Reading about the abysmal attendance got me thinking.
Which facility is appropriately sized for Charlotte athletics?
Halton Arena or Richardson Stadium?
Halton.
Halton. We’re already discussing when to enlarge The Rich. We have never discussed enlarging or replacing Halton.
Richardson stadium.
We should turn the upper level of halton into office space or storage lockers and rent it out. Seats in halton that havent been sat in in 10+ years.
[quote=“cibik02, post:4, topic:29418”]Richardson stadium.
We should turn the upper level of halton into office space or storage lockers and rent it out. Seats in halton that havent been sat in in 10+ years.[/quote]
LOL. i’d have rented space there for psychology offices! maybe a way to pay off some contracted obligations?
Part of the problem with The Rich and attendance is that the student ticket allocation was made with politics/public relations in mind and/or without study of what’s a reasonable number. We set aside 7,500 seats for students when our peers’ data shows 3-5,000 would have been a more reasonable number.
http://ninertimes.com/2015/01/sga-approves-student-ticketing-allocation-for-2015-season/ It’ll be interesting to see if the AD is up to the challenge of selling an additional 3k seats in a 1M metro area with 100k alums.
I think Halton is pretty good, maybe a bit too big but anyone here during the CUSA 1.0 run knows we can fill it up. The Rich maybe was built a bit small, but I cant fault that. Where we have failed is our ability to market and sell out product not the size of our facilities.
…again, (sorry) winning would help in both venues.
Clearly Halton. JRS is too small to be a legit FBS stadium. It needs to have a minimum of 20,000 seats whether they are always filled or not. Anything less and it will be seen as small time and will be used against us on the recruiting trail. I am sure it already has been actually.
[quote=“emf, post:6, topic:29418”]Part of the problem with The Rich and attendance is that the student ticket allocation was made with politics/public relations in mind and/or without study of what’s a reasonable number. We set aside 7,500 seats for students when our peers’ data shows 3-5,000 would have been a more reasonable number.
http://ninertimes.com/2015/01/sga-approves-student-ticketing-allocation-for-2015-season/ It’ll be interesting to see if the AD is up to the challenge of selling an additional 3k seats in a 1M metro area with 100k alums.[/quote]
Short answer: they’re not.
[quote=“cibik02, post:4, topic:29418”]Richardson stadium.
We should turn the upper level of halton into office space or storage lockers and rent it out. Seats in halton that havent been sat in in 10+ years.[/quote]homecoming 3 years ago was a sellout. Vcu was very full that year too.
Clemson In 07-08 Was legitimately full too.
We have sucked but there aren’t seats that haven’t been used in 10 years. Not yet anyway
clt says we should have put a track around the field at the rich.
[quote=“Niner National, post:11, topic:29418”][quote=“cibik02, post:4, topic:29418”]Richardson stadium.
We should turn the upper level of halton into office space or storage lockers and rent it out. Seats in halton that havent been sat in in 10+ years.[/quote]homecoming 3 years ago was a sellout. Vcu was very full that year too.
Clemson In 07-08 Was legitimately full too.
We have sucked but there aren’t seats that haven’t been used in 10 years. Not yet anyway[/quote]
I would need to see pictures as proof. I was at these games and don’t remember a packed house. But if they were, 2-3 games over 10 years isn’t bad I guess.
[quote=“cibik02, post:13, topic:29418”][quote=“Niner National, post:11, topic:29418”][quote=“cibik02, post:4, topic:29418”]Richardson stadium.
We should turn the upper level of halton into office space or storage lockers and rent it out. Seats in halton that havent been sat in in 10+ years.[/quote]homecoming 3 years ago was a sellout. Vcu was very full that year too.
Clemson In 07-08 Was legitimately full too.
We have sucked but there aren’t seats that haven’t been used in 10 years. Not yet anyway[/quote]
I would need to see pictures as proof. I was at these games and don’t remember a packed house. But if they were, 2-3 games over 10 years isn’t bad I guess.[/quote]
Why do our own fans have to resort to such ridiculous exaggerations?
Halton is appropriately sized.
It’s not the size that matters anyway, it’s how you use it.
I think both are correctly sized. I would like The football stadium to be bigger eventually once demand warrants an expansion, but as of now I’m not sure it does. Hope I’m wrong. But as is always said, if we win and win against descent compettion, we’ll get butts in the seats
JRS needs to be expanded NOW. You don’t have to sell out every game in order to NEED a larger stadium. You want a stadium that will hold your largest crowd. For an FBS football program, that needs to be 20,000 seats minimum.
Not sure that some of our fans realize how much having such a tiny stadium is hurting our program in both perception and recruiting.
[quote=“919R, post:18, topic:29418”]JRS needs to be expanded NOW. You don’t have to sell out every game in order to NEED a larger stadium. You want a stadium that will hold your largest crowd. For an FBS football program, that needs to be 20,000 seats minimum.
Not sure that some of our fans realize how much having such a tiny stadium is hurting our program in both perception and recruiting.[/quote]
I agree. I don’t see the point in waiting. It will be more expensive to expand the longer you wait. The AD is just afraid of empty seats, instead of using it as an opportunity to sell and fill those seats.
JRS needs to be expanded NOW. You don’t have to sell out every game in order to NEED a larger stadium. You want a stadium that will hold your largest crowd. For an FBS football program, that needs to be 20,000 seats minimum.
Not sure that some of our fans realize how much having such a tiny stadium is hurting our program in both perception and recruiting.[/quote]
I think we need to get to 20,000 as well. If for nothing else, to help us keep the 15,000 average. Games that sell out SRO are around 16,500, a bump to 21,500 would really offset some of the more poorly attended games in the overall average.
It’s not a question of whether or not there is an appetite for demand, it’s whether or not the AD can create an appetite for demand as far as I’m concerned.