Very glad Maniac did that. Thoroughly disgusted he had to do that to get action. Unless there’s way more to the story, it’s an embarrassment.
Just to provide some clarification:
After going to all 3 games this weekend, I just couldn't take the silliness anymore.
The majority of our reserved seats are zip-tied shut. If someone dares to break a zip tie and sit in that seat, they are loudly and aggressively shamed and scolded by TCU staff or ballpark security. While our reserved seats sit mostly empty, except, of course, for the student section that is packed like sardines, people are all but forced to sit on top of each other in the outfield, which isn’t close to big enough to fit all the people that are supposed to sit out there. In the name of safety and social distancing, season ticket holders like me are not allowed to sit in our usual reserved seats. Instead, we are told to sit in the outfield, shoulder to shoulder with people, just like we’d be doing in our normal seats. The silliness and disingenuous nature of it all is mind numbing.
Meanwhile, our athletic director is sending out ambiguous tweets blaming our restricted capacity on the need for approval from an unspecified source.
Under the assumption that we are no longer under any state, county, or city capacity restrictions, I assumed that Donati was implying that we still needed approval from our Chancellor to increase capacity.
I knew Chancellor Boschini from my time at TCU (and really appreciate and respect the man as both a person and a leader), so I decided to reach out to him last night and essentially ask why we were scared to actually "Lead On."
I referenced his Star Telegram interview and his desire for at least one more "Rose Bowl type moment" before he retires, and that while I obviously still hope that Gary finds a way to reach the top of the pyramid, we actively have a baseball team capable of having a Rose Bowl type moment of their own, yet because of a charade of illogical policies, our team isn't able to receive the kind of fan support they deserve.
I referenced Donati's tweet as the reason I was reaching out to him about this issue, and urged him to reconsider our current attendance restrictions, especially as the UT series quickly approaches.
Chancellor Boschini responded first thing this morning and said the current policies had nothing to do with him and almost seemed to not even be fully aware of how things were currently being handled at Lupton... but he promised to look into it and see if he could make some headway.
Later this afternoon, he reached back out saying they had just received the go-ahead to increase capacity.
I still have no clue who is supposedly in charge of approving our capacity policies, and I'm left frustratingly curious... but at least we seem to have made some progress.
