I'm underwhelmed, especially with it being so small. If capacity is just over 10,000 it'll be the 3rd smallest arena in the SEC. A program of our stature deserves more than that IMO. We're the second winningest basketball program in SEC history for crying out loud. We're not a bottom feeder that is struggling to sell tickets.
I think the focus is on building a great game atmosphere and that’s what will be accomplished
Construction isn't expected to begin until April 2023, so I would anticipate it opening for the 2024/2025 season.
A great game atmosphere can be created without reducing capacity by 1/3.
I would be more upset about the capacity if we didn’t have 3-4K empty ass seats at the vast majority of our games. It wasn’t even close to packed for the freakin auburn game and 2K auburn fans were in pretty good seats…
They are keeping 2,200 for students around the court. This year we sold 6,700 seasons tickets. That would leave about 1200 tickets. I imagine season ticket request will go up with the excitement of the new arena plus I think the games will be a very fun atmosphere that people will want to be part of
I don’t expect there to be many, if any, tickets available on a single game basis. Students and season ticket holders should gobble them all up.
They’ll keep some available. But you are kind of hitting on the point of the reduced capacity. They don’t want unsold tickets.
As long as we’re winning ticket sales won’t be an issue, even in an arena much larger than the proposed new one. Bama fans will support a winner. Always have and always will. Football speaks for itself, but look at gymnastics and softball. Gymnastics crowds are usually at, or very close to, capacity. Softball has led the nation in attendance for years, and just set a record with over 3,100 season tickets sold. I don’t think there’s another softball stadium in the country that seats anywhere close to that number.
Start in April of 2023 and play in it by October, that seems fast for that big of a project. Could it be done in that amount of time? But even if they could do it in time, we wouldn’t get much practice in it.
Texas is completing a new 10k seat arena and Baylor's is planned to be 7k.
Alabama sells out maybe 3 games a year in Coleman. You are critical of everything to do with basketball.
We’re averaging over 11,000 this year. South Alabama is the only home game where attendance was below 10,000, which is the proposed capacity for our new little arena.
How is it going to help attendance? We have only had one home game this season where the crowd was below the new arena's capacity.
Regardless of looks, which I think are awesome but we’ll never all agree on that…. I think anyone who attends a game will leave agreeing they have created an awesome CBB atmosphere and I promise you that is the goal and that is what is best for our basketball program.
