LNC renovation rumor

[okcsooner83]

If the rumor is true, I'd rather have a new coach and a renovated LNC.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

sell beer. they will come

 

[AdaSooner]

sell beer. they will come

With water at $3.50 a bottle, I don't want to know what beer would cost.

 

[red recluse]

any ideas on what the renovations might be? i thought after the last round they had done as much as that building would allow.

 

[Sooner_In_MI]

I would agree. I've never seen the student section as lackadaisical as they are now. I bet we didn't have 100 students at the Nebraska game. No excuse for that, but maybe they are trying to make a statement about the program?

Ya because of an exam I arrived at the LNC with 7:00 left in the first half in the Nebraska game and got the same spot in the student section that I get when I arrive 2 hours before games to help set up. Quite frankly it's embarrassing but what do you expect when you have a horrible basketball team at what has traditionally been a football school.

P.S. - In my opinion a good start would be removing the wall that separates the lower bowl of the student section from the upper bowl. Even if this rumor of a major renovation isn't true, removing the wall is an extremely minor renovation that would help out a lot, at least w/ regards to the student section.

 

[ksSooner13]

I would agree. I've never seen the student section as lackadaisical as they are now. I bet we didn't have 100 students at the Nebraska game. No excuse for that, but maybe they are trying to make a statement about the program?

I agree, as a student, that the numbers are PITIFUL.... However, that night there was a Physics 1 exam, Chemistry Exams, and Calculus Exams and numerous midterms that week too...sometimes School gets in the way of sports

 

[campbest]

We're 12-15 and people are complaining about student attendance?

Get real.

 

[Big Old Booger]

I agree, as a student, that the numbers are PITIFUL.... However, that night there was a Physics 1 exam, Chemistry Exams, and Calculus Exams and numerous midterms that week too...sometimes School gets in the way of sports

Thanks for the info. I'm not aware of the college schedules especially since I graduate over 15 years ago.

Besides, I never let academics get in the way of my sooner basketball, and my GPA showed it. :ez-roll:

 

[Max Power]

Thanks for the info. I'm not aware of the college schedules especially since I graduate over 15 years ago.

Besides, I never let academics get in the way of my sooner basketball, and my GPA showed it. :ez-roll:

Amen BOB

 

[Section31]

We're 12-15 and people are complaining about student attendance?

Get real.

What was the excuse when BG was here???

Back in the day, mid 80s to mid 90s, you had to get there early to get good seats.

Again, this is NOT an OU thing...it's happening in HS hoops too...

 

[Max Power]

What was the excuse when BG was here???

Back in the day, mid 80s to mid 90s, you had to get there early to get good seats.

Again, this is NOT an OU thing...it's happening in HS hoops too...

No thunder competition. Even college kids go downtown and watch the thunder.

 

[campbest]

What was the excuse when BG was here???

Back in the day, mid 80s to mid 90s, you had to get there early to get good seats.

Again, this is NOT an OU thing...it's happening in HS hoops too...

There were good crowds BGs second year, don't get it twisted. Student ticket allotment sold out in 2008-2009.

I just get really sick of the "well back when I was in school it was this way" posts. Listen, it's not 1990 anymore...if I went to school back then I would probably skip class to go watch an OU game. Now I can go to class and watch it on my laptop while I pretend to listen to an instructor. Do the same thing now in grad school, only way I keep up with what's going on in CBB. Nothing is ever as good as it seemed back in the day, its like the guy who played basketball in high school...over the past 20 years his HS team went from 12-12 to 20-4 while he went from the first man off the bench to an All-District player.

Television packages have changed everything. Stop holding people to your standards. You can barely see the students on TV, it's not that big of a deal.

Sporting event attendance is down across college basketball...people need to deal with it. Students will show up when the Administration, coaching staff and players put a quality product on the floor.

Curious to know, how much was a student ticket back in the 1980's?

 

[Sooner_In_MI]

No thunder competition. Even college kids go downtown and watch the thunder.

Who the **** honestly prefers NBA basketball over college basketball. Even if I went to North Popcorn A&M I would still prefer to attend a college game over an NBA game.

 

[seniorsooner]

There were good crowds BGs second year, don't get it twisted. Student ticket allotment sold out in 2008-2009.

I just get really sick of the "well back when I was in school it was this way" posts. Listen, it's not 1990 anymore...if I went to school back then I would probably skip class to go watch an OU game. Now I can go to class and watch it on my laptop while I pretend to listen to an instructor. Do the same thing now in grad school, only way I keep up with what's going on in CBB. Nothing is ever as good as it seemed back in the day, its like the guy who played basketball in high school...over the past 20 years his HS team went from 12-12 to 20-4 while he went from the first man off the bench to an All-District player.

