Texas - Purdue: Who's going?

[Htown77]

If tickets become hard to get those corporate seats will be full too.

Maybe, we’ll find out. As someone that does like to attend Texas sporting events, I am really not interested in seeing tickets get harder/more expensive.... especially for Texas basketball. I do not think that limiting tickets to corporate ticket holders who are going to attend one or two games/are not affiliated with UT and really do not care is going to grow our diehard fan base. I also do not think that limiting student tickets further is good for developing future diehard UT basketball fans who would attend games. I would be okay with a new, better arena of similar or greater size, but I just do not see a smaller arena being better. I guess we’ll see.

Ultimately, I think smaller will be bad for students and middle class family fans... which are the core of college sports fanbases. I am a Texas baskeball fan because I grew up with my dad taking me to see games. Tickets were affordable. Would I take my future kids to see Texas affordable basketball? Yes. Am I going to pay OU level ticket prices for bad seats to see Texas basketball? Probably not.... and I am one of the few like those left on this board that actually care about Texas basketball!

 

[SabreHorn]

SN,

To clarify a couple of things:

DKR hired David, not Deloss

Cunningham hired Mackovic over the objections of the "committee of 300"

DKR hired Mack

Gus pretty much "appointed" Augie

Even though Deloss was a track guy, Weldon Smith hired Stan

Except Weltlich, not much blowback on Deloss for hiring in Austin. Now his input and influence other places, we won't talk about.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

I knew about DKR seeing Mack and telling Deloss he was our guy, which kept us, thankfully, from pulling the trigger on Barnett. I was not aware he was that involved in David's hiring, and I am surprised to hear Gus had meaningful input into Augie's hiring. I thought things were pretty sour as Gus was headed out.

Perhaps Deloss' growth with respect to hiring decisions came in the area of learning who he should listen to ?

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Maybe, we’ll find out. As someone that does like to attend Texas sporting events, I am really not interested in seeing tickets get harder/more expensive.... especially for Texas basketball. I do not think that limiting tickets to corporate ticket holders who are going to attend one or two games/are not affiliated with UT and really do not care is going to grow our diehard fan base. I also do not think that limiting student tickets further is good for developing future diehard UT basketball fans who would attend games. I would be okay with a new, better arena of similar or greater size, but I just do not see a smaller arena being better. I guess we’ll see.

Ultimately, I think smaller will be bad for students and middle class family fans... which are the core of college sports fanbases. I am a Texas baskeball fan because I grew up with my dad taking me to see games. Tickets were affordable. Would I take my future kids to see Texas affordable basketball? Yes. Am I going to pay OU level ticket prices for bad seats to see Texas basketball? Probably not.... and I am one of the few like those left on this board that actually care about Texas basketball!

You can't have a full arena and cheap tickets because the free market doesn't work that way. Are you ok with an empty drum so you can get cheap tickets? I think I may be confused on your argument.

I would like to see a full arena with a great atmosphere which almost never happens in the drum regardless of who we play or how good we are. Who buys the tickets, who fills the seats and where they sit really doesn't matter to me. I only get to go to a couple games a year so if tix cost me $50 instead of $5 then so what. If you want to go to all the games you can buy season tickets at face value so they still aren't that expensive. Sell the games you don't want to attend and the tickets might pay for themselves.

I just disagree that a smaller arena will end up a worse atmosphere than what we currently have.

 

[Htown77]

The problem is, a smaller arena will be emptier!

The reason our arena is empty is the corporate seats are never filled. Even for big games a huge number remain empty.

UT is still going to sell the same corporate seats.

The people that come tend to not be season ticket holders or corporate seat holders. A smaller arena will cut into these people’s seats in. The prices for these seats will go up.

In short, we are actually going to end up with less people at our games and a worse environment. The empty corporate seats will still be there in a smaller arena. There will just be fewer of the people who actually show up.