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I've stopped into watch a few of these games and man these SunBelt gyms look empty. Maybe a few hundred in attendance for a Saturday game. Granted the games I've watched so far have been mostly the lower ranked teams, but even Southern Miss, who is middle of the conference, looks like a ghost town.

Ball State wins! 2-3 11-7. Bottom of the MAC is carrying right now

Here’s something I haven’t heard discussed. I see that Akron has a zoo. It’s not the largest zoo, but looks to be a very nice zoo. Please, please, please tell me they have a few kangaroos bouncing around over there!! That would be a great cross-promotion opportunity for the University and the community zoo. To promote the Akron Zoo they could bring in one of Zippy’s friends for a game each year for show and tell. And at the Akron Zoo the enclosure should call them Zips. Every kid growing up in Akron should see a kangaroo and refer to them as Zips.

WMU loses. 1-3 10-7

Its going to be another AP poll rise and full on glazing of Miami on monday

Giant dud

Marshall is not up for this

NIU gets their final win in the MAC-SBC. 1-2. 10-6 overall. Magic number is 4

That’s Evan Wilson coaching for you!

BG down 40-14 at the half against Arkansas State.

A game that was tied at 64 at the regulation took 3 overtimes to get the final score to respectability.

Coastal won on a game winning 3. 0-2

On to triple overtime a umASS hits a DEEP 3 at the buzzer.

Damn I must’ve remembered incorrectly. For some reason I thought they got a home game

App state beat EMU. 0-1

umASS and coastal Carolina in overtime.

Zips lose 82-71 to now 3-21 Louisiana. Trying to figure out why we were still fouling down 9 with 6.8 seconds left. (I still remember a game a couple years ago when they didn't foul quickly with just under a minute to go and own only a two score game.) Two steps forward, one step back. 🙄

I do agree that is the most feasible option. I just don't think that alone will turn a 3,000 person crowd to 3,500.

Are they behind the baskets?

I like YSU's arena and would be content with that type of upgrade. Seat backs on the sides, bring the top seats forward, bleachers on the ends, ditch the glass rail, give Clarkie front row seats for his input...

I would start by replacing the bleachers with chairbacks on the top sideline. Keep the bleachers behind the basket as GA seating. Everything else is assigned (thus higher pricing). I missed out on buying tickets in time to get chair seating for the Kent game and the bleachers were not pleasant for this mid-30s guy. The seating is not spaced out enough for the average size of an American in this day and age.

If I'm not mistake, all of Kent's NIT games last season were on the road: at St. Bonna, Stanford and Ill-Chicago. Which is actually a good thing, IMO. At the end of the season if guys are willing to play/win a tournament game, they'd rather do it on the road, than at home.

If it' something simple like just replacing seats without reconfiguration then that cost YSU ~$2 million. That might be achievable by raising single game and season tickets up ~$5/game. If you want to get into extending the concourse to add more concessions, a real team shop, new bathrooms, etc. then you will probably have to double or perhaps triple ticket prices.

500 more per games X $15/ticket X 15 games/year. That's $112,500 per year. That means after 10 years it would have generated $1.1 million. It really only starts to make sense if its accompanied by ticket price increases as @ZipsFan31 mentioned. How steep kind of depends on how extensive the renovations are. That however brings new problems as then you start to price out Joe Akron.

Youth basketball night. Kids wear their jersey and get in free. Kids buy concessions and parents have to buy tickets.