http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-bas...m46hc.html

I'm sorry, this deserves its own thread. According to the stats page, the weather was "B-e-a-utiful," so please tell me it's a typo.

179 fans? What in the world? I'd just like an explanation...

(04-30-2015 01:17 PM)PiratePanther189 Wrote:  http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-bas...m46hc.html

I'm sorry, this deserves its own thread. According to the stats page, the weather was "B-e-a-utiful," so please tell me it's a typo.

179 fans? What in the world? I'd just like an explanation...

The explantion is that it is a college baseball game played at 3PM on a Wednesday within easy driving distance of three MAJOR LEAGUE teams. 179 people in the stands seems pretty good.

I know it's a midweek game, but come on. 179 fans is immensely low. Regardless of driving distance to pro stadiums - which I think is a moderately overblown thing.

I'm not saying it's a huge deal or anything, but that number struck me as worthy of asking. That's low.

I'm not saying that 1,000 people need to take in the sights and sounds of UConn/Holy Cross at all...but geez. That's not "pretty good" in any book.

One of the really crazy things about the Northeast is that people actually have jobs.

(04-30-2015 01:55 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  One of the really crazy things about the Northeast is that people actually have jobs.

Seriously though, there's absolutely nothing there. No idea how anyone could conceivably make a story out of it.

(04-30-2015 01:55 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  One of the really crazy things about the Northeast is that people actually have jobs.

One of the funny things about Connecticut is that its unemployment rate is higher than North Carolina's.

Like I said, not a big deal, I just saw it and it struck me as interesting. I'm not a reporter trying to make a story..but I will say that it made me think a combination of students,alumni,family,friends of home team and the few away visitors would've netted a bit more. It's a low number for an ugly loss.

We just don't have crowds that low around here...I'm not trying to troll or be insulting. If that's the norm, hey, you do you UConn.

That attendance actually beats UH's ice hockey team attendance, so I can't talk. :)

(04-30-2015 02:11 PM)PiratePanther189 Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 01:55 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  One of the really crazy things about the Northeast is that people actually have jobs.

One of the funny things about Connecticut is that its unemployment rate is higher than North Carolina's.

Like I said, not a big deal, I just saw it and it struck me as interesting. I'm not a reporter trying to make a story..but I will say that it made me think a combination of students,alumni,family,friends of home team and the few away visitors would've netted a bit more. It's a low number for an ugly loss.

We just don't have crowds that low around here...I'm not trying to troll or be insulting. If that's the norm, hey, you do you UConn.

...It's also one of the wealthiest states in the country, and in addition to working in CT, people commute to NYC and Boston. No one is going to a mid-week baseball game at 3.

Congratulations on the unemployed people in ENC being able to watch a baseball game at 3. Remarkable accomplishment.

(04-30-2015 02:16 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 02:11 PM)PiratePanther189 Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 01:55 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  One of the really crazy things about the Northeast is that people actually have jobs.

One of the funny things about Connecticut is that its unemployment rate is higher than North Carolina's.

Like I said, not a big deal, I just saw it and it struck me as interesting. I'm not a reporter trying to make a story..but I will say that it made me think a combination of students,alumni,family,friends of home team and the few away visitors would've netted a bit more. It's a low number for an ugly loss.

We just don't have crowds that low around here...I'm not trying to troll or be insulting. If that's the norm, hey, you do you UConn.

...It's also one of the wealthiest states in the country, and in addition to working in CT, people commute to NYC and Boston. No one is going to a mid-week baseball game at 3.

Congratulations on the unemployed people in ENC being able to watch a baseball game at 3. Remarkable accomplishment.

We can trade statistics back and forth...ENC's employment rate is nothing to marvel at - but Greenville is at 4.8% unemployed. Pitt county at 5.2%. Both lower than the national and state average.

You're getting all up tight about nothing, veer the topic into something that it isn't, and come out sounding like an a**hole. Meanwhile, the basis of your argument isn't there. State wealth is relative, especially when compared with job market and affordability - both of which North Carolina in general, especially Charlotte, Triangle, and Triad, beat the northeast at. A dollar brings you further anywhere in the state of North Carolina than it does in any of the states that you listed. Plus, I'd sure as hell rather live in Charlotte than in Boston.

