Bob Johnson impresses me.

Is this good or bad?

 

PRO: On one hand, Bob is trying to break even playing in the Coliseum for 1 year. He's paying $300 million for the team and millions more on start up costs. He's trying to break even playing in a facility with zero clubseats and only 12 skyboxes. I'm sure they've done there homework and figured out how many folks they have to draw in Year #1 at the Hive to do this (notice so far they haven't said 'If we have XX,XXX amount of fans per game, we can break even . . . ). Perhaps Bob & Co. are just getting folks ready for the 2nd price job when the move into the new Uptown Arena in Year #2


CON: But then on the other hand, perhaps it would be better for Bob to just bite the financial bullet and lose money in year 1 at the 'former Hive'. He should've kept prices where they were when the Hornets left town as a way to stoke interest in the team again. The NBA left on a bad note here and he needs to get folks back on the pro hoops bus.


MY .02: The hard core fans will pay for the increased lower level priced seats and poor folks like me will find a cheap seat in the bleachers and move around like in the last year of the Hornets in CLT. The key will be if the casual fan in the middle will step up and pay more for the increased ticket prices . . . There may be a lot of empty sections at the Coliseum if folks don't buy the middle priced tickets in the lower & upper levels . . .


Bobcats Set -04-05 Ticket Prices


Tom Sorenson Sayz: 'Higher Tix Prices Bad Move By Bobcats'


Bobcats 04-05 Tix Prices

 

It don't set right with me. can't put my finger on it but something don't add up.

Unless that man puts a championship team or a likeable team out there quick and gets some fan interest then he is gonna be hurting. Still can't take away the fact that 57% of the registered voters that voted didn't want NBA here anyway. So the fan base will have to come from pretty far out and the price of the tixs and the trip, some with an overnight stay might be something some can't afford on a regular basis.

 

I don't think it's really one way or the other. The average ticket price is still lower than the league average, and had the Hornets not lost a good bit of their customers through the bonheadedness of its owners, their ticket prices would have been higher anyway.

Tickets to everything cost more now than they did three years ago. By the time the Bobcats take the floor it will be the third season since the Hornets left so there's no real reason to expect ticket prices would be the same. Sure, he could have bitten the bullet and kept lower prices, but that would have made the increase when the team moves into the new arena even bigger which would have hurt him more in the long run.

 

Actually 57% of the registerd voters didn't vote that they didn't want the NBA here.

First off it was 57,000 people out of around 388,000 registered voters that voted no. That's 15% of the registered voters didn't want the Package that included numerous other things with the arena being the central issue.

IMHO more than a few off those NO votes were directed at George Shinn and Ray Wooldridge- They are no longer a factor

I believe enough people want NBA basketball here in Charlotte to make it very suceesful ---If they organazation is run with class and delivers a product that represents us well and WINS!!!