Carnesseca Arena

[stjohnnie75]

I would rather see the school, apply a fee to student activities at tuition time. then let the students come in and I think you would cultivate a culture of going to the games, because there is little else to do and it would not cost the kids anything.

With the current $55,000 tuition bill for dorming students, I don't even think anybody would notice a $100 fee for the tickets. I like the idea.

Many schools do exactly that!

Back in '97, we in the SJU athletics dept. called most of the big conference schools to do a survey to see if they included a fee in the total tuition cost. Most did and if I recall correctly the yearly fee was around $350 dollars. So every student is actually paying for their "free" ticket to the game.

The info. was given to Fr. Harrington and I believe the board of trustees and they decided that they would rather offer discounted ticket prices to students instead of charging every student a yearly fee. Now this was a long time ago.

I'm not sure how many students go to the games now-a-days, but at many of the other schools the students aren't season ticket holders because there is a lottery for limited seats to each game.

Maybe it's a good time to revisit the idea. I know when I was a student, a $10.00 in my pocket was not something I experienced very often.

It might have been revisited, that I'm not sure of. All I know is that it's not as simple as some of you might think.

For example a friend of mine that went to Maryland was basically forced to attend games of other sports to rack up points for men's basketball tickets. Great for school spirit for the other sports but if time is an issue it's much easier to pay $10 for a ticket compared to spending 6-8 hours a week watching soccer, women's basketball and other sports.

 

[Class of 72]

If you want a sold out CA lose 500 seats by installing real seats and for atmosphere move all students to floor seats. 5000 seats is more than enough for our fan base, especially if we continue to have subpar coaches.

 

[mjmaherjr]

If you want a sold out CA lose 500 seats by installing real seats and for atmosphere move all students to floor seats. 5000 seats is more than enough for our fan base, especially if we continue to have subpar coaches.

there isn't enough room on the floor for more seats with all the assistant coaches we have

 

[Class of 72]

If you want a sold out CA lose 500 seats by installing real seats and for atmosphere move all students to floor seats. 5000 seats is more than enough for our fan base, especially if we continue to have subpar coaches.

there isn't enough room on the floor for more seats with all the assistant coaches we have

Lol!! We do need students down near the action instead of all those empty no shows seen on TV. I think that with time we will have students camped out in front of the arena in tents to get choice seats. I think this will be called Camp Lavinwood. Lav will be bringing the kids pizza from Joe's Pizza in the West Village and the kids will be dancing to the Weasels.