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Post by SIENA1971 on Aug 22, 2013 19:11:54 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2013 19:24:27 GMT -5
Siena is usually in the 60's. I would expect somewhere between 55th and 65th.
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Post by DelmartianEd on Aug 22, 2013 20:14:35 GMT -5
Attendance is a trailing indicator. People are buying this year's tickets based on their feelings from last year. Fran's first year had lower attendance than Lanier's last year. I would expect similar again. But two years from now, we should be rollin'.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2013 20:28:21 GMT -5
Attendance is a trailing indicator. People are buying this year's tickets based on their feelings from last year. Fran's first year had lower attendance than Lanier's last year. I would expect similar again. But two years from now, we should be rollin'. I think this might reverse that trend. Jimmy Patsos is more known to the fan base than Fran was, there is a local flavor to the team (Ogunyemi , Lucious Jordan, and now Jimmy Merrill), and a decent schedule. I'd be shocked if attendance didn't top 7,000 average. |
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Post by DelmartianEd on Aug 22, 2013 20:55:36 GMT -5
Attendance is a trailing indicator. People are buying this year's tickets based on their feelings from last year. Fran's first year had lower attendance than Lanier's last year. I would expect similar again. But two years from now, we should be rollin'. I think this might reverse that trend. Jimmy Patsos is more known to the fan base than Fran was, there is a local flavor to the team (Ogunyemi , Lucious Jordan, and now Jimmy Merrill), and a decent schedule. I'd be shocked if attendance didn't top 7,000 average. You may well be right. The fan base may also have more access to this information with the increased popularity of social media, blogs, message boards, etc. We'll see. |
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Post by musicman on Aug 22, 2013 21:57:23 GMT -5
Attendance is a trailing indicator. People are buying this year's tickets based on their feelings from last year. Fran's first year had lower attendance than Lanier's last year. I would expect similar again. But two years from now, we should be rollin'. I think this might reverse that trend. Jimmy Patsos is more known to the fan base than Fran was, there is a local flavor to the team (Ogunyemi , Lucious Jordan, and now Jimmy Merrill), and a decent schedule. I'd be shocked if attendance didn't top 7,000 average. I totally agree! The publicity and positive vibes that JP has created is unprecedented. Sports fans that casually follow Siena busted my ass for the last 2-3 years, (you too right?) Now they have all expressed interest in what is going on and have an extremely positive image of JP. He has really done an unbelieveable job!! |
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Post by MTS on Aug 23, 2013 12:58:11 GMT -5
The key is to -- wait for it-- win games. We start with UAlbany...probably at least 10K for that game (it's the season opener and on a Friday night). If we can win that one and are a fun team to watch (which I FULLY expect!) the attendance will be pretty good (average over 6000 at least). It won't be in the hey days of 2007-2010 seasons (that will take some time) but the TUC crowds and atmosphere will be so much better.
We are going in the right direction no doubt about it...so much more positive vibes out of the program thanks to Jimmy. The league better gets us this year because we graduate nobody and with the freshmen taking the big sophomore jump and with the tournament at the TUC in 2014-15 we'll really be in a nice spot.
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Post by DelmartianEd on Aug 23, 2013 13:36:58 GMT -5
The key is to -- wait for it-- win games. We start with UAlbany...probably at least 10K for that game (it's the season opener and on a Friday night). If we can win that one and are a fun team to watch (which I FULLY expect!) the attendance will be pretty good (average over 6000 at least). It won't be in the hey days of 2007-2010 seasons (that will take some time) but the TUC crowds and atmosphere will be so much better. We are going in the right direction no doubt about it...so much more positive vibes out of the program thanks to Jimmy. The league better gets us this year because we graduate nobody and with the freshmen taking the big sophomore jump and with the tournament at the TUC in 2014-15 we'll really be in a nice spot. You doin' season tickets this year? |
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Post by MTS on Aug 23, 2013 14:00:11 GMT -5
The key is to -- wait for it-- win games. We start with UAlbany...probably at least 10K for that game (it's the season opener and on a Friday night). If we can win that one and are a fun team to watch (which I FULLY expect!) the attendance will be pretty good (average over 6000 at least). It won't be in the hey days of 2007-2010 seasons (that will take some time) but the TUC crowds and atmosphere will be so much better. We are going in the right direction no doubt about it...so much more positive vibes out of the program thanks to Jimmy. The league better gets us this year because we graduate nobody and with the freshmen taking the big sophomore jump and with the tournament at the TUC in 2014-15 we'll really be in a nice spot. You doin' season tickets this year? I am thinking about it. I had them from 2006 to 2010 and did not have them the last two years. I'm not a frontrunner but admit the team and mainly the coach did not inspire me to get them. But money is a major concern too for me. What I'll probably do is cherry pick and go to 7-9 games (watch the remaining ones on Time Warner) and use my student ID to get the $8 tickets. You can't buy season tickets with a student ID I don't think. |
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Post by Tony on Aug 23, 2013 15:35:53 GMT -5
Spring for the season tickets you cheap SOB  |
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Post by playerparentcoach on Aug 23, 2013 16:00:32 GMT -5
Does anyone know how many fans went to Montreal? The package looked reasonable on the website
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Post by mrsiena on Aug 24, 2013 8:21:26 GMT -5
I noticed that Virginia had 24 home games and UNLV 22. That's how you build a winning record and huge fan attendance.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 10:42:57 GMT -5
I noticed that Virginia had 24 home games and UNLV 22. That's how you build a winning record and huge fan attendance. While that is technically true, if you look at their schedules, 3 of those UNLV games were MWC tourney games and 3 Virginia games were NIT games, so they were not scheduled. |
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Post by mrsiena on Aug 24, 2013 10:58:29 GMT -5
I noticed that Virginia had 24 home games and UNLV 22. That's how you build a winning record and huge fan attendance. While that is technically true, if you look at their schedules, 3 of those UNLV games were MWC tourney games and 3 Virginia games were NIT games, so they were not scheduled. Scheduled or not they were still on their home court. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 11:21:52 GMT -5
While that is technically true, if you look at their schedules, 3 of those UNLV games were MWC tourney games and 3 Virginia games were NIT games, so they were not scheduled. Scheduled or not they were still on their home court. Yes, but they weren't about "building a winning record and fan base" If the schools had no idea they would be played. They were about luck. Next year, Siena will have that luck on their side when the MAAC tourney returns. |
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