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I wish it were larger during playoff time...maybe rounds 2 through finals..... but I dont think they sell out enough during the reg season
I hear that the city of San Antonio is the 9th largest city in the nation.
With a population that high, shouldn't the SBC Center be bigger?
I mean it only holds 18,700 at max (i think).
I wish it were larger during playoff time...maybe rounds 2 through finals..... but I dont think they sell out enough during the reg season
i wish it was bigger
They sold out 99% this season.but I dont think they sell out enough during the reg season
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/attend...5&seasonType=2
Supply and demand.
So With that logic then the arenas at NYC and LA should be 8 times bigger?? Since their population is around 8 million peeps?
Well if it sold out 99% of the time theres obviously enough demand to warrant it being bigger. But I got no problem with it.... having never sat in it.
San Antonio has annexed a lot of suburbs and thus boosted it's population numbers. It is supposedly about to go in front of San Diego soon. The problem is San Antonio is not even in the top 20 in Business Index...therefore, you don't have the same number of corporations to attract as season ticket-holders as you would in a Houston or Dallas or even Detroit.
The size of SBC is about right.
One good thing about the SBC Center is....it's the home of the NBA Champions
Another good thing about the SBC Center is it had the best home W-L record in the NBA and was a huge diference-maker in Game 7 of the Finals.
Another good thing is that the Spurs Practice Facility is specially designed to match SBC Center's baskets and floor design, to provide familiarity and an extra home court advantage for the Spurs.
I love the SBC. Living in Dallas, I have gone to plenty of Mavs games. It's a nice arena outside and in the concourse area, but inside it feels like a gigantic church.
At SBC, it feels more cozy like a theatre. I was at game 7 and I have never experienced anything like it as far as crowd noise and intensity besides maybe at Kyle Field in College Station against OU or Texas. The SBC is the !
Nothing wrong with SBC what so ever.
It would be nice if the Jumbotrons had stats on them.
Nothin wrong with SBC what so ever.
Making it bigger, would lose some of its intimacy.
Yeah, I like the SBC how it is.
the jumbotrons do have stats on them.
San Antonio has a metro population of almost 2 million people plus a larger surrounding population.
Sure SA has annexed a lot of land throughout the years, that doesn't change the fact that the city and metro have enough people to warrent a 20,000+ seat arena. Plus, city/metro population have nothing to do with seat count.
If the SBC Center were bigger, it would sell out as well.
But newer arenas are going that way. Smaller. No longer are there 22,000 sat basketball arenas being built.
The Jazz's Delta Center holds 20,000 people. Salt Lake is a much smaller city and metro than SA.
Houston's new Toyota Center holds 19,000 seats for basketball. Just 500 more than SA.
Your logic is not very solid, Solid.
Remember the Spurs used to play in the Alamodome and felt that a smaller arena would give them more of a home court advantage.
The 200 level of the SBC Center sucks. Too steep, chairs are too compact with each other, etc. I like the Toyota Center better.
Oh boy. I guess we gotta start talking about building a new arena again!
Local business conditions will impact arena design when it comes to the number of suites and box seating available. The number of peasants allowed in is secondary.
Solid D is correct.
here is a list of all the nba arenas and their capacity
http://www.hoopscorner.com/links/team_arenas.html
Not very smart of the planners to make compact seats in a city also known as Fat Antonio.
They should have all the playoff games at the Alamodome. More people would be able to go to the games.
I wasn't very clear in what I was trying to say but if it was attendance the Spurs were looking for, they would have stayed in the Alamodome. They averaged over 22,000 per game in their last season before moving to the SBC Center. The reason they moved was to provide better seating for higher-dollar seats and better boxes for the corporate clients. In San Antonio, you have a finite number of corporate season ticket holders who can afford to pay for the seats/boxes that make the arena a profitable place for ownership.
San Antonio is one of the fastest growing cities, of which Tourism and Military are still the leading industries, but it's still got a ways to go from a business index standpoint compared with a lot of other cities.
Austin is still 80 miles away for the corporate ticket-buyer and therefore is still a tough sell over the Longhorns and the Round Rock Express.
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story...9-05ED0536E5EA
San Antonio Seeing Explosive Population Growth
LAST UPDATE: 7/1/2005 7:43:49 AM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth
This story is available on your cell phone at mobile.woai.com.
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Charlie Pride once asked, 'is anybody goin' to San Antone?' Apparently, quite a few people are. New Census Bureau figures show San Antonio is the third fastest growing big city in the country, adding more than 22,000 residents in the past year.
State Demographer Steve Murdock, a professor at UTSA, cites economic development announcements like the one yesterday, that Washington Mutual is adding a regional headquarters, and 4200 new jobs, to the Alamo City's economy.
"The sources of this growth, I'm sure, in San Antonio are the result of a variety of economic development events as well as demographic phenomena," Murdock told 1200 WOAI news.
San Antonio's population now stands at 1,236,249, according to Census Bureau figures. San Antonio remains the eight largest city in the country, and Murdock said San Antonio is poised to pass San Diego to become number seven.
"This is not surprising, but certainly verification, that San Antonio is a very fast growing city. Not only has San Antonio grown rapidly over the past year, its growth over the past four years, from 2000 through 2004, is the fourth largest of any big city in the U.S.," Murdock said.
Murdock said traditionally, Bexar County's growth has been about evenly divided between people moving here from other places in the U.S., people moving here from other countries, mainly Mexico, and the natural surplus of births over deaths.
"If we continue this growth rate, and there's no reason to believe that will not happen, San Antonio could double its population in the coming forty years. It's a very rapid rate of growth, but I think generally a manageable rate," Murdock said.
The sort of growth San Antonio is seeing is not spread evenly across the state. Many parts of Texas, especially deep east Texas and far west Texas, continue to lose population, and the state's two largest cities, Houston and Dallas, barely grew at all in the past year.
"In those two areas, I think you're seeing areas that are quite mature metropolitan areas," Murdock said. "In addition, you have central cities that are more hemmed in by suburban areas than you see in San Antonio."
But many of those close in suburbs around Houston, and Dallas are also seeing population loss. Eight of the ten largest cities in the Dallas area, including Irving and Garland, actually lost population from 2003 to 2004.
The explosive growth continues to be in the northern suburbs of San Antonio. Boerne and New Braunfels continue their growth spurt, with New Braunfels population now nearly 45,000, and Boerne seeing its population rise to more than 7,000 for the first time ever.
The one with the color screen and that shows the players during the game???the jumbotrons do have stats on them
Uh its got timeouts and fouls, thats it.
Exactly. That's why I thought the SBC center was built in the first place? Because the Spurs weren't happy with the size of the Alamodome.
BTW, I hated watching games at the Alamodome. I totally agreed with the Spurs.
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