21 official sellouts in FC history; 28 games over 10,000 attendance.

It's a big tiny arena.

Because the skeleton is made of steel, expansion is still possible.

In the future, attendance will be measured by TV audience than actual butts in the seats.

With regard to attendance and speaking only for myself, it's hard to get excited to go to a Monday or Wednesday game with an 8pm tip. I have GA season tickets but go to very few games prior to conference play and usually only the weekend conference games.

I think you have to have many more fans that want to go to games than seats in the arena because, realistically, most fans really don't want to go to that many games. Non-conference attendance likely suffered this year because of the lack of any quality opponents. I'm not getting off the couch to see Norfolk state or Tarleton.

They could probably have built a TV studio with a basketball court and a limited amount of super elite seating for the big money donors, piped in some crowd noise, called it a day and come out ahead (after considering capital costs). Personal attendance at college sporting events is going to continue to decline, except for a few very historically dominant national brands, and will eventually hit them too.

How will programs continue to get people to make the financial, time and hassle sacrifice to see stuff they can see on TV?

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Two mutually exclusive traits. It's not the program, it's the location.

It's not the program or the quality of the fans. It's the value proposition, in every sport, that people are questioning. Money, a chunk of my life and a hassle factor to watch in person versus TV.

CorsicanaBear said:

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With regard to attendance and speaking only for myself, it's hard to get excited to go to a Monday or Wednesday game with an 8pm tip. I have GA season tickets but go to very few games prior to conference play and usually only the weekend conference games.

I think you have to have many more fans that want to go to games than seats in the arena because, realistically, most fans really don't want to go to that many games. Non-conference attendance likely suffered this year because of the lack of any quality opponents. I'm not getting off the couch to see Norfolk state or Tarleton.

They could probably have built a TV studio with a basketball court and a limited amount of super elite seating for the big money donors, piped in some crowd noise, called it a day and come out ahead (after considering capital costs). Personal attendance at college sporting events is going to continue to decline, except for a few very historically dominant national brands, and will eventually hit them too.

How will programs continue to get people to make the financial, time and hassle sacrifice to see stuff they can see on TV?

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To a certain extent, you are correct,

Both McLane and Foster were both designed to be fascinatingly beautiful TV sets for sports.

Stole this from another thread:

I'll likely have season tickets, but I am concerned about parking (one of the things that makes me not attend more games at the FC). I won't be donating enough for super elite parking. I don't want to park and walk from a mile away in the middle of winter. I don't want to wait for 20 minutes to be picked up by a bus after the game. I don't want to spend time stuck in a massive parking structure leaving the game.

Full disclosure....we no longer attend games for the most part. I'm sure there are a lot like us that have "aged" out (not by choice, of course) of attending games because of health situations or for too many, mobility issues. To a large extent this is the demographic that were the stalwarts of fan attendance during the dark periods of both basketball and especially football. These were the ones that stayed when many left by halftime in football. So any arrows thrown at this demographic for no longer buying tickets by the younger crowd, need to be boomerangs. At this point I would love to be able to spend whatever I would need to spend to be a regular attendee. But that day has passed.

But I wanted to address the comments about raising prices. Does Baylor even end up with any net dollars concerning tickets sold? I mean if you have an arena of 7,500 vs 10,000. To even get the same dollars in ticket sales, the small arena will need a 33% increase in ticket prices for a sold out 7,500 to get the same as a 10,000 sellout at the lower price. Now, I have no idea as to the new prices, so it is certainly possible that the increase goes beyond 33%.

We have had decades to show everyone we can fill a 10,000 seat arena without a third or more being cows or other critters from the conference. We have never done so except on rare occurrences, and even then there were still empty seats to be seen. Fortunately the powers that be ignored the complaints of not making McLane bigger. I suspect there are many schools that would benefit from a smaller arena in basketball. Even UT went smaller, I believe.

Method Man said:

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What season will the arena be available?

Is this the last season of the Ferrell Center?

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Target opening date is conference play a year from now.

Method Man said:

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What season will the arena be available?

Is this the last season of the Ferrell Center?

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Shooting for 01/01/2024 for the opening of the arena portion.

They will play all 2024 conference home games at the Pavilion.

The facility itself, however, will not be completed as work will continue on the practice facilities and finishing touches continue in all areas.

Christmas Eve Updates
Concrete decking going in and architectural appointments now going in.

atomicblast said:

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What will happen to the Ferrell Center?

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I think it's becoming Scruff's II.