Time to re-seat Rec Hall like the STEP program did for Beaver Stadium. Get

[LealandLoyal]

rid of all those blue hairs that sit close to the mat and in the lower bleacher sections. Also start a "virtual venue" process for picking your season ticket seats just like they do for the Beav and for Pegula. Base it on number of NLC points. Time for real change.

 

[21Guns]

You are clearly insane. Rec Hall is the single most intimidating home field advantage probably in all of wrestling. It is viewed as a death chamber by every other team in the sport.

Change nothing.

 

[BOSCO2]

rid of all those blue hairs that sit close to the mat and in the lower bleacher sections. Also start a "virtual venue" process for picking your season ticket seats just like they do for the Beav and for Pegula. Base it on number of NLC points. Time for real change.

Those "blue hairs" are big, and necessary, contributors to the program. I'm sure most of them have enough NLC points to remain exactly where they are.

 

[KFM74]

rid of all those blue hairs that sit close to the mat and in the lower bleacher sections. Also start a "virtual venue" process for picking your season ticket seats just like they do for the Beav and for Pegula. Base it on number of NLC points. Time for real change.

Your handle suggests you are Loyal. Those blue hairs have been incredibly loyal. They can stay right where they are as far as I am concerned.

 

[Tweedbear]

Leal and Loyal does not live up to his name. He is trying to substitute money for loyalty.
Football has yet to recover from STEP.

 

[tgar]

rid of all those blue hairs that sit close to the mat and in the lower bleacher sections. Also start a "virtual venue" process for picking your season ticket seats just like they do for the Beav and for Pegula. Base it on number of NLC points. Time for real change.

to a certain extent, I agree with you but they are going nowhere. I do wish it were louder. I am 58 and its way to quite in there during a match ( yes, I am a season ticket holder ) I don't sit in BlueHairVille but we did have one in our section this past season pass out and need an entire medical crew to get her out of the arena. I thought she was dead. Some of these folks should consider staying home same as at Beaver stadium.

the atmosphere is often like a Barry Manilow concert when it needs to be more like a Who concert.

Scratch the Barry Manilow reference, I bet those old girls still stand and toss their panties his way. the point is, I would love to be in Rec Hall on my feet for the entire match screaming, its just not that atmosphere. Wrestling fans are luke warm from a screaming standpoint at best. too polite.

 

[El-Jefe]

STEP worked so well that we should alienate every sport's fans with it, as soon as possible.

 

[androcles]

...those are the people who were supporting the program when many recent train jumpers were off twiddling their thumbs or watching basketball..

...now some want to just come in and wave their wallets around and take over a program because they have a few idle $$$s lying around...look at all the vacant 50 yd line seats that have gone unsold because of that mentality...

...bah-humbug...!

 

[SRATH]

I will take the blue hairs who get in their seats and never move vs the folks who want to take their kid for a slushy in the middle of a period. It is a bit unnerving with how quite it is during many matches......especially vs most high school matches where everyone is screaming the whole time. At first I didn't like it. Now, I think of it more as a sacred serenity. I would hate for a coaches instruction not to be heard by one of our guys just because I would prefer to yell.

 

[tgar]

I will take the blue hairs who get in their seats and never move vs the folks who want to take their kid for a slushy in the middle of a period. It is a bit unnerving with how quite it is during many matches......especially vs most high school matches where everyone is screaming the whole time. At first I didn't like it. Now, I think of it more as a sacred serenity. I would hate for a coaches instruction not to be heard by one of our guys just because I would prefer to yell.

good point.

 

[Gray52]

One thing you're forgetting is that those blue hairs usually have a ton of green in their pocket and thousands of NLC points in the bank. Current season ticket holders will get first dibs on their current seats and retain most of those seats anyway, so don't get too excited.
As for not getting loud... Apparently, you weren't there when Zain beat Logi.
On another note (but along the lines that the STEP program is a bad idea for Rec Hall). I just did my seat selection today for football... And the amount of great seats available was frightening.

 

[21Guns]

Actually the quiet followed by the cacaphony of noise when we score is sort of amazing: It's unlike anywhere in the sport and to me it's kind of like the sporting equivalent of a Led Zeppelin song: Periods of calm followed by moments of shattering volume, and then back again. As I said, Rec Hall isn't like anywhere in the nation: Different from Carver-Hawkeye, different from Stillwater or Norman, different from St John arena, different from Cornell or Blacksburg...just no place that compares to it...and when we wrestle at the BJC, it's like a giant balloon sized facsimile haha.

 

[T J]

STEP worked so well that we should alienate every [OTHER Team's] fans with it, as soon as possible.

Fixed it...

Spread the word to the Big Ten, OK St, VT, Cornell, Mizzou etc, that they should implement it in THEIR venues ASAP.

 

[dunkej01]

I think they could raise seats costs another couple bucks.

I think they could do some better seating with the students.

I think they could do a little bit more post match for the kids.

I think they could interact more with the local youth programs at the intermission.

I think they could do a match at the beav.

But STEP.....decorum prohibits me from stating my feelings. So I end with F that.

 

[21Guns]

Fixed it...

Spread the word to the Big Ten, OK St, VT, Cornell, Mizzou etc, that they should implement it in THEIR venues ASAP.

