UMass at 11 AM...

[411dawg]

The scoreboard club was a bad idea. Those seats are scorching hot for daytime games.

 

[CoolDawg]

I think trying to sell tickets to the awful looking seats in the endzone has been a big bust this year. From what I hear from very reliable sources, most of those tickets have been given away this season. My guess is that the cost to install those seats is more than the revenue that will be generated from them this year.

 

[Miketice]

Yeah, won't be there.

Hopefully it's a terrible crowd to make a statement.

What a maroon

 

[The Peeper]

Yep they obviously didn't sell because they have been included in the Maroon Memories campaign this year several times that I've looked

 

[KurtRambis4]

You answered your own question.

I want to know what people thought

These people and "thinking" go together about like hugh freeze and the Bible.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Yeah 11am games are for the "have-nots" in the SEC. Oh, wait.....

Look away, Dixieland.

 

[AROB44]

Yeah, won't be there.

Hopefully it's a terrible crowd to make a statement.

Do you even go to any games? Had you pegged for a lounge chair in front of TV.

 

[8dog]

Everyone i know that has been to the scoreboard club loves it

 

[BulldogBlitz]

It's not just us. A lot of what we would consider elite or high level programs are having trouble with attendance. I sense a bubble that is about to burst. The crowd at the LSU/Auburn game was disappointing, and surprisingly few Auburn fans traveled considering what that game meant for them.

The barners and corn dogs read the UK article dogging starkville

 

[ronpolk]

The scoreboard club was a bad idea. Those seats are scorching hot for daytime games.

How are those seats any different than any other seat? Are we all not sitting under the same heat?

 

[EngDawg]

How are those seats any different than any other seat? Are we all not sitting under the same heat?

Won't speak to the temperature of the seats, but there is no way I would pay that kind of money to sit in the endzone.

 

[KurtRambis4]

I think you misread his post*

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[IBleedMaroonDawg]

That ship has pretty much sailed I think - we were smart to focus our expansion not so much on # of seats as we did on enhancing the quality of the experience for the fans that come. You want to see something really sad, look at Knoxville's 100K + stadium on any Saturday right now, or Florida's, hell even Alabama is hurting.

I think you are correct. IF we make the next level and sell out every game a couple of years, then we expand. Right now, the stadium is about the right size.

Redoing the south end with a new MClub and modest seating that can be augmented is a sensible next step till we see how the economy goes. I have a fear of the fact that wage have been stagnant for quite some time is going to affect things sooner than later.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Strat runs a separate account?

 

[RocketDawg]

How are those seats any different than any other seat? Are we all not sitting under the same heat?

They're pointing due south and get the direct rays of the sun at the hottest time of the day. Otherwise, they're no different than any other chairback seat. The student section gets the same except they're bleachers. Of course, those south-facing seats might feel good if it's about 30 outside, but with climate change that may never happen again. How long has it been since we've had a cold game?

 

[RocketDawg]

We need more suites/loge for the elites, but I think the length of time required to sell out the Scoreboard Club showed we're close to tapped out on the $1,000+ seat crowd.
What we need is to add more quality to the seats we do have to get butts in them. I'd chairback the stadium before I wiped out the 100's and 200's to try and find another 1,700 people willing to pay $1,750 for Club seats.

I think the reason the scoreboard club took so long to sell out is that it's in the end zone, and as others have said, it's facing due south and gets scorching. If they decide to build a club level on the west side, they'll be sold in no time ... they'll be on sideline seats with a good view of the game. Probably lots of east side club folks will move over there. I suspect it wouldn't be terribly expensive to turn the press box level into a nice club level, as well as the quarterdeck area.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

I think you are correct. IF we make the next level and sell out every game a couple of years, then we expand. Right now, the stadium is about the right size.

Redoing the south end with a new MClub and modest seating that can be augmented is a sensible next step till we see how the economy goes. I have a fear of the fact that wage have been stagnant for quite some time is going to affect things sooner than later.

I have said it before and I will say it again. Closing in the South End Zone should not be about "expansion". It should be about cutting the large west side sections that have 44 to 48 seats in half by adding additional entry tunnels and extra walk ups. Thecseats you lose by doing this can be replaced by enclosing the South End Zone with more premium boxes and lower level chair backs. Then the regular joes on the West side will be happy because they don't get stepped on as much by us old farts who have to piss out 8 beers 3 times during the game. ***

 

[00Dawg]

Every East Side CL member would move west if they could.

The problem is there isn't demand to fill the West Side CL back up. The Scoreboard Club holds less than 70% of the seat count of the East CL, and costs less than 60% of the East Side CL seat costs.
Even if every single Scoreboard member was willing to pay another $750 per seat, there's not enough of them to fill it up. Then you have to back-fill those and so on and so forth.

Besides suites (and maybe loges), we need more seats like the 200's: lesser amenities, cost less than $1k per seat. We've got some room for growth there.

 

[Go Budaw]

I would think that 11 o'çlock games do affect the local businesses negatively on it's own. Less people spend the night, etc.

That problem goes both ways. You have a 6 PM kickoff which everyone loves, and a lot of people wouldn’t spend the night Friday night. But truthfully, there’s not a whole lot of impact either way because all the hotels have 2 night minimums. The opponent has a lot more negative impact than the kickoff time. Yet another reason why I am in favor of going to 9 conference games and getting rid of at least one of these meaningless cream puff games every year.