Attendance

[Old Coach]

No doubt that poor attendance can be attributed to myriad factors.

1. Poor product on the floor and talent level
2. Dissatisfaction with coaching staff and style of play
3. Fan base disenfranchised with the administration
4. Win/loss record
5. Economy
6. Quality of opponent

And so on, and so forth....

[Chico]

No doubt that poor attendance can be attributed to myriad factors.

1. Poor product on the floor and talent level
2. Dissatisfaction with coaching staff and style of play
3. Fan base disenfranchised with the administration
4. Win/loss record
5. Economy
6. Quality of opponent

And so on, and so forth....

1. Still Braves
2. Give them a chance to improve the program
3. Still Braves no matter what the Admin did. I wasn't happy when DV was fired, but stuck with the Braves
4. Still Braves
5. Always a good excuse now days
6. Should pack the place then.

[Bravesfan]

No doubt that poor attendance can be attributed to myriad factors.

1. Poor product on the floor and talent level
2. Dissatisfaction with coaching staff and style of play
3. Fan base disenfranchised with the administration
4. Win/loss record
5. Economy
6. Quality of opponent

And so on, and so forth....

I'd say less for #2, 3 and 5, and more emphasis on the other points. I think most fans aren't dissatisfied with the coaching staff, even if they are questioning his offensive system. Give them till year 3, and I think most fans will have an idea if the arrow is pointing up by that time.

A lot of fans may be disenfranchised with the administration, but I don't think that leads to a lot of them boycotting the games, as most would not want to take out their frustrations with the administration on the players and coaches who have nothing to do with them (other than the coaches being hired by them). I think most fans speak through their donations (or lack thereof) to the school when it concerns their like or dislike of the adminstration.

And while the sluggish economy plays a part in attendance, I think it's much less of a factor than in previous years since our program has hit rock bottom now. Plus the economy, while still bad seems to have leveled off, at least for now (not saying it can't get worse again though).

I would say that poor product and talent level on the court, and win/loss record are the two biggest factors that will ALWAYS lead to poor attendance faster than people can blink. And this goes for just about every sports team at any level throughout the world. Poor quality of opponent is a big factor as well, BUT only when a team is already bad. This becomes less of a factor the better the team is, as people will go to see a great team put on a show against a bad opponent any day. But as we have also seen recently, poor attendence was a factor against a great Wichita St. team as well, once again due to poor product and win/loss record.

In short, attendance will improve really quick once our team starts winning games again, especially at home.

[shaunguth]

No doubt that poor attendance can be attributed to myriad factors.

1. Poor product on the floor and talent level
2. Dissatisfaction with coaching staff and style of play
3. Fan base disenfranchised with the administration
4. Win/loss record
5. Economy
6. Quality of opponent

And so on, and so forth....

Don't forget about the NFL, for those that need to make that choice.

[Old Coach]

I think as soon as this team starts winning 20 games during the regular season, we'll start seeing 10,000 people in the building on a regular basis.

Winning cures all ills.

[Buesch N Chips]

I thought I was the only one to notice how bad that was for the amount of time it takes to set-it-up!

We were commenting about how it would have been much more interesting (and much less work) to just have a free throw contest.

[Bravesfan]

I don't know what our attendance was tonight, but it looked like a pretty good crowd. And kudos to the crowd for getting into the game and giving our team energy. We need this from the fans EVERY game. I think we will get a few wins along the way if we put forth the effort the team and the crowd did tonight.

[Big Mike]

Nice crowd tonight...it also helps to have a Sat. night game once in a while to get a bigger crowd!

[Bravesfan]

Nice crowd tonight...it also helps to have a Sat. night game once in a while to get a bigger crowd!

And against a top 25 team! If we can't always get a ranked BCS team to come into our arena every year (though we have Michigan coming in next year), hopefully our conference continues to do well enough to produce a top 25 team or two each year.

[Big Mike]

crowd tonight 8610

[Da Coach]

I noticed fewer no-shows in the lower bowl.

[jasonpeoria911]

8,600 is a healthy amount for about half the schools in the country but an opponent of this magnitude would of normally racked up at least 10,000 fans a few seasons ago. Still rolling with our average of 1,500 to 2,000 less a game.

A few of those fans almost didn't make it home tonight. Some dumba*s in a red mustang went the wrong way on Jefferson for a block and nearly hit a car head on. The other car had to swerve out of the way.

Jason

[BUFanatic]

They were only Top 25 in the USA Today poll, they were dropped from the AP Poll either today or yesterday. Still a darn good team, one win will knock a good Valley team from the top 25 unfortunately. My other team, Notre Dame upset No. 10 Louisville today, so combined with a VERY exciting game to send me off until the ISU game, I had a great day!

[tornado]

crowd tonight 8610

Nice crowd - but we gotta get winning if we expect really good crowds...
The last time we played Creighton at home on a Saturday night we drew 10767 and the average of the past 3 Creighton home games even tho two of them were on a week night was well over 9300

[Old Coach]

Nothing is going to change the attendance trend this year, but you can keep beating that dead horse if you like. I appreciate the athletic department's efforts with promotions like 50% of upper bowl tickets and free kids tickets with purchase of an adult ticket. They're trying to get folks in the building while the product isn't quite good enough to get the job done.

Albeit another loss, I was certainly entertained last night.