UNH Wildcats - 2011 Playoff Quest

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Re: UNH Wildcats - 2011 Playoff Quest

Cloud, buddy, I think you need a hobby or something if you're still caught up on this, but let me play along for a minute. You DO realize that there's another D-1 school even closer to the DCU center than BU, right?

Holy Cross

Its about a mile west of BU, on the way to the DCU (I'll let run the #'s to the first or second decimal). That school is Boston College, ergo by your criteria you couldn't expect BU to match that, given the extra distance...

BU & BC have footprints that overlap, in Rover-land are those larger or smaller than UMass and it's 49 miles of territory?

Now, what D-1 schools are between UNH and the Verizon Center that would compete with the school for fans' affections and support?

Both UML & Merrimack are closer travel distances to the Verizon Wireless than UNH, though the latter is by such a slim margin that it is basically even. I suspect that the Monarchs "compete with the school for fans' affections and support" more than either of those schools.

Had they kicked *** in the HE tourney, perhaps their fans would have felt better about traveling the < 40 miles to the arena that Cloud seems to think is akin to a pilgrimage across the Sahara desert.

Except that I never said that, I said that UNH -> Verizon Wireless & BU -> DCU Center are nearly equidistant - this is a true statement; now you're trying to twist that statement to imply I said something different.

 

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Re: UNH Wildcats - 2011 Playoff Quest

When I picked up my tickets on Tuesday I was told that the $32 student packages were sold out which made me happy to think that there would be a decent number of students at the game, but student tickets were scattered throughout the building, and I have a feeling that there weren't many student tickets to begin with or that the box office converted the remaining student tickets left on Monday night to adult packages to make more money. There were at one point in the sale process student tickets set aside, they easily could have put all the students in a single section (or several neighboring sections) which I think would have definitely added to the atmosphere, even if the attendance was still the same.

This suggestion was brought up at the Spirit Focus group in '05, it took 6 years, but I believe this year was the first time that there was a student section at the Garden. Seems pretty common sense to me, and as noted in an earlier post in this thread, something that other schools do regularly.