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I see club seating as a step down from loge and it will be purchased by businesses. It is an idea worth consideration, I just want to see some dollar figures to be certain the area makes more than additional loges.
I doubt you'd go to this extreme - but we're told this is part of the reason we were outbid for the playoffs a couple years. We were told a loss on the club was factored into our bid.
One common complaint from non club fans is the outside seats are frequently empty because the club seat holders are inside utilizing all the club benefits. But lets be real, we all know on message boards people will complain about everything - I'm guilty of that at time too.
if there is a 3-score lead on a NEC team, I'm prolly headed back in for more tacos and beer.I'm not sure what difference it makes if they are in or out. Our loge patrons are always in.
You'd know better than I would but my guess is that the club and rest of the expansion was with an eye on upgrading to the FBS.
Isn't the whole reason of building the new press box is to open more room for club and loge seating ? They are moving all radio, tv and press over to the east side.
My understanding is that the plan is to simply create more loges, not a club section. Loges are cost prohibitive to >99% of Penguin fans and are usually purchased by corporations, at least that's my understanding. Short of that, one could pay $5k/year and get two loge seats ( http://ysusports.com/penguin_club/membership_levels ), which would be the closest thing we have to a club section.
What Dukester is describing would be like upgrading to First Class on a flight. It's a luxury to enhance the experience, and affordable to far more ppl than renting a private jet. I'd pay the entry fee and $125/seat in a heartbeat, but not much more. I think it'd increase attendance, interest, gameday experience, and revenue for the University.I guess I can see why there is so much inter-fighting on here. I'll take my "programmar" somewhere else once I figure out what it is.
My wife is JMU grad, and I am a damn picky fella. Thanks for your input on this thread and congrats on an epic season.
I would have to know how many seats would fit in a loge, then do the math. The seats would have to be about 4" wider than the current chair-back and maybe even padded. I, along with the rest of America, am getting fatter.
We could convert a couple of the lower loges just to see how it sells and the cost would be minimal. At least the labor. Like these club seats, the media section is really loges divided up and amenities removed. All of this once we expand of course. If any of you have ever been up, to a post-game or any reason, to the 4th floor of Stambaugh ...you would see it is VERY nice. Really quite impressive actually. I have been to two Penguin games in a loge. One with a private group and the other I won in a Penguin Club raffle. They treated us very well.
They charge a lot for our club seats. it's 125 a game, but you need to donate 2,250 in order to get the opportunity to pay for two 125 seats. It included two alcohol drinks and unlimited everything else from buffet, ice cream, soft drinks.....
1,000 seats at 125 each - or using my JMU math $125,000 a game. From what I understand it cost over half that to operate it each game. It is first class. What you get is better than both the Washington Redskins Club, and Washington Nationals Club areas.
But somehow we can't move to 1A?
Move. Please. Move. No body cares about your programmar on here. Go play with your streamers.
I would have to know how many seats would fit in a loge, then do the math. The seats would have to be about 4" wider than the current chair-back and maybe even padded. I, along with the rest of America, am getting fatter.
We could convert a couple of the lower loges just to see how it sells and the cost would be minimal. At least the labor. Like these club seats, the media section is really loges divided up and amenities removed. All of this once we expand of course. If any of you have ever been up, to a post-game or any reason, to the 4th floor of Stambaugh ...you would see it is VERY nice. Really quite impressive actually. I have been to two Penguin games in a loge. One with a private group and the other I won in a Penguin Club raffle. They treated us very well.
Boy for all the hype JMU got they seem real overrated. they look slow and un-athletic.
we should shut down their runnung game with ease especially that RB, beating up on those creampuffs in his career really helps pad those stats.
if Wells can get going, im fully confident we will win with ease.
Hahahahaha
heard a rumor some JMU parents made some derogatory comments to our players involving their race
I was at all the championship games. The 91 game my guess there was 500-700 of us. I have the same picture that Strollo has that was taken and we were lost in a sea of green. But I have to believe the 3 years in Marshall we sent more than 1k. It seems when we went in 97 and 99 there was at least 2k? Am I wrong?
I was at all of them. The Villanova game had more people than the final game in Huntington, kind of odd. Then again, 1/2 of Ytown comes from Philly area. I still think we had the most back in 1994. It looked like we had around 4k-to 5k, but I also think that could have been an illusion because Boise had very few people there. The tailgating in Georgia was fantastic ...it was a sea of red, but the game was certainly not. This year is very similar to that. The team caught everyone by surprise back then people did not know what to do. I was pretty young back in 1979, but that seems to be the biggest final crowd that I remember.
Take those JMU numbers with a grain of salt as well. As I understand from my two calls, they took more opening day tickets that we did, but neither team used all of their 3k paper tickets and neither team ordered a second set beyond team and student seats, which are fixed at 125 on top of the two per player. I am also told that the player seats are not complimentary as it would be considered compensation? I do not buy that. Can any former players shed some light on how family tickets work?
IAA, I am not a player, but as screwed up as it is, you are correct. The University has to eat the cost of the tickets for the player's family. It would be considered compensation to give two free tickets to the parents so they can watch the game. The all knowing NCAA sure gets that one right
I am a parent of a player. And my ticket is not free. They were not given any free tickets
Ice, thanks for the comment. I meant to say parents didn't get free tickets. My post did say the university ate the cost but then correctly stated the NCAA considers it compensation to give tickets to players family. I apologize didn't mean to double speak there. It's too bad too.
As the game approaches, I have a few thoughts.
I love the way a feeling of invulnerability and inevitability seems to encase JMU in this game. I guess that is based on the large number of points they have scored and their outstanding victory in Fargo. We know how hard it is to beat NDSU there; we have done it only twice in five attempts. But I really wonder if JMU fans realize how badly injuries had decimated the NDSU defense for that game.
Statistics can be manipulated to support virtually any position. Politicians have exploited this for centuries. Now the JMU offense looks scary good. Glancing at the most recent Sagarin ratings, JMU has played only three teams in the top 100 this season, including North Carolina. YSU has played seven, including West Virginia. At the other end of the spectrum, five of JMU wins have come against teams that ranked below Missouri State, believe it or not. So is the JMU offense very, very good or are the stats a reflection of plenty of games against unimpressive opponents? I suspect it is a bit of both.
Since they started to play college football fourteen decades ago, teams with the best line play have won most of the time. I don't expect this game to be any different.
