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Would be interested in knowing what the defensive philosophy is, force middle and help up, or force baseline and help over.

Oh, I agree with that 110%, that's why I asked, because you cannot really see a philosophy at play, I'm sure there is one, and I'm sure one is being taught, but like I stated in another post, not really seeing the carryover.

I don't know if it's as much going away and finding a winner as it is just going away. If you compare the season ticket list from 10 years ago to today, there are quite a few folks who have just found something else to do and it's not watching some other team.

Until someone actually does a public records request on the number of actual season tickets sold by category per year for the last 5 years, I don't put much credence in the numbers coming out of the Convo. For the most part, family packs are throw away seats. If you choose to go, and that's a big if, when the tickets cost next to nothing, you can pretty much sit where you want.

Many season ticket holders in the lower bowl live out of town and only make it to weekend games and perhaps 1-2 "big" weeknight games. But I will say that the ushering has gotten a bit better this year in regards to keeping other fans out of the lower bowl. That always annoys me when someone sneaks down there and sits in seats that I know are not theirs.

If the ticket holders aren't going to use them, they should be filled.

Call me selfish or cantankerous, but whether I'm in the Convo or on vacation...I want my seats to be my seats. I paid good money for them, and someone else who paid $15 to sit up in Row P shouldn't have access to them. I know that I'm not alone in this sentiment, as many of those around me in the gold section feel the same way when someone "commandeers" the seats around us. One of our more boisterous neighbors has gone so far as to confront someone (which I wouldn't do or recommend) when they sat in his friend's seats.

Now, that's not to say that I haven't given my seats to friends before - I take no issue with those who do that. But just taking squatters rights on seats that belong to someone else isn't right. I think most of us would be protective of something we paid $300+ for.

GroverBall- Hey, I can't blame you. If the ushers aren't doing their job, more power to you. And if I sat in the family pack seats, I'd probably be trying to move down too.

i can very much appreciate this POV and I agree about the seats looking a hell of a lot better if they're full. But at the same time, the seats lose value if anyone can just slide down into them and there's less incentive to upgrade.

Can't argue with that but this is an unusual season. In Groce's last year, there was no chance to just slide down. This year you don't even have to slide, you can just walk down there. That said, because the ad trolls this site, my guess is that the yellow coats will be quite active from here on out.

Love the story in the article Grover. As a kid I would go with my dad scouting. I was a preschooler keeping rebounds and shot charts learning how to find seats where you could see the game and keep stats. Part of that looking like you belong.

That has carried on through my years in CHicago and then moving to Indiana. If I am at a game to see a kid pre game and evaluate, quite frequently we are there before tickets are being sold. If I am already in, why go back out? If I leave a game early I may stop and walk in another game after halftime...pays to scan the radio in the car.

Everywhere I have ever gone from the times we were at the Gardens in Cincy to Withrow before Millett was built to the present I have found an empty seat, and usually as close to the court as I can get. Call me a serial seat upgrader. I usually find really great basketball fans and always move if they ask respecting the money they pay. I respect those folks with season tix and always ask before sitting down if the seat is available and would they mind but have only found a few folks who took a stance so I found another place to be.

No disrespect to those who shell out big bucks and I wish the AD would put a ticket exchange up as I truly thing most who are casual fans with a chance to move down are more likely to buy season tics or come back if they had a good time, but I always try to give my tics away if I am not gonna be there hoping to scare up some new followers.

I see the same lament about season ticket holders tying up big money seats and not showing up on many, many boards across the NCAA. I get the squatter who is not polite getting tossed but really, moving folks into those seats as the game goes on should be a selling point and a goodwill act that happens IMHO.Maybe i will devise a scanner that shows those seats as available in real time and sell the idea to colleges. The problem is endemic and should be used as a marketing tool rather than leave the sea of empty seats for the casual fan looking in from the computer or at the game

Yes, I have to laugh. When they talk about our fans being the best in the Mac and I see all those empty seats in the lower bowl I just shake my head. Better to have them filled like what you see at a Michigan or Illinois or anybody else big-time game than to have them half empty all the time. So, just charge people another five dollars to sit down there when you're empty. You collect the money when they start down that way.

Jesus would let people use His seats.