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Why do you think he isn’t focusing more on that?
That’s like me saying you should focus more on whatever important things you have going on than posting on a message board
Poor fan showing at Gampel
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That’s like me saying you should focus more on whatever important things you have going on than posting on a message board
Maybe they should stop scheduling men and women on same night like this week ...
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Not to bring football into the discussion- but I will. If there is concern about filling the seats at Gampel for one of the best teams in the country year after year- that doesn't paint a good picture of on campus football.
Gampel should be packed every game, no matter who the opponent.
Gampel should be packed every game, no matter who the opponent.
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they used to (mass email) blast season ticket holders and all attendees for 'leaving games early' ... and in some cases, threatened to revoke current tickets and future purchasing rights
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The problem is the popularity has caused a huge rise in ticket prices. It's not the same as football.
Upper level seats at center court cost $200+ these days.
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righttttt....I think this from watching this team the last couple of years. Tonsss of oob sets exist that dont enter it directly into where the defense press wants to trap (the corner- bball 101). The inbounder, the motion off screens matter as well, but we repeatedly enter it directly into the corner. Thats design. You have seen this, no?
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I have noticed the student section at pba seems to be smaller and they don't seem to be as into it as they were even last year. It definitely affects the overall atmosphere. Did something change in the way student tickets are distributed?
Maybe don’t price out the true fans from these games. It’s easy to deflect to the fans when the team isn’t playing to the level you expected. No reason to lose your voice and sweat out a game you should be up 25, all to sit in the north garage for an hour after the game. The fans have always shown up to rally the team.
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Good God. You know what the coaching staff is going to see if they look in the mirror? I’m guessing they’ll see that they are coaching a team that is 24-2 and in position to win the Big East regular season and get a #1 seed in region. In our 6 championship years, the record was only matched in ‘99. If you can’t get into that, it’s not on the coaches and players. You should look in a mirror.
Saturday night, Valentines Day, weak opponent. It’s definitely a level of a spoiled fanbase, but I’m skipping this one before dealing with the wrath of my wife not being home from 6-12 Valentine’s Day evening. If it was St John’s I’d be willing to deal with it, not for Georgetown. So yes, completely spoiled. Take it for what it is.
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Deflection from what exactly? Having won 2 of the last 3 national championships and being 24-2 this year?
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Same design that won us 2 championships.
He’s 24-2(14-1) what exactly do you think hes deflecting from? Not being undefeated lmao.
The crowds have sucked. And he is the coach of a spoiled, entitled, apathetic fan base. The team doesn’t suck as much as this fan base does.
His point was this team should be celebrated and backed. That isn’t happening.
Do you think he’s also coaching Taris and Reibe to have 3 collective rebounds?
Here’s a nugget, college kids don’t always execute
Don’t think so just the student section has sucked for years and keeps getting worse. Outside of during opponent free throws it just feels like another section. Usually they at least show up to gampel though, that amount of empty seats last night was awful.
Other than that, look the quality of opponents at home has played a role and it’s not completely fair to compare what we face in creighton when we play them as the #2 team in the country vs why creighton will probably face when they come here as a very mediocre team. And I’m sure the crowd will be electric for St. John’s. That said, it should still be a lot better than it is. Villanova a few weeks back should have been electric from the start and was dead until it got late. I didn’t think last night was terrible noise wise but Saturday night against Georgetown should be loud regardless of their record, especially when so many fans say we need to stay in the big east to play our traditional rivals.
Besides the students I do think the new seating and pricing has played a role. Past years I’ve thought we wait too much for Hurley to get people going to get loud…but still when he wanted people loud the crowd would always respond especially lower bowl behind him. This season that has not happened nearly as much and he’s been visibly frustrated many times. And yes there’s some level of just being spoiled in our fan base comments like this team isn’t fun to watch or we should be beating them by 25 so I’m not going to be loud show that
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The complaints are amazing. I could care less if there is any production — laser shows, rock music, an involved PA announcer — at a basketball game. I’d trade it all to be 24-2 in ANY year.
The societal and regional complaints/observations are true. Our region is not as live or die for college sports as the south, and younger people’s attention to the game will forever be compromised by their worrying about theirs and others social media presences while they are there. That stuff all is what it is. What is not a given is that we’re 24-2 and yet so much of the fanbase seems miserable.
