Why OU is never getting a smaller stadium

[BoulderSooner]

Over 12 k tickets sold yesterday

 

[BigTime]

Over 12 k tickets sold yesterday

Wrong!!!! Many of those were heavily discounted.

An 8 or 9k arena is perfect for our fanbase (men and women).

Just make up the lost revenue by putting in a luxury box ala the Reynold's Center and reduce the heavily discounted tickets.

Your argument is weak and doesn't make any sense.

You will have a situation were the lighter attended games will be louder in a smaller venue. Right now it looks terrible when we have 4.5k butts in the seats.

 

[sooner333]

What were the deep discounts on the tickets?

 

[BoulderSooner]

Over 9k season ticket holders. You are wrong

 

[MsProudSooner]

Was that game part of the Christmas Break/Holiday package? We've never needed to sell more tickets. We just need to sell them to people who will actually show up.

 

[WTSooner]

Over 9k season ticket holders. You are wrong

This.

 

[BigTime]

Over 9k season ticket holders. You are wrong

Counting mini package holders that bought $10 per game or less tickets for a handful of games as season ticket holders is misleading.

Show me where we have 9k season ticket holders. That is not the number that I heard.

 

[BigTime]

OU ABSOLUTELY needs a smaller arena and will continue to as long as there is an NBA team right down the road.

 

[SoonerSpock]

OU is not going to spend $250 million on a new field house in the foreseeable future. There is no economic justification to build a new facilities. LNC can remodeled for for a $100-150 few dollars and it is possible they reduce the size to 10k but doubtful it would be any smaller.

 

[BigTime]

OU is not going to spend $250 million on a new field house in the foreseeable future. There is no economic justification to build a new facilities. LNC can remodeled for for a $100-150 few dollars and it is possible they reduce the size to 10k but doubtful it would be any smaller.

They should. But I agree they won't. Most schools have built new arenas or have made major renovations after 40 plus years of having an arena.

I have accepted the fact that the best we can hope for is an LNC renovation. And if done right, will make things better.

 

[coolm]

it's so stupid. we would do great with a fieldhouse on campus that holds 8,500 or so.

 

[pnkranger]

It's going to take some post season success before they consider spending any money at all on basketball.

 

[skyvue]

it's so stupid. we would do great with a fieldhouse on campus that holds 8,500 or so.

An on-campus arena would make it harder for non-students to attend; any small gain in the number of students who would attend would be outweighed by the alums and other non-students who didn't.

 

[Soonerman]

An on-campus arena would make it harder for non-students to attend; any small gain in the number of students who would attend would be outweighed by the alums and other non-students who didn't.

Non-students don't have a problem attending football games at our on-campus stadium.

 

[perryj74]

The problem has never been tickets sold. It's getting the people that buy those tickets to show up on a regular basis. The season ticket base has largely held about the same throughout the years.

 

[garyeb2]

Non-students don't have a problem attending football games at our on-campus stadium.

Sure, and you get high grossed for parking and are stuck with a long hike or a shuttle ride. Getting to the stadium, in and out, and then away from there is a pain in the rear. And it has been for over the 50 years I've been going.

It is just the price you have to pay for being a football fan at a football school. The rest of the sports are just like any other business. They need to make it easier for their customers. Not harder. Playing games in the old field house or building an arena mid campus is just an awful idea.

 

[OUHoops]

The problem has never been tickets sold. It's getting the people that buy those tickets to show up on a regular basis.

This perplexes me very much. According to the box score for Saturday you had:

Attendance: 12322 (Tickets sold)
Est. Attendance: 7560 (Butts in seats)

So well over 4,000 people who bought tickets no showed. Looking at the box scores, this happens just about every game and has been doing so for years that I've followed.

For example, here's your numbers for the season opener against SE Louisiana:

Attendance: 9626
Est. Attendance: 3052

Game two against Northwestern State:

Attendance: 10056
Est. Attendance: 4058

Who are these thousands of people buying tickets and no-showing just about every game?

That being said, I was pleasantly surprised with the crowd on Saturday.

 

[BoulderSooner]

if we had a 9k stadium .. who do you think would be buying the tickets?

answer the same people that buy them now ..and don't go .. smaller building doesn't solve any issue ..

 

[BoulderSooner]

the attendance is the # of sold tickets and the est. is the number of scanned tickets ..

 

[skyvue]

Non-students don't have a problem attending football games at our on-campus stadium.

It's a very different thing to attend six Saturday football games than to attend 15 basketball games, at least half of which will be on a weeknight.

For most folks, a home football game is a day-long (or at least many hours long) event; very, very few fans (like, none) approach basketball games the same way.