Post by greengold4ever on Mar 18, 2023 10:22:03 GMT -5
ok, this may not be popular post, and believe me I really love college basketball and I would be attending no matter what...................BUT that scheduling for the games in Albany was a total mistake............starting the afternoon at 2pm then next game at 4:30 started the cluster F at the end of the 1st session............East coast should be 12noonish start, because once that 2nd game ended, it was a real mess trying to get folks out of the Arena and then back in with what was initially slated as a 7:30pm start to the 2nd session, it literally was less than an hour to empty 15,000 fannies out and then bring them or newbies back in the building without skipping a beat..............I don't even blame MVP staff too much although there was confusion, would they allow fans just to leave the concourse and stay on the levels "just outside" the security checkpoints or just allow folks to congregate in the main lobby area or even make everyone leave the physical building.........well, put it this way, between Arena staff and police officers, they each gave different answers when I asked them, so what you saw was a combination of a real mess with tons of folks hanging around all over the place and many fans wanting to leave the building stuck on the stairs not able to move because of that massive confusion (there could have been a bad crowd pushing/shoving scenario that thankfully didn't happen that I know of)............
to me the NCAA admitted their mistake (without publically making any statement), when they actually moved the start back of the 2nd session by another 30 minutes understanding the mess it was to coordinate fan removal and re-entry, yet all that did was cause the Indiana-Kent St game to end around 12:50am on Saturday morning, totally ridiculous................just awful in my opinion, that isn't good for fans, nor is it good for the teams.............had the schedule started earlier like I mentioned 12noonish, then once that 1st session was completed they would have had about 2+ hours until the start of the 2nd session (which they even could have set for 7pm instead) to allow easier fan dispersal and then filtering in folks for the next set of games..............on top of that, and again I am going to these games no matter what, why would they slate Sundays games at 6:10pm and 8:40pm, with only 2 games there are a ton of time slots, even say mid to late afternoons to kick off the 3rd session.........
all of this can likely be pointed to the TV networks, as they are ones paying the bill (and a big one at that), so am sure that is what is stirring the scenario for when games are slated all around the sites hosting the games...........but saying that, there needs to be some real logical thought into putting this all together meaning the TV execs, NCAA heads and Arena staffs need to understand the logistics of how things should go at each site.....think of this, Denver site finished way before Albany, that can't happen, ever............
sorry for the rant, other than that, it was a great day to be a college basketball fan in the capital district, of which we have Sunday to look forward to..........
to me the NCAA admitted their mistake (without publically making any statement), when they actually moved the start back of the 2nd session by another 30 minutes understanding the mess it was to coordinate fan removal and re-entry, yet all that did was cause the Indiana-Kent St game to end around 12:50am on Saturday morning, totally ridiculous................just awful in my opinion, that isn't good for fans, nor is it good for the teams.............had the schedule started earlier like I mentioned 12noonish, then once that 1st session was completed they would have had about 2+ hours until the start of the 2nd session (which they even could have set for 7pm instead) to allow easier fan dispersal and then filtering in folks for the next set of games..............on top of that, and again I am going to these games no matter what, why would they slate Sundays games at 6:10pm and 8:40pm, with only 2 games there are a ton of time slots, even say mid to late afternoons to kick off the 3rd session.........
all of this can likely be pointed to the TV networks, as they are ones paying the bill (and a big one at that), so am sure that is what is stirring the scenario for when games are slated all around the sites hosting the games...........but saying that, there needs to be some real logical thought into putting this all together meaning the TV execs, NCAA heads and Arena staffs need to understand the logistics of how things should go at each site.....think of this, Denver site finished way before Albany, that can't happen, ever............
sorry for the rant, other than that, it was a great day to be a college basketball fan in the capital district, of which we have Sunday to look forward to..........
