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NJCat

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willycat said:
Isn't that still smaller then old W-R? Guess they could bring in some folding chairs and bring it back up to 8,000.
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They could put up a big screen on the North outside wall of WRA and seat people in Rocky Miller Park.......
 
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willycat

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gocatsgo2003 said:
Or we could continue finding things to complain about. Right on character.
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Wait until next season, after the Cats make it to the final 4 and the additional five or ten thousand new fans start complaining because they can's get into the new, smaller W-R.
 
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Catreporter

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The idea is to have season tickets sell out the place because of demand and make it a true home court advantage. Huge arenas like Allstate leave people to "pick and choose" single games, leaving you at the mercy of a lot of factors. Big state schools need to win to fill bigger arenas even with huge student bodies and being the only game in town, and when they don't you still can get a home court nonatmosphere like Penn State's.
 
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When they sell season tickets for the new WR they need to put some language into the contract for the corporate buyers that allows the school to fill an unoccupied seat 5 minutes into the game.
 
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NJCat

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willycat said:
Hope your right but still feel that an under 10,000 seat arena is to small for a power 5/Big Ten school.
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Duke didn't get the memo....Cameron Indoor is <10,000 seats. Blue Devils seem to do OK despite the small arena......
 
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thewildcat2011

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willycat said:
you just don't get it, do you?
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At no point in the modern history (let's call it the "TV era") of college hoops has there ever been enough demand to justify the added expense of building a 10,000+ arena for Northwestern basketball. That's just a fact.

Hell, there wasn't even enough demand to consistently sell out WR at 8,000 capacity last year (aka the best year of Northwestern basketball in the TV era).

Why in the world would NU undergo the headache and cost of constructing a 10,000+ arena (in Evanston of all of places???) to have it be 75% full AT BEST?

And if, by some astounding miracle, NU hoops starts driving enough demand to where a 7,000 seat arena is consistently being sold out and full of purple-clad fans to where people are actually being priced out, then many, many, many good things would have preceded that and i don't think any of us would be complaining.
 
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thewildcat2011 said:
At no point in the modern history (let's call it the "TV era") of college hoops has there ever been enough demand to justify the added expense of building a 10,000+ arena for Northwestern basketball. That's just a fact.

Hell, there wasn't even enough demand to consistently sell out WR at 8,000 capacity last year (aka the best year of Northwestern basketball in the TV era).

Why in the world would NU undergo the headache and cost of constructing a 10,000+ arena (in Evanston of all of places???) to have it be 75% full AT BEST?

And if, by some astounding miracle, NU hoops starts driving enough demand to where a 7,000 seat arena is consistently being sold out and full of purple-clad fans to where people are actually being priced out, then many, many, many good things would have preceded that and i don't think any of us would be complaining.
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While all of that may be true, NU used to draw many crowds of close to 10,000 in McGaw Hall. Was at a game back in the 1957 when NU hosted Kansas and some guy known as "Wilt the Stilt" before a standing room only crowd of about 10,000 and I still have the program. They also played home games against Kentucky and ND in front of crowds close to that size. I know, I know that was before almost every game was televised but just saying, those kind of crowds did happen. Guess you consider it odd that DePaul just built a new 10,000 seat arena but someone must of thought it was a good idea. Guess if they consistently fill W-R and their his lots of hype and demand for more tickets, they could move some games to UC or that new DePaul place..
 
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thewildcat2011

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willycat said:
While all of that may be true, NU used to draw many crowds of close to 10,000 in McGaw Hall. Was at a game back in the 1957 when NU hosted Kansas and some guy known as "Wilt the Stilt" before a standing room only crowd of about 10,000 and I still have the program. They also played home games against Kentucky and ND in front of crowds close to that size. I know, I know that was before almost every game was televised but just saying, those kind of crowds did happen. Guess you consider it odd that DePaul just built a new 10,000 seat arena but someone must of thought it was a good idea. Guess if they consistently fill W-R and their his lots of hype and demand for more tickets, they could move some games to UC or that new DePaul place..
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You'll have to let go of what happened in 1957, unfortunately.

I do consider it odd, and I'm sure DePaul will not be regularly selling out that arena. I'm assuming the people that thought it was a good idea are currently counting their (dirty?) $$$, regardless of whether Wintrust will actually be successful. It was also heavily financed with public dollars, as you like to point out, which would never happen in Evanston. It also doubles as an event center connected to McCormick Place, which adds a consideration toward increased capacity.
 
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gocatsgo2003 said:
Scroll down to the end. So much for all that hand-wringing, eh?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...etball-ranking-greenstein-20171114-story.html
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General seating is 5,950, basically 6,000 exactly. They allowed 250 for handicap, 750 for students, and 250 for luge attendance. So total seating is just over 7,000. But it's fire marshall approved for 8,000.
The definitions of what 8,000 means is beyond me but dont get hung up on cold hard numbers because it most certainly would involve standing room only.
Yes, sro. Because ALL tickets will be spoken for with all seats sold through the jointhecats. Any cheap boosters like willycat will be left out.
 
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Gocatsgo2003

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Mr Wickerpark said:
General seating is 5,950, basically 6,000 exactly. They allowed 250 for handicap, 750 for students, and 250 for luge attendance. So total seating is just over 7,000. But it's fire marshall approved for 8,000.
The definitions of what 8,000 means is beyond me but dont get hung up on cold hard numbers because it most certainly would involve standing room only.
Yes, sro. Because ALL tickets will be spoken for with all seats sold through the jointhecats. Any cheap boosters like willycat will be left out.
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That was pretty much comprehensible, barely even English. Dare I say, it seems almost... Turkish.
 
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willycat

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Mr Wickerpark said:
General seating is 5,950, basically 6,000 exactly. They allowed 250 for handicap, 750 for students, and 250 for luge attendance. So total seating is just over 7,000. But it's fire marshall approved for 8,000.
The definitions of what 8,000 means is beyond me but dont get hung up on cold hard numbers because it most certainly would involve standing room only.
Yes, sro. Because ALL tickets will be spoken for with all seats sold through the jointhecats. Any cheap boosters like willycat will be left out.
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Now try and explain what you just typed. Oh and go to hell!
 
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