Crisler watch party...but only for students and season ticket holders
What is your complaint?
Ah, ok. Sorry, your first post didn't make that clear, at least to me.
Do some math. Michigan has almost 45,000 students. This is big enough, particularly building on 2013, that Crisler could more than fill up on students alone--before you even factor in season ticket holders.
I'm 100% OK with this. Prioritize students and ticketholders first.
Did you see South U tonight? Yep, students don't care.
Crisler seats over 13,000. Some of the seating will be inaccessible. It's 100% the correct decision to prioritize that seating in some way. Like it or not, season ticket holders have paid in for their priority. Other than them, students should have 100% priority over all comers to fill those seats. Seems to me they're going to show up.
Crisler hasn't sat over 13,000 in nearly a decade.
Which actually helps my argument--they've prioritized their constituencies here with the space they've got. Students and ticketholders first, and that'll cover the arena in the current coniguration. Don't know what the complaint is here.
we can't fill the stadium for more than 1 or 2 games a year---and the lower bowl was half full at tip-off for Purdue.
In 2013 everyone was welcome to attend and students were in the lower bowl. As of now it is just students period.
I like how season ticket holders get to go when the lower bowl season ticket holders don't even go to the games.
They should just kick those guys out and expand the Maize Rage honestly. Makes Crisler louder and harder to play in instead of being quiet and seemingly half empty unless the team is playing against MSU/OSU.
Or at least let students fill up the un-used seats if they aren't filled by the first timeout. The most electric I've ever seen Crisler was when there wasn't even a basketball game there. It was the 2013 NCG watch party and it's not even close. The lower bowl was 100% full and the whole arena was nothing but students and die hards.
Ridiculous
Who are you to judge how people use their tickets? And how do you know how many of those are actually season tickets that go unused?
People who have lower bowl seats and don't go, don't deserve lower bowl. The fact a ticket rep I was on the phone with laughed and said I've been to more games this year than a chunk of season ticket holders when I told him how many games I've been to says a lot.
I signed on early this month for two seats and am a season ticket holder now for 2018-19.
Lower bowl season ticket holders pay the bills. They won't be at the watch party either because they are in Texas.
Their tens of thousands do more for M basketball than your attendance vs. Alabama A&M. It is great you are such a fan, but your constant bitching about other fans is a little over the top. Congrats on the new seats though.
Blanket assumptions are assumptions.
Lol at thinking ticket sales pay the bills. TV money and sponsorships pay the bills. Michigan basketball would be better off with a better atmosphere and a few thousand less dollars than the shit lower bowl fanbase that exists right now.
I’m glad they are reserving this for students and season ticket holders. Too big a risk to go down there and wait in line for hours only to have it fill. By then every bar in Ann Arbor will have been packed for two hours
That explains it.
Nice job by Svoboda explaining the situation.
I have a better idea... USE THE BIG HOUSE!
And you're complaining Crisler won't fill up. Yep, 100,000 seat football stadium on a Monday night when weather's been hovering around the 40s during the day. Sure. Sure-fire plan.
Who gives a shit how many people show up whats the problem with turning on the lights and playing the game at the big house i still dont understand the confusion
explain exactly why your simple mind cant understand why people wouldnt watch the game at the big house? Did you see the crowds on the streets of Ann Arbor. People are gonna be outside regardless of the weather. Thats Michigan Stadium by the way you know the one that hosts football games. I know it may be hard to remember since we are now a basketball school apparently
I went in 2013 and I remember the line outside Crisler extended all the way to Keech and up the hill to Main. It may not have filled up completely, but it was at least 75%, and a lot of people who didn't want to wait in line went home. My friends and I showed up over 2 hours before the game and we had to sit in the upper bowl because the lower bowl was filled by the time we got in. It took well over an hour just to move through the line.
If the capacity is already limited due to gymnastics, I can see them worrying about the logistics of this. First-come-first-serve events can be crowd-control nightmares. I'm guessing they don't want to have to deal with 20,000 people lining up outside crisler at 4pm. Anyone who is a student absolutely needs to go though, the environment in 2013 was electric. Even though Michigan lost, that's still one of my favorite sports memories from undergrad.
I'm not the one with my panties in a wad about not being able to watch the game in Crisler. I was simply stating facts about what happened in 2013, in an effort to rationalize what the AD admins might have been thinking when they made this decision. I never said it was the right decison. Doesn't affect me anymore since I now live and work over 500 miles away. Go bitch at the ticket office if you don't like it.
I'll pass
So aparently season ticket holders can print out up to 4 tickets per account
So anyone interested in selling a ticket to the watch party??? hit up my pm's i'm at work till 7 but ill hit you back when i'm home