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deadly witch's cocktail of poor dates, poor start times, poor opponents, poor results.Its simple.....attendance, no matter how good we are, will always suffer while our opponents are East Carolina, Tulane, and South Florida.
BullScalito
We are talking about a team who has given us 4 titles in 18 years. They deserved a pass and our support no matter what league we are playing in and how poorly the season was going.
We have multiple years down like this one and I start to buy the conference/performance metric.
Our fan base is made up of pathetic front runners.
This program deserved better from us, if for nothing else, then as thanks for what they have given us previously.
Absolutely. In my 22 years of watching UConn, saw some of the ugliest offensive performances ever. Houston and that Auburn game on national TV cemented Diallo elsewhere possibly. I think much like football, it helps to present an exciting brand of ball and we certainly weren't that for much of the season. By the end, it had turned but while they were good kids but it was fragile and the team could go in the tank pretty quick if the ball didn't bounce their way. #NeedMoreVitalMindedKidsBad conference, bizarre start times and a bad team mean poor attendance.
That's the reality of it. Too many other things competing for people's time, money and attention these days - if your product drops off, you suffer.
Bad conference, bizarre start times and a bad team mean poor attendance.
That's the reality of it. Too many other things competing for people's time, money and attention these days - if your product drops off, you suffer.
BullScalito
We are talking about a team who has given us 4 titles in 18 years. They deserved a pass and our support no matter what league we are playing in and how poorly the season was going.
We have multiple years down like this one and I start to buy the conference/performance metric.
Our fan base is made up of pathetic front runners.
This program deserved better from us, if for nothing else, then as thanks for what they have given us previously.
Couldn't agree more! Yes our conference is awful and yes we stink in it, but if we were the Gonzaga of the AAC or Memphis in the coach cal area of the c-usa we would be okay with it...dominating and getting 1-2 seeds in the tourney things would be just fine in Huskyland!Been summarized above already... But, re: our fan base. We tend to be fickle and self-conscious. If something in the interwebs someone says something the least bit negative, we flock to defend ourselves and cry that we have been wronged. We need validation for our school and ourself. The creator of the negative info then becomes persona non grata and a hack. Now, if that same writer soon thereafter praises us, we fawn over them as a true analyst. This has happened in recent years with Gottlieb, Bilas, Doyel, and others who have received their own threads both positively and negatively. For example, Gottlieb was the worst until he talked about JC upon his retirement. He was then the most "honest" bball expert out there and we wished that all could be similar.
This carries over to our fan base who tend to participate when the grass is as green as can be. Now that things are a little dicey, they bail. Couple that with a lame conference, bad start times, eh facilities and attendance dwindles. Now if were Pre-Kentucky Calipari Memphis, going 32-2 every year, we would still have crowds en masse. People could be bludgeoned by falling ceiling tiles and no one would care as long as were winning.
The season was already lost by the time they got back from Maui so I'm not surprised at all. The scheduling does need to be fixed somehow. How do you let your "premier" OOC game be at 2pm on a weekday two days before Christmas? I don't think you can blame that on the conference.
You know how the MAC plays football games on like Tuesday's and Wednesday's? That's basically what's happened to the American. We played a freaking Sunday 8pm game this season. I'd almost rather go back to just being on local television and get 7pm weekday games, 12/2/4 pm Saturday games and maybe one or two Sunday games a year.
A HUGE difference between the ACC and even Big East/much less AAC is that in ACC country those games have been on network TV forever and are part of culture. When I was in NC mid-90's random ACC games would displace primetime TV/i.e. Seinfeld. So at least in NC its been an entire culture that supports & watches the league consisting of many fan bases. In CT you are simply going after one fan base.The ACC has a sunday night television package. Somehow they have survived having those games played at that time for years and years.