Hey, maybe those of us who stay until the end of bad games are idiots, or maybe we're just diehard fans looking for any glimmer of hope after having seen success in the past. In our case, we sat through lots of awful basketball games in the 80's hoping kids like Marc Suhr would turn into Mike Gminski or Corny Thompson. We're such idiots we were excited to win the Wednesday night game at the Big East Tournament.
We did it for five years from Binghamton, NY (4 hour drive each way for weekend games) and seven more from near Albany, NY (2 hour drive each way) on work nights and weekends from the late 70's to the late 80's. After that it was only 45 minutes to Hartford and an hour plus to Storrs from Western Mass.
Lots of late night drives in snow, but it worked out (over too much time perhaps) in spite of all the bad calls from Higgins, Burr and Sylvester, so we were thrilled with most of the years from 1988 to 2014.
We only had football tickets from 2000 to 2011 and thought the games were more fun than basketball because the fans were so into the games. Saw enough in one year of Pasqualoni to move away. Not the actual reason.
Everyone is different, and it sounds like you have lots of pressures with kids, etc. so maybe it would have been better to take a year off, donate the $720 for a tax deduction or give the tickets to some youth organization, and get ready for the banner year next year will be.