Media No Longer Courtside in Cassell

In a little Virginia Tech media news today:

I've complimented Whit Babcock and company for finding extra and often creative ways to increase revenue, and really should have seen this coming. NBA teams started to do this years ago in a similar effort to make more money by selling expensive courtside seats.

I know this won't really make much of a difference to readers, because theoretically nothing changes. Media will still be in the building and still have access to coaches and players after the game, so the stories coming out of Cassell should be relatively the same.

Personally, I hate it. The best thing about covering a Tech basketball game was that you still get to sit on the floor, which gives you ample opportunity to notice things that people sitting in the stands (even just a few rows back) cannot.

Now, we have a great opportunity to sit "above the team tunnel in sections 16, 17 and 18 to a newly constructed and expanded area"! Translation: we get to sit in the parts of the coliseum that are the toughest to sell! And why are they the toughest to sell? Because the seats are terrible!

But what can you do? Tech just recently passed the "Pylons of Promise", which includes funding for the recently approved cost of attendance measures passed by the NCAA.

That means more money going out, which has to be made up on the back end. And this is definitely one way to do that.

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