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Originally posted by Rlh04d
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Totally understand. One of my close friends is well in his 70's and had a bad hip. But every fan base in all sports has fans of all ages and it's impossible to accomodate to every one of them. I'm sure there are facilities in America with harsher winters and ice storms that have to deal with the same situations. -
Definitely agreed, just saying it's not just a matter of laziness when a pretty significant portion of our crowd is over 60. The walk in bad weather is a legitimate concern for them and not a matter of laziness.Originally posted by EB 22 View PostOriginally posted by BleacherReportComment
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We are not in the Barclays Classic in New York.The mountains are calling, and I must go.Comment
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To be fair, I would be surprised if we have "a lot" of fans (older or not) that skip a lot of games when the weather is bad because of fear over ice in the walk to the arena. There may be a few but not a lot. I would suspect that more miss games because of cold weather or bad driving conditions.Originally posted by Rlh04d View PostComment
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Everyone needs to settle down about the parking comment guys. This is just my way at poking fun at most Wichita residents and about their belief that they have to park right at the door. When the new arena was being decided on, planned and built the number one concern was the lack of parking. As I pointed out that there is a great deal of parking available if one walks just a small distance. In the future if you read a comment by me on almost any subject and it seems odd then chances are it is sarcastic in nature. Not that I don't make odd or off the wall comments but most have sarcasm somewhere. Thanks.Comment
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I understood that the parking garage was to be for students only and since the garage is being built in conjunction with the new dorm, I assumed that meant the garage was for the students who lived in the dorm. If that's the case, there would be NO parking for university functions in that garage. If this is changed or if I misunderstood what was being planned, I will gladly stand corrected.Originally posted by shock View PostComment
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My mind is blown away that they are building the new dorm before the new parking garage! That is going to absolutely kill parking, i get why they want the dorm first but parking is gonna be awful while building the dorm.Shox-4-LifeComment
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Not to derail the thread, but I'm highly disappointed by some negative comments made here and on WSU's recent facebook update concerning the new dorn and it's locale. So many people complaining about parking, but unless something has changed since I was a student (and it hasn't enrollment wise) then there will be plenty of parking on WSU land even with the new dorm.
I can only assume the people bitching about the new dorms are 45 y/o, part-time, non-traditional evening students who care nothing about WSU, outside of it being a vehicle to take them from bucking rivets on the line to pushing paper in a cubicle. If we lose those students (go to Friends U where 6 months worth of Saturday mornings and a true/false final will get you a Bachelors in WhatTheHellIsThat) and gain the same volume of new traditional students by building this new dorm, then WSU will be the better for it. The new dorm is part of Bardo's vision for transforming our school (at least partially) from a commuter school, to an on-campus traditional school, and at least in this alum's eyes I can't thank him enough for it.
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No, trust me. Students are the main people complaining about it. The parking lot in question is the most popular one on campus, and is completely filled from 8:30 A.M. to around 3:30 P.M. In general, the RSC, Heskett, and engineering parking lots are also full (the RSC is under construction now though). Depending on how much the dorm takes up, it is quite possible that even the parking lots on the edge of campus will fill up before prime time. Also, remember that students cannot park in a lot of parking lots during game days, further restricting the number of open spaces.Originally posted by Ricky Bobby View Post
The sunflower had an article over it.
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WSU has roughly the same volume of students as when I attended. As I didn't want the crap beat out of my vehicle by careless door-dingers, as well as my abhorrence towards the whole parking lot stalking approach, I parked in the less used lots. The lots south of 17th and to the east and west of Eck always had BOATLOADS of easily available parking with low vehicle densities. I can't see how that's changed, unless students are now each driving 1.25 cars to school, as opposed to 1.Originally posted by CBB_Fan View Post
In my years at WSU I literally never parked once, or even attempted such, in the lot where the new dorm is going.Comment
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My hope for next season's non-con is that we can add one more good home game, one neutral site game and one good true road game. I'm hearing the home game may already be in place so hopefully we will hear something soon on that.Comment
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Make sure you have plenty of room in your pm inbox.Originally posted by shocks771 View PostIn the fast laneComment
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We need to be pulling for the other conference schools to pull their weight, good to see Evansville with Indiana and Butler on their schedule thus far. We need these RPI fluffers.Comment
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The ghetto-----> Right across the street, NEEDS to be leveled to create more parking at Wichita State. I really don't know how to be more polite about this issue. It's only a matter of time before Bardo and Brewer realize what needs to and what should happen.Comment
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Don't hold your breath on that. The city wants more housing built in the area, not parking lots. City's not going to sign off on parking there.Originally posted by bleed yellow View PostComment
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