New Arena

drinking?

I remember we went to ksu games (yeah I went there a yr or 2) to basically get drunk as $%#@......(football and yes, they actually went to a bowl that year, 1982)

Maybe it's not the thing anymore...course I didn't go to many bball games, just 1 in Ahearn, when OU and Tisdale came to town.

Always was a Sooner...:woot
 
Mackie McNeer said:
Couldn’t agree more. You cut off half an hour of commute time for the OKC folks by building it next to 35. Students will never come en masse to the games so catering to them is wrong-headed. Add in the amenities around the UNP and you have everything you need for a great game day experience.

Hopefully the UNP arena will return under another iteration that Old Normanites can get behind.
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I live right next to the LNC and it only takes me 6 minutes to get to that exit. The guy that sits behind me drives 2 hours from Broken Arrow every game so if someone from Edmond can't make a couple of games because of 5 more minutes than they aren't going to come anyway.
 
SoonerBred said:
I live right next to the LNC and it only takes me 6 minutes to get to that exit. The guy that sits behind me drives 2 hours from Broken Arrow every game so if someone from Edmond can't make a couple of games because of 5 more minutes than they aren't going to come anyway.
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+1
 
BoulderSooner said:
also OU sold almost 11k tickets saturday
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how many decades of crap attendance do we need to show before we accept the fact that good attendance will never be the norm at OU for basketball?

we need to calculate things with our attendance norm and not those few games where people are savvy enough to show up in person.

7,500 or so seats in a small, tight environment on campus would be ideal.
 
coolm said:
how many decades of crap attendance do we need to show before we accept the fact that good attendance will never be the norm at OU for basketball?

we need to calculate things with our attendance norm and not those few games where people are savvy enough to show up in person.

7,500 or so seats in a small, tight environment on campus would be ideal.
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I might agree if the actual attendance at games matched the tickets sold. But to emphasize Boulder’s point, building a 7,500 capacity arena is a tough sell when OU is enjoying the revenue from just under 11,000 tickets sold to key games like OSU.
 
AdaSooner said:
I might agree if the actual attendance at games matched the tickets sold. But to emphasize Boulder’s point, building a 7,500 capacity arena is a tough sell when OU is enjoying the revenue from just under 11,000 tickets sold to key games like OSU.
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to add to this and from another post

have to understand that we have had 9k season ticket holders for most of the last decade ... and if we had a 7500 k arena it would likely be sold out for the season ... and we would still have 3k empty seats for tons of games in the non con .. so it is hard understanding that for OU to want to give up sold tickets ..

i have heard recently that a push to do a mini reno of the LNC to add suites may happen sometime soon (they really were waiting on the UNP stadiumt to happen/not happen)

if they could pre-sell 6-10 suites (they think they can) they could build them with the money and reduce the size of the LNC a little bit

think the suites at ORU
 
I'm still not sold on an on-campus (well, in the middle of campus, since the LNC is, strictly speaking on campus) arena. The only people it would be more convenient for are students, and they seem to be blase about sports across the board these days -- even football. For everyone else, making one's way to the middle of campus would be a traffic nightmare.
 
I actually drove up from Houston to the OSU game this last weekend. I was telling my wife that because it was Christmas break, it might be kind of light. Well, I was pleasantly surprised at the attendance. It was Bedlam, but still. Sure, there wasn't a butt in every seat, but the almost 10k number they announced is very believable. Again, I was very pleasantly surprised. It made me think if the students would have been back it would have darn near been a sellout.

Now the game.... was a putrid display of basketball. Never have I seen worse shooting in person and more ugliness. But, I love college basketball and I don't mind winning ugly!
 
Stikboy said:
I actually drove up from Houston to the OSU game this last weekend. I was telling my wife that because it was Christmas break, it might be kind of light. Well, I was pleasantly surprised at the attendance. It was Bedlam, but still. Sure, there wasn't a butt in every seat, but the almost 10k number they announced is very believable. Again, I was very pleasantly surprised. It made me think if the students would have been back it would have darn near been a sellout.

Now the game.... was a putrid display of basketball. Never have I seen worse shooting in person and more ugliness. But, I love college basketball and I don't mind winning ugly!
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OU gives 2 numbers for attendance tickets sold and then tickets scanned
 
Yep. All i'm trying to say is I was there and I thought it was well attended despite the circumstances.
 
They also at all events have tickets scanned that don't have people in the seats. You get points based on usage of tickets at all sports. So if you have an extra ticket or two you just have them scan it. They do all of the above in reporting attendance and also sometimes they decide to count media and make believe people. This occurs in football too.
It was a nearly full LNC the other day and apparently sold out at the ticket office.
 
skyvue said:
I'm still not sold on an on-campus (well, in the middle of campus, since the LNC is, strictly speaking on campus) arena. The only people it would be more convenient for are students, and they seem to be blase about sports across the board these days -- even football. For everyone else, making one's way to the middle of campus would be a traffic nightmare.
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I totally agree! Sounds great in theory but students would be only about a block closer to arena than they are to LNC. Plus traffic would be much worse on the main campus. Student attendance at any OU athletic event is poor at best. In early 80’s, there were about 18K student football season tickets sold and today there are around 6K! And we have about 6-8 thousand more students now. I’m not sure there have ever been more than 1-2 thousand students at a basketball game and that’s being generous. Kids today are just not into collegiate sports although there are a few exceptions.
 
tycat947 said:
I totally agree! Sounds great in theory but students would be only about a block closer to arena than they are to LNC. Plus traffic would be much worse on the main campus. Student attendance at any OU athletic event is poor at best. In early 80’s, there were about 18K student football season tickets sold and today there are around 6K! And we have about 6-8 thousand more students now. I’m not sure there have ever been more than 1-2 thousand students at a basketball game and that’s being generous. Kids today are just not into collegiate sports although there are a few exceptions.
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well, you're certainly closer to it and more current than me so I will agree with you. and appreciate the info.
 
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