That sort of does sound like where they are heading. If they are going to turn that section into club seating, they can either: (1) re-seat the entire stadium and piss off 3000+ season ticket holder; or, (2) relocate the 110 seats in this section, and royally screw those folks, but not piss off the masses. I'm thinking that they will go with option 2.ensign_beedrill said:
Only way to do it is to move them to the new seats on the third base line, which is what I assume they mean when they say they won't reseat other areas. It's a bad deal for those folks, though.
I always wondered why they didn't do suites all the way down both lines. It doesn't look like they're considering it now either.Quote:
One thing I'd like for them to look at would be the option of putting in some club seats in the rather empty spaces next to the suites.
They would lose too many seats. My suggestion is not to turn those empty spaces into suites, because if they did that, they would end up taking out about four rows of seats in front of them, and then we're right back to where we were taking about with section 109.Farmer1906 said:I always wondered why they didn't do suites all the way down both lines. It doesn't look like they're considering it now either.Quote:
One thing I'd like for them to look at would be the option of putting in some club seats in the rather empty spaces next to the suites.
They're not its all smoke screen. They want to give the impression this isn't a massive reseatingrc_cat said:
So, how are they planning to reseat the people from 105/109 without impacting any other areas?
Wait, wait, wait...who is the group entitled here?TXAG1977 said:
It never ceases to hear the opinions of those who want to protect their right to cheap seats and tell big financial contributors how to spend their money. "Build us a much better stadium, but don't increase my seat cost or expect to sit in front of me". " Fire or hire this of that coach, then go away until we need your money again" Must be more entitled liberals around than I thought.
No one is entitled to cheap seats, but, you can't be short sighted about loyalty. If you literally had a seat auction every season, season ticket sales would go up and down like a yo yo. We don't have the problem--the AD knows almost to the penny how much ticket revenue they are going to have from baseball because we sell out season tickets. That's a rarity in college baseball.Aggieangler93 said:
Why do you think you are entitled to cheap seats and an equal voice in the process? What's your logic behind that? Why would someone be offensive to you if they didn't feel that way? I don't get it. I don't expect anyone to give me anything, at anytime.
Why would Texas A&M not sell each seat for as much as they could? Those dollars could then be used to fund the baseball program, which is not in the black most years. I'm all in favor of them getting all they can for the seats, so that we don't see baseball potentially lost in the future, due to budget crunches.
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More club seating would bring in more revenue. but the additional revenue from 80-90 additional club seats hardly seems worth upsetting 3000 season ticket holders. If you alienate those folks, the next time results go south on the field, you could find yourself looking at empty seats. It's a balancing act. I appreciate the tough job the AD will have in getting it right.
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IMHO...TexasAggie2011 was not complaining about season ticket holders. As I read it, he's talking about the cheap seats, and the expectation that the cheap seats get to remain cheap and right up near the base pads on the second deck. I also believe he was insinuating that someone that donates money to the program is a d**k, if they don't think he should have that "right".
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Why would Texas A&M not sell each seat for as much as they could? Those dollars could then be used to fund the baseball program, which is not in the black most years. I'm all in favor of them getting all they can for the seats, so that we don't see baseball potentially lost in the future, due to budget crunches.
I thought I was going to skip this trip, and wait for the finished product in 2020, but turns out I'm going after all (another trip fell through). I think they are going to have the best facility in college baseball when this is done.DBD87 said:
Was able to tour the revamped Dudy Noble this weekend. They're still in the middle of the renovations, but they were allowing people to move into their outfield boxes. Their first home game is this Tuesday. The second deck won't be finished this season apparently, and it looked to have only maybe 1/4 of the seats installed so far.
The outfield deck set up is truly amazing. Most of the "boxes" are sold out. There are 3 levels that stretch from foul pole to foul pole. People were installing their own seating pits, "bars", etc...
Planning on making the road trip in April.
BeatHellOutOfTU said:
We need to stop sucking the life out of Olsen... let the students have the whole upper deck of the 1st base side like it used to be... past that I don't care what they do... the renderings look nice, but if you take out the students the games will no longer be special
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I agree to a point but the students must hold up their end of the bargain. We have the best and largest student seating at Kyle and how many times is it full? We have good student seating at Reed and often it is almost empty except for big SEC games. Blue Bell has the best student seating to my knowledge in the SEC yet we had trouble filling it until recently(which is why the re modeling was done the way it was).
Every Ag I know active in Aggie athletics does not want to decrease student seating or its impact but when the seats are not filled and older Ags are paying more it is noticed.
And frankly, I want to keep or expand GA seating at Blue Bell. Does not really come into play for fb or basketball but the GA sections at Blue Bell are vital to the atmosphere imho.
And edited to add that I can heckle with the best of them.
