Mom, welcome to the board. Glad to see that you are not a lurker any more. We need more Bear fans on here expressing their opinions and support for things involving UCA. We don't really consider ourselves stone throwers on here, just opinionators - like when someone comes on here and cast stones, or should I say gives their opinion, on our opinions. See how it works.
I can promise you we are all adamant about the Bears on this board.
There is a lot of merit in what you posted but refering to the LWS as the blue haired section is only a figure of speech. There are plenty of 30, 40, and 50 year olds in that section also. I really don't think any of us expect the older folks to be as vocal or as energetic as 19 or 20 year old students. I do find it a little embarrassing though that when it is time for the crowd to be on their feet and to be vocal at a certain point in the game, that 90% are being rather quiet while sitting down. It appears the one thing that gets them on their feet is the players themselves turning around and flapping their arms for us to stand up and make some noise. Seems to work every time when the guys do that. All I'm saying is that the players shouldn't have to do that.
As far as the people on the outside looking in, that's to be expected to a degree. Also, if every one of those folks did come into the stadium where are they going to sit? I know I wouldn't want to stand in the endzone 5 or 6 people deep for three and a half hours. As has been stated in previous posts if we don't get some temporary seating for the overflow crowds then we will start losing some of those people.
As far as the Purple Circle numbers, I find that a little misleading as to the way they count heads. I'm a paying member with an option of up to four seats at football games. I consider my wife a member also because I buy a seat for her. According to PCC guidelines she is not though. My other two seats that I could use, I don't, therefore allowing someone else to be a member and have the seats. But if each individual member used their allotment of seats allowed at whatever level they joined you wouldn't have nearly enough reserved seats for new members without using more of the general admission seats like those that are being used now in the upper deck.
I suppose in a perfect world that all seats at UCA would be reserved for PCC members. That's several years down the road I expect. It is rather evident that something needs to be done in the immediate future about the lack of seating. Here's to hoping that our admin leaders find a good solution to what I consider a good problem with the overcrowding.