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Karaban not happy with the fan attendance

1) attendance was fine for that game on a Wednesday. Selling out doesn’t mean 100% attendance.

2) upper levels on the sides were full. What was largely empty is the student section behind the basket on the band side. Alex should take his issues up with his fellow students, or with UConn who stopped selling those seats as part of season tickets.

3) people leave early during blowouts, especially on weeknights, and particularly those with kids. It’s better to bring a young kid to multiple games and leave early if you have to than to not bring kids at all. Those kids are potentially future fans, students, season ticket holders.

4) opening night in Gampel wasn’t full either. There were empty seats. In fact, an 80% full XL center is still a few more thousand fans in seats than a sellout at Gampel.
 
gampelcrazies said:
The energy and types of fans that went last night were not so good. Probably one of the worst crowds in the Hurley era
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Utter nonsense. No UConn crowd is ever going to be hyped up for LeMoyne.

The crowd was waiting to explode.

But we missed 9/10 threes to start the game and until a late run in the first half, we shot horribly.

We’re supposed to cheer for missed shots now?

Fans bring their own energy to big games, not cupcakes. We were waiting to be entertained and there’s nothing wrong with that. I’m not excited about a school I need to google to learn more about.
 
CTBasketball said:
Probably 80-85% filled. I can see Alex’s frustration but at the same time you have to schedule real teams…
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That scheduling take doesnt hold water with Alex, or Hurley, or me for that matter. They expect a full turnout for EVERY game as recognition for achievements schools can only dream of and happen every 30 years or so. They also feel that there are places in the country with teams who dont come close to those achievements do in fact sell out their games against cupcakes. They have every right to expect it, and every right to call for this. If we cant fill the house EVERY game en route to a three peat, it is real pathetic and sad.
 
StllH8L8ner said:
Unless it’s a Top 10 opponent or rival (whoever that is these days), XL is the worst home court advantage in college hoops. I obviously can’t stand Duke, but that place is always rocking no matter who they’re playing.
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Sure, they have 9,300 seats at Cameron, most of them are on top of the court. The old Field House was rocking back in the day too.
 
Baltic said:
I had been a season ticket holder from 1974 - 2008 and then moved to North Carolina. I can verify that throughout that time it was very difficult to find acquaintances who were interested in attending these preseason sacrifice games, and the games were not well attended. However, when GTown, Villanova and the like were playing I was highly sought after.

Now living in North Carolina and having friends with season tickets for Duke and UNC, I can absolutely confirm they experience the same. Watch a Duke game at Cameron against one of their cupcake opponents and you will notice that the student section (which is prominently shown on TV) is not shoulder to shoulder and a significant number of attendees are obviously not students. If the cameras panned the rest of Cameron a number of vacant sears would be evident.

Same is true at The Dean Dome.
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To bring this point home, go look at UNC's home opener this year (yes two weeks ago!) v. Elon. Now sure UNC has not won back to back titles, but they are frickin UNC and it was their home opener and it was a ghost town. It is shocking how poorly attended that opener was for a program of that stature.

I do think there are some areas UConn could be doing better in this area, but it looked like a good showing last night at the XL and yea it was quiet for a large portion of the game but the team didn't give anymore much to cheer about until 2nd half so I dunno.
 
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Storrs South said:
To bring this point home, go look at UNC's home opener this year (yes two weeks ago!) v. Elon. Now sure UNC has not won back to back titles, but they are frickin UNC and it was their home opener and it was a ghost town. It is shocking how poorly attended that opener was for a program of that stature.

I do think there are some areas UConn could be doing better in this area, but it looked like a good showing last night at the XL and yea it was quiet for a large portion of the game but the team didn't give anymore much to cheer about until 2nd half so I dunno.
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Elon is also within an hours drive of Chapel Hill.
 
August_West said:
That scheduling take doesnt hold water with Alex, or Hurley, or me for that matter. They expect a full turnout for EVERY game as recognition for achievements schools can only dream of and happen every 30 years or so. They also feel that there are places in the country with teams who dont come close to those achievements do in fact sell out their games against cupcakes. They have every right to expect it, and every right to call for this. If we cant fill the house EVERY game en route to a three peat, it is real pathetic and sad.
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How often do NFL teams sell out for preseason games?
 
Here's what some comparable buy games looked like in the recent past:

12/1/19 v Maine at XL - attendance 7,129
12/4/19 v Iona, Gampel - attendance 5,909
11/20/21 v Binghamton, XL, attendance 9.335
11/11/21. v Coppin State, XL, attendance 9.960
11/7/22 v Stonehill, XL, attendance 9116
11/15/22 v Buffalo, XL, attendance 10112

Good grief what are we complaining about.
 
Nothing to see here people. The fanbase will show up for games not against cupcakes on a Wednesday night in mid-November. 15k attendees is solid.
 
