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The idea is try to get them to use them. And so when they do take the seats away, the students won't say, "if we had known we would've come to more games."
They sold out of season tickets this year. I did question somewhere else(maybe even here), what the renewal rate would be this year.
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What many of us having been saying for a long time even with the price increases this year, it's still arguably the best entertainment value on the Front Range.
The attendance just accounts for tickets sold and we have like 8500 between students/season ticket holders before any individual tickets/visiting tickets are sold.
My point is if there's some snowstorm that hits tomorrow night and not too many people want to go -- let's say 5000 people showed up. It would still go down as 9700 (or whatever the number is) in the box score because it's just about paid attendance.
I definitely think some are making too big of a deal about this everything considered. That said, when we talk about how good our student section it is underwhelming besides KU and likely, UofA.
There is a couple things that bother me about them. Costumes are cool or whatever, I just think they are kind of weird and I think a lot of students agree with me and the first impression is these guys are strange I don't want to associate myself with them. I'm usually in the 8th row or so and there have been a couple times where a chant is done wrong or something and they turn around and just yell at people. They just look and act entitled and people don't like being talked down to by weird kids in costumes. When an opposing team is shooting a free throw they keep telling the student section to sit down, so the guys in the costumes will stand out to distract the free throw shooter. This doesn't include everyone and everytime that happens the whole student sections enthusiasm goes down. And this is what really really pissed me off. My younger brother (he is a sophomore in high school but looks potentially old enough) and I came up for the Oregon game during Winter Break. He wanted to get there really early so we could be up front so we showed up two hours before the game. He has always loved the C-unit and was super pumped to sit in the student section. We get there and I know that the Buff man or whatever always sit in the front, so no big deal we sat in row three. There is really no one else there quite yet. Instantly, an usher comes up and says we have to move. I tell him why, it is the student section I am a student. He says that the first three rows are reserved for people who come to every game. Well I go to every game, but since I don't have a costume apparently I can't sit where I want in an open seating section. We move back two rows and he says we have to move back still. So five rows are apparently reserved for that game for these guys even though I love CU basketball just as much as they do and know just as much as they do. It really pissed me off and my brother has not wanted to go back to another game after that debacle.
I gave up after telling the guy that's bull**** for like five minutes. Next time I will try to do that. Maybe I will show up early and sit in Buff Man's seat for the ASU game and see what happens. But its stuff like that, that may cause the disconnect.
First off I agree with you. But two points to that, we had more success in football and football is a much bigger deal. It's a lot easier to reach the ceiling in basketball so to speak, with fewer seats to fill. Given that they've sold out of season tickets, the only thing left to do other than a major renovation or a new arena is to raise ticket prices and hopefully get more donations. But we've got a practice facility so in terms of facilities, I don't know how much more we can really do.
I don't really have a problem so much with them reserving the first few rows for fans who go to every game. And maybe the first row could be costume only. But after that, if you go to every game you should be treated the same as every other fan. That kind of stuff you talk about bugs me how they prioritize certain students over others, who are just as loyal.
