re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)

Alabama basketball has averaged right at 11,000 attendance per home game just prior to covid and since the covid year, but I get what you are saying, it does often times look like 3-4000. Sure, I would agree that those numbers get skewed some by no shows, but the bottom line is we average almost 2000 more seats sold per game than Auburn. You can put 8000 people in coleman and look virtually empty because the high dollar seats all to often only show up for UK and Auburn. Just another in my long list of grievances with where the student section is located... And for the love of god, why does the media section of our arena sit in direct view of the camera. These guys literally have desks that occupy an entire quadrant of a good section.

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He has asked repeatedly to move down with no luck so far but it is frustrating to see it in tv be empty

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Oddly, back in the day, during the first media timeout they would let you move down and fill any empty seat that was still available.

Probably upset some people that liked to get there late or didn't want to see anyone sitting in their seats while they watched on TV, but it sure helped.

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move down to fill in empty seats. Students spread out too.

They need to do that at the first media timeout every game.

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Amen, sister!

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yes how Bruce didn’t get a Tech is crazy to me . He was the same at last years game

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It's because he acts like a chimpanzee on cocaine from start to finish of nearly every game. The refs have been conditioned to expect it from him, so he has to go way over the line to get T'd up.

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The Cereal Box has dropped a new video.

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That was perfect. I can't wait until KD Johnson is finally out of basketball and we don't have to see his face "grace" the screen. Wonder what the fans were saying to piss off the entire AU squad. Aubs better nut up and take it because their fans bring this shite on their squad. Their students are complete asses so they can't be bitter when it's turned on them

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Speaking of, the last time we got Auburn in tHangar on a Saturday was....2017. They've gotten us at home on Saturday like 4 or 5 times since then. How in the frick is that allowed?

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At this point it’s gotta be Byrne requesting it be a weeknight game. If not then it’s total unfair bullshite

From the peanut gallery but also as a season ticket holder who uses their tickets

The coaching staff has repeatedly said NIL needs to be prioritized over a new arena. (In public and in booster club meetings). The team has top notch training facilities, locker rooms and technology. Can we have both? Maybe - but the stated priority by the coaching staff is NIL. Oats himself has indicated a new arena is mostly ‘for the fans.’

I love shiny new things as much as the next person. And I selfishly cling to Coleman because, after years (and years) of buying tickets, I finally have decent seats for sports held in that arena. Seats that get used for every event. And deep down I know that I either won’t be sitting in a new arena, or if I’m lucky, will be back up in the rafters - but there are no bad seats, right?.

Given the rumored price point for seating in a new arena, I’m not sure where the notion that it will be ‘packed’ arises. The same folks selling their premium seats last night will likely be the same ones buying the premium seats in a new arena (and either not using them or selling them when the game is too early, too late, the weather is bad, etc). I get that TV rights are becoming the end all be all - and maybe TV money in conjunction with a prominent student presence will pay the bills and help with the appearance on TV. But I’m not sold that a new arena will be packed. The same 8,000-10,000 fans coming to games today won’t necessarily be the same ones in a new arena.

And if the lower bowl seating is all premium as is rumored (i.e. requires a substantial contribution for the privilege of paying Tide Pride and buying tickets) don’t expect a call to move down to better seats at the first media timeout. One has to look no further than baseball to see the bevy of empty seats in the premium home plate section (where season ticket holders for decades were run out with the renovation) . The premium seats now ‘guarded’ for the entirety of the game to ensure no one moves there. At least they have started allowing athletic department use of them to make it look better on TV.

For now, my vote is to move the ‘media’ to behind the section above the TV cameras and expand the student section there. That should help bolster the atmosphere in the short term and have minimal impact on current fans.

That’s it from the peanut gallery. Que sera sera

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Oats has never played a home game against Auburn on a Saturday. All 5 of his games were on weekdays. AU has had 2 of 4 games on Saturday.

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Maybe I’m in the minority, but that might only serve to add 500 more aubies in the arena. The weekday game in pouring rain didn’t dampen the atmosphere for us one bit.

I say this probably underestimating how many of yall that live further away would make a weekend trip for the basketball iron bowl

Good post.

My season tickets are in the nosebleeds but I have a family member with essentially front row seats and because of that, he hasn’t contributed a dime to the capital campaign. He said he’d never get this great of seats again so he hopes we are in Coleman forever. I couldn’t blame him.