Are there solutions to the mid week home games?
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Any of the end zones seats are brutal, especially those upper deck seats.
And they have to not sell several rows of seats behind the students because they stand the whole game and your view is still partially blocked.
It’s simply a poorly designed arena.
Whatever you want to call it, we're talking about the same thing. I'm referring to your original post
"Other conferences don't have gate sharing agreements and I think the Big Ten would have difficulty with a home venue that seats about 6,500."
That's the sharing agreement that I am talking about. There are minimums that teams must meet for each game (as well as maximums - football has the same type arrangement - see below). They are in place so that there isn't any issue with small arena sizes. As long as PSU writes at least the minimum gate revenue check for every game, the conference can't complain about the size of the arena.
http://businessofcollegesports.com/2011/04/20/big-ten-ticket-revenue/
"Today, the Big Ten shares gate receipts from both football and men’s basketball"
So following your logic, PSU could drop basketball altogether, send the Big Ten a check for $450K p.a. (the minimum contribution to the basketball gate pool), and the Big Ten would continue sending it $9mm p.a., with minor adjustments for the value of the loss of TV revenue attributable to PSU basketball? Sounds like a winning strategy for Barbour to work on.
it was flipped for seasona or two, and then they flipped the TV cameras back because the center court logo was upside down, I believe. Doesn't make any sense, I wish they would flip it again
The best season tickets you could get were at the top of the end zone? Hard to believe that they sold that many season tickets.
The thought that came to my mind was that couple they showed sitting all by themselves in the upper deck on the Mich State game.... Remember around 4th Qtr, we had game in control, it was horrible weather, rainy & cold... the stadium was 3/4 empty... and they kept showing this couple sitting in the empty upper deck.... At one point the announcer for the game questioned why they would not just move down.
Boondoggle from day one. Somebody made a decision to build the farm show arena part 2 instead of a basketball venue. I want to say Tim curley because everything he touched turned to manure but I don't know who it was.
I heard that because PSU accepted state money to build it, it HAD to be a multi-purpose venue. If it was private donations, like the Pegula, it would have been better.
So who was the person who made the decision to go with state money? Again, it comes down to one person.
