To the fans in the GT & surrounding areas..

[shannondawg]

Problem is the same as always. MSU catering to the season ticket holders at the cost of actual bodies in the seats. Need to make the tickets like you're going to the movies. First come first serve. Don't buy tickets to every movie in the year if you're only attending Star Wars on New Years eve. It's that simple. Stop buying season tickets if you're only going to the Bama and Kentucky games. This shit is like 1980's style stupid. We'll never be a big time SEC basketball program as long as we continue to bend over backwards for people that don't come to the games they bought tickets for.

You can kiss the Bulldog Club goodbye if you do. I assume you do mean for football and baseball as well.

[Dawg61]

You can kiss the Bulldog Club goodbye if you do. I assume you do mean for football and baseball as well.

See ya later hostage takers. Make the entire Hump first come first serve.

[Liverpooldawg]

See ya later hostage takers. Make the entire Hump first come first serve.

It’s been tht way for one game in history that I’m aware of. It was also free if you didn’t have a ticket. The infamous “Riff Raff” game with Bama back in the early 80s was supposedly one of the most raucous crowds of all time. The Golden Triangle was a complete hockey rink due to snow/sleet/freezing rain. Bama was already there so they elected to play the game. The word was put out that if you could get there, they would let you in, ticket or not. I was a student but l lived over on Lynn Lane. I tried to get there and nearly cracked up my car in the parking lot. From what I heard the crowd was basically students and locals who lived in walking distance. It supposedly was a small but wild crowd, and then some. MSU beat a favored Bama team. After the game Alabama coach Wimp Sanderson was asked about the crowd and he said, “They opens up the doors and let the riff raff in.” A legend was born.

[Dawg61]

It’s been tht way for one game in history that I’m aware of. It was also free if you didn’t have a ticket. The infamous “Riff Raff” game with Bama back in the early 80s was supposedly one of the most raucous crowds of all time. The Golden Triangle was a complete hockey rink due to snow/sleet/freezing rain. Bama was already there so they elected to play the game. The word was put out that if you could get there, they would let you in, ticket or not. I was a student but l lived over on Lynn Lane. I tried to get there and nearly cracked up my car in the parking lot. From what I heard the crowd was basically students and locals who lived in walking distance. It supposedly was a small but wild crowd, and then some. MSU beat a favored Bama team. After the game Alabama coach Wimp Sanderson was asked about the crowd and he said, “They opens up the doors and let the riff raff in.” A legend was born.

This sounds awesome and there's zero reason every game can't be like this. (Not free though) Shannondawg I don't want BC members to get upset and drop out of the BC. I appreciate all of those that donate and buy season tickets for any sport. The solution I propose is building a BC skybox style area that is very nice and overlooks the court. Make it look like a fancy restaurant/bar with couch style seats, tv's, free food/drink and servers. The Hump atmosphere won't suffer one bit if nobody shows up to hang out in there BC season ticket area and there can be first come first serve for the rest of the Hump. Everybody is happy. The hump is packed and there's a special area for BC members.

[Mutt the Hoople]

It?s been tht way for one game in history that I?m aware of. It was also free if you didn?t have a ticket. The infamous ?Riff Raff? game with Bama back in the early 80s was supposedly one of the most raucous crowds of all time. The Golden Triangle was a complete hockey rink due to snow/sleet/freezing rain. Bama was already there so they elected to play the game. The word was put out that if you could get there, they would let you in, ticket or not. I was a student but l lived over on Lynn Lane. I tried to get there and nearly cracked up my car in the parking lot. From what I heard the crowd was basically students and locals who lived in walking distance. It supposedly was a small but wild crowd, and then some. MSU beat a favored Bama team. After the game Alabama coach Wimp Sanderson was asked about the crowd and he said, ?They opens up the doors and let the riff raff in.? A legend was born.

My girlfriend and I walked (skidded and slipped) from Arbour Acres to the Hump. Before the game I had a 102 degree fever and felt like shit...but I just needed to get out of the apartment.

Anyway, my fever (quite literally) broke when Ken Harvey connected clocked that Bammer Center who kept cheap-shotting him. That was probably the wildest crowd I've ever seen at the Hump (second would be the 2004 MSU-OM game where Stans got ejected early and the vacant chair beat Ole Miss 84-56).

[Dawg61]

Hump vs Demarcus Cousins UK team was rowdy (he did the call me hand signal cause someone had posted his cell #)
Hump vs Noah, Brewer, Horford UF team was awesome. White out game, totally packed and Florida was ranked #1 coming off a Nat. Championship.
Hump vs UK when someone threw a water bottle on the court under a minute left in the game. We got robbed in that game like we did every year for about 4 years in a row till the refs finally gave us one in the SECT with the lane violation.

It's been about a decade since we've seen the Hump in its best form.

[Liverpooldawg]

Hump vs Demarcus Cousins UK team was rowdy (he did the call me hand signal cause someone had posted his cell #)
Hump vs Noah, Brewer, Horford UF team was awesome. White out game, totally packed and Florida was ranked #1 coming off a Nat. Championship.
Hump vs UK when someone threw a water bottle on the court under a minute left in the game. We got robbed in that game like we did every year for about 4 years in a row till the refs finally gave us one in the SECT with the lane violation.

