WSUnPurple1
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bearsden123 said:
They have never had a basketball event there before, right? Is it for sure the dedicated site for NoCo?
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A little NAU revenge - 2/26/2011
- Thread starter Brian
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They have never had a basketball event there before, right? Is it for sure the dedicated site for NoCo?
bearsden123
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They tried to get a new arena through taxes but the state ruled that the Budweiser event center in Loveland was much too close and too new for the state to allocate funds to a new arena. So they would have to independently acquire the funds.
bearsden123
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When I was at school our AD was still deciding where we might hold the tournament if we were to hosts. Apparently someone said the that we have already have made the decision on Bud center. I don't know for sure though.
WSUnPurple1
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bearsden123 said:
thanks,
I hope you guys lose in Pokey.......
It is by far the strangest setup I've ever watched a college basketball game
beardevil39
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Yea, i have seen arenas like NAU and with a small crowd, the fans and noise gets lost in that big arena so actually our little ButlerHancock when filled is quite awesome to be in.!!
gobears2010
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WSUnPurple said:
It's a crowd of 2,755 in a building with a capacity listed at 2,734, so it's full, with a low ceiling that traps all the noise in. 2,700 at Butler-Hancock is much louder than 6,000 at Weber's place just because of physics.
gobears2010
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bearsden123 said:
I thought they had decided to have it at the BEC, but now I'm hearing rumblings of having it at Butler-Hancock, which is obviously preferrable.
bearsden123
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Well, I guess we will just have to wait for a couple Bears wins and see what our AD wants to do.
beardevil39
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I could be wrong but I don't think the Bud center will sell out just because it is at the Bud center. Weber & Montana would get around 5000 because they would always get that. I believe we woud get around 3000 regardless and should just have it at Butler and keep that home court advantage or I believe our crowd will get lost at the Bud center . Am I wrong??
bearsden123
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I agree I would want it at Butler. I think we have a much bigger advantage at BHP. It's smaller then the Bud but def is a little more intimidating.
If it is held at the Bud I think you would get more alumni from Denver, Fort, Collins ect. If it was the championship game I think the crowd could be pretty good, possibly close to a sellout. I mean we only have 12k students. These other schools each have a lot more students.
If it is held at the Bud I think you would get more alumni from Denver, Fort, Collins ect. If it was the championship game I think the crowd could be pretty good, possibly close to a sellout. I mean we only have 12k students. These other schools each have a lot more students.
beardevil39
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I would really like to think the Bud Center would fill up and hopefully a lot of alum would support it. And just maybe even more locals and students will come just because its at the Bud Center!! I am beginning to see that scenario !!
Bearsfan24
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Having the tourney at the Budweiser event center would be pretty cool in my opinion. I was just there not too long ago for an eagles game, and those games usually sell out and it was pretty loud. But I thought I saw in article on the tribe a little while back saying that Butler had be approved to host the tourney.
bearsden123
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Blofeld said:
If that's the case it would be a huge mental advantage, considering we haven't lost there the entire year!
gobears2010
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bearsden123 said:
We're 29-2 in our last 31 games at Butler...would love to play there.
Brian said:
Nice! I agree it would be ideal to have it at Butler. That was one of the best game atmosphere's I've been to for a long time last night. Weber fans and Montana fans can make fun of Butler's size, but we pack it full and it gets loud. It's a great home court advantage. They can bring in more seats too. Just like we did for CSU a couple years ago.
