If you think about it, Grover Center at 6,800 capacity would be much better than the Convo. The Convo was built with the idea it would elevate the program. How has that worked out? 6,800 would be perfect. We would likely get close to a full house most of the time. Sadly, we still wouldn’t sell it out most games.

I played in the Convo and loved it. I’ve always wondered about Grover. It was only 8 years old when the Convo was built. We sometimes practiced at Grover and the bleacher seats were still in place back then. It looked plenty big and adequate to me. Of course we have graduations and such at the Convo and likely something would have been built at some point. As a player, a full house at any size is better than empty seats.

Is now the time to invest in a new facility? Shrink the seating in the new facility, smaller footprint, maybe has room for practice facilities with the smaller arena. Package this with a bond issue to expand Peden and we should be a prime candidate for the ACC.

Maybe the answer is less shrink the arena to suit the current attendance and more grow the attendance to fit the arena.

Shocking concept I know.