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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 2291863, member: 3723"] ballsy move to tell someone their opinion is wrong just because it differs from your own. went ahead and looked up the average UConn attendance for every year since 2002. 2002: 13709 2003: 13229 2004: 13549 2005: 13771 2006: 13948 2007: 13012 2008: 11887 2009: 12518 2010: 11688 2011: 11569 2012: 12640 2013: 10728 2014: 10134 2015: 10687 2016: 10413 2017: 8565 2008-2012 average: 12060 2013-2016 average: 10490 So its a decline in roughly 1500 fans (excluding last year when the team was just putrid) since the latter part of the Big East days to now. There are multiple reasons why attendance can and does change. In my opinion, winning is the biggest reason attendance numbers are what they are. Next in line is game time followed by opponent and location. Not to mention the quality of sports on tv today. But again, it's my [I]opinion.[/I] And for the record no, I really don't think playing Rutgers or DePaul or Seton Hall is any different than playing Tulane or ECU. I think where the difference in attendance really comes into play as far as conferences go is not having Syracuse, Villanova, Georgetown, and Louisville on the schedule. That is where the conference makes a difference in the bottom line, but there are enough quality teams in the AAC now that we should be showing up for games. Wichita State, SMU, Cincinnati, Memphis, Temple are all big names in the sport of college basketball. [/QUOTE]