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As we start the full league start of conference play today, I put together an attendance chart for all the teams with the home and away attendance with UConn and without UConn on their schedule. After the 2013-14 season, the league went to an unbalanced schedule so some times a team only played UConn once. The data points to the fact that this league will truly suffer from attendance next year when UConn leaves.
In reviewing the chart below, I have 3 lines for each team:
1st line (light purple) is the teams total attendance average for all 16/18 games (home and away).
2nd line (light purple) is HOME games only.
3rd line (blue) is ALL games without the UConn attendance totals.
As an example, look at Cincinnati, who in 2013-14 averaged 1,734 fans for all 18 conference games. They only averaged 671 fans for home games. Cincinnati is a drag on attendance. If we remove the UConn attendance figures for the games Cincinnati played against UConn from their total and divided by the games played, you can see they only averaged 1,024 for all their games. That's 710 less fans PER GAME, over the 18 games.
For the Conference as a whole, the AAC averaged 3,233 fans per game in 2013-14 (bottom) but without UConn's totals, the league would have only averaged 1,833 for all 94 league games.
WCBB does create revenue for schools and the various conferences with the American as one such league. Losing UConn will have a drastic affect on each schools revenue.
This chart does point out that there are some programs that are just terrible at creating fan interest and frankly is it evident when you go to these schools websites and the dearth of information and organization posted on the site. Memphis, East Carolina and Tulane are three such schools. Cincinnati did improve quite a bit with moving back to the new arena but is still on the watch list.
Let me know your thoughts.
In reviewing the chart below, I have 3 lines for each team:
1st line (light purple) is the teams total attendance average for all 16/18 games (home and away).
2nd line (light purple) is HOME games only.
3rd line (blue) is ALL games without the UConn attendance totals.
As an example, look at Cincinnati, who in 2013-14 averaged 1,734 fans for all 18 conference games. They only averaged 671 fans for home games. Cincinnati is a drag on attendance. If we remove the UConn attendance figures for the games Cincinnati played against UConn from their total and divided by the games played, you can see they only averaged 1,024 for all their games. That's 710 less fans PER GAME, over the 18 games.
For the Conference as a whole, the AAC averaged 3,233 fans per game in 2013-14 (bottom) but without UConn's totals, the league would have only averaged 1,833 for all 94 league games.
WCBB does create revenue for schools and the various conferences with the American as one such league. Losing UConn will have a drastic affect on each schools revenue.
This chart does point out that there are some programs that are just terrible at creating fan interest and frankly is it evident when you go to these schools websites and the dearth of information and organization posted on the site. Memphis, East Carolina and Tulane are three such schools. Cincinnati did improve quite a bit with moving back to the new arena but is still on the watch list.
Let me know your thoughts.
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