Is this a road game?

[cdnhoya]

Too much orange.

[HometownHoya]

Agreed...lower bowl you were GIVEN grey shirts!!! WHY CAN'T YOU WEAR THEM! Even Cuse fans know to ALL wear their team's color to the game.

[mapei]

It was even worse being there. I'm in the lower bowl, directly across from the Hoya bench. I was surrounded by boisterous Syracuse fans, some of them taunting. It wasn't quite as ugly as when WVU was last there, but why should I pay thousands of dollars for an unpleasant atmosphere? I *never* see Gtown fans in the seats next to mine.

Plenty of what Hoya fans were there were wearing gray or, in some cases, blue; but we were close to being outnumbered in our own house, other than the student sections. If Hoya season ticketholders don't care to show up to this game, what do they care about, exactly?

[hoya81]

To all season ticket holders who 1) didn't show up for the game; and 2) put their tix on stub hub, you suck worse than the syracuse fans who bought them, and sat behind our bench, behind me and anywhere else they wanted to.

[DanMcQ]

If it's any consolation, I was one of those season ticket holders that could not make it because I am on call this week. I sold my tickets to a guy from Syracuse...... tarkman. I would never sell tickets for a game like this to the enemy.

[CTHoya08]

They kept showing a shot on TV of a guy wearing a WAG shirt over what appeared to be a priest's collar--surrounded by orange.

[rccoleon]

I was behind the Cuse bench in 121. While there certainly was a lot of Orange in the lower bowl, the upper bowl is where the embarrassment was. Honestly, other than the students in the endzone in the upper bowl, the entire upper level was Orange. We saw against Duke what that atmosphere can be like for Hoya games but tonight honestly felt like a neutral site game in March. Embarrassing.

[DanMcQ]

The problem with the upper bowl is that there are few season ticket holders there. It may be embarrassing, but it is also somewhat unrealistic to expect a Duke-like sellout on a weeknight even if it is Syracuse. Unfortunately, the DC area is infested with plenty of safety school grads, including our Vice President.

[ScreamingHoya]

Also a note to season ticket holders- if you give your tickets away, can you at least give it to someone with some semblance of knowledge about the game? I'm referring to the gentleman directly behind me in section 100, row E who directed his profanities at various points during the game at Tim Higgins, Ed Hightower and Ted Valentine, none of whom were officiating this game...

[DanMcQ]

Feb 18, 2010 22:26:04 GMT -5 ScreamingHoya said:

I'm referring to the gentleman directly behind me in section 100, row E who directed his profanities at various points during the game at Tim Higgins, Ed Hightower and Ted Valentine, none of whom were officiating this game...

GPHoya was there? I thought he couldn't make it.

[fsohoya]

I'm sick of this neutral court crud, too, but don't know what can be done. We are simply too small a school for Verizon.

Maybe we need a major marketing campaign to be DC's college team.

[hoyatables]

What's even more pathetic is that some of the seats filled with Orange were seats we KNOW the Athletic Department controls and sells on a game-by-game basis. In the immortal words of G.O.B. Bluth, COME ON!

[skyhoya]

I watched the line at the charity door going into the game. This is where the GU charity organizations get admission to the booth with a slip of paper. Sometimes, if some of my friends have work issues and can't make the game, I give those tickets to the GU charity. I stood there watching the line for about fifteen minutes, it was probably 2/3s orange. The people in front of me in my section had those charity seats and were avid, annoying CUSE fans. I think I won't give my tickets to charities anymore, if the tickets go to the competition.

[RockawayHoya]

I'm selling out the entire rest of my row. Section 118, Row M seats 1 through 8... all Orange. Alleva, revoke their seats. Really tired of standing next to the enemy.

[blueandgray]

I've said it before and I'll say it again....outside of our student section, our fans are a joke. Get off your asses and get into the game!!

[HoyaInsomniac]

Whatever they did for the Duke game, it worked. Can we please do the same thing for the antichrist?

[strummer8526]

Yeah, we all saw what the Duke game is like. One of the jobs of the Athletic Dept, Hoyas Unlimited, and Hoya Blue is to make that happen. Sure, we're not going to sell out Verizon for a weeknight game. But the way the Athletic Dept handled ticket distribution for the Duke game was awesome, and it got us a huge Hoya crowd. We need to figure out a way to have a home court.

[hoya2011]

View from the student section:

Between the 12 minute and 4 minute TO the crowd was louder than at any point this season, including the duke game.

Tangerines will always be in the arena for these games. You can't avoid it. But we DID have a significant and palpable home court advantage in the last 12 minutes.

The team can't ask for more than what they got (from the students, at least).

[DanMcQ]

DFW has a front page editorial on this that is worth posting here since there is no direct link:

www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/bball.htm

Georgetown University has a problem at Verizon Center.

Thursday's game, both as seen on TV as well as fan reports from the game, indicated the presence of large numbers of Syracuse fans sitting in season ticketed seats in the lower level, including the bottom 10-15 rows of seats. Aside from the public embarrassment that this brings to the University on a television broadcast, the fact that elite season ticket holders (some of whom donate as much as $2,500 per seat in Hoop Club giving) are selling their seats to soon-to-be-intoxicated Syracuse fans is unacceptable.

This is not a case of TicketMaster selling upper level seats first come, first served-- the presence of most of the 400-level as Orangemen fans is a separate issue which also needs some examination. However, the fact that the supposedly loyal fans of the lower bowl sections are openly selling seats to opposing fans for what is arguably the biggest Big East game on the schedule deserves public rebuke as well a future policy of action by Georgetown officials.

If a season ticket holder at the Carrier Dome is caught selling his seats to Georgetown fans at mid-court, you know what he is next year? A former season ticket holder.

Selling the best seats in the house to opposing fans should no longer be tolerated as a course of doing business.

[fsohoya]

Feb 18, 2010 22:55:44 GMT -5 hoyatables said:

What's even more pathetic is that some of the seats filled with Orange were seats we KNOW the Athletic Department controls and sells on a game-by-game basis. In the immortal words of G.O.B. Bluth, COME ON!

Now THIS is right on. Several of the seats to my left are controlled by GU and they were taken by Cuse scum. There is absolutely no excuse for the university giving tickets to fans of the other team, especially since they won't give them to me when I have GU friends coming in who would like to sit next to my seats.

Here, potentially, is GU's big problem: I love the team, but the game experience is horrible when I have to constantly put up with being surrounded by enemy fans. If I have to keep suffering like that I'll just not renew my season tickets. I simply can't justify shelling out good money to have an extremely unpleasant experience. I would imagine there are many other good season-ticket holders who feel the same way.