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NCAA Regionals - Time to Go Back to 2 Sites?

Re: NCAA Regionals - Time to Go Back to 2 Sites?

Thanks Much for the quick reply

Ouch!

Was hoping for more with a very good ECAC / Hockey East /New England match-up.
 
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FredDavenport said:
Thanks Much for the quick reply

Ouch!

Was hoping for more with a very good ECAC / Hockey East /New England match-up.
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I'm not to surprised. As good as BC is hockey is not there big sport. They have a FBS football team and ACC basketball team. While they may draw decent crowds for home games it does not mean they will travel well even within New England. In terms of getting a large fan contignet to travel I would have expected any other school in Hockey Easy to draw a lot more fans to the DCU with the exception of Merrimack or Providence. The tournament comittee might have been better off shipping BC off to Albany and UNH down to Worcester.
 
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Is there a way to keep all the east coast school as close to the regionals as possible? I mean, anything over an hour minute drive will require a stop for the night...
 
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kdilks said:
You don't necessarily get a sellout.

http://www.uscho.com/box/?date=20080328&vis=msu&home=cc&gender=m
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blockski said:
Which goes back to ticket prices...
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Exactly. That was CC's smallest crowd of the season, IIRC. But when a family of four can go to a regular season game there for $50-60, rather than nearly $200 for the Regional, the question answers itself.

I would be at the game in Worcester today if the tickets were more like $30 instead of $47.50, but I had to draw a line somewhere. It's just too much money, even for some of us who are huge hockey fans.
 
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We could go back to the east-west bracketing we used to do:

Worcester
Friday:
Miami vs RIT 4pm
UNH vs Yale 7pm

Saturday:
BC vs Alaska 1pm
Cornell vs Vermont 4pm

Sunday:
Friday winners 3pm
Saturday winners 6pm

St Paul
Friday:
Denver vs Huntsville 5pm
St Cloud vs Bemidji 8pm

Saturday:
Wisconsin vs Michigan 3pm
North Dakota vs NMU 6pm

Sunday:
Friday winners 5pm
Saturday winners 8pm

If you wanted, #1 seeds could all play Friday and #2 seeds on Saturday to give them an advantage. Times are flexible, too.

The point is, a pair of 3-day/8-team regionals could work and attendance would be solid. Fans would be able to see up to six games.
 
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And unless you beat the NCAA with a smart stick, those 6 game ticket packages are going to cost over $150 per person. They will look like the men's basketball tournament 1st two rounds, where you have 8 teams at each arena, and the stands are still half-empty.
 
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bronconick said:
And unless you beat the NCAA with a smart stick, those 6 game ticket packages are going to cost over $150 per person. They will look like the men's basketball tournament 1st two rounds, where you have 8 teams at each arena, and the stands are still half-empty.
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To say nothing of the hotel situation.

GFM
 
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bronconick said:
And unless you beat the NCAA with a smart stick, those 6 game ticket packages are going to cost over $150 per person. They will look like the men's basketball tournament 1st two rounds, where you have 8 teams at each arena, and the stands are still half-empty.
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They should have tiered pricing - not all seats are created equal. $150 for center ice for 6 games isn't bad ($25/game) but the same is not true for end zone seating or the nosebleeds.
 
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I don't think it is just having the same price for all seats (and ND charged less for the nosebleeders that no one bought in FWA anyway) but the idea of having to pay for 6 games now and not just 3 if we go to two regionals. 3 is a hard enough sell. So many people are going for their team and their team only. They aren't looking at it like "Hey I got 3 games for my 90 bucks in Fort Wayne." They're saying "I have to pay 90 bucks to see Miami twice?" I wish people looked at it like it is great to see all the teams, all the games. But realistically, if there are 5000 people at a regional, it is more like 2000 for one game and 3000 for the nightcap.
 
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WeAreNDHockey said:
I don't think it is just having the same price for all seats (and ND charged less for the nosebleeders that no one bought in FWA anyway) but the idea of having to pay for 6 games now and not just 3 if we go to two regionals. 3 is a hard enough sell. So many people are going for their team and their team only. They aren't looking at it like "Hey I got 3 games for my 90 bucks in Fort Wayne." They're saying "I have to pay 90 bucks to see Miami twice?" I wish people looked at it like it is great to see all the teams, all the games. But realistically, if there are 5000 people at a regional, it is more like 2000 for one game and 3000 for the nightcap.
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They can also do two-day or single game ticket packages. They're smart (not the NC$$ but the arena managers) when it comes to marketing - just look at the AHL promotions. Get rid of the "minimum price" bull**** and let the marketers do their thing.
 
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I think a better idea than a super regional would be just playing the games in cities that aren't armpits (like Worcester and Albany).
 
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vellnueve said:
I think a better idea than a super regional would be just playing the games in cities that aren't armpits (like Worcester and Albany).
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They can't play in Manchester every year :p
 
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vellnueve said:
I think a better idea than a super regional would be just playing the games in cities that aren't armpits (like Worcester and Albany).
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The hotel requirements of a superregional would be a good way to ensure that regionals stay in major metro areas. $.02
 
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vellnueve said:
I think a better idea than a super regional would be just playing the games in cities that aren't armpits (like Worcester and Albany).
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Yes, lets skip the 2nd largest city in New England so that your sensibilities aren't offended. We can play this up in the Cumberland County Concrete Center and other places which have smaller capacities.
 
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bronconick said:
And unless you beat the NCAA with a smart stick, those 6 game ticket packages are going to cost over $150 per person. They will look like the men's basketball tournament 1st two rounds, where you have 8 teams at each arena, and the stands are still half-empty.
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Those 4 games are, and always have been split up into two sessions, day and night which have two different tickets. If they were to go to super regionals, they'd likely do the same thing and we'd be right back where we started.
 
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Patman said:
Yes, lets skip the 2nd largest city in New England so that your sensibilities aren't offended. We can play this up in the Cumberland County Concrete Center and other places which have smaller capacities.
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Why not in the largest city in New England?
 
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Attendance in Worcester today was 6054 (41% capacity)
 
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