Poor fan showing at Gampel

[businesslawyer]

Bottom line, all of these reasons are excuses....

The fans need to be loud and proud... and the students need to organize and get crazy.....

As someone who has lived in the state for 49 years, anyone who claims they aren't able to believe that sometimes folks are late for something because they hit traffic that is beyond what can reasonably be anticipated is either (i) a liar or f(ii) a total idiot.

I'm sorry, that was unfair. It is possible you could be both.

 

[Slick]

-a lot of issues that are hard to fix but allowing students to transfer seats again needs to happen immediately. If they can come up with something better for next year to make sure the student seats are full by the biggest fans than great but the current setup is terrible

-I sit in the corner kind of overlooking the student section and it does look like they have some people in the front row trying to lead stuff. Saturday even saw someone during one of the late timeouts running up the stairs telling people to stand up when they were sitting down The bigger issue is the passion of the student body. Defense especially you don’t need much leadership, you yell OOOOOOO the whole time on defense ideally while jumping up and down, it’s not that hard

-Cooley should shut his mouth. Hurley probably only spoke out after this game because he was asked and he was probably only asked because of what Cooley said. That said, two things can be true, Hurley has been visibly frustrated on the sideline with the crowd noise a bunch of times this year not just Saturday. And he’s spoke out before about fans not being in the game until late when it’s close.

Cooley baited Danny and he swallowed the bait. Hurley should have told him to worry about the 3000 fans in Georgetown arena

 

[kemba]

Cooley baited Danny and he swallowed the bait. Hurley should have told him to worry about the 3000 fans in Georgetown arena

Getting into a back and forth with clown like ed Cooley would have been the definition of taking the bait

And again, this was the strongest Dan has criticized the crowds but it’s far from the first time

 

[kemba]

Per my daughter- they release them at exactly 10PM on a night approx 1 week before the game. They are gone fairly quick.

Maybe one thing they could do is release them in person at the ticket office or somewhere first, so especially for the biggest games those willing to line up early or at least go in person can guarantee themselves tickets, and then after that initial window release the rest online.

And then if not allowing them to be transferred have a way to return them to the ticket office so they can be re-released online, with some sort of penalty if tickets get claimed but then not used or returned

 

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[UCan3]

Cooley baited Danny and he swallowed the bait. Hurley should have told him to worry about the 3000 fans in Georgetown arena

I agree as I saw ESPN pick up that story and it was nothing to do with the game just a hit piece on our supposed attendance issue? That was it…. A nothingburger which I am surprised it got the attention it did - both in the press and here as well.

Meanwhile the press could be writing about many other topics… Like…

When did Syracuse become such a laughingstock in basketball?

Or why did all the Big East defectors fizzle for the most part with the exception of maybe -the late to join and early to leave -U of Miami?

I would rather read an article on how teams like BC, Pitt, Syracuse, and others who supposedly hit pay dirt when they left are now an afterthought in the NCAAs now. A footnote that no one seems to care about anymore.

Way back when in the Big East - all these teams were teams to be reckoned with - now they seem like the “kick around” teams of the ACC conference - it’s actually a bit cringeworthy…. Especially Pitt, BC + Syracuse.. they used to be real contenders….

 

[MuchoDogYears]

That would be a disaster, then all the seating you see on TV would be empty.

Not if the right (kind of) students are getting access to side court seating. Unfortunately, student tickets these days are being claimed by the Instagram crowd. lookmeee! lookee mee! pose, pose, pose

And honestly, the people inhabiting those seats now could be replaced by covid cutouts and no-one would notice a difference. So yeah...putting students in those seats would be an upgrade.

 

[MuchoDogYears]

To get the Gen Z student crowd jacked up give them Red Bulls rather than beer (they don't drink, especially beer)

 

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[UConnTrumbull]

Well THAT was fast

 

[CL82]

Yes I know. Jeff was an empty suit, Lew is his predecessor and the one that made radical changes with the season ticket program.

Pretty sure it was Hathaway, but it was a while ago so you may be right.

 

[CTBasketball]

Well THAT was fast

Sometimes it takes a little public trashing to show you how bad your policy really is.