[quote="kred" post=362924][quote="MCNPA" post=362921][quote="Beast of the East" post=362919]They've made the tourney two out of the past three years, playing the 13-4 game both times, and lost by 10 and 13 points.
Their current coach, Becker, has a record there of 166-77.
We will see.
This would be a good game for redmen.com fans without season tickets to buy game tickets for. Saturday afternoon 4 pm start doesn't mess up evening plans.
There have been a ton of season ticket cancellations. General murmurs are we should have waited a year to implement the mandatory donation, but there have even been a lot of cancellations in seats that did not require a donation and which only had a 5% increase over prior years.[/quote]
Absolutely wrong time to increase prices that much after laying off SJU’s golden boy, new coaching hire and a team picked near last in the Big East. I know SJU needs to make more money to support the program, but not right away after such a huge change. It should have been a bit more gradual.[/quote]
In the same manner they ask the fans to be patient with the development of the team, they should be patient in raising their prices[/quote]
The one thing I would say in defense the increases is that there is such a long laundry list of necessary improvements to facilities that all cost a lot of money, and the fact that our ticket prices were below other Big East schools in smaller markets, that the decision was made to raise prices based on those factors.
The equipment room and athlete weight rooms were in spaces that looked like a 60 year old unfinished basement (dungeon), as well as many other initiatives. It's impossible to take a recruit into those areas and get a kid to come here. The practice facility is first class. I think they just misjudged in a down year how loyal our season ticket holders would be to increases. Definitely a mistake but we should recover as the team improves.
