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2013 Basketball Season Tickets (sold out 10/4)

tante said:
I think we will see a small increase, but I don't see a double.
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Agreed, they don't want to alienate the base. I think they'll at the very least keep the vast majority of the seats "affordable." At the end of the day, this is still a football school and basketball has only been strong very recently.
 
sackman said:
If this continues - and as long as Tad is here I see no reason for it not to - Rick George is going to have to seriously consider expanding the CEC. I don't think I ever would have thought that possible. Bizzaro world, we are in it.
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That's a great idea now, but if they fallback, we'll be running into even a harder problem trying to fill it. Duke plays in a "small arena" after all. Creating demand isn't such a bad thing. If they do expand, I think it be better to build a new arena, but that's down the line.
 
jgisland said:
Yes, let's make sure we keep up this demand for at least a few years before we think about expanding. A lot of people are first or second year season ticket holders, let's make sure they don't lose interest in a down year.
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If football gets back up to par, do people want to spend for both sports? How much disposable income is out there?

Right now is the perfect storm for CU basketball... football is at the lowest point, CU basketball is at the highest point. At many other schools, getting to the tourney two years in a row isn't a big deal, but at CU it's created excitement because of the past dreadfulness. They'll have to go further than the first weekend to keep the rank-and-file fans from getting complacent.
 
rolandftw said:
Nothing lasts forever. I'm sure we'll have a down year every once in a while, but we are in a much better position to keep Boyle now, then in the past. Another program will have to throw around $2 million or more his way, and there aren't many programs that are willing to do that. Texas is about the only program I'd be mildly concerned about, with Barnes being awful.
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Self ever leaving KU?
 
cubuffs85 said:
If football gets back up to par, do people want to spend for both sports? How much disposable income is out there?

Right now is the perfect storm for CU basketball... football is at the lowest point, CU basketball is at the highest point. At many other schools, getting to the tourney two years in a row isn't a big deal, but at CU it's created excitement because of the past dreadfulness. They'll have to go further than the first weekend to keep the rank-and-file fans from getting complacent.
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Football getting back on track doesn't pose a threat to basketball. There will always be segments of the core fans that just love football or just love basketball, but the majority of those who support CU athletics are going to follow both and support both. If anything, football ascending would help matters in other sports IMO
 
cubuffs85 said:
Self ever leaving KU?
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Not counting the fact that he's apparently mortal, and at some point is likely to retire or die.... There's a chance he leaves KU to go elsewhere. He's really accomplished everything at the college level. Won a National Championship, with a very good chance to win another this year. Comes down to how much he enjoys coaching college kids vs the Challenge of coaching in the NBA, something he has shown strong interest in.

I'm going to guess this was just a rhetorical question, however.
 
cubuffs85 said:
If football gets back up to par, do people want to spend for both sports? How much disposable income is out there?

Right now is the perfect storm for CU basketball... football is at the lowest point, CU basketball is at the highest point. At many other schools, getting to the tourney two years in a row isn't a big deal, but at CU it's created excitement because of the past dreadfulness. They'll have to go further than the first weekend to keep the rank-and-file fans from getting complacent.
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Not sure about everyone else, but I already have season tix to both, so **** ya I want both to be as successful as possible. This should not be an issue in this market. People love winners and will come to both.
 
CVilleBuff said:
Football getting back on track doesn't pose a threat to basketball. There will always be segments of the core fans that just love football or just love basketball, but the majority of those who support CU athletics are going to follow both and support both. If anything, football ascending would help matters in other sports IMO
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If CU football weren't at it's lowest point, I'm not sure how popular basketball would be. I don't think it would be selling out non-conference games especially against "directional" schools. Basketball has become a great fall-back for a lot of the fanbase IMO, who didn't traditionally care about it. So yes, I think CU men's basketball has benefitted from CU football doing bad -- not that the team is rooting against the football team.

This might not be the best example but take Florida. They obviously have a bigger disparity between football and basketball popularity. The year they won the first national title in basketball, they couldn't sellout any non-conference game besides Ohio State IIRC.

I agree with you that it would help "other" sports, mainly Olympic sports. Any one of those coaches will tell you when football is losing, they're losing since they depend on football.
 
rolandftw said:
Not counting the fact that he's apparently mortal, and at some point is likely to retire or die.... There's a chance he leaves KU to go elsewhere. He's really accomplished everything at the college level. Won a National Championship, with a very good chance to win another this year. Comes down to how much he enjoys coaching college kids vs the Challenge of coaching in the NBA, something he has shown strong interest in.

I'm going to guess this was just a rhetorical question, however.
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More asking will he leave for an NBA job especially in the near future. I can't seem him leaving for another college job, non-voluntarily and I don't see that happening anytime soon. If let's say Tad gets CU to the Sweet 16 next year and Self wins the national title(or even if he doesn't). It's possible Boyle will want to return knowing this could be his shot. The job has only been vacant twice in the past 30 years, both times the coaches leaving for other opportunties.
 
