels to Hattiesburg, Miss., to play Southern Mississippi.
Amato and his team return home on Sept. 23 for its ACC opener, an 8 p.m. game against Boston College.