(And to be clear, I’m not imagining greatness that isn’t there. I frankly don’t think this team is playing well enough to make the Final Four. But I also didn’t think that in ‘11, ‘14 or ‘23. The goal is to win the game in front of you until you lose one you can’t and you don’t have more games. Which we are succeeding in doing.)
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This.
It's ridiculous if the tickets really aren't transferable, that needs to be fixed. Kids are a lot different than they used to be but I don't believe we can't fill the student section with kids who want to be there.
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Correct. 24-2 shouldn’t feel like this. The basketball Gods are going to humble us real soon.
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I must admit, I was there & didn’t notice the empty seats. What I did notice was that every time we got up and started to cheer, Georgetown would kill it. Also it seems like there’s a lot of timeouts and stoppage of play for whatever reason which doesn’t help to keep fan engagement going.
I will also agree heartily that there’s a lot of pissed off people after the ‘forever seat’ fiasco. And every email I get from them is asking for more money.
I will also agree heartily that there’s a lot of pissed off people after the ‘forever seat’ fiasco. And every email I get from them is asking for more money.
Part of the problem right here
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I don't know about all that. A lot of them act like idiots but the Providence fanbase is rabid. St. John's fans are crazed at games now that they're good. It's the Midwest but Xavier and Creighton have rabid fanbases.
It seems like UConn has more of a ticket problem than anything else. If kids really are getting all these free tickets and sitting on them because they're not transferable that's ridiculous and UConn needs to fix it.
What has to change is conference.
People are gonna get loud for constant top 25 teams coming in the buildings. See Big 12 standings.
They aren’t going to for an Ed Cooley or Kim English led under .500 team.
Get us out of this pathetic conference and into a major player.
Not hard to understand.
People are gonna get loud for constant top 25 teams coming in the buildings. See Big 12 standings.
They aren’t going to for an Ed Cooley or Kim English led under .500 team.
Get us out of this pathetic conference and into a major player.
Not hard to understand.
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That our inability to inbound the ball nearly cost us the game tonight against a mediocre team. Straw Man.
Totally agree with this. When I was there students entered a lottery for season tickets. They weren't expensive but cost something. Then they kept a certain amount of tickets available for students for single game. Kids absolutely claim them and don't go. My daughter whi is there said some of her friends couldn't get tickets when they tried to claim then because they were all taken. But I thought you could transfer student to student ?
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If they can only get up for top 25 teams there's something wrong with the fanbase. I think the biggest issue is the students and the ticketing policy with them.
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Very interesting thread read so far.
Last night was my first Gampel experience since the Tristen Newton breakout game against Creighton in January, 2024.
My first initial thoughts from the back rows of Section 10 was wow, Gampel is dead tonight. It was weird going to a game with my wife and feel like we were the loudest people in our section.
But I get the factors I've seen on here already: it's more expensive than ever (my row V section 10 seats were $98), so the diehards are priced out and watching at home, it's hard to get amped when playing a close game against Georgetown when nearly all of our momentum got killed with clutch moments by the Hoyas, Valentine's Day on a Saturday is a weird combo...
Let me get this off my chest: the overflow student section was pathetic. Felt like a few hundred kids treating their bleachers as couches while they thumbed through their phones and saved their attention for an opportunity to catch a free pair of socks or take photos of a freakin' Aquaphor mascot. Ban all of those students for life.
It was not the case while I was a student 20 years ago, but as @CTBasketball said, Hartford is a superior home court experience than Gampel. It's louder (I swear the new ceiling of Gampel is sound canceling), fits 5k more people and it's more real deal -- when you go to a game at Hartford, you are there for that sole reason. As an alum, going to Gampel brings a sense of nostalgia, and I got the feeling that is the choice venue for familes with an alum parent to bring their kid this place was rockin' when I was a student and you go walk around a little bit before the game, take in the scene. On the flipside, Hartford is what it is: it's a giant mall that has a large space to watch basketball, it's more of a basketball lovers gym. More chaotic, and honestly, if you're a student making it out to a Hartford game, you're probably more of a die-hard. If you're driving or taking a shuttle from the comforts of your dorm to catch a game at Hartford, that shows commitment.
