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Posted: **Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:48 pm**

https://bgsufalcons.com/news/2020/11/9/ ... 20-21.aspx

Looks like I'll roll my tickets over to 21-22

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:44 am**

Total joke, this seems like a cop out. The NFL is allowed a % of capacity. 300 of a 5000 seat arena? I thought 1000-1200 would have been realistic.

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2020 1:51 pm**

OSUFALCON wrote:Total joke, this seems like a cop out. The NFL is allowed a % of capacity. 300 of a 5000 seat arena? I thought 1000-1200 would have been realistic.

Does indoor vs outdoor matter?

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2020 2:46 pm**

dang that really sucks. I thought we'd at least be able to get 1,000-1,200 in there as well. The place is big enough for that & social distancing. Major bummer.

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2020 2:48 pm**

Globetrotter wrote:
OSUFALCON wrote:Total joke, this seems like a cop out. The NFL is allowed a % of capacity. 300 of a 5000 seat arena? I thought 1000-1200 would have been realistic.
Does indoor vs outdoor matter?

Certainly should.

Personally, I never re-upped my tickets after my previous thread. I was not convinced, even at limited capacity, that sitting for hours at the Stroh was safe. Each side of the arena only has a single restroom for each gender. They never opened more than a single concession stand on either side of the arena either. The arena also has a natural "pinchpoint" by only really having a single entry point to the seating areas. None of these things are really an issue given the capacity of the arena in a normal environment, but during COVID I just wouldn't feel comfortable.

Perhaps I'd feel differently if there was some way to enforce masks, but if I've learned anything through the 9 months of COVID it's that a certain segment of our population refuses to wear masks (properly). As such I just don't think BG can do anything to make it a safe environment to spend 2 hours straight.

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:48 pm**

hammb wrote:
Globetrotter wrote:
OSUFALCON wrote:Total joke, this seems like a cop out. The NFL is allowed a % of capacity. 300 of a 5000 seat arena? I thought 1000-1200 would have been realistic.
Does indoor vs outdoor matter?
Certainly should.

Personally, I never re-upped my tickets after my previous thread. I was not convinced, even at limited capacity, that sitting for hours at the Stroh was safe. Each side of the arena only has a single restroom for each gender. They never opened more than a single concession stand on either side of the arena either. The arena also has a natural "pinchpoint" by only really having a single entry point to the seating areas. None of these things are really an issue given the capacity of the arena in a normal environment, but during COVID I just wouldn't feel comfortable.

Perhaps I'd feel differently if there was some way to enforce masks, but if I've learned anything through the 9 months of COVID it's that a certain segment of our population refuses to wear masks (properly). As such I just don't think BG can do anything to make it a safe environment to spend 2 hours straight.

Indoor vs. outdoor definitely changes the numbers. I've been pretty vocal about how cautious I think we should be, but I actually think 300 is a safe number to have in a building with an air filtration system as new as The Stroh. Especially considering most will be there in groups of, say 3 on average, so you'd only have about 100 areas of seats occupied. I assume the first 10 rows will be blocked off, as well, to keep people further away from the benches.

Personally I wouldn't attend just because I don't think it would be that enjoyable to sit in a mostly empty arena with no concessions. I'd rather watch on TV until the atmosphere of college sports can safely return.

Posted: **Tue Nov 10, 2020 6:10 pm**

drumstix2388 wrote:
hammb wrote:
Globetrotter wrote:
OSUFALCON wrote:Total joke, this seems like a cop out. The NFL is allowed a % of capacity. 300 of a 5000 seat arena? I thought 1000-1200 would have been realistic.
Does indoor vs outdoor matter?
Certainly should.

Personally, I never re-upped my tickets after my previous thread. I was not convinced, even at limited capacity, that sitting for hours at the Stroh was safe. Each side of the arena only has a single restroom for each gender. They never opened more than a single concession stand on either side of the arena either. The arena also has a natural "pinchpoint" by only really having a single entry point to the seating areas. None of these things are really an issue given the capacity of the arena in a normal environment, but during COVID I just wouldn't feel comfortable.

Perhaps I'd feel differently if there was some way to enforce masks, but if I've learned anything through the 9 months of COVID it's that a certain segment of our population refuses to wear masks (properly). As such I just don't think BG can do anything to make it a safe environment to spend 2 hours straight.
Oh, I have no issue with the 300 number. According to the release it will not include any general ticket sales or season tickets. In other words it will be family, media, and maybe a few higher tier donors. I certainly think they should be able to maintain solid distancing guidelines at that number, and it also makes mask enforcement possible if they choose to do so.

I don't think there was (unfortunately) a way to open it up to season ticket holders (probably putting numbers closer to 1000 in play) and maintain a similar safety concern.

Indoor vs. outdoor definitely changes the numbers. I've been pretty vocal about how cautious I think we should be, but I actually think 300 is a safe number to have in a building with an air filtration system as new as The Stroh. Especially considering most will be there in groups of, say 3 on average, so you'd only have about 100 areas of seats occupied. I assume the first 10 rows will be blocked off, as well, to keep people further away from the benches.

