They still have the black curtains they used to use for VB and pre-Megan WBB.
Isn’t that essentially what UCLA does for their Rose Bowl games?😉
Or just fill it in like an old in ground swimming pool….🤪
I think you are trying to hard to find only one or two reasons why the men get crappy attendance.
Yep. But a couple of other thoughts come to mind as well.
If money was not a problem, I would put it down near Hancher, I don't know what that old brick building is south of Hancher, but it doesn't look like it's in use. That should be a decent amount of room, with multiple access points to the Hancher parking lot, but parking is still the biggest issue.
Not this season.
True, but it is going to take a lot more than a few crappy non-con games to overcome years of conditioning and put butts in seats. It will also require a lot more pt for Thelwell and Traore to show this team is anything other than another mediocre Fran product.
They just built a new wrestling facility that attaches to Carver via a tunnel. Carver, sadly, ain't being replaced anytime soon.
I think the schedule is even worse than normal this year! And that’s saying something.
Frankly, if the students didn't show up when we had the (almost) two time college basketball POY and the quality of the other players McCaffery has put on the floor over the years, if that's not enough to get them off their phones and out of their dorm rooms, I think it's a lost cause. Getting to the Sweet Sixteen isn't going to sway those kids. We're not the only big time school that is struggling with attendance. If you watch any amount of college basketball, you will see a lot of half full arenas.
Was at a recent women's game and would guess actual attendance at 5-6k not bad for non conf but no where near the last few seasons. I expect them to have their own challenges of filling to anywhere near capacity going forward.
It won't necessarily increase MBB attendance, but a menu upgrade would be nice...other Universities take a little more pride in theirs:
At what game this season did the Iowa women only have 5-6 thousand? That had to be their exhibition. I have been to all of their games and the crowds have much, much bigger than that.
Maybe I missed some other talk but the food I heard him complaining about was the free food given to the press/ announcers.
Xtreme Arena in Coralville--basketball capacity 5,100--is calling.
On TV it looked like at least 10,000 actual attendance for every home game, and, of course, all 15,000 seats are sold for the season. I don't think the women are complaining.
