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That 4, 200 attendance number is just wrong for the UConn vs. Saint Joseph's game. Perhaps that number represents scanned entries to the first game. I did a print screen from a paused ESPN3 replay (00:41:26 / 01:41:24) but for whatever reason I cannot insert the photo here.
 
Icebear said:
I do not know how many tickets are dedicated to each team. Your posts don't give insight into that so it is hard to guess. Is it 500 per school, is it a percentage of capacity 10% each, how early do they need to be turned in?
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I dont know. But I do know UConn has hosted before and has gotten a lot more in previous years.
And Baylor's arena is the same size as UConn's.

As I said, you can argue that it was the time or the opponent or the ticket prices, but the notion that the arena was as full as it could be does not even come close to holding water.
 
vowelguy said:
I dont know. But I do know UConn has hosted before and has gotten a lot more in previous years.
And Baylor's arena is the same size as UConn's.

As I said, you can argue that it was the time or the opponent or the ticket prices, but the notion that the arena was as full as it could be does not even come close to holding water.
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I was not saying it was as full as it could be. I was noting the lack of details as to what contributes to the figures. Dobbs helped with some insights that are helpful.
 
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I did a print screen from a paused ESPN3 replay (00:41:26 / 01:41:24) for the UConn vs. Saint Joseph's game. That is more than 4200.
 
vowelguy said:
I dont know. But I do know UConn has hosted before and has gotten a lot more in previous years.
And Baylor's arena is the same size as UConn's.

As I said, you can argue that it was the time or the opponent or the ticket prices, but the notion that the arena was as full as it could be does not even come close to holding water.
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Not sure who said that the arena was as full as it could be. The upper level seats behind the baskets were pretty empty, but the rest of the areas look really packed, so I was surprised at the 4245 figure that is cited in all the box scores. Guess looks can be deceiving.

But in any case, this was the best attendance that UConn has had in their two first two games in the NCAA since 2010-11, when they played first Hartford and Purdue, two opponents likely to get more attendance in their games than Prairie View and St. Joe's. So you should at least give the UConn fans credit for beating out the 9100 total for the 2012-13 games and the 8900 total for the 2011-12 games.

Even for you, the attendance figures can't be totally gloom and doom. Then again, that's probably a dumb assumption on my part.
 
Striper69 said:
I don't understand that about UCONN. I thought the idea about supporting a team went up when the team is doing well. You can't get any better than UCONN right now.

Wish I was close enough to go to those games.
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you got to understand something if you playing subpar teams in your conf people are not going to come.especially if you are the no.1 team in the country year after year..next year in the AAC conf. the women basketball average rpi will be 147.uconn doesn't belong in this conf
 
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5sidedlarry said:
you got to understand something if you playing subpar teams in your conf people are not going to come.especially if you are the no.1 team in the country year after year..next year in the AAC conf. the women basketball average rpi will be 147.uconn doesn't belong in this conf
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Clearly the AAC is far from the best, but using RPI as an example smacks of brain-dead stats. The Sagarin average for next year's 11 is 112, and the top 8 minus Houston, UCF, and Tulsa are at 83. That's better than the old Big East started out with, and there will be some movement up. So Gampel won't be playing to 2000 attendance, and some of the arenas will pack in 4000 for UConn. So all is not gloom and doom, no matter how much some wish it to be so.
 
DobbsRover2 said:
Clearly the AAC is far from the best, but using RPI as an example smacks of brain-dead stats. The Sagarin average for next year's 11 is 112, and the top 8 minus Houston, UCF, and Tulsa are at 83. That's better than the old Big East started out with, and there will be some movement up. So Gampel won't be playing to 2000 attendance, and some of the arenas will pack in 4000 for UConn. So all is not gloom and doom, no matter how much some wish it to be so.
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I did't mean to make it doom and gloom and numbers are numbers they really don't mean much,that is what I read and you are right about the old big east and I didn't say attendance would go down(I hope not) but you don"t become a top conference overnight.at this stage of the game geno should be playing in a top notch conference.that really what I mean
 