Without question, Iowa, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, and Oklahoma State, need STEP, and they need it ASAP.

 

[NoVa Lion]

I think they could raise seats costs another couple bucks.

I think they could do some better seating with the students.

I think they could do a little bit more post match for the kids.

I think they could interact more with the local youth programs at the intermission.

I think they could do a match at the beav.

But STEP.....decorum prohibits me from stating my feelings. So I end with F that.

+1,000, especially on STEP.

 

[JimNazium]

rid of all those blue hairs that sit close to the mat and in the lower bleacher sections. Also start a "virtual venue" process for picking your season ticket seats just like they do for the Beav and for Pegula. Base it on number of NLC points. Time for real change.

Where do you think the money came from to get Sanderson and endow the program? I think you owe our most loyal fans an apology.

 

[tgar]

after reading all of the posts, I agree with much of what you wise folks say:

No to STEP, good god what a disaster and the folks that ponied up the money deserve the seats.

Quiet during the action followed by explosive applause during the important scoring moments of the match, I am fine with that.

one thing I disagree with is youth wrestling at halftime, bring back the hoola hoop young lady every week.

 

[ggcpsu]

I think they could raise seats costs another couple bucks.

I think they could do some better seating with the students.

I think they could do a little bit more post match for the kids.

I think they could interact more with the local youth programs at the intermission.

I think they could do a match at the beav.

But STEP.....decorum prohibits me from stating my feelings. So I end with F that.

Please for the love of god do something about the students. At least give us chairs!

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Here's what I have to say about OP's idea (with all due respect):

 

[GOLDBANGER]

rid of all those blue hairs that sit close to the mat and in the lower bleacher sections. Also start a "virtual venue" process for picking your season ticket seats just like they do for the Beav and for Pegula. Base it on number of NLC points. Time for real change.

Where were you people back in the day when these "blue hairs" were the only people in Rec Hall? Where were you back when the parents and maybe 500 Penn State fans went to nationals? That is quite possibly the worst idea I've heard with respect to this page.

 

[BOSCO2]

Please for the love of god do something about the students. At least give us chairs!

Sorry. Paying customers in the lower rows of the W sections would be unable to see the mat. Be happy that you're 2 feet from the action.

 

[psuwrestl]

Lealandloyal forgive me for asking but what kind of a jackass statement is that. Every year the drums start beating for this very idea. It's obvious you are younger with your statements about the "blue hairs" I must admit I am not one of those I'm more like the little to no hair crowd type. Where were all you folks during the leaner years when a couple of bucks could get you in and trust me there were plenty of seats to choose from. Often in the pre Cael era I couldn't give tickets away. I think the best route to take here is through attrition and wait your turn or are you more of an open borders type and want to jump to the front of the line.

 

[matter7172]

I say this as a season ticket holder of about 10 years who hasn't moved down in the stands for a long time. As others have said, those people have been supporting the program for a long, long time. They've earned those good seats. I love the atmosphere at Rec Hall. People know wrestling and react pretty strongly to the outstanding moments.

I'll add that I've been to non-Penn State matches at Rutgers, Cornell and Lehigh over the past few years and I'll take the atmosphere at Rec Hall over them every day and twice on Sunday. Grace Hall comes in a close second, though.

 

[a_mshaffer]

i have no problem with the current structure, as long as the tickets are used if the season ticket holder can't make a meet...

 

[Tweedbear]

I agree with the student who asked for seats.
In the '50s rec Hall was sold out with students.

 

[garw]

Build the "Blue Hair Lounge" at the top of the bleachers opposite the press section. Make it easier for them to get in and out and (if necessary) get medical help. Put in a 2 ft platform to elevate the mat and give the students seats(folding chairs arranged neatly will probably do). No STEP.
The hoola hoop student was great. High action, edge of your seat entertainment for sure. No kiddie wrestling. They haven't earned it and the only people who could possibly care are their parents, and there aren't extra tickets available for that fiasco.

 

[nitlion6]

I have had season tickets since the 80s. As someone else pointed out. My hair, which is sparse and generally covered with a ball cap, is not blue.
My seats may improve if we did a STEP program, but my God after the complete and utter failure that was the football model why in the phruck anybody would think that is a good idea is beyond my ability to comprehend. A bad idea executed into action is one thing and bad enough. A bad idea executed and then repeated becomes a stupid idea.
Very few seats in Rec Hall do not have pretty good views.

 

[roadking95th]

If one was forward thinking, great season ticket seats could be had 6 and 7 years ago. That is when I got mine but unfortunately have had to give them up.

Let the people stay who have been there.

 

[LealandLoyal]

Lealandloyal forgive me for asking but what kind of a jackass statement is that. Every year the drums start beating for this very idea. It's obvious you are younger with your statements about the "blue hairs" I must admit I am not one of those I'm more like the little to no hair crowd type. Where were all you folks during the leaner years when a couple of bucks could get you in and trust me there were plenty of seats to choose from. Often in the pre Cael era I couldn't give tickets away. I think the best route to take here is through attrition and wait your turn or are you more of an open borders type and want to jump to the front of the line.

Money talks, and your BS walks. Let the cream rise to the top/better seats, quickly.

 

[Hartzie]

Money talks, and your BS walks. Let the cream rise to the top/better seats, quickly.

You're an a$$