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Just wow. Empty building.

fatlucy said:
But that’s not the point. If it were on campus, and put those tickets up for sale, the students would fill it.
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Really? Do you know what the lower bowl tickets go for??
 
alexd said:
Maybe not.... the Patriots fanbase is much smaller now in the post Brady era. ;)
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If you say so. I'll be at the Pats - Jets on Sunday. I'm on the season ticket wait list and it's still about a 20 year wait. Guess I need to DVR the UConn game.
 
Ports21 said:
I went to the game and it was honestly a better crowd than I expected.
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Same here thought it was a pretty good crowd for Buffalo on a snowy Tuesday night. Once big east play starts both XL and Gampel will pack em in. We should hopefully have a top 15 ranking by then as well, if all goes to plan.
 
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Ports21 said:
I went to the game and it was honestly a better crowd than I expected.
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NotADime89 said:
Same here thought it was a pretty good crowd for Buffalo on a snowy Tuesday night. Once big east play starts both XL and Gampel will pack em in. We should hopefully have a top 15 ranking by then as well, if all goes to plan.
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And yet UConn's athletic department is poorer in spite of that.
 
I guess some people still aren't getting this... UConn is a state university. Benedict has to answer to Radenka Maric, who then has to answer to Ned Lamont & Co. Benedict calls the shots from a scheduling standpoint but has guidelines to operate within. You think the state cares about a losing a few thousand dollars playing at the XL when the state spent $113 Million on CT Fast Track, another $72 Million on Dunkin Donuts Park and $100s of millions of dollars elsewhere in an effort to revitalize the city of Hartford? The bottomline is that want people in the city.
 
NotADime89 said:
Wow I could never! Sounds like you're just a casual UConn fan...
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When your friends call you (last night) and say they have 4 club seats to a critical Pats game against your most hated rival, it does Trump a UConn blowout against cupcake Delaware State. Which is my point, schedule better teams if you want fans to prioritize the games.
 
fatlucy said:
But that’s not the point. If it were on campus, and put those tickets up for sale, the students would fill it.
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A) I’m not convinced they would. B) The students have a section of the arena allocated to them, at a significantly discounted rate than the general public pays.

So, maybe the student section is filled, but seats throughout the arena would go unused as they are not priced for the students. Secondly, if we’re discussing it from a revenue standpoint, the students do not factor into that much either way again based on the discounted rate they pay.
 
HuskyHawk said:
That game is at 1:00. But the AD simply needs to schedule slightly better teams. Buffalo should have had a bigger crowd.
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Buffalo is usually better. Not P5 level, but respectable mid-major. Not this year. It's hard to predict that kind of thing in advance.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
Buffalo is usually better. Not P5 level, but respectable mid-major. Not this year. It's hard to predict that kind of thing in advance.
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That's why Buffalo should have had a bigger crowd. It's a MAC school, not a pure cupcake.
 
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Madmannsucks said:
When I lived in CT I used to go to several games a year. Once the team got good, you struggled to be able to get a ticket. What happened?
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UB notwithstanding...

1. In-home experience has improved dramatically.
2. In-arena experience has stayed the same or has regressed.
2a. Everything about the In-arena experience costs more.
3. Businesses have moved out of Hartford.

Not to mention the lower bowl attendance has always been a problem for these early season OOC match ups. ALWAYS. Spare me the, "In my day..." mumbo jumble.
 
HuskyHawk said:
When your friends call you (last night) and say they have 4 club seats to a critical Pats game against your most hated rival, it does Trump a UConn blowout against cupcake Delaware State. Which is my point, schedule better teams if you want fans to prioritize the games.
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That's fine...you're a casual fan that would rather go watch 2 mediocre football teams instead of our beloved huskies. I don't care who they're playing, nothing makes me happier than watching the huskies play live!!
 
ClifSpliffy said:
buffalo lost to james dominion or old madison, one of those schools when u hear their name makes u think of fife and drums, by 35. people aren't dumb and knew it would be no game.
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Buffalo pounded colgate, colgate pounded syracuse. Whats your point?
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
Play the games during winter break which they used to do. Agree it doesn't make sense when school is in session, but selfishly would love it to be able to take train from NYC
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Back in my day, they used to play a game or 2 at the (RIP) New Haven Coliseum over winter break. Could take the train from Stamford. And a game in Bridgeport allows the AD to rub shoulders and wine/dine (current and potential) big money donors from Fairfield County.
 
