They'll be playing at 1am to 3am their time. At altitude. That would be brutal for most teams, I would imagine.
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Basketball Countdown - 3 Hours To Go
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jcatcher
Club Member
Auburn is in the Central Time Zone, but still. I'm sure Pearl is saying Who in the f*** scheduled this game?"
Knowing Pearl? I bet he's ok with it honestly. Dude loves the spotlight. He'll do everything he can - even 11 pm tipoffs.
Hmm. Figured it was far enough east.
CVilleBuff
Well-Known Member
GA/AL is the border for time zone down there.
Pearl was hired back in March. He is the person who scheduled a road game at Boulder. Then, both programs had to agree to the invite from ESPN to adjust the date & time if they wanted to be in the Tip Off Marathon.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like Dom is up and running in this photo
Correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like Dom is up and running in this photo
he's participating now, but is limited.
Getting healthy is a good thing, up and moving on an ankle injury leads me to think the is getting close. Maybe we see a little bit of him against air force?
SQUEEEEEEE
bringing my parents and sister to their first game, pumped.
is this your 'pre-teen girl at Taylor Swift' imitation?
Just warming it up for the season.
My little man, youngest, will be with me tomorrow. May have to see you guys at the foam dome with the early start though.
Can't wait. Hopefully the student section will be packed but I'm not holding my breath. I'll be in there +at least 3.
Please tell me you're kidding about the bold.
I think he's serious about not holding his breath. I gotta take the kid's side here.
after this depressing football season, I couldn't be more excited for basketball to start.
Unfortunately I'm not. I could be completely wrong but I've been to just about every CU basketball game since I stepped on campus. It seems the student's really only show up for the big games (UCLA, Kansas, Zona). I know it's the first game of the season but it's Drexel.
To be clear I'm talking about the student section being well up into the bleacher seats and in both corners with no large gaps. I just don't see that happening but I really really hope I'm wrong.
Gotcha, ok. I'm not as worried then. I wasn't necessarily expecting a PACKED student section, but 75% full is a reasonable expectation for the first game. I have faith in them.
EDIT - how's the atmosphere around campus for the 11 pm tip? People excited about that? They're gonna have to pick up the slack for us old folks.
I think 75% is definitely reasonable but it might not even be that full. The weather (as lame of an excuse as that is) seems to have an effect on student attendance.
As for the Auburn game, there's been a lot more advertisement that I've seen on campus for that game than the season opener. I think it will be well attended. It's hard for me to know though, because all of my friends go to every game that we can.
Auburn game is a national game, against a national opponent. The AD is pushing that one from what I have seen from CUnit and on campus. My guess is they are worried about attendance for that one. Drexel will be plenty full. Probably not a sell out but 75-80% capacity would be good for that kind of opponent.
The team needs to take the next step in terms of tournament wins, fans are going to have to take the next step of truly selling out every game regardless of opponent.
The team needs to take the next step in terms of tournament wins, fans are going to have to take the next step of truly selling out every game regardless of opponent.
we'd all like to see that, but even schools like Carolina and Kentucky don't sell out for the non-conf schedule fillers.
jcatcher
Club Member
I've added one more to the student section who won't miss a game.
alec10burks
Well-Known Member
They do have much higher prices.
I'm still amazed at how cheap my tickets are. I've gotta think that an increase is coming next year, but then again I've been saying that for 2 years now.
alec, true -- UNC doesn't have $10 blocks of tickets, but for non-conf fillers most sell for $25, which isn't stopping anyone who wants to see a game.
goose, agree. IMO, CU hoops (and football for that matter) tickets are the best entertainment value in the Boulder/Denver metro area. live music is much more expensive here than on the East coast and tix to the Denver area pro-sports teams are usually much more costly than CU tickets (never mind that the product is arguably better).
I think it is just your tickets. Mine cost $700 (I think) for the pair although this page shows that they should be $900.
http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&ATCLID=209483725&DB_OEM_ID=600
So if my math is correct there are 16 home games which makes it $22 a game if I paid $350 or $28 a game if it was $450.
So now compare my seats to other schools:
OSU: $200?
USC: $375
Colorado: $450
Stanford: $549
WSU: $570
Utah: $575
Oregon: $700
Cal: $702 (also must pay a one-time $5000 donation)
ASU: $1100
Washington: $1485
Arizona: $1814
UCLA: $3315
The interesting thing is that it looks like almost every other school treats the lower level corners as premium seats and we charge next to nothing for ours. I can see those become very expensive in the next few years and the other seats going up $100 or maybe a bit more.
Once plans to renovate Coors become serious, ticket prices will definitely jump. Only a matter of time.