Interesting. Has any compared UConn’s attendance figures with that of the national average? I know attendance is down across the board for almost all teams, which is due to in part to the economy, rising ticket prices, time (I swear everyone works a lot more hours than we all did before the recession), etc. If UConn is at or above the national trend, especially after last year’s nightmare, the Huskies should be OK from that perception.
I bet part of the reason can also be attributed to weakening fan interest due to the loss of so many traditional, regional rivalries. I wonder how much PC, Hall, St. John’s will be hurt financially without UConn and to a lesser extent Syracuse fans invading their arenas once a year?.
Lastly, for CT UConn fans, Metro North sucks (the NJ Transit lines that go head south and west from Penn Station via the Portal Bridge and Newark are just as bad) and I-95 is a freaking joke 20 of the 24 hours in any given day. I can see why folks, especially families, don’t want to make the trip to MSG. Thankfully, I live in Northern Jersey and can drive 10 minutes to the train station, which gets me to either Hoboken (from there the PATH train, which ends a block away from MSG) or transfer trains in Secaucus and arrive right under MSG in less than an hour if the express trains are running or 90 minutes if not.
