Thank you east!
And yes, the single best thing Cal can do is restore the student section to it's former glory
One continuous bench that has more rows than today and take out at least the 2nd row of court seats
Move the band down to those seats except when there are too many students. In that case the band can relo to it's current location for those games.
The second thing to do is bring the seats behind the basket down to the floor which is how it used to be. That will bring fans closer to the action and be a more intimidating Haas of Terrors
UW's arena is like this as was Haas before the attempted money grab (which failed miserably)
I also think they could take out some of the seats behind the chair backs and put a type of open box seats there. We don't need the capacity and some fans might the ability to move around and mingle during the game
Similar to what they did in Memorial although not nearly so deep
I also think they should get rid of the sterile lounge in the front lobby, and better use the space similar to how it used to be with a display case of Cal sports stuff like trophies, photos of great players, etc, and a small permanent store, etc. Right now the lobby doesn't have anything interesting in it
Again the money grab was a big step backwards and failed
eastcoastcal said:
I think most of us have run our course on the fire fox threads, we all at this point are just waiting for him to be terminated. so in the spirit of finding something new to talk about,
what are things you'd like to see done to Haas/gameday experience for basketball?
For me:
- connect the student section
- move band closer or at least bring more band members to games
- maybe park food trucks outside Haas on game days? Rotate between different local Berkeley businesses
