The "atmosphere" isn't what is keeping fans away haha. Pleasekrazie45 wrote: VCA is a joke and is the SOLE reason why the basketball program has been steadily losing money. The $$ shelled out for the fancy suites and courtside leather seats is not going to make up for the 8,000 people who don't show up because the atmosphere is terrible and the interest for OSU basketball isn't that large. If I wanted to go see basketball at an NBA arena I'd go to see the Cavs.
They didn't have a problem selling tickets when Oden and Co. were at OSU. The same will go if the next class coming in has a big year. If you put a good product on the court, the fans will come.krazie45 wrote: VCA is a joke and is the SOLE reason why the basketball program has been steadily losing money. The $$ shelled out for the fancy suites and courtside leather seats is not going to make up for the 8,000 people who don't show up because the atmosphere is terrible and the interest for OSU basketball isn't that large. If I wanted to go see basketball at an NBA arena I'd go to see the Cavs.
Consider Ohio State football. If students don't want the tickets they can sell them to somebody else (I know because I've bought them) and the seats are always full in the shoe. It works the same at Value City (or should at least) if students don't want the tickets they can sell them. The problem is casual folk who could care less about screaming their lungs out don't want them either.lhslep134 wrote: Jordo, that's not completely true.
I know plenty of fellow students that won't want to schlep themselves all the way to VCA to an arena where their crowd noise is dampened by the NBA size arena.
We should play more games at St. Johns, I know OSU tries to play a couple of early season games there a year, although I don't think they did this year.
I'm not in the stands during games at VCA I'm up in the broadcast booth. I also broadcasted the OSU-CSU game from the Q a couple winters ago, and they have very similar feels. I think it's definitely fair to say students would have more fun at St. John's where crowd noise is much more effective.
That was a rare exception of a year. Not to mention this can't just be judged by Men's Bball. Women's bball usually closes off the upper bowl and struggles to fill the bottom bowl, same with hockey. Not to mention that VCA leads to problems with scheduling concerts and things against Nationwide Arena (which is 10000 times better).Jawbreaker wrote:They didn't have a problem selling tickets when Oden and Co. were at OSU. The same will go if the next class coming in has a big year. If you put a good product on the court, the fans will come.
Doesn't matter, with your logic, you'll be lucky to find a job at McDonalds, and that ain't no lie!CinciX12 wrote:I don't go to Cincinnati you fucking degenerate moron.sleeper wrote:The irony here is he attends Cincinnati, yet is calling OSU fans idiots :rolleyes:Pick6 wrote:someone needs to take economics 101. obviously if they sell they are not over pricedCinciX12 wrote: Just because you idiots always will go to the games doesn't mean it is even close to being right to charge that.
And using scalping as a way to beat it won't help. You think they don't know ticket prices went up $7 too?
That's like trying to compare the price you paid for your Ford Escort to what someone paid for their Rolls-Royce.athlete37 wrote: I paid 218 for my ND season tickets
And don't expect to see that addition built anytime soon. Nobody is donating money for it and OSU has too many other projects right now that take precedence like the new Ohio Union. I'd be surprised if that addition/gym was built within the next 5-10 years.darbypitcher22 wrote: Dont expect VCA to go anywhere any time soon.... they're talking about building an auxilary practice space that will house 4 full size basketball courts for both men and women since they only have one auxilary gym in VCA and that creates practice conflicts....
