donaldross
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Our home basketball stadium contains nearly twice the seats as it should for our fan base. This has long been the case and many of us have hashed through this for a couple decades now.
It has long been argued that we fill it for every Duke and UNC Game -- a myth even during the 'glory days' of the mid-90s. That was always a bad argument of course--even though it was false--because a real 'home crowd advantage' is truly measured by a much needed bubble game against a middling ACC opponent.
Our students are now pathetic given the Buzz debacle. In addition, the merits of the decision to buy the Joel are behind us because, well, we bought it.
Given our present situation, I would propose ripping out the seats across from the benches and installing 500-750 student seats with 40-45 suites above the seats on that entire side. I would do whatever can be done to get seats out of the upper deck as much as possible and have additional student seating behind baskets if demand returns. I would then bring in the walls or drape the upper deck as much as possible in the event we ever do have excitement again and need additional seats. This would give 2-3k premium type club seating that we can charge a good price for and an additional 6-7k seats--many of which would still be on the floor for donors that do not choose the suite option. There still would be low demand for the regular seats but at least there would be some.
There are certainly some interesting arguments in this debate and have been for some time. But look around on Sunday and decide whether there is any merit to the argument that 'we always fill the place for UNC.'
Go Deacs.
It has long been argued that we fill it for every Duke and UNC Game -- a myth even during the 'glory days' of the mid-90s. That was always a bad argument of course--even though it was false--because a real 'home crowd advantage' is truly measured by a much needed bubble game against a middling ACC opponent.
Our students are now pathetic given the Buzz debacle. In addition, the merits of the decision to buy the Joel are behind us because, well, we bought it.
Given our present situation, I would propose ripping out the seats across from the benches and installing 500-750 student seats with 40-45 suites above the seats on that entire side. I would do whatever can be done to get seats out of the upper deck as much as possible and have additional student seating behind baskets if demand returns. I would then bring in the walls or drape the upper deck as much as possible in the event we ever do have excitement again and need additional seats. This would give 2-3k premium type club seating that we can charge a good price for and an additional 6-7k seats--many of which would still be on the floor for donors that do not choose the suite option. There still would be low demand for the regular seats but at least there would be some.
There are certainly some interesting arguments in this debate and have been for some time. But look around on Sunday and decide whether there is any merit to the argument that 'we always fill the place for UNC.'
Go Deacs.
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