Television packages have changed everything. Stop holding people to your standards. You can barely see the students on TV, it's not that big of a deal.

Sporting event attendance is down across college basketball...deal with it. Student will show up when the Administration, coaching staff and players put a quality product on the floor.

Curious to know, how much was a student ticket back in the 1980's?

Per SoonerStats.com:

Average home attendance in 1990 = 10,499
Average home attendance in 2009 = 11,490

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Who the **** honestly prefers NBA basketball over college basketball. Even if I went to North Popcorn A&M I would still prefer to attend a college game over an NBA game.

i find watching the thunder more entertaining than the sooners this year

Per SoonerStats.com:

Average home attendance in 1990 = 10,499
Average home attendance in 2009 = 11,490

boom

 

[Big Old Booger]

There were good crowds BGs second year, don't get it twisted. Student ticket allotment sold out in 2008-2009.

I just get really sick of the "well back when I was in school it was this way" posts. Listen, it's not 1990 anymore...if I went to school back then I would probably skip class to go watch an OU game. Now I can go to class and watch it on my laptop while I pretend to listen to an instructor. Do the same thing now in grad school, only way I keep up with what's going on in CBB. Nothing is ever as good as it seemed back in the day, its like the guy who played basketball in high school...over the past 20 years his HS team went from 12-12 to 20-4 while he went from the first man off the bench to an All-District player.

Television packages have changed everything. Stop holding people to your standards. You can barely see the students on TV, it's not that big of a deal.

Sporting event attendance is down across college basketball...people need to deal with it. Students will show up when the Administration, coaching staff and players put a quality product on the floor.

Curious to know, how much was a student ticket back in the 1980's?

I'm trying to remember...I want to say it was $39 when I was a freshman at OU in fall of 89, but it may have been $69.

I do know I was one of the first in line every year and went to almost all the home games. I even skipped study hall as a pledge and sat by some members to see OU play KSU with Steve Henson on a Wednesday night. I was hazed unmercifully for that one. 1 full week of what amounted to detention at the frat dining room when I wasn't in class and a few others punishments. I almost had to give up my basketball ticket for the KU and Mizzou games (this was back in 90 when Mizzou came in as #1 and we thumped them then KU was #1 a few days later and we thumped them too).

 

[Big Old Booger]

Per SoonerStats.com:

Average home attendance in 1990 = 10,499
Average home attendance in 2009 = 11,490

The 2009 number is paid tickets. I don't think they started counting paid tickets as attendance until Castiglione came on board, but maybe I'm wrong.

I can guarantee you the gym was full almost every night for the 89/90 season. That was the year we had Skeeter Henry, jackie Jones, Terrance Mullins, Damon Patterson, Smokey McCovery, Terry Evans, etc., and were top 5 all season long. I remember watching us score 97 in the first half vs Centenary, who if they had won a game at that point it was only 1, maybe 2, and the LNC was full. This isn't just revisionist history either. It was a mid-week game and the house was packed.

Now, part of that was Centenary had just allowed record points to Loyola Marymount the week before, so maybe people came to see us break a record, which we did (2 I think).

 

[seniorsooner]

The 2009 number is paid tickets.

I'm not sure about that. I'm not saying it isn't, but these numbers are from SoonerStats.com, not SoonerSports.com. It says the attendance for Texas Tech was 13,245 and the attendance for Texas was 12,423. Why would the paid attendance be higher for Tech than Texas?

 

[Big Old Booger]

I'm not sure about that. I'm not saying it isn't, but these numbers are from SoonerStats.com, not SoonerSports.com. It says the attendance for Texas Tech was 13,245 and the attendance for Texas was 12,423. Why would the paid attendance be higher for Tech than Texas?

The guy at soonerstats told me once he gets his stats from soonersports.com.

If you look at the official stats from the Tech game:
http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2008-2009/02-14-09.html

It says attendance = 13245
Estimated attendance = 12009

For the Texas game, it only gives 1 attendance number:
http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2008-2009/01-12-09.html

Attendance: 12423

The reason for the higher number for the Tech game is it was on a Saturday while the Texas game was on Monday (did we used to play games on Monday nights? :ez-laugh.

 

[Big Old Booger]

I'm not sure about that. I'm not saying it isn't, but these numbers are from SoonerStats.com, not SoonerSports.com. It says the attendance for Texas Tech was 13,245 and the attendance for Texas was 12,423. Why would the paid attendance be higher for Tech than Texas?

One more thing...

Look at the Nebraska stats:
http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2010-2011/02-16-11.html

He shows the number of tickets sold (7990), but the official stats lists:
Attendance: 7990
Estimated: 4759