Ticket revenue is a drop in the bucket compared to tv revenue. To me this is partly being greedy and partly a misguided attempt to turn Rutgers basketball into a "premium" experience but the problem is that the real premium experience is being seated closely with thousands of other passionate fans. Suits like Hobbs will never understand that part of it.
It looks nice at first glance - but we all know the RAC and the space is just not there to add all the luxury space without taking it from the current season ticket holders - If adding luxury is not negotiable then build new, The current plan is lipstick on a pig.
That's not the price for "Regular" seats. That's the cost for the corporate stuff if I was reading it correctly
Unfortunately it’s the way of the world these days. Just don’t put us in Trenton. I’ll take the Pru Center for a year.
Agree completely and you can see how the survey is driving the answers they want to justify their desires
How most surveys are these days. Get the answers you want, not what you need to hear.
Agreed! If this is the path forward, and I understand why it might have to be, then just build a new arena. But please add a rink so RU Hockey can finally happen. And put it in NB near the rail hub if you want to add entertainment options.
You are 100% correct. I do expect only 500-1000 seats to be “premium”. So some of the fans in the the 100s that don’t want to play up for that experience may be moved around a bit (corners or behind the basket). Everyone else should relatively be in the same spots.
Agreed. I don't know if they are correct or not, but I recall people on here mentioning that the fire doors from the lower concourse having to be closed are one reason why the sound is the way that it is. If those are gone and the area between 100 and 200 levels is now open, that has to make difference. How much would be for the experts.
Yup.. .meanwhile there are tickets for by far our best non-conference RAC game available tonight on the secondary market for as low as $3
All I really want is more bathrooms.
I read that as you will have a 300 level seat plus access to a club box for food/drink. In the survey they said Some of the club boxes don’t have views of the court so they are for pre game and or half time etc.
People are concerned about compromising the RAC atmosphere and you want to have the basketball team play in a hockey arena???
Maybe, unfortunately we won’t know until the plan is finalized. There will be people that upgrade too and the overall capacity should increase slightly (mostly down low). Hypothetically say there are 1,000 premium seats. That’s only 12% of the current capacity and half probably come from 100s and half from 200s (maybe some from 300). My guess is 50% (500 of the 1,000) of seats are filled by current 100s or 200s ticket holders. So maybe 500 tickets have to get moved to a worse location. That’s not a lot of movement. That’s my guess at least.
And you know the Governor is pushing to play a year in Trenton for obvious reasons.
