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Message: [QUOTE="whaler11, post: 2568933, member: 676"] You can see attendance softening everywhere. With so much competition for people’s time there has become a more binary situtation. Either something is wildly popular or it’s not popular at all. If it’s not a big enough event to rise above the background noise you can compete with there is just little awareness. I’ve been to everything under the sun. From World Series, NFC Championships, Final Fours, NHL playoffs, NBA playoffs to the America East Tournament, Roller Hockey International, the D3 College World Series and everything in between. The pace of the games in person bores me to tears. It’s why I hate replay with the intensity of 10k suns. When they reviewed 2 oob calls within 2 seconds last night that took forever I wanted to smash my TV like the Hulk. At Rentschler I forget half the time what they are even reviewing. Throw in bad teams, mediocre to bad facilities, high prices and a major drop in the attractiveness of opponents and I’m starting to wonder why I or anyone else goes. Even if UConn can’t fix the teams overnight they could overhaul the game presentation. Jock Jams was awesome in 1997 - I think it’s time to retire the exact same game experience we’ve had for as long as I can remember. And fire John Tuite into the sun - yesterday if possible. I don’t blame the next generations for not finding sitting through UConn and USF a compelling way to spend their time. They have millions of options that didn’t exist when I was in school in the early 90’s. Of course UConn’s response is spending their limited marketing money on billboards. It makes me want to poke my eyes out. [/QUOTE]

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