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re: The Future of Coleman Coliseum
Posted on 11/22/17 at 10:42 am to TomRollTideRitter
Posted on 11/22/17 at 10:42 am to TomRollTideRitter
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If the team is good, we'll have no problem filling 15k moving forward.
Problem is, we don't put out good teams consistently nowadays. Sure, I would love for us to maintain success, but since Wimp left, it's been a roller coaster. It needs to be built where if we hit our lows, it's still an arena that looks like it has good attendance and can help attract solid recruits. But it also has to be big enough to have a 6th man factor.
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Posted on 11/22/17 at 11:31 am to Gary Busey
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it's still an arena that looks like it has good attendance and can help attract solid recruits
It won't look any different until they change the Tide Pride system. That's the problem. Having 3k thousand empty seats in a "sell out" because of unused tickets looks just as bad in a 12k arena is it does in a 15k one.
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It needs to be built where if we hit our lows
The tickets will be way too expensive if they base the size off what we do when we're bad. That's a lot of potential money the University is losing too.
Capacity isn't the real issue. Layout and making sure people who buy tickets actually want to come to games are much more important.
Really we should see how this team does in January and February ticket wise before deciding what capacity we should use.
This post was edited on 11/22/17 at 11:38 am
Posted on 11/22/17 at 12:00 pm to TomRollTideRitter
I agree about TidePride being the biggest issue. I hope Byrne fixes that shite. They never come to the games, unless it's Kentucky or Auburn.
My biggest thing has been the band and student seating. It's just flat out awful.
My biggest thing has been the band and student seating. It's just flat out awful.
Posted on 11/22/17 at 12:09 pm to Gary Busey
I have heard Tide Pride is considering a ticket donation type program so members can "donate" their tickets back to the ticket office for re-sell. Seems long overdue if true.
Posted on 11/23/17 at 5:17 am to TomRollTideRitter
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Problem is there will still be 5000 seats open regardless of the size. The problem with filling the stadium isn't the capacity being too large. The problem is the Tide Pride system.
When my family or friends visit for basketball games, they often can't find tickets for sale together. They just buy them separately and then move together because so many tickets go unused. Changing the capacity won't change the number of tickets that go unused.
If it's hard to find tickets together for good games when our team has been bad, it'll be too hard if we become good. I think reducing the capacity is short sighted based on a flawed season ticket system and a lack of quality product on the court.
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Posted on 11/23/17 at 7:29 am to tiderider
They need to blow it up and start over. But either way, it needs to be smaller. Bama basketball is awesome but it’s sort of like Kentucky football. They will never need a football stadium that seats 100k. Make it 12k, close to the court and LOUD. Let’s make it a true home court advantage. If that makes tickets become in high demand because there are fewer, I see that as a good thing.
Posted on 11/23/17 at 8:20 am to tiderider
They need a consequence for unused TP tickets. If your tickets go unused for a certain amount of games each year, you are ineligible to auto-renew those seats the next year. Tons of those seats are bought only because it gives you more TP points and priority for football. Those people show up for one game (Auburn) and that's only if we won the iron bowl.
Posted on 11/23/17 at 8:44 am to South Alabama Tide
Coach has got a team now that’s fun to watch, hopefully we’ll get a place soon that’s fun to go to too.
Posted on 11/23/17 at 8:53 am to dplo
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Tons of those seats are bought only because it gives you more TP points and priority for football.
Should we even have it where it's set up to give you priority for football? I'd rather have die-hard basketball fans. But the penalty system seems much better.
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