(01-23-2018 10:28 PM)Buc76 Wrote:  Basketball attendance per home game

Tenn Tech..........2200
Tenn St..............3000
Austin Peay........2900
W. Carolina.........1200

The fans are pouring in to their 7-9k arenas.

Their arenas were built a long time ago at a cost from 5.5m..Austin Peay to 16.5 M for W. CAROLINA. A far cry from 80m needed to build one of similar size today.

You made my point. Programs with way less support and attendance then ETSU have bigger and better facilities.

As for cost to build, you can’t just throw numbers from 30 years ago and compare it to today. The longer they wait the more it will cost.

Why are so many of you all ok long term with a small off campus facility connected to a middle school? I will assume most on here aren’t huge donors (could be I don’t know) so as long as we are in freedom we will not have as good of seats as we would in a new arena because there aren’t enough premium or floor level seats for those donors. The students suffer because at best they get those lower seats behind the basket instead of on the floor. There are lots of other reasons.

I have enjoyed and supported the move to freedom hall but always assumed it was temporary until a permanent arena that was promised years ago was planned.