Reliant Stadium is the wrong site!

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old65horn

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When I first found out that the sweet 16 regional was in Houston and Texas had a chance to be in that regional, I was excited. I thought that might give us an edge. I expected the site would be the arena of our pro basketball team, them I found out it was going to be in Reliant Stadium. There goes our edge. The fans will be too far away to be much of a factor. It is a poor site for a basketball game. I went to the only final four ever held in Houston. The site was the AstroDome. I wish that I had stayed home and watched it on TV. I was so far away from the court that I could barely see any of the actual action.

I believe that having the game at Reliant actually favors Stanford. Their game is to basically pound the ball inside. Long range shooters usually have a problem playing basketball games in a football stadium. The problem is dept perception. The backboard is a lot farther away from the background than in a basketball arena. Our game is dependent a lot on long range jumpers.

I hope I am wrong.
 
Sheesh! I'm waiting for someone to complain Friday that the roof should be open if the weather is nice.

But seriously, anyone who has been to a Texans game knows that it doesn't take much for Reliant Stadium to be loud. The acoustics are very good, and nothing is going to suck out the noise.

I sat fairly far away at the 2003 games at the Alamodome and much further away than that at the Superdome for the Final Four. Even from the upper deck in New Orleans, the intensity amongst all the surrounding UT fans was as good as any Horns game I've been to.

If you'd be sitting in the upper deck in Detroit, then I'd understand not feeling like you're a big part of everything. But that won't be the case Friday with all the UT fans there. My only wish is that it would be the late game so more fans would be in their seats by tipoff.
 
I can't believe there are 11,000 seats still available. Is that correct? I was at the Alamodome in 2003 and agree that the atmosphere there was incredible. Reliant can be the same. We need to fill it up with Burnt Orange. It would really be embarrassing if Memphis fans wind up in a bunch of those seats.
 
WRONG...Reliant is an excellent venue and it will be rocking if Longhorn fans don't screw this up.
 
I have some upper deck tickets so I'll be far away from the court. Even though I'm far how's the atmosphere for those who have been to big Tourney games?

Hoping I'm rubbing elbows with some other true fans. Will being far away have a great effect? hope not...
 
Hope you are right. Even though I live in Houston, I will be in Wimberley trying to level out the damage feral hogs have done to my yard. Wish I was a good shot holding a flashlight.

I will be listening on 1300.
 
old65horn,

I see the feral hogs have made it up the Blanco to Wimberley. I'm downstream about 12 miles and have been dealing with them for years.

I also went to the 1971 Final Four at the Astrodome. I watched the games with binoculars.

As domes go the Alamodome is not bad, but the new set-up at Reliant concerns me. The seats on risers extending out from the permanent stands toward the court will be on a ridiculously shallow angle - almost flat, I would guess. The notion that there will be no bad seats is laughable.

But I will go and hope for the best. I'm not even sure how I'll get tickets; I donate generously to the Longhorn Foundation and have been doing so for many years, but was told a minimum annual gift of $10,000 was required. I gather the suite and courtside club people are first in line. One way or another I'll get in and add my voice to the throng.
 
Well, the house is a rockin', don't bother knockin'
Yeah, the house is a rockin', don't bother knockin'
If the house is a rockin', don't bother, come on in
 
I'm wondering why they haven't booked them in hangers the size of those at Moffet Field in Mt. View. The bigger the better.

How about a Regional or Final Four on the deck of an aircraft carrier?

****, put 500,000 seats around the place. The more the better.

Or, has anyone figured out that only so many people can get close enough to a basketball court to even think about enjoying the game?

I hope the players can find the basket in the line of sight of seeing fans 1/2 mile away. They won't have tunnel vision, but might suffer from vertigo.

Here is my top 5 list of places to play a basketball game.

In the Grand Canyon.
In Yosemite Valley.
On the deck of the USS Enterprise.
In a blimp hanger at Moffet Field, Mt. View, CA.
On the Salt Lake Flats, Utah.

With a goal of 1/2 million (paying) fans in attendance.
 
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