OK, its December 23, 2014, and, 12 games into the current season, Herd men's basketball is 4-8, with losses to a 4-10 Morehead team and we have just lost to a 2 and 8 Nevada team by 28 points. This team and season are rapidly approaching the dumpster, if not already there. Double digit wins for the season would border on miraculous. Only maybe home games with Rice and FIU appear as possibilities for a "W". This is the reality of the state of a once proud, and frankly, long dormant, basketball program that is hardly relevant in Huntington, almost non-existent to most of the rest of the state, and essentially flat lined in terms of any "national" relevance.
This fact cannot be lost on Mike Hamrick. And he, along with most knowledgeable Herd fans, know that we are in the painful throes of a massive rebuilding program, virtually from the ground up, basketball wise.
A lot of threads have indicated that it would be a positive thing if we tarped a large portion of Edwards Stadium, or even tore down much of the end zone seating, to make our crowds more appealing on television (make the stadium appear more full, suggesting a greater interest in the football program).
What do you think of a similar idea for the Henderson Center for the rest of this season? As a good will gesture from the AD, knowing the status of our basketball program currently, I believe he should rope off/block all the "nosebleed" bleacher seats for remaining home games. Let all fans sit in chairbacks, lower, then, upper, until these sections are filled, regardless of what tickets were purchased, general admission or reserved.
Some would argue this" cheats" lower bowl season ticket purchasers, of which I am one (2 season tickets). I haven't been to a game yet, including against rival Morehead State, and the "power" school games, where there weren't "gobs" of empty seats through the reserved sections of the arena. At the Penn State game, my wife and I were virtually alone in an entire row of lower chairbacks. Until we reach a point, which appears highly unlikely this season, that ALL chairbacks are TAKEN/SOLD, then I think the AD needs to say NO more general admission tickets will be sold. Sell the available chairbacks at general admission prices to the public, thereby telling HERD fans that the administration acknowledges the basketball situation and fan frustration, but WANTS THEIR SUPPORT for the rest of this season, and for, hopefully, better days ahead in coming seasons!
This fact cannot be lost on Mike Hamrick. And he, along with most knowledgeable Herd fans, know that we are in the painful throes of a massive rebuilding program, virtually from the ground up, basketball wise.
A lot of threads have indicated that it would be a positive thing if we tarped a large portion of Edwards Stadium, or even tore down much of the end zone seating, to make our crowds more appealing on television (make the stadium appear more full, suggesting a greater interest in the football program).
What do you think of a similar idea for the Henderson Center for the rest of this season? As a good will gesture from the AD, knowing the status of our basketball program currently, I believe he should rope off/block all the "nosebleed" bleacher seats for remaining home games. Let all fans sit in chairbacks, lower, then, upper, until these sections are filled, regardless of what tickets were purchased, general admission or reserved.
Some would argue this" cheats" lower bowl season ticket purchasers, of which I am one (2 season tickets). I haven't been to a game yet, including against rival Morehead State, and the "power" school games, where there weren't "gobs" of empty seats through the reserved sections of the arena. At the Penn State game, my wife and I were virtually alone in an entire row of lower chairbacks. Until we reach a point, which appears highly unlikely this season, that ALL chairbacks are TAKEN/SOLD, then I think the AD needs to say NO more general admission tickets will be sold. Sell the available chairbacks at general admission prices to the public, thereby telling HERD fans that the administration acknowledges the basketball situation and fan frustration, but WANTS THEIR SUPPORT for the rest of this season, and for, hopefully, better days ahead in coming seasons!
