Re: More proof that the Regional system is a disaster: Today's attendance at the X is
I am not quite sure how to choose the right words for this. I am not intending an insult to Boston area fans at all. Rather, I am finding a lot of irony in the last page of this thread:
We seem to be discussing the problem of not enough attendance at regionals. There have been many ideas about how to fix that - campus sites, etc. I keep wondering if the problem is easy to describe :
a) The really strong fan base is small in numbers in the first place
b) The economy is down, so people don't have the money to travel, especially when the rabid fans likely put out big bucks the week before for the conference tournaments
Now, again, this is not a flame toward the Boston people. I don't know any of them. But, someone a few posts up wrote something along the line of "Regardless of how late the BC fans should be willing to be out on a Sunday night, reality is that there won't be many who will. I got home as fast as possible from Worcester, and only got 6 hours of sleep." Someone else wrote that the West Region should have been evening, and the east afternoon.
All of which sounds great. But, then, I looked in the mirror. We are all screaming that it's not good this way, etc. But, look, let's reverse the games last Sunday. Good for BC people now. But, now the NoDak fans get away from the X at about 10 (earliest) their time (I am assuming a 7 PM local start time). It's 240 miles to Fargo, and an hour up the road from there to Grand Forks. So, no one there is getting home before 1:30 either. Now, I am not comparing the fans. I am simply saying that whatever happens, it puts real pressure on people's real lives to expect rabidly full arenas for these games.
So, I am thinking more and more that we have the best we can get, and we need to patient... Maybe the economy picks up, and with it, more rabid fans...
I am not quite sure how to choose the right words for this. I am not intending an insult to Boston area fans at all. Rather, I am finding a lot of irony in the last page of this thread:
We seem to be discussing the problem of not enough attendance at regionals. There have been many ideas about how to fix that - campus sites, etc. I keep wondering if the problem is easy to describe :
a) The really strong fan base is small in numbers in the first place
b) The economy is down, so people don't have the money to travel, especially when the rabid fans likely put out big bucks the week before for the conference tournaments
Now, again, this is not a flame toward the Boston people. I don't know any of them. But, someone a few posts up wrote something along the line of "Regardless of how late the BC fans should be willing to be out on a Sunday night, reality is that there won't be many who will. I got home as fast as possible from Worcester, and only got 6 hours of sleep." Someone else wrote that the West Region should have been evening, and the east afternoon.
All of which sounds great. But, then, I looked in the mirror. We are all screaming that it's not good this way, etc. But, look, let's reverse the games last Sunday. Good for BC people now. But, now the NoDak fans get away from the X at about 10 (earliest) their time (I am assuming a 7 PM local start time). It's 240 miles to Fargo, and an hour up the road from there to Grand Forks. So, no one there is getting home before 1:30 either. Now, I am not comparing the fans. I am simply saying that whatever happens, it puts real pressure on people's real lives to expect rabidly full arenas for these games.
So, I am thinking more and more that we have the best we can get, and we need to patient... Maybe the economy picks up, and with it, more rabid fans...