Attendance has been down for several years for UConn women in the post season. It's not pricing as you could go to both days for $40 and over age 62 for both days was $30. Time slot is not great for Sunday at 8 PM and Tuesday 7 PM but they play at 7 PM for the regular season and average attendance is over 6000 for Gampel games during the season. St. Joe's was a competitive team on Sunday and competed well Tuesday. UConn is a number one team! One potential factor I wonder about is advertising. I did not hear or see one ad anywhere for postseason UConn women's tickets. To me a billboard or a newspaper or radio ad couldn't hurt. I have heard people tell me they don't know how to get tickets for UConn games or think they are sold out. One student poster here wanted to know hot to get a ticket for Sunday's game.
 
ctkaiser said:
Attendance has been down for several years for UConn women in the post season. It's not pricing as you could go to both days for $40 and over age 62 for both days was $30. Time slot is not great for Sunday at 8 PM and Tuesday 7 PM but they play at 7 PM for the regular season and average attendance is over 6000 for Gampel games during the season. St. Joe's was a competitive team on Sunday and competed well Tuesday. UConn is a number one team! One potential factor I wonder about is advertising. I did not hear or see one ad anywhere for postseason UConn women's tickets. To me a billboard or a newspaper or radio ad couldn't hurt. I have heard people tell me they don't know how to get tickets for UConn games or think they are sold out. One student poster here wanted to know hot to get a ticket for Sunday's game.
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I have a idea and I would like to bounce it off of you because you seem to have a lot on the ball..it is a little crazy and here it goes what if we made a knew conference
starting with UConn and then pick the cream of the crop from around the country..I know there is a lot of problems that go with it but for now lets forget that

over the winter they had a meeting of five power conferences in the country and I guess they were not to happy with the Ncaa and the rumor was they were going to create there own organization that was the rumor
 
ctkaiser said:
Attendance has been down for several years for UConn women in the post season. It's not pricing as you could go to both days for $40 and over age 62 for both days was $30. Time slot is not great for Sunday at 8 PM and Tuesday 7 PM but they play at 7 PM for the regular season and average attendance is over 6000 for Gampel games during the season. St. Joe's was a competitive team on Sunday and competed well Tuesday. UConn is a number one team! One potential factor I wonder about is advertising. I did not hear or see one ad anywhere for postseason UConn women's tickets. To me a billboard or a newspaper or radio ad couldn't hurt. I have heard people tell me they don't know how to get tickets for UConn games or think they are sold out. One student poster here wanted to know hot to get a ticket for Sunday's game.
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when you reach the top of the heap a lot of times you tend to back off and don't work as hard to keep what you worked so to get..we tend to take things for granted
 
Many non-major sports have steep attendance declines in the post-season. No season tickets is the main reason, IMO.
 
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5sidedlarry said:
you got to understand something if you playing subpar teams in your conf people are not going to come.especially if you are the no.1 team in the country year after year..next year in the AAC conf. the women basketball average rpi will be 147.uconn doesn't belong in this conf
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I don't agree with that.

I wouldn't mind if my team won all the games in their conference. Better than them losing most of the games in the conference. I can understand when people don't come to games when their team is losing but not vice versa.
 
Striper69 said:
I don't agree with that.

I wouldn't mind if my team won all the games in their conference. Better than them losing most of the games in the conference. I can understand when people don't come to games when their team is losing but not vice versa.
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I don't know how many people over the last few years have told me they don't watch the game on t.v. or don't go to the game because of bad completion and they know what the out come is going to be.now gas is more than twice what it use to be, food cost are very high engery to the house or apartment is very high.when I first started going to the games gambel was always a sellout now its half full we use to get big crowds at xl center now its not even half full.it really doesn't have anything to do with winning or losing its about choices ,gas or the game food or the game oil or the game
 
Striper69 said:
I don't agree with that.
I wouldn't mind if my team won all the games in their conference. Better than them losing most of the games in the conference. I can understand when people don't come to games when their team is losing but not vice versa.
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You are the exception. Most folks get bored with these easy wins. I didn't watch much of the 2nd halves of either of the two games -- I wanted to see what was happening in the other matchups.
 
vowelguy said:
You are the exception. Most folks get bored with these easy wins. I didn't watch much of the 2nd halves of either of the two games -- I wanted to see what was happening in the other matchups.
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Sounds like "spoiled" to me.
 
