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Expanded student section

AtHomeInTheDahlbergDen said:
Alright. Let's staple flyers to some trees.
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Careful: The Granolas might be hugging those trees...

BETER IDEA... forget the trees just staple the flyers to the Granolas
 
I ran into an east side season ticket holder who's totally upset about this one game decision. He's indicated that he will drop GSA and season tickets to all sports due to the decision to open up "The Zoo" for this one game. This type of fan really needs to get a clue. This game is not a part of the season ticket package so I have no idea how he can assume he'll get his exact season tickets. Rather than explore options to get seats on the west side for one game, he's going to drop all support of UM athletics? If the low west side isn't available maybe he could try to second level for this one game. Maybe he could buy a GA ticket and sit in the north end zone for this one game.

Missoula and UM really do have some whiny and spoiled fans. Many of them are truly passionate about the Griz and that passion and loyal support are to be admired. To think that losing a seat you really have no right to since it's not part of the "package" you bought before the season started seems to show this particular guy has no legitimate "passion" but is instead a self-centered whiner. Have fun staying home from all the games in the future.....I doubt you'll be missed as much as you think you will.
 
Mousegriz said:
I ran into an east side season ticket holder who's totally upset about this one game decision. He's indicated that he will drop GSA and season tickets to all sports due to the decision to open up "The Zoo" for this one game. This type of fan really needs to get a clue. This game is not a part of the season ticket package so I have no idea how he can assume he'll get his exact season tickets. Rather than explore options to get seats on the west side for one game, he's going to drop all support of UM athletics? If the low west side isn't available maybe he could try to second level for this one game. Maybe he could buy a GA ticket and sit in the north end zone for this one game.

Missoula and UM really do have some whiny and spoiled fans. Many of them are truly passionate about the Griz and that passion and loyal support are to be admired. To think that losing a seat you really have no right to since it's not part of the "package" you bought before the season started seems to show this particular guy has no legitimate "passion" but is instead a self-centered whiner. Have fun staying home from all the games in the future.....I doubt you'll be missed as much as you think you will.
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Good that means I am one person closer to getting my season tickets!
 
Mousegriz said:
I ran into an east side season ticket holder who's totally upset about this one game decision. He's indicated that he will drop GSA and season tickets to all sports due to the decision to open up "The Zoo" for this one game. This type of fan really needs to get a clue. This game is not a part of the season ticket package so I have no idea how he can assume he'll get his exact season tickets. Rather than explore options to get seats on the west side for one game, he's going to drop all support of UM athletics? If the low west side isn't available maybe he could try to second level for this one game. Maybe he could buy a GA ticket and sit in the north end zone for this one game.

Missoula and UM really do have some whiny and spoiled fans. Many of them are truly passionate about the Griz and that passion and loyal support are to be admired. To think that losing a seat you really have no right to since it's not part of the "package" you bought before the season started seems to show this particular guy has no legitimate "passion" but is instead a self-centered whiner. Have fun staying home from all the games in the future.....I doubt you'll be missed as much as you think you will.
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Wonder if this is a season ticket holder who doesn't show up for the games. The lower floor levels tend to be only 75% filled each game, many of the same seats empty, but you ask ticket office for a seat there and they tell you they are all sold.
 
Less fans that are their, "JUST CAUSE THEY CAN" the better leave it to ppl who really are going to help. i always thought the close to the area seats in every stadium should be students or hardcore fans. Only for the screaming and yelling......much like duke
 
So let me get this right....

Some of you will be mad if the students dont show up?

Well they use to BY THE THOUSANDS!!!! That was until the powers that be got greedy and wanted more money. First they let fat butt Larry Frost and his loser media pals take up the first two rows of the zoo. Then to make things worse they slid the students in behind the baskets. Then that wasnt even enough. So year after year it shrunk down to less then 400 students.

I give the coaches credit for going out of thier way to promote the basketball program. But this is not the fault of the coaches or players. Those responsible (King George?) need to make a public appology to all students. Then they need to go back to the days when STUDENTS were the priority. LET THEM IN... LET EVERY STUDENT IN THAT WANTS TO BE THERE... NO CHARGE!!!!!

Start over UM its the only way to get the support you desire.
 
