• Welcome to BradleyFans.com! Visitors are welcome, but we encourage you to sign up and register as a member. It's free and takes only a few seconds. Just click on the link to Register at the top right of the page, and follow instructions. If you have any problems or questions, click on the link at the bottom right of the page to Contact Us.

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

Bradley announces new-----

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!
 
wizard said:
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!
Click to expand...

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.......
 
tornado said:
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.......
Click to expand...

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.
 
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.....
 
tornado said:
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.....
Click to expand...

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!
 
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???:-o
 
SFP said:
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???:-o
Click to expand...

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.
 
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.
 
BradleyBrave said:
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.
Click to expand...

It it called an investment. Get them involved now for future revenue. Anyway if all we ever get is a 1,000 students per game how many more will head to a game on campus? There will be plenty of seats for the season ticket holders.
 
SFP said:
It it called an investment. Get them involved now for future revenue. Anyway if all we ever get is a 1,000 students per game how many more will head to a game on campus? There will be plenty of seats for the season ticket holders.
Click to expand...

Winning is all that you need to do get the students to invest. We could have the best on-campus arena in the nation; students aren't going to support a team that doesn't win, especially today's students. If you want those students to donate, give them a great experience while they're in school - win. The donors and season ticket holders keep the program going, that's all there is to it.
 
How many season ticket holders do we have? I would have thought it was a number greater than 4200 but maybe I'm wrong about that.
 
thefish7 said:
How many season ticket holders do we have? I would have thought it was a number greater than 4200 but maybe I'm wrong about that.
Click to expand...

No, you are right. At one time it was reported that there were over 7000 season ticket holders. I think it's still close to that figure.
 
Bradley announces new personal seat----

Bradley announces new personal seat----

Coach---My use of the word "greed" may have been a little overdone but I still think this really needs more careful thought. Some other schools may be doing this but I would be interested in which ones---any in the MVC?

Also, one of my major concerns is that this may work OK for affluent fans with big bucks but suggestions such as T's cause me to wonder if we have forgotton about the BU fan base of middle class, working people, retired people and young people who simply cannt afford these prices. We need this fan base and don't want to alienate them.

And finally, season ticket holders who pay maintenance should be given a priority if this program is really implemented.

One final thought which I admit is quite negative----If BU basketball deteriorates or if the long-term plan by the administration is to downgrade the program, could a move back on campus be a part of this?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top