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Looks like some Rafters members when their ban has expired....
I don't get it. If it is considered funny to watch senior citizens exercising and fair game to try to humiliate them in public, then the OP really is a loathsome #$R%^#E$%^
I love that this topic is starting to gain some traction. It's become pathetic what a home game at Rupp has turned into.
I've said it before, but you want to know why the other team's shooters always go off in Rupp? Its because they keep seeing someone that resembles their granny in the stands and it puts them at ease. Our crowd is so neutered the opposing team actually GAINS confidence coming into town.
I've said it before, but you want to know why the other team's shooters always go off in Rupp? Its because they keep seeing someone that resembles their granny in the stands and it puts them at ease. Our crowd is so neutered the opposing team actually GAINS confidence coming into town.
Good thing the old folks buy the season tickets because the younger generation doesn't like to work and can't stay off their phones. Plus the over paid used car salesman needs to put a decent product on display and win some games against major competition.
The atmosphere at Rupp continues to be lacking and will continue to as long as you put the AARP down there.
What a tired subject this is. Been the same for decades and isn’t going anywhere. Those old folk pay the bills and will continue enjoying good seats. Also see them get pretty damn loud when appropriate.
It's the people with money. Jobs paid really good back in the day. They have enough money to afford those seats.
Gain steam? May be the oldest topic on this board. Complaining on a message board doesn’t change how much UK loves those K fund donations…
350 other D1 schools seem to have figured out their student section. The blue hairs can have their general administration tickets, and they can have 85% of them. But at the very least, put more student sections/seats on the sidelines, not just on one end of the court.
The people that would yell the loudest are the same ones that probably would turn those seats down because "I can stay home and watch my 60 inch HDTV and save a lot of money, GO CATS!" instead.
No need to demonstrate how deep that stick goes up you arse.
649-81 (88.9%) find me a building with a better winning percentage. The only two I can name are Memorial Coliseum (307-38 89.0%) and Alumni Gym (248-24 91.2%), and I'm talking nationwide.
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Kentucky's Memorial Coliseum Record
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Kentucky's Alumni Gymnasium Record
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These same teams that have great home records, also have what I imagine are, pretty solid road records as well. So is it the home crowds that are winning games for us, or is that we've had like 4 HOF coaches come through here and beat up the competition, regardless if there's 100 fans or 10,000 fans?
Rupp could coach games in his driveway and were still gonna win 90%.
350 other D1 schools don’t have as many rich old people willing to donate as much money as ours do in exchange for good basketball seats.
That’s the weird thing about this, our program’s extreme popularity is actually what makes it harder to have those electric crowd environments. If it was less popular, there’d be more good seats available for the kind of fans that make the place jump and look cool on TV.
In my days at UK (1986-89), the students got one side of the arena, from first row to top row. The end zones and the opposite side were public. At least that is how I remember it. Are all the students stuck in the end zone now? We complained about the blue hairs back then too.
But can't they still fill 15,000 seats, and leave SOME portion of the Courtside for more students? Right now it's just one "base line", which is roughly 16% of the courtside. Are these older fans and donors THAT much against expanding the student section so they can have one sideline. I don't think that's unreasonable. And id actually bet that it isn't met with THAT much backlash.
Haven't been able to get to a game in a while, but it seems that the eruption zone is just one baseline and the seats that go up from there.
Old people are the only ones willing to pay the money to sit there. Kids and young adults would rather spend 300-400 bucks on Xbox, vaping, and ghetto lights in the wheel wells.
Why is this so difficult to understand, its supply and demand. The demand to sit lower bowl has priced the young ones out.
Why is this so difficult to understand, its supply and demand. The demand to sit lower bowl has priced the young ones out.
I have never been to a college game where the students have to pay for tickets lol. Not basketball, not hockey, not fooball. Unless that changed?
If money is the issue than maybe UK needs to do some deal with RUPP to pay for a student section.
I'll keep coming back to this: the other 350 D1 schools don't have an issue creating a large swathe of seats for students. Virginia Tech isnt
Making its students pay full ticket price. Figure it out.
We cant have a student section across the floor, they aren't filling it up anymore. 10 years ago it was loaded, now its only full when its a huge game.
You can go to StubHub and buy tickets down low that aren't student sections, but as i said, its only the older folks who are buying them. Kids would rather drop 300 bucks on something else...
My point is that they shouldn't be $300 for students. I don't know any school that charges for student tickets. Yes, that might mean the arena loses some money, but literally every other school seems to do it this way. And I can't imagine an additional 500 seats on the sideline wouldn't get filled by a student body that's close to 23,000 at any time.
You see what the Kansas Student section does for the team, they're worth several calls that go in their favor and every year they seemingly get another win or 2 because of that. An extra win might mean a 2-seed instead of a 3-seed. Getting that higher seed might mean an additional game in the NCAAT. It could mean the difference in getting a Final 4 or losing in the Sweet16.
I think we misunderstood each other. Theres no big ticket prices for students, they just aren't interested. The Erupption zone is like 20 bucks or something....and they still wont fill it unless its a big rivalry game.
I meant kids that dont sit in the student section, or young adults dont want to pay 300 bucks to sit in the lower bowl.
If Rupp cleaned house and waived all ticket rights to everyone and started over, the buyers would still be older people. People in their teens and 20's would rather drop 300 bucks on other things.
My son has a client that is a member of the KFund, his Client sits down low but is required to pay and pledge 100,000k per ticket.
To your first point, most schools charge for student tickets, whether it’s a mandatory athletics fee or purchasing tickets. You mentioned Kansas….they charge for student tickets ($175 for all sports which doesn’t guarantee you get into basketball games). UNC doesn’t charge for game tickets but they have a mandatory $280 fee that all students pay to athletics, which gives them access to “free” tickets. UL charges a mandatory student fee that goes to athletics and they charge students for tickets…they double dip. It’s very common.
I look dang good in my sweater vest. Ya punk kid.
Is this a one time payment, or a yearly requirement?
When I was a student, I would just show up the night of the game and show my student ID. The guy at the entrance always had a stack of tickets in the lower part of the upper arena in his hand. My neighbors went to the lottery to try to get the best tickets they could get, but I didn't bother with the lottery. We had no athletics fee or anything to pay, free admission.
I’m sure if someone took a video of your fat ass and posted on a website making fun of you, you would understand why people would be mad.
When some of you young kid's donate millions to UK you can sit in front and have room to jump up and down... The old fans have paid their due to sit there and yell for UK without having to stand up all game... Don't bring up Cameron Stadium either, they are Dooooook fans of a different category....
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I'm almost 64, so I am in the demographic of the so called blue hairs. Put me in that section and I can guarantee you I would be loud and boisterous. The people around me would probably complain that I am interrupting their knitting and their Sudoku playing.
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