Payton, I know lots and lots of students (I'm an adviser to a student group). Few if any of them even know there IS a basketball team, much less care about going to their games. If you offered to go to their places of residence, pick them up and drive them to the games, ply them with liquor and drive them home afterwards, I doubt you'd get a thousand takers (out of 10,000-plus students). There are a select few who are supportive, ardent fans, but they are very few and very far between. I knew a young woman who was a cheerleader for a year, but quit because none of her friends ever went to the games and she wanted to spend time with her friends. It's a different world than when I was in school, for sure, and that's too bad.
 
'68 Griz...we both were around when games were "free" (student activity fee paid), and students sat right on the court in the preremodel of the field house...rarely was it filled..of course, those were the good old days.....those were also the days when the U was very close to dropping football as most students were suggesting. Frankly, I am of the belief that college athletics serve to unite a student body, for what, I'm not sure, but it has been a constant gift to me throughout my life to have had what we had. Times have changed. Even USC, without a bball gym of its own for years, cannot fill its new palatial Galen Center unless they play UCLA...Students should be given the best courtside seats, period! The alumni and other supporters could, like those at Duke and elsewhere, sit back and enjoy the spectacle....the students have more choices today....they don't necessarily identify with the athletes for one reason or another....but, football has shown that a winning tradition will bring crowds....In our days, we had neither, but fair turnout for games...not much else to do but drugs, booze, and folk music....
 
I'd be a little irked if I were a season ticket holder and was being forced to sit elsewhere for a tournament game. I'm a PSU season ticket holder for men's hoops, and I really like my seats. I like the people that I sit by, and if given the opportunity of an at home tournament game, I'd like to sit in those very same seats. Kudos to your university for trying to get student involvement for the game, but that's too bad for the season ticket holders of the section that the students will be in.
 
I surely can't speak for every student on campus, but I know that my time is not something I exactly have a lot of. Being a junior here at UM, I'm loaded up with 18 credits and more pointless assignments than I should be able to handle. Yet I do make time for the Lady Griz. As being a complete basketball novice, it's fun to watch them because every girl plays an important role and they really play like a team. This could also be my bias because where I'm from, we've got one of the best women's coaches in the nation.

But the men on the other hand...it's just not fun to watch them play. They seem to be very streaky; some games I've gone to they've hit plenty of shots and played great, others it looked like they'd rather be anywhere else in the world. Plus, I don't think I have ever seen a team that is so allergic to boxing out and going for a rebound. Is is the players? The coaches? I don't know, all I can say for myself is that I've got very little free time on campus and when I am free, I want to watch a great team effort....so Lady Griz games is where I'll be.
 
Paytonlives said:
LET THEM IN... LET EVERY STUDENT IN THAT WANTS TO BE THERE... NO CHARGE!!!!!

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They actually do, anyone with a Grizcard gets in for free for all regular season games, and if the floor is full then you can sit in the general ad. In fact they even give a random student $100 cash and another a $500 scholarship for simply showing up and swiping their Griz card when they come it, however that hasn't even managed to fill up the "student sections" all that often either.
 
Greetings from a born and raised Missoulian now in Seattle. I moved here 20 years ago and remember the many nights I tried to get the games on AM all the way over here. I could barely get a Kalispell AM station if I turned my boombox a certain way in the upstairs bathroom. My roomies made fun of me(of course always wanting to know the score, being fans also). Love now that I can watch live online with the radio announcers also.

As far as the student section, I grew up a huge fan(born 1964) and sat in the student section in the eighties. After moving and hearing what the school was doing to the student section made me sick. You would never have had moronic decisions like this made at Duke. Unfortunately they cut the head off of that great animal being "The Zoo". It got built up to the greatness that it was by a tradition passed on each year to new students by old students. I remember many times almost getting crushed waiting hours to get into an imortant game. Now many are lamenting for the old days. Tinkle is smart to do what he is doing, but everyone needs to realize, its not going to be the same overnight. It is a tradition that will have to built up every year to get to where it was in the seventies and eighties. Don't give up just because they don't show up all at once. Keep trying until it catches on. Go Griz!!!

Peace-Todd
 
Well, if you think about it a bit, you can tell they know they fecked up by moving the student section because they are desperately trying to get students back to the games. They recognize there is a problem and are trying to correct it any way possible. Students have money to spend, too.
 
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