A Sea Of Red

As the summer continues, a variety of different athletics facility upgrades are taking place on Liberty Mountain. Below is a list by facility of different upgrades that have been completed, or will take place before the students return in August.

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Williams Stadium

-Additional scoreboard will be installed above the east side concession stand.
- 1,000 additional bleacher seats to be rented for upcoming season.
- 198 additional blue seats to be added to premium seating area.

And we can thank the LUnatics for this:

Vines Center

Benches will be switched to the opposite side of the court (in front of the premium & reserved seats).

great now the old people will be mad at us cause we stand. i'm standing on the other side still.. i want to be behind the bench still

JDUB, those seats are reserved for season ticket holders only, so don't make me call an usher after you guys trying to stand in front of me.

Additional flag poles on top of press box.

JB loves his flags.

No additional seating for baseball???

I thought they were moving the (Old) people to the other side and we were standing behind the benches still... I wont even show up if we arent behind the benches... thats the best part

We're not behind the benches anymore guys. It sucks but oh well. We'll lose a big part of our home court advantage but there's nothing we can do.

SuperJon wrote:We're not behind the benches anymore guys. It sucks but oh well. We'll lose a big part of our home court advantage but there's nothing we can do.

Why? Thats dumb!

Hey, I don't like it either. There's nothing really we can do though. The decision was made. I don't know who made it or why it was made but it was made.

I say we buy the first row of premiums closest to the bench under a company name!!!!

BOOOOOOOOO I want and explanation! Thats straight up Im sure we will get one soon, but I want one!

prototype wrote:I say we buy the first row of premiums closest to the bench under a company name!!!!

Youre the man! We gotta do it! And I know the Perfect Business!

I would contribute to the cause;)

**edit** i was on vicodin and completely misread this entire thread**edit**

Man, this is a weird choice. That means the scorer's table will be switched, which will force the media to the student side so you guys can just heckle scar all game long. I hate not seeing the benches on TV. I wonder why we decided to handicap ourselves like that.

LUconn wrote:I wonder why we decided to handicap ourselves like that.

jcmanson wrote:we can thank the LUnatics for this

You can't blame us for that. If that were the case they'd switch sides for football too.

I know, I was being sarcastic.

SuperJon wrote:You can't blame us for that.

Super, with all due respect, do you honestly think your group was not the cause of the move?
During how many games did a security officer or usher have to talk to your group?

Three. And two of em were because the officer was an idiot and he was removed from working basketball games. He tried to throw me out for using the words "Shut up" in one game and he purposely bumped into another guy at another game. The other game it was a student worker starting things and he was called into the AD's office the next Monday.

To think we're the worst group of students this school has ever seen is absolutely ridiculous. We police ourselves more than you can even think. It's generally people around us that are going too far. I miss large parts of the games because I'm going around making sure the wrong things aren't said. You will not hear our group say the word "Suck" at a game because the athletic department asked us not to do so. Everyone around us still does and doesn't care that we were asked not to say that. Were there times that the line was crossed? Yes. However, in each of those times the problem was addressed and fixed. It was things people didn't know would be a problem that was and we made sure it was better. You hear worse things from the front row of the padded seats by people named Falwell than you do from us half the time.

If we were truly a problem, other team's coaches wouldn't tell us that we were the best student section in the Big South. We wouldn't have the support we have from the people we have it from. We may have been a part of it but I still don't believe that's the case.

I wonder how much complaining they're going to get next year when some kid screams "You suck" and it's picked up on tv. It won't be the LUnatics saying it. It'll be someone else. We'll get blamed for it, but it won't be us. I just wonder how things will be then.

I was down there with the LUnatics for many games and I can vouch for what Jon is saying. Its possible to be rabid fans and still do so in a respectful way, and I applaud Jon for not only getting one of the craziest groups of fans together, but also for making sure things were done teh right way. I do kinda wish he had more opportunities to enjoy whats happening on the field or court and being a fan instead of having to put out fires because somebody went overboard (which did happen from time to time).

It's probably a TV move...they will get the student's on TV more.

TDDance234 wrote:It's probably a TV move...they will get the student's on TV more.

That's a great point...plus you get rid of the conference-mandated opponents section that sits mostly empty on TV...and you also get their fans away from the students. Hmmm....that could work.

Man, I used to live for getting a large group to yell random things with an opposing coach that's yelling at the refs. I'm sad that's over.

But we still have the memories


I'm glad they'll be closer to me!