RE: UAB tickets available (was Stokes)

[Adam Berner]

I dunno about this.  Remember last year's team?  I would say they were
one of the best teams in the country.  And the students weren't exactly
flocking to go pick up tickets (until the big games late in the year
versus Marquette and Memphis).  I could be wrong, but I don't think
attendace as a whole was a big difference over this year.  

-----Original Message-----
From: tj1cj2 [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:17 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] UAB tickets available (was Stokes)

Next year the students will be buying and scalping them.  The better
seats
to watch one of America's best programs with the size of UC's student
body
should equate to a student section being 100% full of rowdy students
every
home game.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Denman <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden <address@hidden>
Date: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] UAB tickets available (was Stokes)


> Unclaimed student tickets?!?!?!?! What a friggin' joke. If I EVER hear
a
> student complain about ticket availability, I may just take them out
and...!
> Unclaimed student tickets should never happen! Not when the program is
where
> it's at. If this continues they're just going to take more of those
seats
> and sell them as season or UCATS tickets.
>
> If you want to get a ticket consistently, you have to be consistent
> yourself. You have to be there when things are good, and you have to be
> willing to sit through a tough year. Personally, I believe this year is
a
> good thing. One, it certainly gives Huggins a little more hunger for
next
> year. Two, it separates the pretender fans from the real fans. You
gotta
> have a bad year to make the good years all the more enjoyable. I love
being
> the underdog every once in a while...
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Wedinger [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:00 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [UC Basketball] UAB tickets available (was Stokes)
>
>
> I just went to the UC athletics web site to request a single ticket for
the
> UAB game and it is putting me in row 29 of the upper deck.  So, either
the
> unclaimed student tickets are gone or they are not made available
online.
> Getting two tickets together puts you in row 30.  Anybody know how high
the
> upper deck goes?
>
> J. Keith Wedinger
> Senior Software Developer
> Sterling Commerce
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MURPHY, T. JASON [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:33 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Re: Stokes
>
> Huggs mentioned last night that there are a large number of tickets
> available for the UAB game. He indicated that there are a large number
of
> unclaimed student tickets and upper level tickets unsold. I know I
sound
> like a broken record but this is ridiculous. Tomorrow's game has huge
> implications (is a must win in order to make the big dance); it is
senior
> day; and the last home game of the year. How there could be a large
number
> of unclaimed tickets is really really inexplicable.
> Huggs also mentioned on the radio show that there is a direct
correlation
> between the size and enthusiasm of the crowd, and the team's intensity
> level.
> If any of the forum folks are in town and free for the game, I hope
they
go
> over and buy a student ticket to show support for the team and
especially
> for a class act senior like Lenny Stokes (Barker too).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: richard l. kandell [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:51 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [UC Basketball] Re: Stokes
>
>
> There are articles today in both the Post (better) & Enquirer about
Leonard
> getting ready to play his last game at the Shoe tomorrow on Senior
Night.
> There is also a squib in one of the papers about Kenny Satterfield
being
cut
> yesterday from an NBA team.  I can remember several of us on the Forum
back
> when they were freshmen, espousing the concept that Stokes just might,
in
> the long run, make more of an impact at UC than Kenny would.  Of course
we
> will never know what might have been the case if Sat had stayed for 4
years.
> (I wonder, after being waived by the Sixers, and averaging less than a
point
> & assist per game in 5 minutes of playing time - and that, after being
> claimed off waivers by them, if Kenny now thinks leaving UC after 2
years
> was the best thing he could have done from a career standpoint?)  One
of
the
> things that the articles stress is Lenny's personality, which, as a
person,
> is outstanding, but which I believe contributes mightily to his
inability
to
> consistently be THE team leader, the one that this particular squad
needs -
> he simply is too nice a guy to have the hard edge that is probably
needed
to
> accomplish such a task.  I don't suggest, for example, that K-Mart or
Logan
> weren't nice guys off the court, I suppose they were - but I think
there is
> a "softness" to Stokes' persona that makes it awfully difficult for him
to
> be a consistent driving force.  In any event, he is finishing as one of
the
> top 20 scorers in UC history, in the top 10 in games played/won,  &
will
> have at least 1, and probably 2, degree(s).  He certainly has had a
career
> of which he can rightfully be proud!
>
> Richard K.