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Message: [QUOTE="Kemba Time, post: 4843657, member: 2962"] Ding, ding, ding. This is the correct answer. AD David Benedict knows this, which is why he doubled-down on donations in the last season-ticket price increase. XL has 10,000+ season ticket holders and if you want to say the average donation is even 200-300 (I’d guess it’s a little higher now), that’s 2-3 million dollars annually in pure income that has nothing to do with CRDA or where UConn plays home football games. Between arena capacities, fans who would drop their seasons because of the added distance or unwillingness to double their financial commitment and decreased incentive for corporations to buy blocks of tickets with donations the farther the games are played from their offices and where their workers live, going to an all-Gampel or Gampel-first model becomes much less than double the Gampel games, double the donations and a great deal of that money would disappear. The other thing that seems to be consistently overlooked in this conversation is UConn’s huge attendance increase in recent seasons. Making the XL Center math work is very dependent on huge season-ticket numbers and sold-out games. During the end of the KO era and Hurley’s first season the average XL attendance was at 9 to 10k. Then there was a pandemic. This season, we’re going to average 15k+ at XL. Those additional seats purchased and donations are absolutely the difference between the model working or spitting out those lost revenue numbers over recent seasons. [/QUOTE]

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