90% of that arena should be GA. If you want to pay for front rows and special side sections, great. But for most games it's just a smattering of people spread out - allow everyone to move down as close as they can get to fill the cavernous convo. I know everyone is protective of their friends and family seats, but the truth of the matter is most of that section behind the benches is left empty throughout much of the season. It's a bad look on TV. (Flip the sides, folks)
I remember the first time I took my wife to a game and she goes "Is Buffalo good? It never looks like this on TV." We have double the attendance than most teams on any given night and the atmosphere is non-existent. It's because we have 6K people spread out everywhere. 3K at Akron looks like Duke is in town.
There must be some system capability out there that can announce your seats the day of a game so every row fills out the lower bowl. If there isn't - I'm gonna go develop it right now.
If it was GA it would still be scattered. People love to spread out if given the opportunity.
That's more of where my coming-soon, yet-to-be-named, seating remaster system will come in handy. Purchase GA, but you will have an assigned seat by game day.
Or they could rope off the uppers and just force everyone into the lower bowl.
You know, that place is waaaaayyyy larger than any MAC team needs with the exception of the urban MAC teams that may have an arena that also draws touring entertainment (Toledo, I'm looking at you). When the Convo was built, it was thought to be part of a burdgeoning concert industry. Afterall, there is nothing else between Columbus and Huntington/Charleston. To their credit, they booked Zeppelin, The Who, CSNY, Springsteen, Billy Joel, Boston, The Eagles, The Beach Boys, etc but it hasn't been a regular touring stop for over 40 years. Other than commencement is that place ever full? My point? They could get creative and knockout a bunch of seats. I'm thinking like Loudville in Cleveland or maybe some luxury suites.