re: Tide Hoops | Please Anchor

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This answer pisses me off. They can do work on BDS or anything to do with football at the snap of a finger. But with basketball it’s always a process.

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I mean, what do you want him to say? Because the honest answer would be something along the lines of: "You have to understand that Alabama is a school that spent decades building a culture of 'only football matters' around their athletics program. I'm trying to change that, but I'm also only the second AD you've ever had who didn't play football at this school, and the other one gave you Mike Dubose. Most people in their 20s and 30s have not amassed the kind of wealth that allows them to simply give away 6 and 7 figure sums, and why don't you try asking for money for a new basketball arena from some 67 year old whose sole interest in the sport is how many Tide Pride points he gets from the courtside seats he has used less than 20 times in the 14 years he has had them. Get back to me and let me know how it went, because if you've got any helpful tips I'm all ears."

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It would be interesting to learn how much profit is actually made from basketball each year. If there is a profit.

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We average around $5 million in profit annually, but those numbers were from Avery years. To put it in perspective, Kentucky is around $30 million in profit annually. Louisville is right behind them. No one else is even close.

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Damn….that pretty much sums it up perfectly

We need to win one of the Auburn or Kentucky games

Against Baylor, Alabama Basketball Proved Once Again that It Can Beat Anyone

The Crimson Tide has now beaten three of last year's Final Four teams and its five wins over ranked opponents ties Marquette for the most in the country this season.

(prove it again on Tuesday!)

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Youre absolutely right. Lot of words to say nothing at all consequential.

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If there is a silver lining in Byrne's delay, it is that I can still afford my Rebounder Club seats at $200 TP donation, and I like where I sit. Byrne's current ploy of calling packed Coleman crowds merely 10K or so is part of his ploy to build a 10K seat arena that cuts out all but season ticket holders and sends me to the rafters. Never once has Byrne addressed the terrible situation of Auburn, Tenn, Ky fans sittting in prime Tide Pride seats, even floor seats, because those corporate and big donor owners rarely go to basketball games and just sell their tickets to Auburn and Kentucky fans on Stub Hub. I seriously doubt Byrne cares who sits in the seats as long as wealthy donors and corporations pay for the seats. You will see many opposing fans and business opportunities sitting in the prime seats at the new arena, but many fewer of the long term (40 plus years of season tickets like me) ticket holders at the games - we won't be able to afford the rafters. I will likely miss Coleman and seeing loyal, true, old time Bama fans at the games.

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We need to win one of the Auburn or Kentucky games

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If we are trying to sneakily grab a 3 seed then yes. But if we just beat everyone we are supposed to beat (lol), then we end up 20-11 and are probably a 5 seed.

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corporate and big donor owners rarely go to basketball games and just sell their tickets

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So I heard a couple years back a lot of those are actually UK fans/Ticket brokers largely to get SECT ticket priority, not just big donors/corporate.

From what I was told by an AU Assc AD, it is more expensive to Stubhub SECT tickets than to get other school priority through season tickets + Stubhub resale games.

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anything under 12,000 seats would be a disaster,

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For Coleman or a new arena? Coleman almost feels too big to go lighter than 12,000.

For new arenas, I think 10,000-12,000 is about right. Basketball is better the closer fans are to the court. Feel like ~12,000 is when arena has to build lower deck seats further horizontally which also pushing second deck back as well.

Also, smaller arenas can have flat roofs which are significantly better at trapping/bouncing crowd noise than domes/archers

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This is the downside for me as well (while acknowledging the upside that has been discussed at length previously). It’s taken many many years after Tide Pride to get decent seats in Coleman (started 5 rows from the top and slowly worked my way down). I’m going to enjoy my seats and neighbors while they last because I’m certain I’ll be sent back to the rafters in a new arena. Arizona’s program requires ‘written commitments’ to capital campaigns in addition to priority club contributions and season tickets purchases to sit in premium sections of the arena.Two tickets with the lowest level of that commitment puts you in the rafters for the cost of just over $2,000 a season. Wouldn’t be surprised to see something along that structure here with the new arena. The price of progress I suppose.

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I mean, what do you want him to say? Because the honest answer would be something along the lines of: "You have to understand that Alabama is a school that spent decades building a culture of 'only football matters' around their athletics program. I'm trying to change that, but I'm also only the second AD you've ever had who didn't play football at this school, and the other one gave you Mike Dubose. Most people in their 20s and 30s have not amassed the kind of wealth that allows them to simply give away 6 and 7 figure sums, and why don't you try asking for money for a new basketball arena from some 67 year old whose sole interest in the sport is how many Tide Pride points he gets from the courtside seats he has used less than 20 times in the 14 years he has had them. Get back to me and let me know how it went, because if you've got any helpful tips I'm all ears."

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Our atmosphere would get a whole let better if we could assign unused lower-level tickets to students after the tip, or just stopped checking after like the under 10 mark in the first half and let students or people from the upper levels move down into the empty seats at a certain point.

There is zero point whatsoever in having empty seats in the 4th row during the 2nd half with 1,000 people in the upper level.

I know you still want to give the late arrivers a chance to get to their seats, but there has to be a pragmatic way to let fans already in the arena fill in the closer seats at a certain point.