Taking on the NFL

[CTBasketball]

Complaining about attendance seems like a moot point when we're scheduling bottom-tier opponents when students are home for break. I thought the upper tiers filled in pretty admirably given the circumstances. I can't imagine a scenario where I'd expect XL to be more than ~60% full playing Delaware St in the 5th consecutive cupcake game. The biggest issue again was in the student section, where the band made up what looked like half the attendance.

I had a few beers Fri night and ranted about the garbage-quality of our OOC, season ticket price increase, and terrible game times on a Twitter Space with Dave Benedict in attendance. After remaining silent he left like 4 minutes later.

 

[Waquoit]

The arena was at 61% of capacity. Hardlly supporting your thesis.

My thesis that you were intentionally misleading is well supported.

 

[Rocktheworld]

61% of capacity leaves room for improvement. When you get that result, you can do something better. As for your posts, I will continue to let you argue with yourself, good luck with that.

Your back-pedaling is noted and appreciated.

 

[LIUCHusky]

The women played earlier that day and sold out, I think it was at the Excel center. So not only were the men playing a very weak team, competing with the NFL, but many UConn fans attended the women's game.

The women’s game wasn’t close to a sellout. Perhaps 1,000 more at the women’s game than at the men’s game.

 

[Chief00]

Didn't we just do this? Is it going to be an every game thing now (as if it's not already)?

Patriots, Giants, and Jets played at 1:00 and did not conflict. There were 1,000s of people in the concourse and still entering the arena at 20 minutes, pre-tip. It was a pretty decent crowd for the quality of opponent. It allowed me to get two tickets yesterday morning and take my oldest. We sat in Row H opposite DSU's bench and had a great time, but to reiterate from last week's threat:

"[Opponent] notwithstanding...

1. In-home experience has improved dramatically.
2. In-arena experience has stayed the same or has regressed.
2a. Everything about the In-arena experience costs more..."

I don’t agree that 1pm NFL games don’t conflict with 5pm XL games. The football game is over 4pm to 4:15pm, then you need to travel, park, walk to XL, get processed and get to a seat before 5pm. A big ask, so people don’t get tickets or have them and stay home. Again, 61% of capacity yesterday. That’s a bad result.
I was always taugh to look at business through a customer centric lens. Follow the steps of the customers. How can we make every material aspect of their experience better. When you take that approach you come to a very different conclusion than @Rocktheworld. People have other options and UConn should always be making every aspect of the game experience better.