In my season ticket holder time, I started with upstairs reserved with 2 seats for $200 per. I shared them and went to half the games. Roughly spent $200 for 2 seats to 7 or 8 games. I then moved down to a lower corner, and spent roughly $400 for the same thing with a better view. In neither of these did I get anything special from the school and have one purple Peters t-shirt from my time in those seats. This year, I decided buying two $60 GA seats was the way to. I wish I'd have saved my money earlier. I go into every game, climb my old self up the bleachers all of the way to the top, settle into my seats with a wall behind me and enjoy the game. I miss the lovely chair arms, but the hard plastic seats are no different to my keester than a wood bleacher. Would I like to be downstairs, sure, but not at the premium they get for the seats and the sight lines from upstairs are just fine.
At this juncture, the citizens are never going to contribute to a new arena. Work with the box that's there. Get rid of that awful track, ditch those horrible blue plastic chairs that shake every time someone goes down the aisle, add some more decent seats, give me some reason to want to improve my seats, and move on.