That would be dumb. They still shoot and practice in carver a lot.
If its built in downtown iowa city its going to be a used for a lot of events outside of Iowa basketball. there are going to be a lot of times using the existing pace makes more sense than dealing with everything around an ongoing event downtown.
Nebrantska as well, which is the arena model you seem to be most wanting
Me? I haven’t been there yet. I just know they are struggling to pay their bills.
getting warmer is the last fuckin thing Carver needs
I am referring to the downtown arena model
im sorry.
It's a great idea.
No one wants to talk about things that could never happen.
If we are thinking cutting edge here, why don’t we use modern holographic technology to project the likeness of the students into their seats while they watch the game from the comfort of the dorm room? Carver is full and the students don’t have to leave.
Was that story a couple weeks ago a made up story or did you get laid?
You're stupid and always have been.
I did. I just like to use the narrative. And I’m kind of drunk.
I really see no reason why wouldn’t spend $200,000,000 for property and a building and another $50,000,000 in infrastructure to get more students to the games. I mean I’m sure we could service the debt by charging more for student students. I mean parents don’t really notice $400,000 charges to the ubill.
I thought you fucked a girl three times who left blood everywhere
It’s more fun if halo pretends I didn’t.
I bet it’s more fun if you pretend you did
Carver is a half mile from Kinnick. Students don't seem too fussy about going there.
It really isn't. Tear down the Pentacrest apartments and everything else on the block of Burlington/Court/Madison, and Gable Arena is accessible to both East and West Campus and pretty much everything else of import.
for scheduling reasons? Which if true, shows Carver could still have a lot of use if they were to build a new arena for mainly basketball
Is the Pentacrest apartments a big enough parcel? Just drawing simple polygons on Johnson County GIS indicates that it's a 3.3 acre lot. Carver is 4.4 acres for just the arena and 6.1 acres with the offices behind it. The Old Capital Mall is 4.2 acres without the parking lot and 5.5 with it. The Iowa River Arena is being built on a 1 acre lot? That seems too small for a 6,000 capacity arena but I guess not.
There are plans to tear those apartments down and a developer is going to turn it into 3 or 4 15 story multi use buildings. They had to get special permission from the city to go that high but it seems to be the trend downtown.
No, for atmosphere reasons
Our fans have repeatedly proven this wrong. Not that we get bad crowds but even when we were good we didn’t sell out some huge games.
I still don't think volleyball will fill a 15,000 seat arena even if they win the national championship.
Dude, programs like Duke have struggled to get students into the stadium. It's an issue that all of collegiate athletics seem to be dealing with.
We do pretty decent with overall attendance numbers. The problem is atmosphere. The design of Carver is just so stupid. Now they want to have luxury seating like other schools but can't because of the layout. So instead the stick a picnic table on the top row.
