Oakland Vrs Georgia Attendance is Just Pathetic
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I've been noticing this for a lot of games so far this season. It's amazing how many empty seats there are in the lower arena.
I guess when you can buy a 50 inch tv for lower than some of the ticket prices at these games, it's bound to happen.
I guess when you can buy a 50 inch tv for lower than some of the ticket prices at these games, it's bound to happen.
Because I want the whole SEC to be good and shut up the other fans in the ACC, Big 10 and others that use it against us. It hurts the pairing in the NCAA tourney also.
Georgia basketball suffers from being a very distant second fiddle (if that) to their football program. Not to make excuses for fairweather type of fans, but they need to either have a much better team than they're used to or have Kentucky or a team like Florida in the mid-2000s in the building or they're gonna have a tough time filling the seats. Speaking of those Florida teams, I'm not even sure they filled up the O'Connell Center every game to capacity during those times.
That's the SEC, though. Football is number one followed by basketball or baseball (Kentucky the obvious exception here).
That's the SEC, though. Football is number one followed by basketball or baseball (Kentucky the obvious exception here).
I haven't looked it up recently but the SEC is usually in the top three in attendance.
Dukie you are right, but in the ACC it's the same thing for a lot of the schools. Clemson, Florida State, Miami, Virginia Tech. None of those schools have good crowds unless Duke or UNC comes to town.
Hell UNC has averaged like 12,000 in their first 3 home games and that is PATHETIC for a blue blood. That's like 55% capacity at the Dean Dome.
BTW....I lived in Atlanta for a year and a half. I went to the UK game in Athens last year. Got a call from the UGA athletics department today asking if I could come to some games.
Hell UNC has averaged like 12,000 in their first 3 home games and that is PATHETIC for a blue blood. That's like 55% capacity at the Dean Dome.
BTW....I lived in Atlanta for a year and a half. I went to the UK game in Athens last year. Got a call from the UGA athletics department today asking if I could come to some games.
Just wait till we show up and the place is packed to the gills and the fans act like they been there all along...
We don't play there this year. But when we do we have almost half the arena. That's not an exaggeration either.
Truth. I went last year and the entire upper arena end zone and moving towards the side across from the benches was UK fans. I went to games at UT, SC, and UGA last year. Turnout was most impressive against USC, but they really sucked. UGA was at least decent so their fans somewhat showed up... And UT was right after the massive snowstorm in Ky (and also hit Knoxville)
Exactly, I want the SEC also to look good and represent in basketball as they do in football (I know, pipe dream). Makes our whole conference and UK look better if that were to happen.
They should force people to buy basketball tickets to get the better football seats. Then maybe people will go to the basketball games. If the conference is serious about basketball, maybe split up the conference money to teams based on percentage of tickets sold. If you have 10,000 seats or 23,000 seats it only matters with the percentage of butts in those seats. Reward the schools that actually support all the major sports.
TONS of schools have this policy.
In fact, I'd venture to say almost all Power-5 schools have some sort of system like this (Kentucky does it the other way around, buy football tickets for improved basketball seats).
The problem is, people at schools like Alabama will just buy basketball season tickets for the bump in football season tickets, and never even use them until Kentucky comes to town. They'll sit in a desk drawer somewhere
Until schools start keeping tabs on exactly who's tickets are being scanned, and who's aren't, it will continue.
But if the Alabama ticket office ever called Mr. and Mrs. John Doe and told them that if 90% of their basketball tickets aren't scanned, they get relegated in football, I bet you ANYTHING they'll either attend every game, or make sure to give their tickets to someone who will attend.
But schools don't do that.
And it's sad.
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