08-25-2016, 08:12 PM
(08-25-2016, 04:46 PM)kevin Wrote: I was so glad Riverfront had seats.....The Nippert benches with seat numbers were a problem because some peoples rear ends took up 2 or 3 numbers.
In 1983 I went to Chapel Hill to watch my Tennessee-Chattanooga Mocs (coming off a season where they were ranked as high as #15 in the country) play UNC (with Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, and Brad Daugherty). This was before UNC built the Dean Dome and they played in Carmichael Arena that was supposed to seat about 11,000. When we arrived we were amazed at how small the place was. It did not look like it would hold anything close to 11,000. then we saw thatall the bleachers were benches and the seat nunbers were about 10 inches apart. It didn't matter because almost everyone stood up for the entire game.
When they put seats into Carmichael the capacity dropped to 8,000.