It's been about a decade since we've seen the Hump in its best form.

I was at all three of those they were good but not really at the top. The best crowd I had ever been at at MSU until the 2014 Auburn football game was 1991 LSU in basketball. That’s the game where we claimed the first SEC title since the early 60s. You can’t imagine how intense that crowd was. We were starving for a Championship, and we got it.

[Noxdog]

It?s been tht way for one game in history that I?m aware of. It was also free if you didn?t have a ticket. The infamous ?Riff Raff? game with Bama back in the early 80s was supposedly one of the most raucous crowds of all time. The Golden Triangle was a complete hockey rink due to snow/sleet/freezing rain. Bama was already there so they elected to play the game. The word was put out that if you could get there, they would let you in, ticket or not. I was a student but l lived over on Lynn Lane. I tried to get there and nearly cracked up my car in the parking lot. From what I heard the crowd was basically students and locals who lived in walking distance. It supposedly was a small but wild crowd, and then some. MSU beat a favored Bama team. After the game Alabama coach Wimp Sanderson was asked about the crowd and he said, ?They opens up the doors and let the riff raff in.? A legend was born.

I was there. I was a SR in HS. Took my buddy up there 45 miles away in a S-10 loaded down with Class 8 truck tires in the back, well at least 1 maybe 2. Made it to and fro and was a merry time had by all.

[ScoobaDawg]

See ya later hostage takers. Make the entire Hump first come first serve.

Dumbest idea ever... Wait.. you will say do that with the football stadium next.

Takes money to have successful coaches and programs....

To the young student yelling screw all the people who don't show up..
Shut up.. enjoy your free tickets and the wins.

The support will come with better opponents and more wins... and more sustained success over multiple years.

[Dawg61]

Dumbest idea ever... Wait.. you will say do that with the football stadium next.

Takes money to have successful coaches and programs....

To the young student yelling screw all the people who don't show up..
Shut up.. enjoy your free tickets and the wins.

The support will come with better opponents and more wins... and more sustained success over multiple years.

We have money. Thanks ESPN. We'll make more money by filing the Hump every game with locals than we currently make by selling season tickets to empty bodies. Tired of the Hump atmosphere being held hostage by the same grumpy 2,000 that never show besides twice a year. You don't donate money to MSU because you expect something in return for it and you certainly shouldn't expect to have a seat in the Hump stay empty for you 18 times a season.

[Homedawg]

See ya later hostage takers. Make the entire Hump first come first serve.

Sounds great. Until it's time to pay bills. Something has to pay the bills. And w women's hoops losing 4 million a year(and I'm all for us being good mind you) something has to help.

[shannondawg]

Sounds great. Until it's time to pay bills. Something has to pay the bills. And w women's hoops losing 4 million a year(and I'm all for us being good mind you) something has to help.

Amen on that Homedawg! Not just from ticket revenue, but bulldog club donations really play into seat priority, and don't think it doesn't.

Not to change the subject, but is the women bb program still losing money? The reserved season tickets are sold out, and the general admission is pretty solid on the lower level, we haven't gotten to the point that the upper level has many fans but if they keep winning, the sec games may start filling up the upper level.

[Homedawg]

Amen on that Homedawg! Not just from ticket revenue, but bulldog club donations really play into seat priority, and don't think it doesn't.

Not to change the subject, but is the women bb program still losing money? The reserved season tickets are sold out, and the general admission is pretty solid on the lower level, we haven't gotten to the point that the upper level has many fans but if they keep winning, the sec games may start filling up the upper level.

Lose money? Haha. Like I said, we will lose 4 mil this year on it. It brings in no money

[shannondawg]

Lose money? Haha. Like I said, we will lose 4 mil this year on it. It brings in no money

No money? Parking and season tickets, plus game day sales gotta add up to something. If I remember they calculated some value to the school for their trip to the finals.

[Homedawg]

No money? Parking and season tickets, plus game day sales gotta add up to something. If I remember they calculated some value to the school for their trip to the finals.

Last year generated less that 200k. This year the hope is A quarter of a million. That's no money. Most people get in free unless it's a big game. Season tickets cost next to nothing except for reserved seats which we sale very few of or have in the past can't speak for his year. But either way they are dirt cheap. Ga tickets on game day for adults are $5. Kids are free. Game day sales? Concessions? That's part of a contract. Like I said, gonna lose 4 mil or close when all things accounted for. I'm cool w it w the product we have. Only 2 sports make money anyway.

[Lord McBuckethead]

You can kiss the Bulldog Club goodbye if you do. I assume you do mean for football and baseball as well.

Just for basketball. Baseball and football can stay the way they are. Basketball should be general admission, first come first serve.
I checked the other day for a few nice tickets. There were only a few lower level right behind the goal around row 11. They were 5 dollars each. Good. I bought 3.
When I got to the game, there were 1000s of open seats in the lower bowl at tip off. I waited 10 minutes, then moved to the lower corner row 4 with my family. It was just absurd that there were only a few tickets available yet the building was practically empty. Our boys are playing hard and deserve to have fans around the court filled at tipoff.