DISQUS

Inside the Hall: Chris Braswell picks Charlotte; Crean speaks to IU students

  • hoosier07 · 1 year ago
    first 15 rows all the way around the lower single letter sections, and both "end-zones" behind the baskets -- General Admission (first come first serve) on the seats -- id like to see ESPN/CBS/BTN out there taping kids camping outside assembly hall waiting to get in for our biggest games every year ...

    now that would be too perfect
  • Sallad · 1 year ago
    The problem with first-come first-serve is that you'll have the same situation there is at football games. While you may have camped out to get good seats, five minutes before the game starts, some inebriated a-holes will believe they're entitled to those seats and push and shove until they get in.
  • indianahouse · 1 year ago
    I have to agree that the current student seating situation is not as bad as some make it seem. Assembly Hall goes off for the Hoosiers! However, putting students back in both 'end-zones' would be a good start.

    I'm not completely sold on an all out student section. Last thing I would want to see are IU students wearing 'crimson crazies' t-shirts, pogoeing up and down and camping outside Assembly Hall like a bunch of freakin' Duke dorks!
  • jgongora86 · 1 year ago
    I used to think that IU seating was awful, until I went to UNC for grad school. UNC is sad, the student seating is far away from the action because the alumni get priority. They have limited riser seats were your next to the basket, but it's not stadium seating and sometimes it's difficult to see the action.
  • cooper · 1 year ago
    I'm sorry but as a fomer student, the student section is beyond bad, it sucks. They way they are spread out does not make for the best atmosphere. The stadium would be 3x as loud and give IU 3x the advantage if students were all together. It isn't as much fun when you are 18-21 and sitting around people 40yrs old and up. I say you give the students both ends and then you can put them on the side where the benches are. That way you can keep the alumni near the floor on the other side, but get the benefit of crazy students yelling at the benches during a timeout. Its a good atmosphere now, it would be a top 10 atmosphere if the student section was better
  • BobbyDigital · 1 year ago
    I think its easily already a top 10 atmosphere.
  • hoosierfan27 · 1 year ago
    u beat me to the reply. it is easily a top 5 atmosphere in college basketball
  • hoosier07 · 1 year ago
    historically, definitely. noise/cheering wise, definitely not.

    as a recent graduate, i agree that we need some changes as to where the students sit -- about 50% of each student's tickets put them in the balcony, which usually just meant i had to trade or buy a lower level ticket. cheering from the balcony creates noise, but not the kind of environment we're talking about here (picture the cameron crazies at duke virtually cheering courtside)...
  • ricbraun · 1 year ago
    I thnk Crean made a very very good point about students showing up on time to games. As a student I would get very angry when the seats the students are given are only half full at game time. All the students, for the most part at least, should be in their seats 30 minutes before tip-off and start cheering immediately. It creates such an intimidation factor for the opposing when the arena is full during team warmups, and conversely it helps the home team get amped up even more. And if everyone would get in the habit of wearing the same colored shirts and stuff like that it would make the environment way better even though it is already top-notch.