Jeff Walz tweeted that they had sold 8000 so far for the Yum this weekend and wants card nation to get up to 10,000. That would still be less than half full. But it would be quite a respectable number. I hope he gets it. The Ville will put on a good show.
 
Coming out of lurkdom to post here...
I have been a fan for many years but have only seen a few games live. At first you couldn't even get tickets. Now the main issue is the driving and parking. For night games, and especially weekday night games, the prospect of driving for over an hour, finding parking, watching the game, and then driving another hour back seems like just too much - especially when the game is televised (we are spoiled that way) and you have to work the next day.
I wonder if there couldn't be an effort to run buses from some major cities. You could presell a season package and fill in with single-gamers. I wonder how many people would need to commit to get a bus running?
 
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ChicagoGG said:
Jeff Walz tweeted that they had sold 8000 so far for the Yum this weekend and wants card nation to get up to 10,000. That would still be less than half full. But it would be quite a respectable number. I hope he gets it. The Ville will put on a good show.
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ND has announced that it is sold out. Capacity is only ~9200 though, I believe.
 
OldAlum said:
Coming out of lurkdom to post here...
I have been a fan for many years but have only seen a few games live. At first you couldn't even get tickets. Now the main issue is the driving and parking. For night games, and especially weekday night games, the prospect of driving for over an hour, finding parking, watching the game, and then driving another hour back seems like just too much - especially when the game is televised (we are spoiled that way) and you have to work the next day.
I wonder if there couldn't be an effort to run buses from some major cities. You could presell a season package and fill in with single-gamers. I wonder how many people would need to commit to get a bus running?
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I agree. I'm in NYC and while I would love to go to more games, the excursion is too much on a weeknight. Add to that the ease of watching most if not all games on the big screen at home and it just makes the equation, of whether to go or not, too one sided. The Yankees' and Mets' attendances have been declining for a few years now. Even the Red Sox had their consecutive sellout streak snapped. With all the games available at home, in HD no less, the urge to go to a live event has lessened to some extent.
 
rvwsleep said:
Even the Red Sox had their consecutive sellout streak snapped.
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Well, some of that streak was creative accounting. I live in Bos; everyone knows that many of those games weren't sellouts.
 
vowelguy said:
Duke and Purdue should not be awarded hosting anytime soon.
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:rolleyes:

Duke averaged a little over 5,000 fans this season..... so the tournament attendance was about 56-60% of the regular season average. Thats probably inline with the other schools that hosted

6:30 really is too early for a tip-off on a weekday in my opinion.. .... not sure why the NCAA couldnt have moved it to 7pm. 11am is kinda early for a Saturday game as well (in my opinion)

Looked up last years attendance in Durham for the 2 rounds.

Sunday : 3,804 Tuesday, 2,683
 
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OldAlum said:
Coming out of lurkdom to post here...
I have been a fan for many years but have only seen a few games live. At first you couldn't even get tickets. Now the main issue is the driving and parking. For night games, and especially weekday night games, the prospect of driving for over an hour, finding parking, watching the game, and then driving another hour back seems like just too much - especially when the game is televised (we are spoiled that way) and you have to work the next day.
I wonder if there couldn't be an effort to run buses from some major cities. You could presell a season package and fill in with single-gamers. I wonder how many people would need to commit to get a bus running?
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I too wondering why they don't run buses,i also have been a fan for a long time,but I have been to many games and it really has changed.beside what you said how about parking fee,gas it takes to get up there..times have changed and UConn hasn't as far as thinking about the fans.marketing is done the same way .why can't UConn run buses
 
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