I get a similar feeling at MSG, the venue which I've seen UConn the most across the last five seasons. Whether it was to see Illinois, St. John's or Indiana, I got the sense that UConn fans there felt like man, I've made it, the mecca of basketball, ! There's a ravenousness of showing up as a fan and lifting up the team.
At Gampel, I guess I'd expect the students to take that charge, but that's not the case anymore. But it's not just a UConn problem. I cover a ton of mid-major games locally and whether it's CCSU, Fairfield, Sacred Heart, Yale, Iona...none of those gyms' energies are fueled by the students. Iona has a die-hard fanbase, so does CCSU, there's a hunger in those gyms of those who attend those games, it's not a source of entertainment.
In summary, Gampel has become more of an entertainment venue while PBA is more of a cut-and-dry basketball venue, so I guess in short, if I had to pick another UConn game to attend this year, I'd easily pick Hartford.
Last night was my first Gampel experience since the Tristen Newton breakout game against Creighton in January, 2024.
My first initial thoughts from the back rows of Section 10 was wow, Gampel is dead tonight. It was weird going to a game with my wife and feel like we were the loudest people in our section.
But I get the factors I've seen on here already: it's more expensive than ever (my row V section 10 seats were $98), so the diehards are priced out and watching at home, it's hard to get amped when playing a close game against Georgetown when nearly all of our momentum got killed with clutch moments by the Hoyas, Valentine's Day on a Saturday is a weird combo...
Let me get this off my chest: the overflow student section was pathetic. Felt like a few hundred kids treating their bleachers as couches while they thumbed through their phones and saved their attention for an opportunity to catch a free pair of socks or take photos of a freakin' Aquaphor mascot. Ban all of those students for life.
It was not the case while I was a student 20 years ago, but as @CTBasketball said, Hartford is a superior home court experience than Gampel. It's louder (I swear the new ceiling of Gampel is sound canceling), fits 5k more people and it's more real deal -- when you go to a game at Hartford, you are there for that sole reason. As an alum, going to Gampel brings a sense of nostalgia, and I got the feeling that is the choice venue for familes with an alum parent to bring their kid this place was rockin' when I was a student and you go walk around a little bit before the game, take in the scene. On the flipside, Hartford is what it is: it's a giant mall that has a large space to watch basketball, it's more of a basketball lovers gym. More chaotic, and honestly, if you're a student making it out to a Hartford game, you're probably more of a die-hard. If you're driving or taking a shuttle from the comforts of your dorm to catch a game at Hartford, that shows commitment.
I get a similar feeling at MSG, the venue which I've seen UConn the most across the last five seasons. Whether it was to see Illinois, St. John's or Indiana, I got the sense that UConn fans there felt like man, I've made it, the mecca of basketball, ! There's a ravenousness of showing up as a fan and lifting up the team.
At Gampel, I guess I'd expect the students to take that charge, but that's not the case anymore. But it's not just a UConn problem. I cover a ton of mid-major games locally and whether it's CCSU, Fairfield, Sacred Heart, Yale, Iona...none of those gyms' energies are fueled by the students. Iona has a die-hard fanbase, so does CCSU, there's a hunger in those gyms of those who attend those games, it's not a source of entertainment.
In summary, Gampel has become more of an entertainment venue while PBA is more of a cut-and-dry basketball venue, so I guess in short, if I had to pick another UConn game to attend this year, I'd easily pick Hartford.
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This is funny but could be true. When I was a freshman in '97 I would say 50% of the kids who lived in the jungle had no business going to college....but they partied for two weeks straight before the 99 finals and 3 weeks straight after we won.
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Not happy with empty seats in the lower bowl. Jeez Dan, maybe talk to the athletic department that evicted a bunch of legacy Season ticket holders's out of their seats to make way for the "new money". 3 of the games in Hartford this year, my lower bowl seats from last year were empty and by the time my lottery number came up, the closest I could get was 8 rows in the upper bowl. The AD chased out the jerseys to make way for the suits.
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I get that other people wanted to do something else but but why don’t you move your tickets so they don’t go vacant? Maybe the cost is minimal to them so they don’t care about the loss?
Which gives merit to the wine and cheese fan.
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