Cal restored the full bench (took out the second door and restored the bench seating)!

Thanks to all those how contributed to get this done!!!

More seating put in the student section here in Haas pic.twitter.com/HRhG4gaXmV

— Trace Travers (@tracetravers3) December 20, 2025

This was the second door they replaced with student benches fixing the biggest blunder Cal made to "improve Haas"

Not a baby step as we need the students to bring the energy back

Big C said:

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We're taking baby steps, but significant baby steps. This baby will walk and, eventually, run again!

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My apologies, I've already been to several games this year but I don't know what the "second door" was. Can somebody please explain?

RedlessWardrobe said:

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My apologies, I've already been to several games this year but I don't know what the "second door" was. Can somebody please explain?

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sure, i'll try.. some years ago a compact floor-level donor snack area was built underneath primo mid-court on the east side of harmon/haas. sadly, for donor convenience, not one but two (western facing) access doors were taken from court seating, as fund raising thought best. most recently the second of the two doors was removed, properly converted back to seating # gobears

RedlessWardrobe said:

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My apologies, I've already been to several games this year but I don't know what the "second door" was. Can somebody please explain?

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There was an aisle/opening in the middle of the student bench seating that led to a VIP lounge area under the east side seating.

Now if they would just switch to festival seating/tickets for the upper sections outside midcourt. It would look so much better on TV, fill more seats, and get fans to the game early. Reserved seats in row 32 for an empty arena is stupid.

here is the before and after....

the red box shows where one of the doors to the VIP lounge was

Gen4 was the lead donor and organizer to get this improvement done