E-mail Survey about Pauley Renovations

by carlspackler on Aug 3, 2007 3:53 PM PDT

It was a series of questions about what amenities are important to me. (centering the court, baselines closer to stands, concessions, rest rooms, locker room facilities, historical section, scoreboard, sightlines, VIP parking...)

Also a lot of questions about luxury boxes, club seating, premier floor seats and my willingness to contribute financially for these type of seats.

They also asked what type of rationing criteria I thought should be used in the distribution of season seats (ie number of years as a season ticket holder, level of donor, lifetime donations, alum...).

Also a couple of questions about willingness to buy season tickets to women's bball, volleyball (both women's and men's) & gymnastics.

Also some questions about willingness to continue to contribute to existing donor programs if I participated in some sort of luxury seating capacity.

The feeling I got is that they wanted to turn Pauley Pavilion into the world class facility UCLA basketball deserves.

Some of the pictures they showed as examples of the club levels and suites were awesome. It really got me excited but I think a lot of the older season ticket holders will complain because their seats will be significantly more expensive in the
renovated building.

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Hmmm

When did they send these out, and who had the honor of receiving them?

Proud to be a lifelong Bruin

by omnigeno on Aug 3, 2007 9:37 PM PDT reply actions

sent out today...

and I am a Wooden Athletic Fund contributor and Football Season Ticket holder. Also alum '99.

by MOlson on Aug 3, 2007 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions

Go it....

Today and I'm a season ticket holder for football also.

by artybruin on Aug 3, 2007 11:03 PM PDT reply actions

Took the survey

Agree-the exemplar pictures of the club levels and suite look incredible. Of course, who knows what the real thing will look like, if it is built.

I am all for the renovation. Everyone loves Pauley, but it really does need a makeover. I'm excited to at least see this survey sent out, which means that someone else is actually thinking about it.

by Barnes2JJ on Aug 4, 2007 4:28 PM PDT reply actions

call me old school

but i hate suites/luxury boxes/etc.

I hate the idea of certain fans being segregated from everyone else. Hate to sit in luxury boxes at staples, always prefer the up close seats.

Just a preference, but I don't like them conceptually or in reality, especially for a university facility.

"when you've seen how big the world is, how can you make due with this?"

by silverlakebruin on Aug 6, 2007 9:47 PM PDT reply actions

I agree

I had the good fortune to sit in a luxury box at Staples for a game. It was pretty much like watching the game on TV, except from a weird angle. Naturally, I felt superior to the peons who had to sit in actual seats.

There has to be another way to extract big money from those who want to overspend on a seat or on a group of seats. Let them be escorted to their seats by the dance team or something like that.

But as far as I am concerned, luxury boxes don't belong at a college venue. (Caveat - if for some reason UCLA decides to give me a luxury box as some sort of lifetime achievement award, then this post should be disregarded.)

by Fox 71 on Aug 7, 2007 4:59 AM PDT up reply actions