HuskyHawk said:
That's why Buffalo should have had a bigger crowd. It's a MAC school, not a pure cupcake.
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The crowd size was fine. Buffalo will be in the top 200 which isn’t awful. This is a regional solid mid major that people always want to see us play
 
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dvegas said:
Back in my day, they used to play a game or 2 at the (RIP) New Haven Coliseum over winter break. Could take the train from Stamford. And a game in Bridgeport allows the AD to rub shoulders and wine/dine (current and potential) big money donors from Fairfield County.
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Did I just say...? ;)
 
Hoophound said:
Buffalo on a Tuesday night. Plus, times have changed.
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Attendance has been dwindling in a large part due to demographics ,economics , and conference success.
Since the 2008 recession even in the old BE we started to see a decline
Then the Big East fell apart
Even in winning National Championships we didn’t have the old surge that you would have seen years earlier .
Connecticut has lost population but looking at the macro numbers doesn’t tell the complete story. That loss has been somewhat offset by growth in lower Fairfield Ct and immigration .
Neither group typically is a hotbed of UConn fans , however those that left the state are the prime fan demographic.
As for those who left I’ll use myself as an example . If my son AZHuskie stayed in Ct ( work relocation) and I didn’t follow him after retirement , I would not only be going to games with him and his sons but my daughter son’s as well making generational fans. Tuesday was the first game I ever attended with a grandson , going to live games is addicting.
but starting the tradition is the key. I started taking my son at 9. He found the BY in 1990’s and posts but doesn’t use AZHuskie.
I’ve never seen a poll but I would bet a great number of Boneyarders belong to the Huskie Diaspora.
Economics including ticket prices , also play a role .
 
JustbrewitMan said:
Now this Friday’s game is at Gampel…but the majority of the students probably will have already left campus for break because there are no classes at all Thanksgiving week. The place will probably be a morgue.
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Yup. Besides all the out-of-staters going home, you are effectively temporarily evicted from your dorm the weekend leading into a break; at least that’s what I remember from my time at UConn ‘08-12

I think XL games would indeed be better when campus is quieter but there may be some contractual issues that force certain amounts of games in each location that led to the games falling where they do
 
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dvegas said:
Back in my day, they used to play a game or 2 at the (RIP) New Haven Coliseum over winter break. Could take the train from Stamford. And a game in Bridgeport allows the AD to rub shoulders and wine/dine (current and potential) big money donors from Fairfield County.
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They played in New Haven when the Hartford Civic center was being rebuilt.
 
RayIsTheGOAT said:
We’re still building this thing back from the dungeon it was in a few years ago. Once we become a top 10 team, it will feel like the old days again I’d reckon.
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Come on Ray.

Dungeon?

Had a head coach win a natty, then go south.
 
Madmannsucks said:
When I lived in CT I used to go to several games a year. Once the team got good, you struggled to be able to get a ticket. What happened?
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It’s being in the AAC…oh, wait…attendance is generally down for all sports. Lots of factors including the fact that for major programs like UConn regular season games are mostly meaningless. A few are more like “events” Villanova, Creighton maybe, Providence maybe, ( though that is more a local thing ie Friar fans can get to UConn and UConn fans to PC relatively easily) if those teams are really good and we are too. But your run of the mill mid-major on a Tuesday night. People have better ways to spend their time than going to a game they know the ending to on Monday. And it isn’t just UConn. I’d say it is pretty much the same throughout college basketball and even the NBA to a degree.
 
They raised ticket prices by like 30% from last year and we haven't played a team in the top 200 yet. I actually thought the crowd at XL was bigger than I was expecting at least in the upper levels. I was most disappointed at the student section, but that's why so many people hate the Hartford games anyway
 
Ewekon said:
Come on Ray.

Dungeon?

Had a head coach win a natty, then go south.
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We were in a dungeon when Hurley was hired 5 seasons ago. Is there another word to better describe it? Disaster? A wreck?
 
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