Basketball seating...is it done yet?

[willycat]

Actually, Duke has been relevant for longer than that. Coach K goes back over 35 years. Bill Foster had them in the finals 40 years ago. They were consistently a top 20 team in the AP in the 50's and 60's. Duke has a tradition of excellence that goes well beyond the current head coach! Yet they haven't had to increase their arena capacity.....why, willy, why???

Thought 9.000 was larger then 7,000. Must have missed that day.

 

[ubercat]

Psst, willy. Get in touch with Turk. He made you a nice offer.

 

[willycat]

Psst, willy. Get in touch with Turk. He made you a nice offer.

Thanks, and hope you got good seats.

 

[hdhntr1]

Luckily I am one of those looking for 3 seats, although we might add a 4th as my boys are getting older and it would be nice to have a ticket for one of them for each game. As for you Willy you're nuts.

Three seats gets you into places you wouldn't ordinarily be able to get into as they will not sell two of them. The can sell one of the three

 

[hdhntr1]

FWIW, I just got my seats this morning, and my rep told me there was a waiting list of about thirty names just to get season tickets.

I think ST is capped around 4-5k and with 1200 student seats, only leaves about 1K single game tickets

 

[hdhntr1]

Not trolling pal, just stating facts. How many Big Ten or for that matter Power 5 programs seat less then 7,000? Nu because it sits next to a huge world class city should be able to mostly fill a 10,000 seat arena with their fans. They have done so before. So what if a thousand or so visiting team fans are present, it's certainly better then shutting out the Chicago area fans that they are supposedly trying to attract. You know the ones who can only attend a couple of games a year but now won't be able to do so. That's to bad.

We were restricted to what we got because we don't have the room, we don't have the room and we had to go for the rebuild when we had the opportunity to get the money as even like it is it is costing well over $100 mill. And because of the amenities people wanted (you know, like bathrooms, seatbacks, etc), could get less seats into the area we had. Not sure I like seeing capacity dropped but it will make it a pretty hot ticket

 

[hdhntr1]

I dare to be Willy's brutha in this argument.

I would have been interested to see the cost of a 10,000-seat arena. There is a cost/benefit ratio to this whole equation. Once they decided to keep the basic skeleton of the old arena, there was no chance at 10,000 seats.

I think it's a chicken-shit decision to not build because of a weird paranoia of losing home-court advantage. Manage the final 3000 seats closely and use them as needed. Put a tarp on them ... Give the seats away to local groups ... Sell them for $5 outside the normal sales process. These would be my investment seats to get kids and families to the game to build a future fan base.

Last year, NU reports it AVERAGED 7008 per game. Do we agree most games had a strong home court?

NU has left itself absolutely no room to grow if this program improves at all. What if this become a program that makes a tournament once every three years (a reasonably minor goal)? They should be able to draw 8-10,000 without thinking twice.

I'd hate to think the home court advantage was the main reason. Falling attendance nationwide? A tip of the cap to the NU community who dislikes the emphasis on sports? Fitting in the cost between football rebuilds? I could begin to see those reasons.

But I think NU short-changed itself as it has historically for sports investments. And it shouldnt be so evident before construction is complete that NU left some money on the table. So be it.

Based on no room to grow, what you propose would likely have doubled the cost or more and do we have the room? And if the cost was doubled could we have gotten it done? And would the delays have killed it? Ryan (principal source of NU athletic funding ) will not live forever. And likely it would have taken longer to complete construction. One year in Allstate is bad enough.

 

[willycat]

Based on no room to grow, what you propose would likely have doubled the cost or more and do we have the room? And if the cost was doubled could we have gotten it done? And would the delays have killed it? Ryan (principal source of NU athletic funding ) will not live forever. And likely it would have taken longer to complete construction. One year in Allstate is bad enough.

Still think that over the long haul NU is going to regret downsizing what was at one time a 10,000 seat arena by 3,000 seats. Allowing just 1,000 or so single game tickets will hurt them from growing a future fan base.

 

[thewildcat2011]

Still think that over the long haul NU is going to regret downsizing what was at one time a 10,000 seat arena by 3,000 seats. Allowing just 1,000 or so single game tickets will hurt them from growing a future fan base.

I doubt it.

 

[Fitz51]

Still think that over the long haul NU is going to regret downsizing what was at one time a 10,000 seat arena by 3,000 seats. Allowing just 1,000 or so single game tickets will hurt them from growing a future fan base.

There are plenty of things keeping NU from growing a sports fan base. 3,000 seats are not among them.

 

[willycat]

There are plenty of things keeping NU from growing a sports fan base. 3,000 seats are not among them.

Maybe and maybe not. Way back in the "good old days" crowds of nine to ten thousand used to fill up McGaw Hall.

