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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4236408, member: 27"] Based on your assessment of the situation, you have either never sat in the 300 level, or are a midget. I am 6’0 and leg room today is extremely tight with nothing constraining things except the backs of people sitting in front of you. If there are people sitting in front of you. Unless you happen to have someone with the rental seats in front of you. I have both situations with my season tickets. For football, no rental seats in place directly in front of my tickets. For basketball, there are rentals in front of me. As noted, leg room is always a problem in the 300 level for people my height. It is way worse for people like Mark that are 6’4. With the rentals, when I am sitting down and there are people in the seats in front of me, my knees are regularly jammed into the flexible padded seat back of the rental seats. They have a really abbreviated seat back. Nothing like the ones I have shown used at Kenan Stadium. But the entire seat is loosely locked in place and people normally react when they feel a knee in their back and move their seat up, away from that person, to avoid that uncomfortable contact. And the rental seats are much less deep than normal full sized seats like Kenan has. The rentals are barely tolerably. The Kenan seats are an abomination. Even if you were right and we were only losing 2 inches (you certainly are not), it would be a huge deal given things are already really tight. The Kenan seats are especially awful because they are deep and the seat back is high. Both aggregate the leg room problem and when combined, you a nightmare for people above 5’8 in height. With the rental seats, you can push them an inch or two forward and get some extra room if no one is sitting in front of you. If you are walking down the row to your seat, it is relatively easy to move them a bit as you make your way to your seat because they can be moved, and their low profile greatly reduces the intrusion in your space. Permanently installed full size seats with high profile seat backs, which always slope backwards, will make a bad situation awful. It is great to address the seat width issue. I think all the seats are 18 inches wide now and I think we can all agree that is too narrow for most 2022 CNY bodies. What I am saying it if by solving that problem, you introduce a worse problem with leg room, you have not improved things for the fans at all. You might well make things worse. I hope we are careful not to solve one problem and create a worse one here. Like UNC did. [/QUOTE]

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