Personally I wouldn't attend just because I don't think it would be that enjoyable to sit in a mostly empty arena with no concessions. I'd rather watch on TV until the atmosphere of college sports can safely return.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:30 pm**

Hammb, you have every right to show concern but in my opinion this entire discussion is about what level of risk are you willing to take. I have worked right through this entire Covid-19 season as has 90% of people. Have I had family members get sick, yes. Have they been hospitalized, yes. Do I know people that have died, yes. We currently live in a school district that hasn’t had a in school lesson since March. The entire rest of the county and nearly all the state has resumed some form of in person classes. What I see more and more is conforming to fear. We can live with fear in the back of our minds and be carful. I did renewal my tickets with the thought that half wouldn’t and maybe this would be manageable with 800-1000 people. The entire college landscape will change. No way economically university’s will be able to afford all of these athletics as a luxury. Many were already operating in deficits. That’s my rant for the day. We all have choices and most have to work and provide.

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:46 pm**

OSUFALCON wrote:Hammb, you have every right to show concern but in my opinion this entire discussion is about what level of risk are you willing to take. I have worked right through this entire Covid-19 season as has 90% of people. Have I had family members get sick, yes. Have they been hospitalized, yes. Do I know people that have died, yes. We currently live in a school district that hasn’t had a in school lesson since March. The entire rest of the county and nearly all the state has resumed some form of in person classes. What I see more and more is conforming to fear. We can live with fear in the back of our minds and be carful. I did renewal my tickets with the thought that half wouldn’t and maybe this would be manageable with 800-1000 people. The entire college landscape will change. No way economically university’s will be able to afford all of these athletics as a luxury. Many were already operating in deficits. That’s my rant for the day. We all have choices and most have to work and provide.

They aren't doing online lessons?

Posted: **Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:42 pm**

OSUFALCON wrote:Hammb, you have every right to show concern but in my opinion this entire discussion is about what level of risk are you willing to take. I have worked right through this entire Covid-19 season as has 90% of people. Have I had family members get sick, yes. Have they been hospitalized, yes. Do I know people that have died, yes. We currently live in a school district that hasn’t had a in school lesson since March. The entire rest of the county and nearly all the state has resumed some form of in person classes. What I see more and more is conforming to fear. We can live with fear in the back of our minds and be carful. I did renewal my tickets with the thought that half wouldn’t and maybe this would be manageable with 800-1000 people. The entire college landscape will change. No way economically university’s will be able to afford all of these athletics as a luxury. Many were already operating in deficits. That’s my rant for the day. We all have choices and most have to work and provide.

I have been working right through this whole thing too. Well except for the time when my employer emailed on a Monday morning that he was going out of business. Luckily I'm in demand, called a couple of our competitors up and had a new job, bringing along my client base in a couple weeks.

Still, working through it because I have to in order to provide for my family is drastically different than attending a basketball game.

In working, I've seen how lazy and pathetic people are at doing the things that will help us get through this. I was in one office this week overhearing the office manager tell a new employee how they only have to wear masks while in the areas by their customers, not when in the back among co-workers. I was in another office this week where the mask I wore on my face was the only one I saw the entire time I was there. No masks when buzzing me in and greeting me, no masks when going to the lunch area, no masks when visiting the copier, etc. Pathetic.

I'm guessing from your post you live in BG school district which has yet to open up. Well, you'll be interested to know my wife teaches at TPS and they were running a hybrid model for about 3 weeks before they have been hit with more sickness and they're going back to full virtual next week. Other school districts in the area are going backwards as well. My son has been going to his preschool (like I said we have to keep on working), and we just got our 3rd letter about positive cases in the last 10 days. They're now closed and all students have to quarantine for 14 days.

This thing isn't getting better. It's getting worse. Because people are all interested in "living their life" or "accepting their own amount of risk" or whatever. It isn't enough. Maybe BG could have found a way to keep 800 people in the building safe. Maybe they could have found a way to enforce masking on those 800 people to make it safe. In the end, I think they realized those were near impossible goals when you cannot trust the general public to hold up their end of the bargain.

Posted: **Fri Nov 13, 2020 10:08 am**

hammb wrote:This thing isn't getting better. It's getting worse. Because people are all interested in "living their life" or "accepting their own amount of risk" or whatever. It isn't enough. Maybe BG could have found a way to keep 800 people in the building safe. Maybe they could have found a way to enforce masking on those 800 people to make it safe. In the end, I think they realized those were near impossible goals when you cannot trust the general public to hold up their end of the bargain.

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I have been quarantined at home for three weeks because my wife, a public school teacher, had been exposed three times in two weeks. They made her keep teaching because our President has declared teachers as essential workers and therefore exempt from any logical quarantine requirements (the district can choose what they want to do). Finally, when she came down with symptoms, they sent her home and had to do some contact tracing. Luckily, she and I only caught a cold this time. As soon as she got her negative result, they told her she needed to come back; she took an extra day to let her voice come back from the cold. In total, she was out three days compared to my three weeks. My employer is much more reasonable and allowed me to work from home as long as I needed, which was great because we had to pull our son from daycare due to the possibility that we were sick. FINALLY, her district is considering going virtual after Thanksgiving; up until now, they have been in-person 5 days/week with an option for some students to choose to do virtual. There was no way her school was going to avoid this, especially when you figure her room had a full roster of students in what would be considered pre-COVID capacity AND too many staff in the building walk around with their mask as a chin diaper.

I started out on the boat of "Let people do what they want to do." Unfortunately, those freedom lovers then huddle around those of us that want to use precautions and, in the end, make things worse for everybody. Some people cannot get out of their own way. A great example right now is floating in the Caribbean. Who thought that was a great idea? I mean, I'm sure they made everybody get tested prior to getting on, probably had people sign something that said they quarantined, and probably had a mask mandate on the boat. But, let's be honest, if you were getting on that ship, were you the type of person that would wear a mask at all times and quarantine for 14 days prior to boarding???

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