 

[thewildcat2011]

Maybe and maybe not. Way back in the "good old days" crowds of nine to ten thousand used to fill up McGaw Hall.

And round and round we go.

 

[NJCat]

Way back in the "good old days" crowds of nine to ten thousand used to fill up McGaw Hall.

Yeah, the "good old days" before color TV.......

 

[its_the_sauce]

Maybe and maybe not. Way back in the "good old days" crowds of nine to ten thousand used to fill up McGaw Hall.

Let's not forget the dirt floor as well!

 

[Fitz51]

Maybe and maybe not. Way back in the "good old days" crowds of nine to ten thousand used to fill up McGaw Hall.

Your arguments are getting worse.

 

[ParisCat]

Getting back on topic ... can anyone who still has access to the seating chart give a report on generally how many seats are left and in what sections? I picked on Wednesday, but I'm curious about what seats are left as the STH selections wind down...

 

[EagerFan]

I can't help you Paris, sorry.

Oh the topic of seating, I've noticed that good old Hinkle Fieldhouse has a history of removing seats every time they upgrade/update it. So far they've gotten rid of about 6,000 seats and they seem to be doing ok.

 

[ubercat]

Oh the topic of seating, I've noticed that good old Hinkle Fieldhouse has a history of removing seats every time they upgrade/update it. So far they've gotten rid of about 6,000 seats and they seem to be doing ok.

And McGaw Hall was originally built with a seating capacity of 14,000, according to the archives. That was before ANY tv coverage was available. My, how times have changed.

 

[gocatsgo2003]

Getting back on topic ... can anyone who still has access to the seating chart give a report on generally how many seats are left and in what sections? I picked on Wednesday, but I'm curious about what seats are left as the STH selections wind down...

I was at 10:35 and pickings were getting slim. Availability mostly in the corners of the 200-level.

 

[CappyNU]

Getting back on topic ... can anyone who still has access to the seating chart give a report on generally how many seats are left and in what sections? I picked on Wednesday, but I'm curious about what seats are left as the STH selections wind down...

As of today, 3pm, the following was availble:
Level 1 - SOLD OUT
Level 2:
Sec 107 - 3 pairs of two, 6 sets of the dreaded 3, a set of 5, a set of 7, a set of 8, all rows 12 and up
Sec 109 - 6 sets of 3, 2 sets of 4, 2 sets of 6, a set of 9, and a set of 10, all rows 9 and up
Sec 101 - 4 sets of 3, a set of 4, a set of 5, a set of 6, all rows 7 and up
Sec 115 - 2 pairs of two, 2 sets of 3, a set of 4, a set of 5, two sets of 6, a set of 7, all rows 9 and up
Level 3:
Sec 114 - two sets of 3
Sec 110 - 3 sets of 3
Sec 106 - SOLD OUT
Sec 102 - SOLD OUT
Level 4:
Sec 209 - a set of 3, a set of 4, a set of 8
Sec 219 - SOLD OUT
Level 5 - SOLD OUT
Level 6:
Wide availability except Sec 204 and 205

As a reminder:

I pick Monday afternoon, hoping some decent level 6 is still an option. Does anyone know if people pick on the weekends as well or are the timeslots just during the week?

 

[EagerFan]

Running low!

 

[willycat]

Your arguments are getting worse.

Just stating facts, so let's see how this downsizing works out in the long run.

 

[lunker35]

As of today, 3pm, the following was availble:
Level 1 - SOLD OUT
Level 2:
Sec 107 - 3 pairs of two, 6 sets of the dreaded 3, a set of 5, a set of 7, a set of 8, all rows 12 and up
Sec 109 - 6 sets of 3, 2 sets of 4, 2 sets of 6, a set of 9, and a set of 10, all rows 9 and up
Sec 101 - 4 sets of 3, a set of 4, a set of 5, a set of 6, all rows 7 and up
Sec 115 - 2 pairs of two, 2 sets of 3, a set of 4, a set of 5, two sets of 6, a set of 7, all rows 9 and up
Level 3:
Sec 114 - two sets of 3
Sec 110 - 3 sets of 3
Sec 106 - SOLD OUT
Sec 102 - SOLD OUT
Level 4:
Sec 209 - a set of 3, a set of 4, a set of 8
Sec 219 - SOLD OUT
Level 5 - SOLD OUT
Level 6:
Wide availability except Sec 204 and 205

As a reminder:

I pick Monday afternoon, hoping some decent level 6 is still an option. Does anyone know if people pick on the weekends as well or are the timeslots just during the week?

I'm almost positive it's only during the week. The ticket office isn't staffed on the weekends and I think that calling in to order is an option during selection times.

 

[hdhntr1]

Maybe and maybe not. Way back in the "good old days" crowds of nine to ten thousand used to fill up McGaw Hall.

Was there TV back then? It was a while ago