Bradley announces new Personal Seat Option (PSO) plan for new arena

[Da Coach]

Bradley Announces New Arena PSO Ticket Plan

http://www.bradleybraves.com//pdf8/695517.pdf?SPSID=25972&SPID=1499&DB_OEM_ID=3400

Notice the schedule listed on the right-side column of this release-
It lists a Basketball Midnight Madness on October 15, 2010!

[BradleyBrave]

Bradley Announces New Arena PSO Ticket Plan

http://www.bradleybraves.com//pdf8/695517.pdf?SPSID=25972&SPID=1499&DB_OEM_ID=3400

Notice the schedule listed on the right-side column of this release-
It lists a Basketball Midnight Madness on October 15, 2010!

It also confirms the return of the Red-White scrimmage!

[wizard1]

Bradley announces new-----

Coach---The announcement says they are considering playing one regular season game in the new arena. I thought all reg. season games were in Carver and our season tickets and maintenance was for this. How do season ticket holders get into a 4500 seat arena for a regular season game. Looks to me like greed has taken ahold and this hasn't been very well thought out by the powers that be!

[BradleyBrave]

Coach---The announcement says they are considering playing one regular season game in the new arena. I thought all reg. season games were in Carver and our season tickets and maintenance was for this. How do season ticket holders get into a 4500 seat arena for a regular season game. Looks to me like greed has taken ahold and this hasn't been very well thought out by the powers that be!

I think this is in there for a number of reasons -

1. Letting the NCAA and any other tournament know that we can host home games at any time.

2. Letting the PCC know that we will use our facility instead of theirs if we need to, hopefully making them cater to us a bit more than they have in the past scheduling-wise.

3. Nudging people to buy PSL's to ensure they have a seat for these 'potential' home games.

As I said in another thread, if hosting men's games on campus was ever really a goal of these new facilities, they would have been designed differently.

[real fan]

With a bad economy and the team not winning championships I think BU might just be pi--ing more people or fans off if they decide to play any real games in that tiny arena, I like the idea of the red-white and exibition games being played there but a regular season game makes no sense.

[Da Coach]

Call it greed if you want, but Bradley is far from the first school to do something like this. I would call it supply-and-demand economics. In fact it is common among D1 schools, and Bradley is behind the curve when it comes to ticket increases, and PSO-like options.

[tornado]

in 1993 - more than a decade after Carver Arena became our home arena...we did play a regular season home game at the Fieldhouse..
and I don't recall anyone then saying it was because of greed.......

[BradleyBrave]

in 1993 - more than a decade after Carver Arena became our home arena...we did play a regular season home game at the Fieldhouse..
and I don't recall anyone then saying it was because of greed.......

True, but back then the Fieldhouse could still hold nearly 8,000 people. I am for a game on campus, I am just not sure how it's going to work. As DC pointed out in another post, I cannot recall a crowd of 4,200 attending a BU home game.

[tornado]

make it a really premium game - $50 a ticket with Champagne served to all in attendance...kinda the way a political fundraiser is run...can't see how benefitting from a good boost in funds can hurt.....

[Buesch N Chips]

So, one less game at the PCC. I assume that means season ticket prices will go down.

[BradleyBrave]

make it a really premium game - $50 a ticket with Champagne served to all in attendance...kinda the way a political fundraiser is run...can't see how benefitting from a good boost in funds can hurt.....

I agree. I am not opposed to it...as long as season ticket holders have the first right of refusal, and that it's not already built in to the standard package as something everyone is already paying for. With no football, this is our moneymaker. We need money any way we can get it. Heck, it could be an incentive to get season tickets - priority for the select games at the new arena!

[Da Coach]

PJ Star story-

http://www.bradleyhoops.com/homepage/x2084254221/Select-BU-mens-games-at-new-arena

[SFP]

They are considering playing a regular season game there! Let's not get carried away. I would also hope they would allow the student first right of refusal and then the season ticket holders. I would be curious to know how many students would actually show up???

[BradleyBrave]

They are considering playing a regular season game there! Let's not get carried away. I would also hope they would allow the student first right of refusal and then the season ticket holders. I would be curious to know how many students would actually show up???

No chance. Students don't make the program go 'round, season ticket holders do.

Students will show up for a winner, no matter where they play. No matter where.

[houstonbrave]

So, how do people think this will impact our ability to secure home games in on-site post season campus tourney's ? (Please no rants about how we never want to play in one again). On one hand we don't have to pay any rent to the PCC but we cannot seat many for one of those games in the new arena either.

Truthfully one of the reasons we get into those tourney's seems to be our ablity to get people into the PCC for such events.