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(05-29-2018 09:52 AM)djtothemoney Wrote:  

(05-28-2018 09:19 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(05-28-2018 04:16 PM)Not Duane Wrote:  ...I heard no complaints.

Only because you don't care to listen.

Part of what has driven me nuts about this whole argument is that people don't care to hear any opinion beyond their own. If you go back and read the history of this thread, it's almost pure "strawman" arguments. "You just don't like soccer...." "You just want Nippert to stay empty during off-seasons..." "You just don't want other things in there except football..." And while there have been the occasional moronic "Well, soccer is a communist plot..." troll-bait posts, none of those have really been about what the substance of the debate really was about. (Feed the trolls at your own peril and misery, FWIW...)

But the reality is that the "notches" are here to stay. Period. End-of-story. Like them or hate them, they're here. I think it's somewhat...ah...funny...that nobody has recently dredged up the old rumor that a "party deck" or "on the field VIP area" would eventually be installed in "the notch" areas. (Yet another "strawman" argument, but on the "pro" side of the issue, I guess...) Now, two years on, the "notches" are just what they are: a cut-out space on the "South" end of the lower bowl. From an aesthetics standpoint, I wish they had just removed the lower five-or-so rows all the way around the bowl--all the same arguments hold for those seats: obstructed views, nobody likes to sit in those first five rows behind the benches, etc... If you're going to make the field as versatile as possible and friendly for other events (like soccer in this case), then do it up properly.

If you were paying attention you would know that there is actually an on field VIP area in that corner for FCC games.

First, I am a Bearcat fan, not a FCC fan. Second, I don't live in the greater Cincinnati area anymore so I don't get up to FCC games. But thirdly, at the risk of spawning another strawman argument, I don't like watching Soccer so... Nope. I wasn't paying attention and I don't really care that FCC has a VIP area or not. It doesn't have anything to do with UC or what UC does.