What about cupholders?Here's our MBB avg attendance dating back to 2002. The Columbia SC market have proven over this time it can support a little over 11K in avg attendance.
The Carolina Coliseum was a little over 12K and put fans right on top of the action, so if I was running the place my first choice would be to refurbish the joint and make that the main basketball arena (I know this will never happen lol). For more important games with higher expected attendance, move the games to the CLA.
My second choice would be to outfit the CLA with a very nice and modern curtain system for the upper deck and close off the upper deck for most games. I wouldn't get the plain black curtains that you see in some arenas, but something bold and flashy like they do in Mercedes Benz for their soccer games.
The women sold over 10,000 season's tickets. They are cheaper but they don't give away tickets. General admission is $45 for women, $60 for men. I'm not sure what the cost for the men's season's tickets are, but mine were $80 each. Unless we play a really weak team the lower bowl is over 3/4 full with some areas of the upper deck also occupied. I have 4 tickets in the lower bowl and have for about 8 years. Attendance fluctuates some according to who we play, but even in a pandemic this year attendance has been great. If there was a 12,000 seat arena the women would sell it out quite often. I wish that were the case.
You are right. Most schools no longer have an AD who is also a Head Coach at the same time.
I should have expressed myself more clearly. I didn't mean to imply tat tickets were given away. I only meant to say that they were modestly price so as not to be sacrificially obtained. Of course, this was done to promote attendance.
It has to do with decor, intimacy or lack thereof, brightness versus darkness, comfort vs. discomfort, things of that nature. Basically, whether it is inviting for its own sake rather than uninviting.
Thanks for the chart and I think it proves that with the right coach generating interest and putting a better program on the floor, we can average 13-14K each year consistently.Here's our MBB avg attendance dating back to 2002. The Columbia SC market have proven over this time it can support a little over 11K in avg attendance.
The Carolina Coliseum was a little over 12K and put fans right on top of the action, so if I was running the place my first choice would be to refurbish the joint and make that the main basketball arena (I know this will never happen lol). For more important games with higher expected attendance, move the games to the CLA.
My second choice would be to outfit the CLA with a very nice and modern curtain system for the upper deck and close off the upper deck for most games. I wouldn't get the plain black curtains that you see in some arenas, but something bold and flashy like they do in Mercedes Benz for their soccer games.
It's not a bad idea, and regardless of what they do they have to modernize the arena, but those 3 sections you're talking about probably have about 700 seats tops. You'd still be talking about a market that can support an avg attendance of maybe 13K tops (even in a Final Four year) playing in a cavernous concert arena that would seat 17,300, leaving it still about 25% empty, on average. It doesn't create any sort of exciting atmosphere which doesn't create much of a home court advantage. I've been to CLA when it was a capacity and the place is loud and rocking, but I've been to it when the place is half empty and the atmosphere is no more exciting than a high school game. They've got to find a way for it to get a lot smaller and rowdier for our games while retaining the ability to flex it for huge concerts and shows.
I think it one whole upper deck end was removed as part of a remodel, it would reduce by more than 700 seats.
To me the chart says if we don’t make the final four we won’t be anywhere near 13,000.
