The "old" TCU tradition of lighting the Christmas tree on the Wednesday after Thanksgiving goes back 16 years!!! Wow, can't interfere with a tradition like that, can we? And seriously, couldn't the "old tradition" of lighting the Christmas tree on Wednesday after Thanksgiving be at 8 o'clock rather than 7:00? And the note about the "AVID Christmas tree lighting ceremony fans"....?? Enough said.
Why does TCU discourage basketball attendance?
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Kaiser
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That's what I was going for. :biggrin:
Since I believe avid fans of tree lighting are a small percentage of students, I don't see this as a major scheduling conflict. This is the equivalent of a basketball game conflicting with a new episode of Becker.
TCUdirtbag
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This. It's traditionally Wednesday at 7 after Thanksgiving. This time of year there's tons going on--fraternity and sorority formals, initiations, end of year this and that, basketball games, football season coming to a close and the tailgating etc. that goes along with that, students are busy with end of semester projects and finals prep. Believe it or not, it's not a conspiracy. As in life, the students have to make choices.
I don't know where you are buying your tickets from but they are $15 http://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventInfo?ticketCode=GS%3ATCU%3AMB11%3AMB04%3A&linkID=tcu&shopperContext=&pc=&caller=&appCode=&groupCode=MBI&cgc=
Actually agree with you for once.
froginmn
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Is there a population problem in Champaign? If they are only charging $15 I'd say yes...
froginmn
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I may have attended as many tree lightings as games at DMC when I was at TCU 20 years ago.
This was not due to the quality of the tree lightnings.
Have they redesigned the arena so it is no longer completely round and the closest seats to the floor are no longer 50 feet away?
This was not due to the quality of the tree lightnings.
Have they redesigned the arena so it is no longer completely round and the closest seats to the floor are no longer 50 feet away?
PurpleBlood87
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Tickets were 15 bucks last year. I went to all but four games because of work and only paid once for the USC game. After that someone always seemed to be offering tickets outside the arena and I was glad for them to hand me one.
ChemicalArts
Member
Okay Scrooge, it goes back more than 16 years. My first year at TCU was in 1989, and it was always the first Wednesday after Thanksgiving. That's at least 23 consecutive tree lightings on the Wednesday after Thanksgiving, and it's always at 7:00 PM.
It's a tradition, and among my favorite at TCU.
MiddleAgedFrog
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First of all they have been doing this a lot more than 16 years. Secondly it's not always been at 7:00 it was at 9:00 in the early 90s. And finally - this thread is weak. You could also be commenting on, "why does TCU discourage night school attendance." Lighten up dudes. The campus doesn't black out whenever there's an athletic event.
OK, Middleage, but you haven't explained why they couldn't have scheduled this at 6:30, or at 9:00, as in old, instead of what just happens to be the exact tip-off time for the BB game across the street. Would that have been so hard to do?
illini_frog
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I don't think it really mattered. Most of the people who went to the lighting wouldn't have gone to the game anyway...
TronCarter
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Is it possible prices are high because they're trying to generate as much net profit as possible for the DMC renovation?
