UConn vs. PC at Mohegan 10/25, tickets on sale now

[ConnHuskBask]

To be fair, I don't think the venue or location was the cause for the terrible showing. The conference has almost 0 fan interest. It's completely reliant on the teams/matchups playing out a particular way. There is almost no history between teams. And many of them are just historically bad teams with no fans. There is no winning formula to selling tickets to the AAC tournament.

UConn played a ranked Cincinnati squad in an elimination game and the place was empty.

-Team with successful pedigree
-Team with a shared history via Big East / AAC
-Semifinal game to an auto bid for the NCAA Tourney

Anymore excuses?

 

[gampelcrazies]

UConn played a ranked Cincinnati squad in an elimination game and the place was empty.

-Team with successful pedigree
-Team with a shared history via Big East / AAC
-Semifinal game to an auto bid for the NCAA Tourney

Anymore excuses?

We sucked that's why no one showed up. If we were top 25 that place would have been standing room only.

 

[Wordbomar]

We sucked that's why no one showed up. If we were top 25 that place would have been standing room only.

And that’s not an excuse, that’s 100% reality

 

[ctchamps]

We sucked that's why no one showed up. If we were top 25 that place would have been standing room only.

And that’s not an excuse, that’s 100% reality

Or no one showed up because we are sucky fans. Not that you realize it but Bask is also a UConn football fan and has endured six years of complete misery. #RealFan and not #FairWeatherFan

 

[ConnHuskBask]

We sucked that's why no one showed up. If we were top 25 that place would have been standing room only.

Which is pretty much the exact thing that fair weathered fan bases do.

Win that game, and have a 1 game elimination to get into the big dance. Nobody could be bothered.

 

[ctchamps]

Which is pretty much the exact thing that fair weathered fan bases do.

Win that game, and have a 1 game elimination to get into the big dance. Nobody could be bothered.

I beat you to this.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I beat you to this.

Just saw that haha. And I'm not dogging anyone for not going if they didn't want to. It's just funny to me to see the excuses and mental gymnastics that we'll do to justify having a half-empty building for a conference tournament game.

 

[ctchamps]

Just saw that haha. And I'm not dogging anyone for not going if they didn't want to. It's just funny to me to see the excuses and mental gymnastics that we'll do to justify having a half-empty building for a conference tournament game.

Which ends up as perfect irony.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Or no one showed up because we are sucky fans. Not that you realize it but Bask is also a UConn football fan and has endured six years of complete misery. #RealFan and not #FairWeatherFan

You have to win to sell tickets. This goes for almost every other team in the country.

 

[ctchamps]

You have to win to sell tickets. This goes for almost every other team in the country.

Whether reality or not, it's still fans being fair weather, (or spoiled or entitled). The fans I admire stick with teams no matter what. Just my preference and what I did following many teams that never hit pay dirt and were frequently at the bottom.

 

[Chief00]

Lots of seats still available if you want to go! And if you’ve never been Mohegan sun before, the seats up top are still really good because venue is not that big.

10$ upper section
25$ Lower section

Wordbomar - Can you take another picture of the seats? Just curious about the ticket sales.

 

[August_West]

Wordbomar - Can you take another picture of the seats? Just curious about the ticket sales.

 

[UConnSwag11]

If it wasn't for this message board I would not have known about this game. Haven't seen or heard it anywhere

 

[Wordbomar]

Pencil me in as surprised they aren't pushing this game more

 

[HCope]

Any news on it being televised?

 

[Wordbomar]

Any news on it being televised?

Guessing that it won’t be because it’s for charity and they want fans in seats not watching

 

[Kemba'sYogurt]

Guessing that it won’t be because it’s for charity and they want fans in seats not watching

You think there'll be a stream? I remember watching the Wagner game last year on periscope with potatoes and window cleaner in the frame.

 

[gampelcrazies]

You think there'll be a stream? I remember watching the Wagner game last year on periscope with potatoes and window cleaner in the frame.

That was a regular season game

 

[mjmoney23]

Think we pretty much blew our shot at ever hosting another tourney with our pathetic showing this past March.

To be fair, the prices were outrageous for the tournament. Wasn't it like 65 or so for the upper deck?

 

[Chief00]

Let’s focus on the here and now. I think the AAC and NBE media days may have deflected some attention from the game. All we can do is buy tickets and go. Hopefully, enough of people will do that. Free parking and $10 tickets - is reasonable - too bad TicketMaster is not playing nice in the charity sandbox with their fees.

 

[SouthBayHusky]

Let’s focus on the here and now. I think the AAC and NBE media days may have deflected some attention from the game. All we can do is buy tickets and go. Hopefully, enough of people will do that. Free parking and $10 tickets - is reasonable - too bad TicketMaster is not playing nice in the charity sandbox with their fees.

Unless you live 3000 miles from Mohegan. Hoping it's on paid husky vision or something and they donate stream fees

 

[mjmoney23]

Let’s focus on the here and now. I think the AAC and NBE media days may have deflected some attention from the game. All we can do is buy tickets and go. Hopefully, enough of people will do that. Free parking and $10 tickets - is reasonable - too bad TicketMaster is not playing nice in the charity sandbox with their fees.

If I were to go up the day of the game and buy from the box office, would the fees be less?

 

[champs99and04]

To be fair, the prices were outrageous for the tournament. Wasn't it like 65 or so for the upper deck?

They were dirt cheap from what I remember. I bought the full strip for what probably amounted to $5 per game and that was for decent seats.

The fans that were there were great. But as I've said before, it's a small, finicky base relative to what the program has accomplished. Northeast sports fans in general tend to be the spoiled sort simply because of how many options they have. It's a saturated market that doesn't necessarily lend itself to building cult-like college fan bases. I hate it but it is what it is.

 

[gampelcrazies]

They were dirt cheap from what I remember. I bought the full strip for what probably amounted to $5 per game and that was for decent seats.

The fans that were there were great. But as I've said before, it's a small, finicky base relative to what the program has accomplished. Northeast sports fans in general tend to be the spoiled sort simply because of how many options they have. It's a saturated market that doesn't necessarily lend itself to building cult-like college fan bases. I hate it but it is what it is.

They were cheap a week before on StubHub . I Bought a full strip for $15. BUT if you wanted to buy tickets from XL they were going for $60 per game in the upper deck. I have never understood the pricing model for the aac. They think this is the big east tournament

 

[August_West]

They were cheap a week before on StubHub . I Bought a full strip for $15. BUT if you wanted to buy tickets from XL they were going for $60 per game in the upper deck. I have never understood the pricing model for the aac. They think this is the big east tournament

Regardless we did a terrible hosting job as fans