RE: the dome
Let's start with the Three T's, tickets, traffic and toilet paper. There are no floor level restroom facilities to speak of for fans. I think there's one men's room on the East side and one women's room, and the men's room has one urinal and one stall best I recall. Completely unacceptable for a division I facility that wants to be in C-USA.
Traffic. Getting out of that damn place is HORRIBLE. The fire marshall is right, there's not enough exits there. I think they could put more exits in the floor level without affecting the structure. That would also increase the seating capacity. Then you get to your car, where it takes longer to filter 4,000 people out of there then it does 20,000 after a Predators game in Nashville on a Friday night, and believe me, there are less ways to get out od lower broadway vs. State of Franklin.
Tickets. One ticket booth, and do they take debit cards now? If they do it's about stinking time, it's also drama getting in. An old race track promotor told me one time to never let more than 10 people be standing in line to get in, open up another line until you run out of employees, and if the boss has to take tickets to get the fannies in, then so be it.
The views. Some spots in there I agree with you, it's good to watch a game, others, not so much. The cheerleaders need to sit down while the ball is in play, after all, the students are paying for the team, so they should get to enjoy the action from the ends. The seats there are REALLY SMALL in the old football stands, nothing can be done about that really, but it still sucks. If we ever do get a new arena, I hope ETSU has sense enough to order the seats with cupholders on the back, spilled drinks suck.
Now, down to the action, as long as you're sitting inbetween the lines, you're golden. I think the seats over in section A and B are just hideous, you're completely detracted from the game going on and that sucks. It's like the 300 level seats at Thompson Boling.
On a positive note, didn't the dome go back to selling Coke? If so, hopefully in souvenir cups out of the fountain. Bottled drinks just don't stay cold and it's a weird preference, but I like to have fountain drinks over ice while watching games. (And no Fan1, it's not so I can mix drinks.)
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