It does make taunting opposing fans much easier when they are sitting right by you

We’ll only have a true home court advantage once the Athletics Department comes to its senses and disbands the woeful football program, and injects all of those funds into the realization of a legitimate on-campus arena and athletic facilities befitting a nationally ranked powerhouse.

With all the $$$ made from selling tickets you can go to a cheap bar and drink to your heart’s content during the game, which isn’t possible in the Verizon Center due to high prices and the 15 minute cutoff.

I figure that Illini comment was made just so I would respond. I didnt remember the date so I googles it…Dec. 9, 2004 No. 1 Illinois 74, Georgetown 59 (The Rev led the Illini with 19 Points that night).

If DC were not over 10 hours away from Champaign and it wasn’t right before finals I would have been sure to be one of those opposing fans buying a ticket. However, I totally agree with you Student Seats and Fan sections are for Fans of the home team. If you are not a fan then buy season tickets in the upper deck and go ahead and scalp away. A simple way for your school to regulate these tickets is to check STUDENT IDS, just like most schools do. It would be pretty obvious if a fan walks in wearing the opposing teams colors to know he is not a student of G’town. At that point you take their ticket point them up to the top row, and say you have a seat up there. You can do a nice Fed-Ex Seat Upgrade for the G’town that actually has those shitty seats.

G’town should advertise its ability to sell Beer at games unlike other major programs with arenas on campus.

And even though I didn’t get a chance to watch the game, great comeback win for the Illini last night not like anyone who reads this blog cares about it.

This article has been a long time coming..it’s good to see this serious issue is getting addressed. I mentioned this problem briefly in my article, “What I’ve Gathered After Just Two Games,” and it truly is absurd. I don’t get care whether its disloyal fans selling or scalpers that have no relation to the school. What I do care about is that fact that the school does nothing to insure a home court advantage. The Georgetown Athletic program should have a mechanism or some sort of strategy in assuring the 100 and 200 sections are donned in Blue and Gray. It is essential to have primarily Georgetown fans in these sections. Tickets to opponents should be sold strictly in the upper tier of the 400 section.

And for those of you who are alums and are selling your tickets for a profit because you somehow came to the assumption that “we aren’t a good team this year” or “we are not going to beat those teams so I’m gonna sell my tickets,” well shame on you. You are part of the problem why we don’t have a home court advantage. I would love to have 100 section season tickets and for you to sell them off for a profit is simply pathetic. It goes to show you that alot of these “fans” don’t know squat about college basketball or the parity that is involved in it. Georgetown can and will beat some of these teams this year, even with your lack of support.

There’s nothing better then when I run into a true Hoya fan at a bar or at Verizon, when watching a game. But there’s nothing worse then meeting a phony. The minute you meet them, you can instantly realize they don’t know anything about the team or even the current game being watched. They are there for show and that is all.

That’s serious dedication, especialy since Jay Wright and his Foppish Dandies at Villanova are much closer to Philly than DC.

If you’re at the game on Saturday, let us know and we’ll buy you a Peroni (so long as it’s not after 15 minute mark in the 2nd half, because then we cannot since we are barred by the fan-friendly Verizon Center.)

I also think that we should promote a uniform color for fans to wear. The decision to tell people to wear both blue and grey, while politically correct for anyone who still thinks the Civil War is going on, does not show uniformity. Before coming to Georgetown, I attended Rutgers football games and the tickets say “Wear Red” and the ENTIRE stadium is in red, and that is really impressive. We should tell people to wear blue, or tell people to wear grey, but not both.

This is my fourth year with Section 101 season tickets and even in the section behind the Georgetown bench there are issues. The guy who has the 4 seats next to mine consistently brings friends who are fans of the opposing team.

I would guess that he was completely shunned during his years on the hilltop (otherwise there would be no reason to be friends with anyone from cuse, nova, or duke). Without fail, those are three more opposing fans to every home game.

Only been to one game in the Booth, that was the Gmac 3-pointer to win. I remember such a non-home court advantage for you guys. I think some of it has to do with it not being on campus, as well as so many other schools being in the DC/Baltimore area.

I’m here to offer support because I remember a-hole Cuse STUDENTS selling tickets to their friends from other schools…which is fine when that school is Cornell.

