Thank you XL Center

[bendm]

my holy presence? I'm a season ticket holder dude LOL.

then why are you saying fans have not been given a reason to show up and cheer for this team???

 

[Hoophound]

The empty seats you see in the lower bowl at XL (and at Gampel too) are never allocated to students. Those go to the high donation level corporate types, doctors and lawyers (and TikTok stars I suppose). They tend to be (a) busy and (b) "casuals". This is a problem we've had for decades so I don't understand why people blame the arena. You want those seats behind the benches filled so it looks good on TV, give them to students like Duke does. But since our AD is $40M+ underwater each year, I don't see it happening.

The crowd was loud enough. A strong XL crowd is louder than a strong Gampel crowd just because of the nature of the building.

I just don't understand why they can't get these people to donate the seats so the AD can fill them. Not showing up is one degree of sucky, but wasting the tickets when someone could enjoy them and support the team is just selfish.

 

[John]

then why are you saying fans have not been given a reason to show up and cheer for this team???

UConn teams that were world's better than this years got the same or less fannies in the seats during the OBE days. All thing considered the fan numbers have been decent.

 

[mjmoney23]

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The empty seats you see in the lower bowl at XL (and at Gampel too) are never allocated to students. Those go to the high donation level corporate types, doctors and lawyers (and TikTok stars I suppose). They tend to be (a) busy and (b) "casuals". This is a problem we've had for decades so I don't understand why people blame the arena. You want those seats behind the benches filled so it looks good on TV, give them to students like Duke does. But since our AD is $40M+ underwater each year, I don't see it happening.

The crowd was loud enough. A strong XL crowd is louder than a strong Gampel crowd just because of the nature of the building.

One caveat at XL, the sections that abut the 2 sections behind the hoop (traditional student section) are also student sections. These had plenty of "older students" there last night, particularly 123.

 

[BleedHuskyBlu]

The Xl center looks way emptier on TV than all actuality. The camera on tv only shows that first section behind the benches which is always empty for some reason. I was there and the only seats the were really open were all the way at the top