Originally posted by Comebakatz3:
I have heard that, and I suppose that they need to have a free entrance to some degree. UK's average attendance at home this year is reported to be 1,717 and UL's at home average is 1,066. Last year UL went to the CWS and despite that they averaged 1,856 per home game. UK had a solid year and went to the UL regional and still managed over 2,000 at home. If you think about it, their attendance was even probably greatly boosted by the run to the CWS. They played all of their post season games at home. Those games drew in 3488; 3341; 4319 (UK game); 5351; and 6007. Their total attendance at home for the year was 76,000 and change. 25,000 and change of that came from just those two post season weekends. Their average drops from 1,865 per game to 1,489 per game if you don't count the post season. So, their regular season attendance, in a very good year, was not extremely impressive. By the way, something crazy is that last year UK only played 27 home games while Louisville played 41.
Still, regardless of their attendance, they have an outstanding team year in and year out. They have been to the CWS 3 times since 2007 and have won at least 40 games every year since then with the exception of 2011. They have also made the NCAA tournament every year except 2011. That puts us to shame.