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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2511493, member: 1526"] Most eyewitness accounts from fans that attended the Fiesta Bowl estimated the UCONN crowd at 12-15,000, which was respectable considering it required a cross country trip. Our attendance at other bowl games, all of which I attended, was generally respectable as well, considering distance and the fact that they were all lesser tier bowls. The reason our ticket sales through the university were so poor for the Fiesta Bowl had to do with being forced to buy the entire travel package. Those packages are horribly overpriced and they won't unbundle them. They include stuff like ground transportation, R/T airfare, hotels billed at two to three times more than what you can get on the open market, etc. You could arrange your own trip, including all of those items, and buy your game tickets on the secondary market for half what the UCONN package cost. Smart fans went that route so they don't show up on UCONN's ticket sale list. That also had the effect of scattering UCONN fans all over the place in a 75,000 seat stadium, which makes it difficult to accurately estimate how many actually attended. By comparison, unless a bowl game is in their backyard, BC fans are one of the worst fanbases in the country for traveling to see them play. They did well at the Pinstripe Bowl this year since it's in NYC, but if they have to go much further than 500 miles, which is common, they get friends and family members of the players. Even UCONN blows them away. [/QUOTE]

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