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Am I correct in thinking that many years ago they used to put a couple rows of bleachers at the empty end of AA? I seem to remember the BG football team sitting down there and cheering during hoops games in late 70s or very early 80s. ANybody?

h2oville rocket wrote:Am I correct in thinking that many years ago they used to put a couple rows of bleachers at the empty end of AA? I seem to remember the BG football team sitting down there and cheering during hoops games in late 70s or very early 80s. ANybody?

There still is a row of two or three bleachers at the base of the wall, yes.

Those bleachers are there permanently. I'm sure Dayons_Den will have commentary on these benches.

But yeah, they've been there as long as I can remember, and that spans about 30 years of BG hoops.

ZiggyZoomba wrote: But yeah, they've been there as long as I can remember, and that spans about 30 years of BG hoops.

Punk kid!

h2oville rocket wrote:

ZiggyZoomba wrote: But yeah, they've been there as long as I can remember, and that spans about 30 years of BG hoops.

Punk kid!

I won't deny the punk part...

I remember heckling Dave Jameson's personal pick setter from those seats and having him flip me off.

That area of bleachers was first dubbed "Joe Bair's Lair" when two-sport athlete Joe Bair hooped it up for B.G. in the early 90s. Then I renamed it Dayon's Den after Dayon Ninkovic in the mid 90s. There were three rows of wooden bleachers from when I started attending games in the mid 80s until the late 90s when seating was changed from general admission to reserve and one of the rows was eliminated and replaced with plastic bleachers.

Saw some great games from that vantage point, heckled some blind refs and went back and forth with quite a few good M.A.C. players.

I will point out, however, that if you look at a BG hoops media guide there is usually a picture of that end that is very odd to me. The picture is from the early 70s with BG playing a top ranked and Al McGuire led Marquette squad. Interesting pic, to me at least, because the there is a massive television camera on the baseline, there are no bleachers in what would become JB'sL and D'sD, the wall is not painted and the original brick shows, and the large BGSU seal that latter resided in one of the opposite corners is behind the hoop.

Dayons_Den wrote:That area of bleachers was first dubbed "Joe Bair's Lair" when two-sport athlete Joe Bair hooped it up for B.G. in the early 90s. Then I renamed it Dayon's Den after Dayon Ninkovic in the mid 90s. There were three rows of wooden bleachers from when I started attending games in the mid 80s until the late 90s when seating was changed from general admission to reserve and one of the rows was eliminated and replaced with plastic bleachers.

Saw some great games from that vantage point, heckled some blind refs and went back and forth with quite a few good M.A.C. players.

I will point out, however, that if you look at a BG hoops media guide there is usually a picture of that end that is very odd to me. The picture is from the early 70s with BG playing a top ranked and Al McGuire led Marquette squad. Interesting pic, to me at least, because the there is a massive television camera on the baseline, there are no bleachers in what would become JB'sL and D'sD, the wall is not painted and the original brick shows, and the large BGSU seal that latter resided in one of the opposite corners is behind the hoop.

Sounds pretty neat care to show the picture?

I just recall the BG football team used to have a sort of quasi-organized cheering block that sat there a few times, at least against UT. This was a little before Dayon's Den days- always wondered where that came from. I sorta remember Nincompoop, errr, Ninkovich.

Dayons_Den wrote:That area of bleachers was first dubbed "Joe Bair's Lair" when two-sport athlete Joe Bair hooped it up for B.G. in the early 90s. Then I renamed it Dayon's Den after Dayon Ninkovic in the mid 90s. There were three rows of wooden bleachers from when I started attending games in the mid 80s until the late 90s when seating was changed from general admission to reserve and one of the rows was eliminated and replaced with plastic bleachers.

Saw some great games from that vantage point, heckled some blind refs and went back and forth with quite a few good M.A.C. players.

I will point out, however, that if you look at a BG hoops media guide there is usually a picture of that end that is very odd to me. The picture is from the early 70s with BG playing a top ranked and Al McGuire led Marquette squad. Interesting pic, to me at least, because the there is a massive television camera on the baseline, there are no bleachers in what would become JB'sL and D'sD, the wall is not painted and the original brick shows, and the large BGSU seal that latter resided in one of the opposite corners is behind the hoop.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe there was any seating on the north end until the lower chairs were installed on the west side along with new (not any more) bleachers on the east. I thought they were added to make up for the loss of seating due to the chairs backs. As I said correct me if I'm wrong because this is a really fuzzy memory of a second hand story.

FalconTurf wrote:

Dayons_Den wrote:That area of bleachers was first dubbed "Joe Bair's Lair" when two-sport athlete Joe Bair hooped it up for B.G. in the early 90s. Then I renamed it Dayon's Den after Dayon Ninkovic in the mid 90s. There were three rows of wooden bleachers from when I started attending games in the mid 80s until the late 90s when seating was changed from general admission to reserve and one of the rows was eliminated and replaced with plastic bleachers.

Saw some great games from that vantage point, heckled some blind refs and went back and forth with quite a few good M.A.C. players.

I will point out, however, that if you look at a BG hoops media guide there is usually a picture of that end that is very odd to me. The picture is from the early 70s with BG playing a top ranked and Al McGuire led Marquette squad. Interesting pic, to me at least, because the there is a massive television camera on the baseline, there are no bleachers in what would become JB'sL and D'sD, the wall is not painted and the original brick shows, and the large BGSU seal that latter resided in one of the opposite corners is behind the hoop.

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe there was any seating on the north end until the lower chairs were installed on the west side along with new (not any more) bleachers on the east. I thought they were added to make up for the loss of seating due to the chairs backs. As I said correct me if I'm wrong because this is a really fuzzy memory of a second hand story.

I think that you are right. I am certain that the north bleachers haven't always been there. They were added early to midway thru Lasagna's tenure.

BleedOrange wrote: I think that you are right. I am certain that the north bleachers haven't always been there. They were added early to midway thru Lasagna's tenure.

Mmmm....I've always liked lasagna.

Falconboy wrote:

BleedOrange wrote: I think that you are right. I am certain that the north bleachers haven't always been there. They were added early to midway thru Lasagna's tenure.

Mmmm....I've always liked lasagna.

Lasagna - an original dish to serve in concessions.