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Poor fan showing at Gampel

The student tickets should not be 100% free. Add a nominal cost, like $5-10 and only studnets who really want to go will buy them.
What is hapenning now is kids are logging in, getting their free ticket in case they want to go and then not going. Students tickets are also currently non transferable even between students. makes no sense.
 
As others have said, this had more to do with it being Saturday night on Valentine’s Day than anything else. The casuals were all fighting for tables at Cheesecake Factory instead of watching UConn play Georgetown.
 
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CTBasketball said:
Academics aren’t inherently better they’re just grabbing more international and out of state students because it’s more profitable. These kids don’t care about UConn athletics.
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Academics/Intl students is a bit of a reach. Duke/Cameron would have similar struggles but they don’t.
CT has always been a front-runner crowd prone to apathy.

Frustrating, but that’s reality.
 
FightOnCT said:
It feels like every time the crowd has actually rose to the moment this year, the opposing team would immediately hit a silencer three or draw a foul. It’s like a hex
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This was killing my section for sure. KJ Lewis must have personally sat the fans down about 4 or 5 times, and the refs had at least another few
 
RitzLuce1 said:
This is deflection by Dan.

Georgetown stinks. It's 8pm on Valentine's Day. Outside of St. John's and Nova, the league is not good this year and doesn't move the needle.

When we played a very good team, Arizona, it was a great crowd. The crowds in Boston and NYC were pretty great.

This is a problem nationwide unless it's an elite matchup.
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We can see the indifference of fans in many sports, coming in late, leaving early, etc. The current financial structure may also be a turnoff for some as the spread between what the top college sports pay and what most students have at this stage of their lives has been growing a lot. When you add in the transfer, one and done players, lack of home-grown players, fan loyalty may suffer.

The above doesn't address the growing list of distractions. The college game has moved to being a big business. Just look at the number of supporting staff sitting with the players. TV, streaming and deals to grow the brand seem to greet us every year.

In any case, we are blessed to have a great team/s gathered to compete at this top level by the best coaches in the business.
 
ValleyGuy said:
I’ve been complaining about the crowds for the last two years. Students wait for Hurley to tell them to cheer. They don’t understand the flow of the game at all. It’s lifeless in there
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There seems to be a larger and larger contingent of the student section that are just there for the chance to get on TV but other than that, do nothing.

The Banana kids, the PAC-Man outfit kids, etc. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun to bring personality to the crowd, but you need to do more than act like a crazy fan for the 5sec the camera is on you (then check social media the rest of the game to look for the likes you get from the clip you posted to TikTok/IG/Snap)
 
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Even though he's not wrong, wtf is it of Ed Cooley's business? First lecturing the fan base about how arrogant and spoiled we are and then commenting on the crowd? Maybe he should pay more attention to his 40-51 overall record at gtown?
 
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6xChamps said:
It’s brutal this season. The student section that’s across from the main student section is a big issue. Those should be released at face value to other fans that would actually go and cheer and stay the whole game.
Agree with the poster above. I no longer have season tickets because of where I live (2 hrs away), but I look at the secondary market most games to see if making the trip makes sense. This game would’ve been 100 bucks a pop for a mediocre seat, yet it seemed like the place was half full. Makes no sense.
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Well, Georgetown shouldn’t be commenting on anyone’s attendance. I’m sorry.

And it was a three-day weekend, which I’m sure someone has said somewhere in this discussion where a lot of kids go home.

But I looked for tickets, and I was looking at $350-500 for 2 crappy tickets for this game.

And I’m not sure if I’m alone in this, but I’ve kind of had it. And it’s not just UConn basketball, but this whole economy we have where it just seems like you’ve got to spend an arm or two to do things which used to be attainable. Not all of us have this type of money.

Red Sox game same thing - no, I don’t want to pay $60 to park my car. I used to pay $60 to stay at a hotel for the night going back a few years ago.

And the tipping point for me :) was this weekend where I was going to get some egg salad to go with a croissant for dinner at a Coop. It was literally the smallest amount of egg salad in a tiny container (with no croissant) for 7 dollars. Yes, me and the cashier had a good laugh - no, I didn’t buy it.

Sorry this touches a nerve, but this is not a UConn issue. Maybe the secondary selling of tickets needs to be finally looked at because it’s ridiculous.

But a few open seats say nothing about UConn fans in my opinion - at least not the ones that are trying to make their mortgage every month, pay rent, or raise a family. The economy is the worst I’ve seen it for average income folks or lower in my existence on this planet - sure, it’s been worse at some point in history, but not since I’ve been here. :)
 
For Christmas my wife surprised me with tickets to the Marquette game at Gampel. She bought them on SeatGeek for $250. We were the second to last row in the building. I couldn’t believe she spent that much on these tickets. And I understand the fee structure to those resellers. Still $250 is crazy for those tickets. I truly believe most of our fanbase is being priced out of games. I understand we have to make money but this isn’t helping the crowds having wealthier people skip games or being forced to overpay on the secondary market.