But I once had to sit next to a full family of UConn fans who were brought in by their son, a Cuse student, who himself came in Husky garb.

In terms of other attractions, Dinosaur BBQ and Armory Square.

Other than that, that’s about it. You hit the nail on the head. In winter in Upstate NY. Aint nothin else to do.

When discussing attendance at Big East arenas, namely Syracuse and Georgetown, I have repeatedly heard the retort “Syracuse is in the middle of nowhere, what else is there to do?” like that is somehow an excuse for Georgetown’s poor attendance. By no means am I going to argue that point- it is spot on. But it definitely begs the question- What important things are you doing on any given Saturday afternoon or Tuesday evening that prevent you from showing support for your team?

Seriously, where were you on Monday night when the Hoyas were playing Mt. St Mary’s in front of a thunderous 7,600 at the Verizon Center? How many times a week could you possibly take in a museum, go to the opera, or attend Georgetown’s distinguished lecture series? And if you honestly consider yourself a true fan, wouldn’t you try to pack all the things that you cultured people do into the 8 months each year that the Hoyas are not in season? I did hear that those 7,600 were so loud it felt like there were 9,000 there… That Verizon Center gets crazy.

For the sake of comparison, Syracuse had 18,500 for 0-6 Colgate and 20,000 for Ivy League powerhouse Columbia

And Syracuse has 18,000 students to Georgetown’s 13,000, graduates included. Just a hair under 4x

Before I address Craig’s weak counter, I would like to survey the Hoya faithful.

How many of you have 2nd favorite teams? As in “I’m a Georgetown fan, but my 2nd favorite team is _” Insert UNC, Notre Dame, Duke, UConn here. I was in the Garden a few weeks back watching Syracuse dismember the reigning National Champs and I encountered countless numbers of these fans. You may laugh, but I anticipate that this blog has an abnormally high rate of them.

On to your response, sounds like much more of the same- Excuses.

1) DC most certainly has townies. Just because they don’t go to the games doesn’t mean DC doesn’t have them. Take some time to venture out of NW DC, it’s a whole different experience and there are plenty of townies.

The actual city is about 4x as large and the metropolitan area is 10x the size of Syracuse. Here’s a thought- maybe nobody comes because the games are painful? Could it have something to do with the fact that 3 runs the most unexciting offense since the introduction of the shot clock? I’d rather go watch Georgetown Prep’s girls JV team. Insert your lame joke about how I like to watch high school girls. But seriously, they play a far more exciting brand of basketball.

2) Can’t really argue this point on the Syracuse end, BUT again the Hoyas draw from a metropolitan area that is home to 8 MILLION PEOPLE. Are you saying that GW, Mason, and American have stolen all the fans? In reality the Hoyas compete with MD for 8 millions fans. Pretty good odds.

I’m no city planner, but aren’t metropolitan areas designed to facilitate easy access in and out of a city? DC essentially has 8 million people that can get to the city in an hour. There is public transportation that drops off and picks up UNDERNEATH THE ARENA. There are also how many million people that commute to DC every day for work? Again I’m no city planner, but as far as I can tell these things should have a positive effect on attendance. You want to go to a game at the Dome, you drive- usually through the snow, you wait in traffic, you park, you walk up the hill in sub zero temps and do the same on the way out.

3) I think you’re vastly overstating the impact of graduate students on attendance. And even if you weren’t overstating the impact of grad students on arena atmosphere, you do understand that the law school is a 7 iron away from the Verizon Center? There is a Georgetown residence hall 4 blocks away. I would think this would fall in the category of things that have a positive effect on attendance, maybe that’s just me.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but basically what your ‘Optionality’ theory says is that Georgetown Basketball lacks true fans. These fans, given the opportunity, would rather go watch the Wizards or the Skins or the Ravens. I myself am a huge Yankees fan, but if I had to choose between a Yankee game and a Syracuse game, I’d go Syracuse every time. The same obviously holds true for a team that I am casually to not interested in. If someone told me I get to go to the Celtics game this week but I’d have to skip my trip to watch Syracuse play at the garden, it’s a no-brainer.

Thank you for strengthening my argument that Georgetown fans lack any real loyalty.

the original post was about db alums and scalpers selling tix on stubhub