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UConn vs. Arizona Sell Out?

Ajs120102 said:
If we don’t sell out it will be more of an indictment on fans being fed up with prices imo. They are just insane
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Prices for men's season tickets were around 30 or in the low 30's during the glamor years. As far as attendance, what's wrong with the fans? The team was brutal in the mid-80's and the crowds were bigger. Gampel's "crowds" have been an embarrassment of late. On campus and less than 6,000 last night? Maybe we were crazy, but we drove from the Albany area in the late 80's and early 90's no matter what the weather was like.
 
Caronimo said:
I agree that it likely won’t sell out. One thing to note is the upper baseline sections are pretty much full. They were offering those for $15 Black Friday and cyber Monday. Should be a relatively full building but likely not a sell out.
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Almost as if they
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should sell all the tickets
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for
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that price?
 
Should get the spread sometime tomorrow. Game honestly may be a push.
 
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A win against AZ will ignite more believers to start travelling and spending money again. Beat both AZ and FL State and I predict Nova a sellout at MSG and our home games start gaining more traffic with a few more sellouts at Gampel
 
MervthePurvis said:
I use vivid. Probably the same thing
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Vivid is good. For Uconn I typically try to buy off the athletic website rather than third party. I'd rather have the money go to athletic program then stubhub ppl. I'm no hero, though.
 
There will be more than enough of us to make a difference
 
IMO it doesn't honestly surprise me at all that the crowds haven't been this good for the early games and for the upcoming Arizona game. This is what happens when you play a lot of cupcake games early on in the year. When you schedule UMASS Lowell, UNH and UMKC as home games, that isn't going to interest a lot of people to go watch a 20+ point blowout. Arizona isn't even ranked this year and doesn't have the usual stud roster/recruiting class this year. You are going to only get a crowd to come when there are great players/teams involved. Coming from a working in sports background this is very common.
 
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Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
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They ruined the fanbase well before this guy. Heck we were wining with JC and wondering where the fannies were a lot. They were winners and it became big business.

Just a quick summary from my point of view. In the 80's-90's before and after JC if you went to the HCC I could find about 100 people a game from my home town of Meriden I'd pretty much run into every other game, and I'm not exaggerating. My guess is about 10-15 of these people went to UConn but they were all loyal fans from that time and many before the 80's. Years later when they started pushing back with $'s to keep your seats or else you're in 212ZZ they began to lose some for various reasons some financially. That's just Meriden can you imagine the other towns and cities in the state of CT with similar fandom?

Not blaming the university or anyone it's just reality. Many of your best fans no longer are part of the annual season ticket world and for that reason now have been habitually happy to watch on TV and not drive 30-60 minutes.
 
Stopping in Newark today to get tix. Clemson-MS St at 4pm, UC-FL St at 6:30. Sideline seating (section 7-9, 18-20) ~20 rows up (2/3 way) $95, but $150 and up o/l thru alternative suppliers. Strangely, some tix are less than Pru box office??
 
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Curious if Hurley isn’t in love with half the home games being at the XL center. You can tell he isn’t infatuated with it. But Arizona will be a packed house for sure even if not a sell out
 
mauconnfan said:
They ruined the fanbase well before this guy. Heck we were wining with JC and wondering where the fannies were a lot. They were winners and it became big business.

Just a quick summary from my point of view. In the 80's-90's before and after JC if you went to the HCC I could find about 100 people a game from my home town of Meriden I'd pretty much run into every other game, and I'm not exaggerating. My guess is about 10-15 of these people went to UConn but they were all loyal fans from that time and many before the 80's. Years later when they started pushing back with $'s to keep your seats or else you're in 212ZZ they began to lose some for various reasons some financially. That's just Meriden can you imagine the other towns and cities in the state of CT with similar fandom?

Not blaming the university or anyone it's just reality. Many of your best fans no longer are part of the annual season ticket world and for that reason now have been habitually happy to watch on TV and not drive 30-60 minutes.
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Yeah for dregs. You’d always see a packed house for a game of this caliber. We packed it for Witchita and Nova last year but most people probably have PTSD from attending those games and won’t be back.
 
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The game will have 15k if not a total sell out by Sunday. That's more then 90% of teams can say for a game between two unranked teams.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
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I feel like we should make a drinking game out of BY random Ollie references. I don't disagree with your point that the last two years were painful. That said the Cuse MSG game was electric. The fun is back, people should go to games and feel it for themselves.
 
M T Pockets said:
IMO it doesn't honestly surprise me at all that the crowds haven't been this good for the early games and for the upcoming Arizona game. This is what happens when you play a lot of cupcake games early on in the year. When you schedule UMASS Lowell, UNH and UMKC as home games, that isn't going to interest a lot of people to go watch a 20+ point blowout. Arizona isn't even ranked this year and doesn't have the usual stud roster/recruiting class this year. You are going to only get a crowd to come when there are great players/teams involved. Coming from a working in sports background this is very common.
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You're right. Those should be away games. At least last year, the scores of those games would have been closer. Maybe losses. :rolleyes: Pay no mind to the fact that the basketball would have stunk on ice, but hey, UConn would have at least played down to their competition.

Rare is the top 50 team who does not pad their non-tournament early OOC schedule.
 
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superjohn said:
We literally had two people in the thread say tickets are too expensive and it's nicer to stay home and watch on tv. Weekend game, elite program in town, $15 tickets. What's your excuse?
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I don't have an excuse. I'm going. At least I can count on you to hold down the fort in the chat room.
 
If anyone is looking to offload lower level tickets please DM me. I would love to go but I prefer to sit on my couch over nose bleeds.
 
zls44 said:
$6 Two Roads tall boys is the move, behind 107
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i was gonna post this as well -- after years of paying $9 for plastic cups of beer at XL, this kinda blew my mind.
 
Are people really bltching about ticket prices for this game?

“No one goes to the games, the seats are empty.”

“For the Arizona game tickets are going for $15-$20 dollars. It’s on a Sunday afternoon and the jets and Giants suck.”

“Nah. I’d rather sit at home.”

And repeat
 
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