(12-21-2021 08:44 AM)Karl B Wrote:  I respect the decision to make it easier on players but I cannot make a 2:00 game on a weekday. Our start times in general are strange compared to a lot of schools. Our old traditional 7:00 start times have turned into you never know what time a game will start.

That was my original point. Any "working" fan would not be able to attend the game. I also thought our move to 6:30 games was rather odd. Really makes it tough for working folks to get home, eat dinner, and make it back to the arena. Maybe it's good for families with kids in school, since the games end quite early. Unfortunately, I don't see many families with kids at the games. In reality, I doubt the start time makes a ton of difference (other than with a weekday afternoon game). Folks who want to see us play, will find a way to get there, regardless if we start at 6:30, 7:00, or 7:30.

Don't really want to get started on attendance again, but I remember for years blaming our poor attendance on playing at Barton Coliseum. Since leaving Barton, we have played in a beautiful downtown arena and now a beautiful on-campus arena. Our attendance is still awful and is actually worse now than it was in the Barton Coliseum days. There are a lot of factors to help explain this. However, I've realized that "build it and they will come" does not apply in Little Rock. Our "real" fans will come see us play wherever, and the quality of our facility doesn't appear to matter to the rest of the community.