Coleman Coliseum this Saturday

MSU and AU will be sell outs. I'm assuming Arkansas is a midweek game, so there may be some tickets available, but will still be a good crowd.

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MSU and AU will be sell outs

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MSU is already sold out and Auburn was close to selling out a couple of weeks ago. Now we need to work on attendance, particularly among the blue blood Tide Priders in the lower sections.

I have a feeling that will get addressed this offseason. The fact that buying basketball tickets (and not having to use them) helps your football ticket status is completely obscene.

coleman is so weirdly shaped

They cram too many people in there. If u don't have great seats u are screwed if u are sitting next to a big person. I'll be damned if I spend a ton of money to go to t town on a Tuesday and then not enjoy myself because the seats are too small. Just making all seats a decent size would make that place so much more enjoyable. The place has other issues as well. I don't think it would be wise to rehab Coleman. They did that really not that long ago. Go big or go home. A new arena or keep Coleman make sense. Putting another facelift in Coleman is throwing good money after bad IMO.

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needs to be rehabbed, or torn down and rebuilt.

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Since they aren't tearing it down, I do think another face-lift is due. The last major overhaul was back in 2005 after our Elite Eight run and brought it up to snuff with most of the SEC at the time.

I think the concourse can be made much more interesting, I love schools like LSU and Auburn that made their concourse a bit of a museum of program history. We could have one side that showcases Alabama Gymnastics and the other side, Bama Hoops. And just in general look more slick and modern.

The seats facing seats need to be torn out and have camera stands put in, (we've already done this with one angle).

The basketball suites and practice gym, thankfully are pretty sick already, maybe some touches here and there.

The next two home games are officially sold out. If you want to see this team, get a ticket for Arky or that's it.

Why do teams want practice facilities for B-Ball now? We don't share the court except for Gym-Tide meets, they have their own practice facility.

Seems like the more you practice on your own B-Ball court the better your home court advantage would be, shooting wise

I'd like to see it be a more intimate atmosphere. Even the biggest games have too many empty seats. I'd rather it be smaller and have a feeling that it's full.

Coleman isn't that bad in my opinion. It gets an unfair amount of criticism. The ceiling is weird, but recognizable. And the location is perfect and looks fine on the outside.

The interior could be redesigned so that the arrangement isn't so weird. The lower section could be transformed into a bowl (as opposed to the weird square)



And then maybe the upper rows could somehow be redesigned to make an upper deck