Wakefan77
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Damn rightIn this day and age WF doesn't need a 14K seat stadium. We could continue to make it work but I think around 9-10K is about right for us.
Damn rightIn this day and age WF doesn't need a 14K seat stadium. We could continue to make it work but I think around 9-10K is about right for us.
Didn’t realize Boopie also had 0 turnovers to go with his 31 points. Definitely his best game as a Deac!
I'll answer your comment the same way I did on another thread. Look at our home court record and the sell out for the Duke game. As i recall, we had no problems filling the Joel in the late 90's and the early 2000's. Get a winning program and they will come. Would rather have a few more seats than we need rather than not enough.In this day and age WF doesn't need a 14K seat stadium. We could continue to make it work but I think around 9-10K is about right for us.
Don’t they just have to reduce the number of seats? That doesn’t require “hundreds of millions of dollars”. No need to build a new building. Just replace the current 14,000ish seats with 10000ish bigger seats. Or really get crazy and eliminate some parts of sections in the upper bowl and build some cools premium spaces - suites, better Moricle space, student hangout, an Allegacy Club space in the bowl, other type of concessions/restaurant/bar space in the bowl where you can watch the games (if that’s allowed by NC ABC rules), etc. Those types of offerings would eat up a good chunk of the current space around the upper bowl and reduce seats. These changes would still have a pretty eye-popping price tag but much much lower than building a new building.In this day and age, Wake doesn’t need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new basketball arena.
The MexicansWho was going to pay for it?
Whoa. Fenway is really not a dump. That said, I woke up to see if we won and I’m glad to see we’re rehashing the Joel 😂Cameron, Fenway, and Wrigley are dumps. People show up though. And I’m not suggesting we should have built an old arena. We should have built a new one.
Kennesaw State entered the football world in 2015.To answer my own question, don't see App listed at this link, which is good. I missed the news that we're playing Kennesaw State in 2025. Didn't even know they had a football team.
Encapsulating moment to me was near the end of the game when the App State idiot coach freaked the fuck out on the Boopie out-of-bounds dribble in the backcourt - replay shows their defender clearly putting both hands on Boopie and pushing him, with a ref right on top of it who immediately called the 2 hands on the offensive player which is a clear and obvious call. Not only that, but coming at a time when they were playing overly aggressive and didn't mind fouling.
Just such a classic case of someone looking for any opportunity to be a victim. Very Filipowski-esque. Maybe he should try for an assistant coaching position under Scheyer. He's got the bitching and moaning part down.
Seems you care.Yeah, I stopped caring about your bullshit long ago, BSD. Tired arguments over stadium sizes is lame AF. But have fun!
Fair re Fenway. I haven’t been since the mid 80s!Whoa. Fenway is really not a dump. That said, I woke up to see if we won and I’m glad to see we’re rehashing the Joel 😂
40 years ago, Wake played in an old 8,200 seat arena. It was so bad that they moved the ACC games to Greensboro for a few years. Then 35 years ago Wake got a new arena when LJVM opened and we were finally able to play home games at home. 30 years ago, Wake had Rodney Rogers, Randolph Childress and Tim Duncan and the Joel was packed. 20 years ago, Wake had CP3, Justin Gray and reached #1 for the first time in school history and the Joel was home to tie-dye nation.Anytime we felt like doing it. You pick the date. 20, 30, 40 years ago? We didn’t.
Any of those times.40 years ago, Wake played in an old 8,200 seat arena. It was so bad that they moved the ACC games to Greensboro for a few years. Then 35 years ago Wake got a new arena when LJVM opened and we were finally able to play home games at home. 30 years ago, Wake had Rodney Rogers, Randolph Childress and Tim Duncan and the Joel was packed. 20 years ago, Wake had CP3, Justin Gray and reached #1 for the first time in school history and the Joel was home to tie-dye nation.
So when during the last 20, 30, or 40 years would have been the time to build a new arena?