At least BC is in Boston. Good luck to Finger Lakes State filling that arena.
Syracuse is always top 3 in the nation in attendance. BC gets less fans than UMass.
True, nobody in Syracuse has anything to do but go to Syracuse games. They really do have that going for them lmao
Color guard present so probably the national anthem. The amazing thing is guys like this just make chit up and it gets posted without question, though the fact that it is about cuse tempers my disdain...and it is shortly before
You hope you’d be when you play in a football stadium
Except that nobody outside BC grads cares about BC athletics in Boston. It's a private school and they don't have a wide following. At least that's my experience. Do you get that impression also?
I don’t. It’s just a constant reminder of how UConn got left behind mostly because of spiteful things done by former Big East teams ( BC, Cuse, Pitt and Ville) in the hopes of killing off our program (petty jealousy) and some self destructive decisions by the school, Wrong school president, lazy AD, no foresight as to the consequences of staying in the BE long term and being too trusting and gullible concerning the motives of other schools desire to get out primarily BC and Pitt. Remember when JC swore he’d never play BC and Pitt in basketball ever again because of their behind the scenes dishonesty to destroy the BE ( Pitt) and block (BC) UConn’s admittance. All of the other states that were home to
Only +1 because I can't +2.
UMass fan support has collapsed. Last year, BC averaged 5.5k fans and UMass averaged 3.5k.
During a year in which the ACC is worse than the AAC was, no less.
Of the top of my head, that NIT game. Only time they ever let me in the lower bowl of Gampel.
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Oh yeah.
Oh for sure. But if BC was ever decent, alums would care enough to go, and travel into Boston for big games. I don’t see much potential for that in Syracuse, other than relying on a town full of people with nothing better to do to fill the stadium. The perspective I took to make that call was someone who attended BC and stayed in Boston or moved elsewhere in the Northeast. If I went to Cuse, I would need a really good reason to trek back into that dead-end town to suffer through losses; Boston itself is, to me, a fine reason to come back to campus and watch my team lose
Not sure. I would assume sold tickets since that's what they usually report. But were there really only 3000+ tickets sold to a couple of those Gampel games? I would think there were way more season tickets at Gampel than that so maybe it's actual people there. Anyone else know?
Has to be tickets sold. By the end of the Ollie era the suits stopped showing up.
No, and it’s really nice!
Totally get it. I find it difficult to continue to be spiteful as we keep racking up championships.
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I went to a game in Ollies final year at Gampel (UCF) and was shocked at the attendance. Seats in the upper level behind the benches were half full and those are the true believers. The building was dead. But to show how shellshocked the fan base was resulting in the drop off in season ticket holders in Hurleys second season we played and lost to St Joes at Gampel. Attendance was 4,081. We had a big comeback but fell short. The few there were into it but I was thinking we have become invisible on the National stage. Bouknight arrived the next season and we were on our way back.
