Geddes said:That is all.
For the entire year or just non-conference? Some of those conference games (cat-Griz) draw huge crowds, and they’ll need the seats for some of those home games. My assumption would be that they’ll move the beer garden somewhere else for conference play.Chucknduck said:GA is now a beer garden during the basketball games.
Griz til I die said:For the entire year or just non-conference? Some of those conference games (cat-Griz) draw huge crowds, and they’ll need the seats for some of those home games. My assumption would be that they’ll move the beer garden somewhere else for conference play.Chucknduck said:GA is now a beer garden during the basketball games.
GrizLA said:Geddes said:That is all.
It might give some sort of life to the crowd that seems to be as indifferent as any I"ve seen. I wonder if they are bored by the style of bball UM plays.
Chucknduck said:GA is now a beer garden during the basketball games.
fanofzoo said:Chucknduck said:GA is now a beer garden during the basketball games.
The GA bleachers are moved back for a beer garden ? IF this is true WTF, that is where the fans sat.
maroonandsilver said:fanofzoo said:The GA bleachers are moved back for a beer garden ? IF this is true WTF, that is where the fans sat.
Why in the world would you want to waste seats for a mere 1000 fans when you could sell 100 beers? :roll:
Dillon said:Let me get this straight - People were Bitching because only the elite could drink beer, now that the peons can drink beer we are now Bitching because they can't sit there. May I propose bring back general admission pricing, but in a section on the side or behind the other other basket but upper tear. Don't assign seats and let people sit wherever they want or even better allow beer in any seat in the arena, like U of Nevada does. Common Sense folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Geddes said:I wasn't bitching at all, old guy.. And, I don't really give a shit about the beer thing either (wear a beer helmet at your seat for all I care). The idea of GA pricing around the stadium makes some sense (and looking at prices for the upcoming AF game, it seems like there are some cheaper seats). GA was just where people sat that actually got into the game and didn't sit on their hands all game. That conglomeration of fan was nice. Plus, the seats are nostalgic. I first learned the mastery of paper airplanes from up there as a youth...And, it is obviously all about me...
grizjournal (ie. Mr. Junkert..) thanks for what you provide to this forum. Also, thanks for introducing me to Beck in freshman English long ago...amongst other things.
edit: cuz grizzlyjournal used to be an English teacher, and I don't want to look like I learned absolutely nothing from him. Thank god he doesn't red pen this entire website...
Grizfan-24 said:This has been a long rumored move. Surprised it took twenty years to make this happen. This was a well studied and long studied debated. The athletic department, coaching staffs and booster types have been involved over the years on how to fix the environment issue for basketball games. One of the consistent points of conversation is how to handle the north bleachers.
Over the past 20 years, Mens games have rarely had more than a 3,500 average attendance and roughly 2,500-3,000 in dedicated season ticket sales. The bowl and the renovated section have about 4,500 to 5,000 seats. If the bleacher seats didn't exist, the renovated portion would be 3/4ers full for most games and improving the home game environment.
Opening up the extra 1,500 to 2,000 seats to have them 1/4 to 1/3 full for most games doesn't add to the environment, one might make the argument it detracts from it. So with the in arena beer being available, it opens up the possibilities on how to improve the game experience and bring in more attendees. This years treatment of the space is decidedly an ad-lib type but I do believe there are conversations in how to create a better environment for those beer gardens, group functions for future years. Or so I have been led to believe. They want people to buy beer on site, and believe people won't if they have to commit to drinking it in a far out of the way place. This space presented one of the handful of places that was easily accessible within the gates of the Adams center.
I get the consternation about the loss of general admission, because who doesn't like cheap seats to watch basketball games. I have heard over the years there has been a conversation about how to re-allocate season tickets in the upper levels to compress them closer to floor and to open up the upper levels of the South and West seats to single game reserved seats that would be far more affordable than presently available.
Anyhow, that is my understanding of the issues at play.
WAIT! You saying people actually read this stuff/ OOpsgrizzlyjournal said:Geddes said:I wasn't bitching at all, old guy.. And, I don't really give a shit about the beer thing either (wear a beer helmet at your seat for all I care). The idea of GA pricing around the stadium makes some sense (and looking at prices for the upcoming AF game, it seems like there are some cheaper seats). GA was just where people sat that actually got into the game and didn't sit on their hands all game. That conglomeration of fan was nice. Plus, the seats are nostalgic. I first learned the mastery of paper airplanes from up there as a youth...And, it is obviously all about me...
grizjournal (ie. Mr. Junkert..) thanks for what you provide to this forum. Also, thanks for introducing me to Beck in freshman English long ago...amongst other things.
edit: cuz grizzlyjournal used to be an English teacher, and I don't want to look like I learned absolutely nothing from him. Thank god he doesn't red pen this entire website...
:clap: :clap: :thumb: Thanks for the compliment, Geddes! Don't worry about the red pen. I lost it long ago. Besides, I have problems enough making certain to catch errors in my own writing on this board!