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Message: [QUOTE="Hoophound, post: 1052895, member: 271"] UConn has problems selling tickets because the football product stinks and most of the opponents are small time. The basketball team recently struggled to sell out games because of various factors, but the schedule is certainly one of them. People in CT are used to big time sports, Boston, New York, Giants, Pats, Sox, Yanks, Celts. All the biggest brands in sports at the doorstep. You will find CT fans there for Michigan or Texas, but not for UCF and ECU. However, if you get the sports programs back in a big conference the mindset changes. We start playing Michigan and Ohio State and competing on the football field and the casual fan will get really excited. He will then want to go to the spring game or the tuneup against Stoneybrook because he wants to see what "his" team is looking like for the season as he looks forward to the big games. Right now, he just isn't excited. [/QUOTE]