^^^ Facts, and that would be better than students paying for them and not sitting in them.
Student Section
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The general public would sit up there.
Yeah, seems like a weird place to park students. Put them all down close to the action and give them a great experience. Its not just about making noise on gameday but also about creating future generations of fans who will support the program for years after they graduate.
Thought about this overnight. More than just students, but truly OUTSTANDING Home Environments. I've been to CBB Games in 38 different arenas including 30 home arenas. Hilton is one of the two best that I have experienced with the other being the Assembly Center @ LSU (multiple big games). Obviously, much depends on the opponent, etc. but Hilton is definitely a very special place for a MBB game.
Kansas has a full student section for their exhibition games against Fort Hays State lol.....they just care more than we do, simple as that. I mean I care a ton and if I could clone my body and make sure the student section is full and making a difference, I would, but I don't know how to get our student body to care.
But those aren't apples to apples comparisons though....Iowa is decent, Utah and Colorado suck. Show me one top 10 team (other than us apparently) who's students DON'T pack the place to the gills....
I think the biggest issue is production of the game. I understand we need every sponsor dollar we can get, but when every time out and break is sold with some sort of activation, there's no way to carry momentum through breaks.
There's too many breaks and all of those breaks have become corporate. If they just blasted music through breaks when there is momentum, I think that would solve a lot of the energy problems. But that's easier said than done.
There's too many breaks and all of those breaks have become corporate. If they just blasted music through breaks when there is momentum, I think that would solve a lot of the energy problems. But that's easier said than done.
Every arena in the country does this. That's not going to change. People go to their phones, whether there's music playing or not.
The key is to hit the music at the right time, which as someone else pointed out, is a few moments before they come out of the huddle.
Morgan/McDermott days it wasn't a Top 10 worthy homecourt.
Under Hoiberg, even Prohm, & now Otzelberger, yes. Def top 10 or even 5.
The correct answer to Mr. Oldy is stand up or shut the f*ck up. But that doesn't deescalate the situation.
When it is their turn they do. But putting for prizes, goals for potato Oles,the card flip game etc all limit their time. Part of that is that TV timeouts really are loooong.
Sometimes I think the crowds were better under Morgan than they are now. And yes I am not kidding.
I can see that. Because I was a student during then (Rahshon Clark, Will Blalock, Curtis Stinson, Jared Homan)...there were fun times and a lot of high end moments when they were flying up and down the court, but also were some very "yeah, we stand no chance tonight" games/moments/energy nights.
I think it's all part of how we used to be the "hunter" and now we are the "hunted." That mentality that gets brought up a lot now.
I don't think you move donors anywhere. You simply take away some of the students' seats (I would advocate for their entire upstairs allotment) and make them available for general sale and the public will buy them.
Just get rid of all the students and put in the old people who donated all this money and pay to sit down. That'll do wonders for us
Bingo. Create demand by limiting supply and drive more revenue by selling the reallocated seats at a higher price point to a buyer that has more disposable income.
