New DES Center-Merge where needed

[mpaer]

It’s expensive for a family of four to go to any “major league” sporting event. And I include the highest level of college football and basketball as major sports. UNC isn’t an outlier.

Amen
I did not understand this facility was going to built on $20,000 plus per seat, per person, per year costs.
That's on me
For all my many decades of Carolina Fandom-including 35 years in the seats-I have always known cool stuff in Carolina sports are largely due to big donors

 

[farce©]

Agree, although Major League Baseball may be the best option for families. I know the Braves offer some pretty cheap seat options for families.

Agreed. MLB clubs have 81 home games and let’s say the average ballpark holds 40,000 people. That’s over 3 million seats they have to sell each year. That’s is just so much more than any other sport, they have to offer better value. NFL has 9 home games at 75,000 seats each. That’s 20% of the seasonal capacity of MLB. You can do the math for other college and professional sports and nothing comes close to the inventory MLB has to sell.

 

[Milk and Cookies]

I think 3,000-not so shabby ? But is by far not definitive

I would be very surprised but very pleased if that’s the case. In a 16k arena, maybe only 7k seats will be lower level. If almost half are students that would be a huge improvement in atmosphere. My fear is 3k is allotment for students in total. That would be less than DES. If we screw this up for another 40 years by giving too many courtside seats to blue hairs I will be very sad.