So hey, good for you, good talk. But after all of those good vibes you were spreading, we're still at square 1. There should be more, even marginally, like 50 fans (which would be a pretty big jump by percentage), than 179 fans at the game. The biggest group I would call out there is the students, but I'm not really calling anyone out because (like I said) it really isn't a huge deal.

It was just an observation, one that apparently brought your little panties into a wad bud.

It looks like the UCONN obsession has made its way over to the AAC board too.

I'm not uptight at all. I just want to know how you're able to go to a college baseball game in the middle of the work day.

(04-30-2015 02:16 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 02:11 PM)PiratePanther189 Wrote:  

(04-30-2015 01:55 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  One of the really crazy things about the Northeast is that people actually have jobs.

One of the funny things about Connecticut is that its unemployment rate is higher than North Carolina's.

Like I said, not a big deal, I just saw it and it struck me as interesting. I'm not a reporter trying to make a story..but I will say that it made me think a combination of students,alumni,family,friends of home team and the few away visitors would've netted a bit more. It's a low number for an ugly loss.

We just don't have crowds that low around here...I'm not trying to troll or be insulting. If that's the norm, hey, you do you UConn.

...It's also one of the wealthiest states in the country, and in addition to working in CT, people commute to NYC and Boston. No one is going to a mid-week baseball game at 3.

Congratulations on the unemployed people in ENC being able to watch a baseball game at 3. Remarkable accomplishment.

In addition:
1) Storrs isn't geographically near the working population who lives in the Hartford area (and who take career seriously). It makes attending a midweek game sort of hard
2) Nobody cares about Holy Cross
3) Students are busy studying for final exams. Students at UConn do love watching sports, but studying always comes before watching sports. That is why UConn is one of the Top 20 best public universities in the country.

I am glad SMU doesn't have baseball as there would only have 9 fans. I am really pushing for us to add lacrosse which is becoming huge in Dallas.

(04-30-2015 02:35 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  I'm not uptight at all. I just want to know how you're able to go to a college baseball game in the middle of the work day.

I personally am not. I'm a solid 4 hours from Greenville in Charlotte, and I'm not leaving this god forsaken office until 6:30 at least. But as a student in the early 2000's, if my exam schedule allowed for it (which typically was only going to be a couple of days one week and a couple of days the next week or whatever), I'd typically go to as many mid-week games as I could in April-May just because it was a great way to get out in the nice weather, and it was free.

We also were really, really in a good place baseball-wise when I was in school. Students were in love with the team...and they still are here but not to the extent that we were then. It was just a different time during the LeClair era.

This thread needs to be deleted. Silly to start a thread about attendance for a midweek game during 'working hours'.

That was still 179 more fans than the Orioles had vs. the White Sox yesterday.

My impression of college baseball in the Northeast is only parents go to it. I don't know if Rutgers has gotten an attendance bump since joining the B1G just due to the brand names, but it's not like the B1G is good at baseball.

The popularity of sports varies by region. College basketball and football are both hugely popular nationally (in the north, basketball is somewhat more of a religion and in the south, football is somewhat more of a religion). In the north, pro baseball is huge. It the south, pro baseball is less huge.

As for college baseball, it isn't really followed up north (especially in New England) like it is down south. We have hockey instead. Hockey is a much more popular college sport in New England than baseball. Plus, who really wants to sit outside in the chill of April in New England. I would much rather go to Fenway in May through October to see the Sox on a nice summer evening.

(04-30-2015 03:30 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  The popularity of sports varies by region. College basketball and football are both hugely popular nationally (in the north, basketball is somewhat more of a religion and in the south, football is somewhat more of a religion). In the north, pro baseball is huge. It the south, pro baseball is less huge.

As for college baseball, it isn't really followed up north (especially in New England) like it is down south. We have hockey instead. Hockey is a much more popular college sport in New England than baseball. Plus, who really wants to sit outside in the chill of April in New England. I would much rather go to Fenway in May through October to see the Sox on a nice summer evening.

Good answer.