Quote Originally Posted by crooked road View Post
The same goes for basketball. Look at what GaTech is doing for their new arena. SMU also downsized, and TCU is considering doing the same. ADs these days are smart enough to understand that their ticket sales have an artificial cap based on alum base, fan base geography, as well as many other factors.

http://www.ramblinwreck.com/ot/mccamish-pavilion.html

The replacement for Alexander Memorial is really a fantastic looking venue. 8600 seating, with NO luxury boxes. Why smaller and no luxury boxes? They researched and determined that was all the seating needed, and that their donors didn't support luxury suites for basketball. Very interesting, really. The whole arena is very interesting.

See, bigger is not always better. Just ask those school who curtain off their upper levels for some games.
i blame HDTV!

with me, i would also have to blame age and having a family for my reason to watch at home more often than i used to, but i have younger cousins who have never known crappy TVs, let alone crappy TV contracts that didn't televise every single game somewhere, so they've never grown up experiencing a situation where if you don't go to the game, you don't see the game. their teams' games have pretty much ALL been televised for their entire life, so going to live events is a really expensive novelty as opposed to something they feel that HAVE to do from time to time. totally different fan base coming through our universities, and it WILL impact ticket sales 10-15 years from now. even the mighty SEC with all their 90k+ seat stadiums won't be immune to this change in fanbase.