Buffalo Brad said:
Not sure about everyone else, but I already have season tix to both, so **** ya I want both to be as successful as possible. This should not be an issue in this market. People love winners and will come to both.
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I want both to be successful too. Obviously football would be better for the school overall. There's more limitations to basketball, particularly without a major renovation (there's hardly any premium seating).
 
Shldr2Shldr said:
FYI There are 7160 Public Season Tickets. That combined with what 2300, 2500 student season tickets?
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How many tickets did Mike Bohn get again?

So basically there's 1500 remaining tickets -- single game, visiting team, family/friends, recruits, etc.
 
So it looks like Arizona charges $421 for tickets comparable to our GA tickets that are $110 for us. Even if we bumped up ticket prices by $100 next year, we are looking at only $700k more revenue so we are going to have to find additional revenue from things like deep tourney runs. The upside is that the more people that go to games, the more money we make in concessions. Now only if we can convince the AD to have some decent beer in the club room. I am totally willing to fund a keg upgrade, one beer at a time.
 
tante said:
So it looks like Arizona charges $421 for tickets comparable to our GA tickets that are $110 for us. Even if we bumped up ticket prices by $100 next year, we are looking at only $700k more revenue so we are going to have to find additional revenue from things like deep tourney runs. The upside is that the more people that go to games, the more money we make in concessions. Now only if we can convince the AD to have some decent beer in the club room. I am totally willing to fund a keg upgrade, one beer at a time.
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Upgrade the Keg by Upgrading the Kegs

Its a good tag line for improvements
 
tante said:
So it looks like Arizona charges $421 for tickets comparable to our GA tickets that are $110 for us. Even if we bumped up ticket prices by $100 next year, we are looking at only $700k more revenue so we are going to have to find additional revenue from things like deep tourney runs. The upside is that the more people that go to games, the more money we make in concessions. Now only if we can convince the AD to have some decent beer in the club room. I am totally willing to fund a keg upgrade, one beer at a time.
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I have said this a hundred times but the club room need to be restricted start issuing a buffclub card if you arent a member of the buffclub regardless of if you have season tickets, no soup for you.
 
Shldr2Shldr said:
So call it 9700 Tickets are accounted for. Capacity is 11064. 1364 seats available for each game.
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It be cool to get the total breakdown. How many basketball band members are there? I saw on here that they're cutting down the number. I wonder if they keep a few hundred available for day-of-game purposes?

I hope they do my idea and sell more tickets over winter break when they know students aren't going to be there.
 
absinthe said:
I have said this a hundred times but the club room need to be restricted start issuing a buffclub card if you arent a member of the buffclub regardless of if you have season tickets, no soup for you.
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I actually thought more people were in the buff club, but it looks like only if you are mid-courtside or better. They can probably just scan your ticket to let you in the club room instead of having something else to carry.
 
cubuffs85 said:
It be cool to get the total breakdown. How many basketball band members are there? I saw on here that they're cutting down the number. I wonder if they keep a few hundred available for day-of-game purposes?

I hope they do my idea and sell more tickets over winter break when they know students aren't going to be there.
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The band will likely take up the first 10-15 rows of section 17 depending on how they arrange them this year (even though they will be smaller, they still take up twice as many rows as needed for stands/instrument cases). There are a few hundred kept available for recruits/recruits families/coaches/ coaches families. My guess is after its all said and done we would be looking at somewhere near 800-900 tickets.
 
absinthe said:
Honestly that kind of sucks i get reducing it to get more fans in the building but I liked the volume they pumped out, gives coors a real college feel.
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I'm guessing that more of the half that gets cut is going to be the front half. Frankly, they have been carrying way too many woodwinds as is. You only need one damn piccolo player since you can't get two of them in tune anyway. You probably aren't going to notice a huge dropoff in the volume.
 
absinthe said:
I have said this a hundred times but the club room need to be restricted start issuing a buffclub card if you arent a member of the buffclub regardless of if you have season tickets, no soup for you.
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I get what you're saying, but I don't agree. I'd prefer that they use both gyms and add capacity. We need to encourage fans and reward them. We are not at a point yet where we can be so exclusive. IMHO.


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absinthe said:
I have said this a hundred times but the club room need to be restricted start issuing a buffclub card if you arent a member of the buffclub regardless of if you have season tickets, no soup for you.
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Didn't we just get through talking about how we need to increase revenue? Why would we start restricting access to the club room?
 
sackman said:
I get what you're saying, but I don't agree. I'd prefer that they use both gyms and add capacity. We need to encourage fans and reward them. We are not at a point yet where we can be so exclusive. IMHO.


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it is a $100 to join the buffclub, not very exclusive IMO.
 
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