Others have made the point that it is a Saturday Valentine’s Day and that had to have had some impact. Then the other point that this conversation was started by the opposing coach who, even if right in his assessment, has no reason to scrutinize. Hurley responding to it might have more to do with him knowing these responses to the media are a way for him to speak directly to us and motivate the fanbase to step it up.

But I also believe it is true because I watch enough basketball to see that these other fanbases have a much younger and rowdier crowd. Find a way to reduce empty seats and get tickets in the hands of real fans, not those who are feeding the secondary market.
 
pepband99 said:
It's like everyone is forgetting that Ed feels his #1 job is to needle opposing fanbases, instead of actually fielding the best team.
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And providing a cool drink of room temperature water to fans in the first row behind his bench when they lose to a mediocre team!

We don’t have a good college basketball atmosphere at either venue save for Top 10 opponents coming in and pointed times during close games. I watch our games and also Duke, UNC, Kansas, etc and the atmosphere differences are vast. It’s not even a debate.
 
freshler40 said:
We can see the indifference of fans in many sports, coming in late, leaving early, etc. The current financial structure may also be a turnoff for some as the spread between what the top college sports pay and what most students have at this stage of their lives has been growing a lot. When you add in the transfer, one and done players, lack of home-grown players, fan loyalty may suffer.

The above doesn't address the growing list of distractions. The college game has moved to being a big business. Just look at the number of supporting staff sitting with the players. TV, streaming and deals to grow the brand seem to greet us every year.

In any case, we are blessed to have a great team/s gathered to compete at this top level by the best coaches in the business.
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This is all very concerning. I feel like something similar happened to the Red Sox after their run of success. They had a passionate fan base, Fenway was packed, the crowd was awesome and then it started to change. More people came as a Social event, prices continually increased, and now in stead of Red Sox fans invading other stadiums, other fan bases can come and make noise at Fenway.

Something has to change. Hurley has done everything possible to turn this program around. And yet it feels like he may be more and more inclined to walk if it continues this way. In the next couple of years big programs could be looking for a new head coach, UNC, Kentucky, Kansas. Hurley and UConn are a perfect fit. Something has to change because nobody wants to go back to the post
2014 days.
 
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Would things be different in a better Conference? 8 pm on a sat student's should of been out in full force..what happened?
 
uconn_jack said:
I need to watch more of the top team's home games (e.g. Duke, Zona, MI, UH, etc.) against their bottom dwellers to get a true comparative sense for whether our crowd is significantly worse.
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I was at Dean Dome yesterday vs Pitt. It was 97% sold out on the ticketing sites but probably about 75% full. The crowd was really good though. Honestly their entire production was really, really good. I haven't been to a game in Storrs in a while but I'll be there Wednesday. Im curious to see how it compares while UNC is still fresh in my head.
 
Robrio89 said:
For Christmas my wife surprised me with tickets to the Marquette game at Gampel. She bought them on SeatGeek for $250. We were the second to last row in the building. I couldn’t believe she spent that much on these tickets. And I understand the fee structure to those resellers. Still $250 is crazy for those tickets. I truly believe most of our fanbase is being priced out of games. I understand we have to make money but this isn’t helping the crowds having wealthier people skip games or being forced to overpay on the secondary market.

Others have made the point that it is a Saturday Valentine’s Day and that had to have had some impact. Then the other point that this conversation was started by the opposing coach who, even if right in his assessment, has no reason to scrutinize. Hurley responding to it might have more to do with him knowing these responses to the media are a way for him to speak directly to us and motivate the fanbase to step it up.

But I also believe it is true because I watch enough basketball to see that these other fanbases have a much younger and rowdier crowd. Find a way to reduce empty seats and get tickets in the hands of real fans, not those who are feeding the secondary market.
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It is my dream to win Powerball for 1 billion.

Then, I will buy out the first 10 rows at Gampel and Peeps. Only students and rabid fans will be allowed to sit in those seats (for free). It will be set up in my trust and will for perpetuity. I will have a carefully selected arbitor to ensure that appropriate loudness/rabid fan metrics are maintained in those seats.
 
FreeKlaiber said:
true or not true, Danny should focus more on drawing up and drilling in practice an inbound play that isnt designed to enter the ball into a corner trap. He has to control what he can, and blaming fans is more of a deflection imo
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You’re not wrong but he was asked a question by a reporter, he answered it. I doubt he’s thinking “these fn lame crowds” as he’s planning his practices.
 
Cause and effect I believe. Have to pay a large salary for Hurley and need to raise tickets. So you get a different crowd. I enjoy basketball but I’m not going to spend 500-1000 for a family of 4 for a game against Georgetown when the game is easily accessible on tv.
 
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