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<blockquote data-quote="Fighter of the Nightman" data-source="post: 2010617" data-attributes="member: 590800"><p>How have they not worked out a way to do this yet?! Bret seemed to let it slip in 2022 that we were looking at it for 2023, but nothing came of it. We have had multiple students post here that the NEZ is actually a great place to watch a game ... it's just an awful place for your student section. That area is tailor made for a family-friendly zone where people can spread out, not for a stable to pack in students (hell, even when our student section is 90% full, it still looks bad up there that the corners are empty).</p><p></p><p>I go on and on about the Horseshoe, but there really is a lot we could do with the NEZ. I went to my first ever Sox game last summer (Go Cubs!) with my wife and her work friends, and we bought group tickets in the "Goose Island Bleachers" in right field. This would be a great idea for the NEZ:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.handfamilycompanies.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_0692-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>It would reduce capacity a bit, allow the DIA to charge more for those seats and give that awkward, sky-high area a much better purpose than housing the students. You could serve Blind Pig beer and Maize food or something. I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I have to believe the cost of putting in actual seats and some simple table space like that would be more than gained back from the increased revenues that section would generate in relatively short order.</p><p></p><p>Either way, get the students as close to field level as possible! Hell, if they ever got the Horseshoe closer to the end zone, you could stick them there!! The issue is not having the students in an end zone (a lot of programs do that), it's having them elevated up in the air, separate from the rest of the crowd, where it's much more difficult for them to affect the overall noise level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fighter of the Nightman, post: 2010617, member: 590800"] How have they not worked out a way to do this yet?! Bret seemed to let it slip in 2022 that we were looking at it for 2023, but nothing came of it. We have had multiple students post here that the NEZ is actually a great place to watch a game ... it's just an awful place for your student section. That area is tailor made for a family-friendly zone where people can spread out, not for a stable to pack in students (hell, even when our student section is 90% full, it still looks bad up there that the corners are empty). I go on and on about the Horseshoe, but there really is a lot we could do with the NEZ. I went to my first ever Sox game last summer (Go Cubs!) with my wife and her work friends, and we bought group tickets in the "Goose Island Bleachers" in right field. This would be a great idea for the NEZ: [IMG]https://www.handfamilycompanies.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_0692-2.jpg[/IMG] It would reduce capacity a bit, allow the DIA to charge more for those seats and give that awkward, sky-high area a much better purpose than housing the students. You could serve Blind Pig beer and Maize food or something. I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I have to believe the cost of putting in actual seats and some simple table space like that would be more than gained back from the increased revenues that section would generate in relatively short order. Either way, get the students as close to field level as possible! Hell, if they ever got the Horseshoe closer to the end zone, you could stick them there!! The issue is not having the students in an end zone (a lot of programs do that), it's having them elevated up in the air, separate from the rest of the crowd, where it's much more difficult for them to affect the overall noise level. [/QUOTE]
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