Thanks for the corrrection Larry. I should've checked. 18000 seems a bit large for the regionals to me. I hope that there aren't too many empty seats for the regionals. Clay > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Haag, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY > [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 12:28 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: 16 team tournament > > Clay_Satow wrote: > > >I also think that we've seen the last of the package deals that Wendy > >complains about. Rinks like Albany and Providence are just too small for > >the Frozen Four, and if the NCAA realized that they could fill an 18000? > >seat arena in California and sell out Providence a year in advance, they > >never would have put finals in Albany or Providence. Sites that work > well > >for the Regionals are just too small for the Finals, and sites that are > big > >enough for the finals are just too big for the Regionals. > > The arena in Albany >DOES< have 18000+ seats. I attended the FF there > back in > 1992, and it was a pretty nice place. > > As it was explained to me just the other day, the NCAA gets most of the > "good > seats" in the lower deck for the FF, possibly everything between the blue > lines, plus the corners for the 4 teams. What's left is used for the > lottery > and other packages. This is probably the main reason that the Albany > package > did not give you the same seats for both the regionals and the FF. > > It is also my understanding that the Albany package is not an "NCAA" > package, > but something offered by the ECAC and Pepsi Arena. Thus the tickets > available > would be outside of the NCAA "zone". > > > Larry HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.