Will the RAC be the old RAC on Friday night?
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Never followed basketball closely in either NBA or college until Pikiell was hired. Went to only one NBA game when I was like 5 and never been to a college game. But after these first 2 games I just looked at my girlfriend and asked her if she wanted to go Friday night. The fact that Pikiell is getting people like me this excited and wanting to go to games is so awesome
I'll be there with my son who lives in Brooklyn who I have not seen in two months.. Thank you RU Alumni Association for the promotion. Ticket stub shows half-court (50 Yard line?) Level 200. My son said, Dad let's do this every year :-) Go RU!!!
Yes it is! It’s a fun team to watch and I think if someone hasn’t seen them before it will easy to get them hooked if they get to a game.
Depends on what we mean. Will it be a good atmosphere and loud at times? I expect so. Will it be like UNLV in 1991, some of the Seton Hall/Syracuse/UConn games under Bannon/Waters. Highly unlikely.
If we’re somehow playing for postseason in February? Perhaps!
Looking forward to the day when I need to schedule a flight for a big game. Then we are really on to something. :sunglasses:
I believe the student bleachers have to be a certain distance from the court that’s why they have been moved back however many years ago
Completely agree and I’ve talk to Sarah about this before it’s absurd that those bleachers are like that. Now that we can fill them again, hopefully, they should be pulled forward. There’s no reason to have 20 feet between the baseline and the bleachers.
No such thing. There student sections all over the nation that are right on top of the court.
It doesn’t need to be like the past per se, it just needs to ROCK! If it’s sold out and this team keeps playing this way, it’ll be a Knightmare for the Johnnies!
I've been watching all the games since Pikiell was hired so I've been hooked since then lol...but damn this team is fun to watch so I think it's time to get to a game
Nope, just been dormant way too long. SHU game last year showed what it can be again.
Putting the cushy seats on the lower level behind the benches was the beginning of the end.
Look at the ESPN tv feed of the A10 champ game against Penn State
That was the RAC
The changing of 118 was the final nail in the coffin of the RAC being the RAC...
Unfortunately it will never be what it once was. We lost three sections of students behind the home bench, a bunch of seats when they renovated the student section behind Basket, and we also used to fill one side of the 300s with students for big games. It was so loud in there I literally would get headaches!
That being said a packed RAC, with 2500+ students in it, can be one of the loudest arenas in the nation hands-down.
There is no such rule. I think Rich was thinking about when the BE stopped allowing visiting bands at on-campus arenas.
I think she's in, so if we can get there in time after I'm done with work we'll be there.
So I'm a football and wrestling guy but I used to love going to my high school basketball games. When football and wrestling crowds are going the atmosphere is great, but I think basketball games just get to a whole other level when it gets rowdy.....and I think that's what Pikiell wants/can get Rutgers to...and I think Friday will be an awesome environment
Believe me I get the whole old RAC thing. I was at many of them, 1977 vs Cuse with Bouie, 1982 vs 6th ranked WVU, etc. But the place can still rock, no need to discourage a new group of fans by declaring something dead that will be far from it when this thing really gets going.
To be 100% honest I wouldn’t be surprised if Zoffinger, the daughter, had the bleachers moved back so that her dance and cheer teams had more room.
Does any other school have their cheer and dance teams 5 rows deep extending the entire baseline?
Nah the RAC is just fine if we win it will rock only a select few a small minority enjoyed 118. Pay up if you want a good seat the RAC is not dead.
