Lynah Rink Renovation

[ithacat]

I'm a little confused. When I look at the sections I see all the Red seats reserved for season ticket holders, so they'll get first crack. That's makes sense to me. Then I see all these white seats open for bidding, ie, not reserved by season ticket holders. That would seem to imply that those seats aren't sold as season tickets. Yet, there's a waiting list for season tickets which hasn't had any movement for a couple of years? I must be missing something.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote ithacat]I'm a little confused. When I look at the sections I see all the Red seats reserved for season ticket holders, so they'll get first crack. That's makes sense to me. Then I see all these white seats open for bidding, ie, not reserved by season ticket holders. That would seem to imply that those seats aren't sold as season tickets. Yet, there's a waiting list for season tickets which hasn't had any movement for a couple of years? I must be missing something.[/quote]There are seats for the team, athletic dept., etc..

[ithacat]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote ithacat]I'm a little confused. When I look at the sections I see all the Red seats reserved for season ticket holders, so they'll get first crack. That's makes sense to me. Then I see all these white seats open for bidding, ie, not reserved by season ticket holders. That would seem to imply that those seats aren't sold as season tickets. Yet, there's a waiting list for season tickets which hasn't had any movement for a couple of years? I must be missing something.[/quote]There are seats for the team, athletic dept., etc..[/quote]

Oh, yeah...forgot about them. Thanks, Jim.

[Free11Skier]

If I buy a seat, can I sit in it whenever I want?  That's not a bad way to drop a grand.

[KeithK]

One of the best parts is the video of the Providence playoff game in 1979.  I don't think I'd ever seen that clip before.

[jaybert]

[quote Free11Skier]If I buy a seat, can I sit in it whenever I want?  That's not a bad way to drop a grand.[/quote]

no, you will just get to name the seat....has nothing to do w/ season tickets/getting to sit in it

[mha]

Hehe. No, John Webster was quite explicit about that, and I gather there's a suitable disclaimer on the site. Your $1,000 gives you only the right to "name" the seat, not buy season tickets, sit in that seat, or anything else.

One thing that bothers me is all the talk about this being "permanent." Frankly, $1,000 sounds low to name the seat forever, whether or not anything actually appears on the seat. (And, yes, the name SHOULD appear on the seat.) What's to stop them from taking down these big lists of names when they do the next renovation to Lynah in another eight years? The same impulse that stopped them from keeping Alumni Fields available for student use in perpetuity?

[Chris \'03]

[quote Jason L][quote Free11Skier]

no, you will just get to name the seat....has nothing to do w/ season tickets/getting to sit in it[/quote]

Though townie season ticket holders have first crack at naming their own seats.

One seat in O is already dedicated to "Let's go red." How long until it's neighbor is "harvard sucks"?

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote mha]One thing that bothers me is all the talk about this being "permanent." Frankly, $1,000 sounds low to name the seat forever, whether or not anything actually appears on the seat. (And, yes, the name SHOULD appear on the seat.) What's to stop them from taking down these big lists of names when they do the next renovation to Lynah in another eight years? The same impulse that stopped them from keeping Alumni Fields available for student use in perpetuity?[/quote]
Yes, there's precedent.  When Northeastern rehabbed the old Boston Arena we put our names on two seats and they have since been replaced.

[Ben Rocky '04]

Are they still planning on putting the locker rooms on the upper floor?

[KeithK]

The plan clearly says single story, which will obviously be at the concourse level.  So I'd say yes.

[canuck89]

I disagree.  If you look at the plans in the video, all of the coach and player rooms (locker rooms, exercise, video, etc.) take up the whole new addition.  That level must be below ground, so that on ground level an entrance for the public can be made.  Anyone notice this too?

[KeithK]

[quote canuck89]I disagree.  If you look at the plans in the video, all of the coach and player rooms (locker rooms, exercise, video, etc.) take up the whole new addition.  That level must be below ground, so that on ground level an entrance for the public can be made.  Anyone notice this too?[/quote]I can't remember whether the facilities took up the entire space or just most of it.  And since I streamed the vid I can't just check again without downloading it again.  But I find it hard to square this with "single-story".

[canuck89]

I agree, but when I rewatched the video, there was absolutely no entrance for the public.  The weird thing was, there was an entrance design in the front (pillar-like things with an overhang), but the room on the other side the wall next to this was the exercise room.  There is no foyer, lobby, entrance or even a lot of fire exit room in the plans.  One-story means just that, however, the current plans in my mind seem to just show the improved rink facilities with a possible entrance actually above them on the ground floor.  I dunno...

[lhayes]

If I recall correctly, the plans printed in the Ithaca Journal have a rather narrow entrance/lobby toward the west side of the addition, between the new multi-function room in the southwest corner and all the rest of the new facilities to the east.  I'm feeling very sure this is all on the level of the existing parking lot.  But maddeningly, the plans didn't show any tunnel connecting the locker rooms with the ice.  I guess we still don't know how that's going to work.