From the Rafters of the Tucker Center
by SumoNole on Dec 18, 2009 10:45 AM EST
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Another good time at the D-Tuck last night. Although I know very little about basketball, I have started to follow Coach L-Ham's team and taking my son to every home game. Here are some observations about the fan experience at the game.
1. $6.50 domestics/$7 imports: Jesus Christ on a bike. Beer is cheaper in downtown Tokyo. I like the fact that they brought in Stella Artois, the prices are obscene. From an economics perspective, the geniuses of the Tucker Center have created an incentive for me to bring a flask to the next game, thereby increasing my alcohol consumption during the game while reducing their revenue. If you want to buy beer at the game, bring at least $20 for 1 stella, and 2 buds.
2. Disturbing half time show: Golden Girls wore black track suits and danced to Vanilla Ice's "Ice, Ice, Baby." WTF? Between the beer prices and the track suits you are messing with the two main draws for the male non-basketball fan. It was like the lovely ladies were protesting something. And the song selection? Vanilla Ice? Really? O Golden Girls, what have we done to offend thee? How can we repent? Fortunately, FSU's Finest were clad in their usual hotness for the rest of their appearances.
3. DO NOT DO THE WAVE WHILE OUR PLAYER IS SHOOTING A FREE THROW. Disclaimer: I hate the wave. When did this idiotic ritual infest FSU athletics. At football games it is silly enough: half of the fans want you to sit down during the entire game, BUT GET UP FOR THE FREAKIN WAVE.... But last night some rocket surgeons started doing the wave while we were up by 3 (I think) and one of our guys (Singleton?) was shooting a free throw. Directly in his perepheral field of vision. He missed. Now I admit freely that I am not a sophisticated basketball fan, but even I know that doing the wave while your own player is shooting a free throw in a close game is beyond moronic. Maybe there should be some kind of fan handbook to discourage this type of idiocy.
4. To the D-Tuck Staff: If you are going to sell upper deck seats (all of the walk-up tickets were upper deck, according to the ticket office rep I talked to before the game) how about cleaning the bathrooms and opening a concession. My kid doesn't need to find a week-old lunker in the toilet. There are only 8 bathrooms up there, how bout sending up a designated flusher so we can have a fresh bowl if we get to it first. And there are many concession stands upstairs, just open one.
5. To the team: Congrats and thank you for a great game. Despite the criticism above, we had a great time!
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- you guys get Stella? Damn it all… the crap they serve at Amway is flat or plastic-ky tasting for 6.50……and I hate the Magic anyway. If I had to pay for tix, I wouldnt go.
- Magic dancers are all 5-5 and 110ish and you could crack walnuts on their pom-poms.
- hmmm….no wave…. but disturbing crowd shots of severely unhealthy people grinding to Kool and the Gang are the norm.
- I have seen so many “fans” sleeping in the stalls after consuming too much plastic beer I dont even bother security anymore.
ya, because FSU duznt own the venue, so theyre allowed to sell beer
"Don't flinch, let's kill a fly with an Axe."
The Wave is Awesome
It’s the coolest thing in sports and I hate zeros who don’t do it if it’s at an appropriate time. That’s the only reason I’ll ever get on another Seminole fan and I don’t apologize. It’s good to hear that it’s now in the Civic Center (the only thing I’ll ever call it) but they should do it when the other team is shooting or a time out. Hope to see more of it even from elsewhere. The tiny seats are, or at least used to be, the main bad thing about that odd looking building other than the price of beer but the Wave rules all else except the time Dwyane Schintzus got a whole bunch of tennis balls as a “gift” my freshman year when we played the Gators not long after he hit someone with a tennis racket in a UF parking lot. That even made ESPN.
It was long ago and it's far away but it was so much better than it is today--Meatloaf
by CantwaitforJimbo on Dec 19, 2009 1:50 AM EST reply actions
There's a song?
Honestly, you’re worried about the song that’s played while the Golden Girls dance? Half the time I’m not even aware that there’s music being played.
by seminoleballer on Dec 19, 2009 12:19 PM EST reply actions
Tickets
They need to fix the ticket situation. A guy walked up to the ticket booth and wanted to sit in the lower area with his college attending son. “Sorry sir, you will have to sit up top.” So a guy WANTS to pay more to go to the game and he is denied as only students and season ticket holders are allowed in the lower part. Ridiculous situation. My advice? Pay the 9 bucks for the nose bleed behind the board seats, sit there for 5 minutes, then walk down and sit in an empty student seat. That is what I did for this game and it worked out great. How do I justify this? Looks better for the TV audience and more money for beer. Agree with the wave bit. SO LAME.
Not an alcoholic, just an FSU grad.
pretty sure FSU does now own the venue. i believe they bought it before 2005.
that’s why the sole name is no longer leon county civic center.
i know they were talkin about buying it, but im not sure if that has actually gone down
"Don't flinch, let's kill a fly with an Axe."
My thoughts on why we have no home court advantage
We have the best seats in the house that rarely get filled. When they are filled, its by old people who dont really care.
Look at schools like Duke. The rabid fans are on top of you. I dont think we will ever be a basketball school, but I think we could have a better environment if the crowd was more on top of the court.
I dont really like the seating arrangements, much less the cost of stuff. I wll say that being back in Miami, please dont complain about a 6 dollar beer. You have to get bank loans to buy the same things down here. Went to the Heat game on sunday and a hot dog (BY ITSELF NO FRIES) was 6 dollars. Fries were another 5.
ive actually heard ESPN guys say that we have one of the toughest stadiums to play in, when its a big game....so against duke or unc....but when it is packed and when everyones in the game its a good atmosphere
"Don't flinch, let's kill a fly with an Axe."
by NorFla_Nole on Dec 21, 2009 10:21 PM EST up reply actions
It was.....
and then because FSU did well last year they decided to make a financial decision to get rid of our advantage. All of the students have now been moved to the ends of the court. The “Nole Zone” is now a joke.. Instead of along the court on the opposite side of the teams its now underneath the goal opposite the band. Now the area where the Nole Zone and press were is filled by courtside seats and more seating. Those seats are for priority boosters and receive personal waiter’s and staff. Must be nice to be rich but it certainly sucks for the students (me) who attend all the games instead of just the UNC’s and Duke’s.
"You play to WIN the GAME"
I felt your pains.
Last Tuesday was my first trip to the Tucker Center, maybe the first since they changed the name.
When the barkeep pouring my Yuengling said “six-fifty” I started laughing out loud. The flask thing is a must-do next time.
I almost got up and left when I saw the Golden Girls return from the locker area with the grey track suits. If I wanna see ample bosoms discretely bouncing underneath an FSU wind suit, I’ll DVR Amato running out the tunnel and watch on repeat.
I also got a kick out of the “timeout t-shirt toss”. None od the male cheerleaders can throw ’em more than a dozen rows into the stands, and the females are lucky to get them over the team benches. The kicker was the T-Shirt Bazooka Arm Rocket jammed. The dude carrying it jogged off the court to a chorus of boos.
My tickets were given to me by a friend, but I believe the price on them was $28. Is that correct? Yikes.
Negative Nancy rant over.
by The K-Man on Dec 25, 2009 9:09 AM EST via mobile reply actions
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