Do home football games help your home hockey attendance?

[RaceBoarder]

Re: Do home football games help your home hockey attendance?

For what it's worth, Notre Dame supposedly moved up this Saturday's game against NMU to a 5:05 start so their wouldn't be a conflict with ND's game against Pitt...

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Do home football games help your home hockey attendance?

That's awesome. I don't think Clarkson has lost since the '50s.

I don't think the gophers have missed a rose bowl during that same time span... oh wait, no, that's not true at all.

 

[IrishHockeyFan]

Re: Do home football games help your home hockey attendance?

Since Notre Dame football games start so late now (most home games start at 3:42 before the switch back to EST,at which time it falls back to 2:42) and take so long to complete -- hey losing to Navy takes time -- they no longer schedule home games on the same days. When Notre Dame is on the road and playing a night game like they are this weekend at Pitt, a home hockey game is scheduled for a later afternoon start, so as to not compete with the football. My guess is the crowds are a little smaller when people are waiting around for the football games, as the smallest crowd this year by a couple of hundred people was the Ohio State game on the afternoon Notre Dame played a night game down in Texas.