IdahoGrizFan and others
Would you people please stop rewriting history? The Zoo didn't get eliminated or "sidelined." The Zoo died a natural death as students gradually stopped coming to games. Eventually there were virtually no students on the "student side" and the townies buying the cheapie upper end zone tickets figured out that they could simply walk into that section and have the best seats in the house.
Rather than have the people with the cheapest tickets having the best seats in the fieldhouse, administration decided to sell those to the highest bidder and put the students in the lower end zone.
The result is that the lower east side is about half full for a typical game while there are still virtually no students in the lower north end zone - which, folks, ain't a bad seat.
And Title IX won't let you do different seating for the womens games - can you imagine the lower east side with 6 students sitting there. I'll bet you that on the typical game night, there aren't 100 students at a men's game and not 20 at a women's game. The average would be higher due to Griz-Cat which is packed, but the typical game still has nearly no student attendance. That isn't because of the seating - it is because students think they have other things to do.
We are starting to see a similar phenomenon at Griz football games.
I don't know what to do about the student attendance issue - paying them to come doesn't seem to work. It certainly isn't a seating issue.
But, please, acknowledge that the Zoo died long long before the seating was moved. The seating move didn't kill the Zoo - that is an eGriz urban myth.
Would you people please stop rewriting history? The Zoo didn't get eliminated or "sidelined." The Zoo died a natural death as students gradually stopped coming to games. Eventually there were virtually no students on the "student side" and the townies buying the cheapie upper end zone tickets figured out that they could simply walk into that section and have the best seats in the house.
Rather than have the people with the cheapest tickets having the best seats in the fieldhouse, administration decided to sell those to the highest bidder and put the students in the lower end zone.
The result is that the lower east side is about half full for a typical game while there are still virtually no students in the lower north end zone - which, folks, ain't a bad seat.
And Title IX won't let you do different seating for the womens games - can you imagine the lower east side with 6 students sitting there. I'll bet you that on the typical game night, there aren't 100 students at a men's game and not 20 at a women's game. The average would be higher due to Griz-Cat which is packed, but the typical game still has nearly no student attendance. That isn't because of the seating - it is because students think they have other things to do.
We are starting to see a similar phenomenon at Griz football games.
I don't know what to do about the student attendance issue - paying them to come doesn't seem to work. It certainly isn't a seating issue.
But, please, acknowledge that the Zoo died long long before the seating was moved. The seating move didn't kill the Zoo - that is an eGriz urban myth.
