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(04-26-2018 10:26 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(04-26-2018 09:43 AM)bearcatfan Wrote:  

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(04-25-2018 04:22 PM)Bearcat2012 Wrote:  

Love everything about the new arena besides the fact that despite an $88M renovation, the AD decided to still be one of the very few major college basketball arenas that has been updated to not put chairbacks throughout the entire stadium.

I don't really mind the bleachers to be honest. They reduced the number of them and it gives the people the option of getting a lower value ($100ish) seat while still offering seatbacks as well. There are a lot of casual UC fans that have a barrier getting over that $100/seat point.

I agree. It's good that they are providing seating to accommodate various price options. If the bleachers have seat backs that is a plus.

Count me among those disappointed to see bleachers. On the whole, this renovation is a home run. And maybe the concrete risers up there were simply too shallow to accommodate a full sized seat. But I've always believed the bleachers were one of the biggest reasons UC didn't have more sellouts, both in terms of comfort and the "tunnel view" someone described earlier in this thread. Hopefully, there are far fewer bleachers than before.

I was under the impression that there were always going to be bleachers. I don't recall them saying that every seat would be a chairback.

The seats that struggled to sell out were the corners, in which you had to look through the rafters to see the court. If they put a good team on the court, they'll have no problem selling out.