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>>>>> RIT TIGERS 2012-13: Clawing our way up the standings in the 2nd half

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TigerFan86-87 said:
I certainly hope that is the case. What makes me nervous (and has for some time, not just this season) is the seemingly (at least to me) small percentage of students that attend the games. While the percentage of fans at the games that are students is reasonably high, the percentage of the student body that actually attends is kind of small. I don't know what the same ratios are at other schools, but RIT is a fairly large school and only draws maybe (I'm guessing) less than 1,000 students to games. I know at the mega-State schools the ratios are probably comparable. But when your student body is 40,000 to 50,000 strong, you can only build an arena with so many seats. Have any recent initiatives to increase student body attendance been working, or have they scaled those back due to the lack of tickets available to begin with? I don't see a whole lot about the team through the RIT Message Center emails, but that is my only remaining connection to campus now. Just wondering.
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My only real comparison is Cornell. There are 14 sections at Lynah. 1 for visitors, 4 for students and the remaining 9 are for townies. Not all of the sections hold an equal amount but lets assume they are (close enough for this purpose). Lynah holds 4267. So that is about 1200 students/ 305 visitors/ 2745 townies.

If RIT gets ~1000 students into a 2100 capacity facility that is pretty good by comparison. I guess the question is will be how many more students will come to the new facility and will the city people come to fill it out.
 
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MattS said:
My only real comparison is Cornell. There are 14 sections at Lynah. 1 for visitors, 4 for students and the remaining 9 are for townies. Not all of the sections hold an equal amount but lets assume they are (close enough for this purpose). Lynah holds 4267. So that is about 1200 students/ 305 visitors/ 2745 townies.

If RIT gets ~1000 students into a 2100 capacity facility that is pretty good by comparison. I guess the question is will be how many more students will come to the new facility and will the city people come to fill it out.
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Perhaps student tickets will/should be free for at least the first few years of the new arena. Better to fill it up and get an atmosphere going (and get students hooked). It will also make all the remaining tickets all that more valuable to faculty, staff, townies, etc.

Actually, I'd be all in favor of free student tickets in general (as long as the number was limited to something short of capacity) until the demand was large enough to need tempering with a fee.

I do think the "others" will come in more force when they have seats. E.g., I rarely try to bring my kids any more and my wife won't even think about it in the Ritter. They think 3 periods is a bit long and having to show up an hour early puts it squarely in "out of the question" territory. And even if you get a seat (reserved or otherwise), it's a big stretch to call it comfortable.
 
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I don't think that RIT markets a lot for the games to the general public. I dare say most of the non-students are alumni, parents, or friends of people going. I think that would have to change with a larger arena. But I also think it will help people knowing they have a seat.
 
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five8five said:
I'll say it again, both Saracino and Noyes are excellent defensemen. You can question my standards if you want but keep in mind:
Noyes has a higher shot percentage, a better +/-, twice as many power play goals (6 vs. 3, only Colavecchia has more), has taken two less minor penalties, and leads the team in blocked shots (31 for Noyes, 23 for Saracino). He's scored 22.22% of the entire team's PPG (6/27).
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That sounds pretty excellent to me. :)
 
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I'm ready for some hockey! The boys are going to come out flying tonight - gonna be a great weekend!

Here's hoping Mitchell can get back in the game - supposedly last week he was close.
 
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five8five said:
I'm ready for some hockey! The boys are going to come out flying tonight - gonna be a great weekend!

Here's hoping Mitchell can get back in the game - supposedly last week he was close.
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I'm ready, too!!
 
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RITProf said:
Actually, I'd be all in favor of free student tickets in general (as long as the number was limited to something short of capacity) until the demand was large enough to need tempering with a fee.
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I seem to remember Student Government would have free tickets back when they were a D3 team (sometime around 2003-2007), I doubt they continued that beyond then.
 
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dxk3355 said:
I seem to remember Student Government would have free tickets back when they were a D3 team (sometime around 2003-2007), I doubt they continued that beyond then.
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ResLife still gives out free tickets with a donation of a canned good. Which cost no more than $1 at the Corner Store.
 
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I would be all for free student tickets in advance and then some relatively small charge at the door. That way the tickets keep their value to students and even getting a free ticket represents some interest.
 
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RITProf said:
I would be all for free student tickets in advance and then some relatively small charge at the door. That way the tickets keep their value to students and even getting a free ticket represents some interest.
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Free beers would be better.

Time for some hockey!
 
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As a follower of ECAC hockey for some 50 years I would love to attend more RIT games either downtown at the
War Memorial or on campus. But there is no way I will show up early to get a better seat. Assigned seating is the
norm at ECAC venues w/ which I am familiar
 
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Free beer? That may make our student section rowdy. RIT would hate that.

blazer777 said:
Free beers would be better.

Time for some hockey!
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blazer777 said:
Free beers would be better.

Time for some hockey!
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I was saving that promotion for faculty only! :)

But surely that would fill the arena with something....
 
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Bing said:
And alumni? :D
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Of course. My apologies for the oversight.
 
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They've been doing that when I buy GA advanced, I don't get it.
 
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jeez what an awful pass.
 
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