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BlueMAB said:
Utter nonsense. No UConn crowd is ever going to be hyped up for LeMoyne.

The crowd was waiting to explode.

But we missed 9/10 threes to start the game and until a late run in the first half, we shot horribly.

We’re supposed to cheer for missed shots now?

Fans bring their own energy to big games, not cupcakes. We were waiting to be entertained and there’s nothing wrong with that. I’m not excited about a school I need to google to learn more about.
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It was a horrible crowd. Cupcake crowds aren’t going to be great but I had a row of people behind me that had no idea college basketball was 2 halves. The row in front of me left with 12 min left. Donors/sths must of gave away tickets more so than usual.
 
Three chumps in a row, going to be four after Tuesday

The games are sold out, or nearly sold out save for a few of the chumps, but we want to see competitive games.

Geno had the same problem a decade+ or so ago. Fans get tired of blowouts

We'll all be there for the conference games and Baylor. We'll also be at MSG, and any other venue in the Northeast

Wednesday night vs Sisters of the Poor, we might only attend 2 out of 3 games
 
Just spit balling but likely from an eyes of a UConn player, wherever we play our players see our opponents’ home court is bringing their A game -because we are UConn damn it - but they’re not seeing what it’s like when those teams play lesser non-conference opponents.

I get they want to feel the support no matter what though.
 
Hurley must feel like the schedule if hard enough, though when we get into the BE half the teams are not great.
 
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August_West said:
That scheduling take doesnt hold water with Alex, or Hurley, or me for that matter. They expect a full turnout for EVERY game as recognition for achievements schools can only dream of and happen every 30 years or so. They also feel that there are places in the country with teams who dont come close to those achievements do in fact sell out their games against cupcakes. They have every right to expect it, and every right to call for this. If we cant fill the house EVERY game en route to a three peat, it is real pathetic and sad.
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Have we become spoiled and dare I say, arrogant?
 
Storrs South said:
To bring this point home, go look at UNC's home opener this year (yes two weeks ago!) v. Elon. Now sure UNC has not won back to back titles, but they are frickin UNC and it was their home opener and it was a ghost town. It is shocking how poorly attended that opener was for a program of that stature.

I do think there are some areas UConn could be doing better in this area, but it looked like a good showing last night at the XL and yea it was quiet for a large portion of the game but the team didn't give anymore much to cheer about until 2nd half so I dunno.
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It was a good showing for a cupcake game compared to 5-10 years ago. Actually probably double the showing , but that isn’t an endorsement of our current support as much as it is commentary on how lame our fanbase has been and is. It’s just the way it is, it’s really just the way New England is. The home of the pink hats. It boggles my mind that the excuse is now “scheduling”. It used to be our lack of success plus scheduling . But now that we have the ultimate success it has to be scheduling right? Our scheduling is perfect because it sets the table for growth and growth = success. We didn’t return our whole team. Kinks need to be worked out, and now is the only time to do it because after the next game our schedule is one of the hardest we’ve ever had. The 3 Maui games followed by a road game at Texas, plus Baylor plus the Zags? While working in 10 players into brand new roles? Only Alex, Hass, and Samson have done this. After all Hurley and Alex have done for us the last 2 years and it is too much for them to ask for support to help them grow into their best for another crack at title?

Incredible.

#CooleyWasRight
 
Plenty of fans there. Too many for the XL to handle efficiently as usual. If you think it’s helpful to play the worst teams in D1 I guess we’ll be prepared.
 
Love the heck out of AK, but this a bad take by him, a 22 year old future millionaire who doesn’t fully understand that people have jobs and families and kids stuff and other obligations and Financial constraints (expensive all in to go to a game) and all on a Wednesday night
 
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Sphinx said:
Alex's critcism might be better reserved for the start of the season. These buy games are glorified pre-season exhibitions. 15,000+ is a remarkable turnout. Have people nothing else to do?
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I listened to the interview and I viewed it as more a respectful request rather than a complaint
 
StllH8L8ner said:
Unless it’s a Top 10 opponent or rival (whoever that is these days), XL is the worst home court advantage in college hoops. I obviously can’t stand Duke, but that place is always rocking no matter who they’re playing.
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Well, it’s smaller than Gampel, and they keep the student section directly across from the main tv camera. They’re fooling you.
 
Padutch5 said:
Gee if your goal is just to play in a smaller arena, why not just play in the new Farmington HS gym.
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BTW, my grandson just started freshman year there and I can tell you that high school is a lot different than the kind I attended a thousand years ago. Just a beautiful place. After his first day of school I asked him how it was and he said “it’s too nice for us”.
 
Hamms30 said:
Oh good. Villanova will be relieved those losses don't count.
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The cupcakes are only regular season games if you lose.

You get zero credit for winning, and a mountain of doubt to overcome if you lose.
 
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