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The Disappearance of Amon G. Carter's Home Field Advantage and Ways to Fix It.
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<blockquote data-quote="BrewingFrog" data-source="post: 2822157" data-attributes="member: 28"><p>Yeah, there will be smart-assed comments (from the Usual Suspects), but you hit a few important items dead-on. The 8-seat idea is a very good one, and would help even things back out. Sadly, it will take literally decades for this to take place. </p><p></p><p>Aside from taking the Giganto-sized jackhammer to the lower West Side, I don't see any way that the seat placement/density issue would be changed. Additionally, the folks that put up the money to sit there and helped to fund the re-building in the first place would probably object pretty strongly to suddenly be 1.) Out of a seat for a year or so, 2.) Going from roomy and comfortable to noisy and crowded, and 3.) Otherwise inconvenienced by dealing with narrow aisles and narrow-width seating, as many are older and rather delicate. We have, over the years, heaped well-deserved ridicule on programs like A&M and Tennessee for yo-yo-ing donors and Alumni on the concept of "lifetime" and other bait-and-switch tactics applied to seating and parking. I'd hope that TCU quits while they are ahead with only the +4 in the negative balance pan. Treachery becomes habit forming...</p><p></p><p>As for the StubHub-ers, I have nothing but contempt. TCU was foolish and stupid to allow this in the first place, and letting it go on has only made matters worse. Yank the Season Ticket privileges for those seats that are re-sold on a site like StubHub more than two times a season. Reselling through TCU? Fine and dandy. Going unused is one thing, reselling to opposing fans is another entirely. It obliterates what was once a home-field advantage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrewingFrog, post: 2822157, member: 28"] Yeah, there will be smart-assed comments (from the Usual Suspects), but you hit a few important items dead-on. The 8-seat idea is a very good one, and would help even things back out. Sadly, it will take literally decades for this to take place. Aside from taking the Giganto-sized jackhammer to the lower West Side, I don't see any way that the seat placement/density issue would be changed. Additionally, the folks that put up the money to sit there and helped to fund the re-building in the first place would probably object pretty strongly to suddenly be 1.) Out of a seat for a year or so, 2.) Going from roomy and comfortable to noisy and crowded, and 3.) Otherwise inconvenienced by dealing with narrow aisles and narrow-width seating, as many are older and rather delicate. We have, over the years, heaped well-deserved ridicule on programs like A&M and Tennessee for yo-yo-ing donors and Alumni on the concept of "lifetime" and other bait-and-switch tactics applied to seating and parking. I'd hope that TCU quits while they are ahead with only the +4 in the negative balance pan. Treachery becomes habit forming... As for the StubHub-ers, I have nothing but contempt. TCU was foolish and stupid to allow this in the first place, and letting it go on has only made matters worse. Yank the Season Ticket privileges for those seats that are re-sold on a site like StubHub more than two times a season. Reselling through TCU? Fine and dandy. Going unused is one thing, reselling to opposing fans is another entirely. It obliterates what was once a home-field advantage. [/QUOTE]
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