The prospect of playing games in front of 8k for football and 1k for basketball doesn’t excite me too much. I understand that you’re very excited to play with a bunch of recent FCS teams.
That's going to be our reality. We're closer to playing in front of 8k than they are to playing in front of 15k. Give us 4 years of independence and records of 2-10 and we'll be lucky to draw 8k.
Doesn’t matter who we are playing, another 4 year run of bad football, we will be playing in front of 8k.
By that same token, four years of beating up FCS call ups and we'll be playing in front of 40k. As you always say "the opponent doesn't matter as long as we're winning."
A reasonable person would look up information. I’m not going to tell you why it’s better to be in a conference because as I have stated many times before, you are lazy or just want to sow chaos or pursue argument. I say a bit of both.
Have you seen games at Rice, FIU? We've played in front of fewer tha8k at those venues. Announced attendance is totally different.
I sure have. Again, the best we’re hoping for is a team who gets 8k for football and 1k for basketball, 1 hour away from Houston. And those figures are while they’re winning.
Playing Baylor in any sport, at anytime is better than whatever comes to CUSA.
They can charge that because instead of triple a baseball they have a double a team. Instead of top golf they have toptracer.
Supply and demand. They play in a 18,700 seat dome and are highly successful.
Those are nowins excuses why UTEP can't charge more for our tickets. Funny that even he knows how stupid that excuse is by liking your comment.
Funny how you compare economically “better” cities than El Paso. If the Chihuahuas have $5 tickets, you can’t expect El Paso to jump up and down for $14 LaTech tickets.
Both cities have comparable household incomes. I haven't been to a chihuahuas game since their first year. The last Locos game I went to had tickets that start at $12 and lawn seats for $5. I saw maybe a few families sitting there while their kids played in the playground.
I don't know the specifics of it but they don't have that many $5 lawn seats available. It's mostly meant for families with little ones. At least those are the only people I saw sitting there.
Back to the subject at hand. With ODU gone and Marshall next out, but yet to make it official, why doesn't CUSA make the less is more pitch. Sun Belt wants to split the pie 14 ways. They just signed a new TV contract I get that. However CUSA should be selling Marshall on a 8-10 team league that will receive 32 million to split up between the remaining teams. Then CUSA can work on a better TV deal when this one expires and split the profit between the 8- 10 teams. Marshall is on the way out that's been discussed, but until it's official CUSA should offer whatever they can. Marshall is the star and franchise QB in this situation. If they stay that gives CUSA the opportunity to bring in JMU and Liberty then if they want add NMSU and Missouri St. who already has a decent stadium with over 15,000 and is working towards an indoor practice facility. This would be a really good basketball conference and can be a decent football conference. I'm hanging on to a thread here I know, but C'mon Just put on the charm! Don't post Marshall's gone and JMU are going to Sun Belt, I already know that's most likely, but nothing's official yet and Marshall seems to hold all the cards. I'm simply stating what CUSA should be pitching at this point!
Give it up bro. Marshall is gone. They're waiting for their new president to make the announcement and usher in the new era of Marshall athletics. Use that energy to keep WKU/MTSU from leaving to the MAC. That would really be the end of CUSA.
Sure. Get in price for a Chihuahuas game for 4 people is $20 and it was $56 for LaTech. Don’t think that people won’t see the difference.
Lol, Corona Hope until the very last minute with little to no evidence of success is what being a Miner Fan is all about!
So then your theory about fans coming back after the $5 d2 basketball game is trash. Get in for $20 return for $48 the next game. They'll notice the difference too.
If you have fun at a Chihuahuas game, you might return to a Chihuahuas game. If you have fun at a Chihuahuas game, you’re not going to go to a UTEP game (or something different). No correlation there.
LOL. That’s why you’re dumb and have no clue. I don’t wish that. Just because I consider different things and can look without Orange blinders, doesn’t mean I want those things.
In other words $5 tickets are unnecessary since those fans won't return to pay regular price. Got it.
Well I didn’t say that. How about we just don’t talk about ticket prices anymore. It’s clear that you believe El Pasoans are walking around with fat pockets and should pay Austin and Charlotte prices for crappy CUSA products even when the team is in last place.
