Yet Toledo is leading the league in attendance. They're maybe other arenas in the ECHL that are bigger but they don't fannies in the seats like the Walleye do.

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Yet Toledo is leading the league in attendance. They're maybe other arenas in the ECHL that are bigger but they don't fannies in the seats like the Walleye do.

My point is, with a larger Huntington Center, Toledo Walleye would probably average at least 1000 more in a 9,000 seat arena...

Ohio leads the MAC in attendance. Its said on social media a lot that we do and it isnt true. We lead in percentage of capacity but not outright. Considering a much less popular sport is close (UT WBB), we could and should have more for mbb. I do think this partulicular season was an odd ball for home MAC games and only had 3 Saturday homies in MAC play.

(04-23-2022 02:09 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  Ohio leads the MAC in attendance. Its said on social media a lot that we do and it isnt true. We lead in percentage of capacity but not outright. Considering a much less popular sport is close (UT WBB), we could and should have more for mbb. I do think this partulicular season was an odd ball for home MAC games and only had 3 Saturday homies in MAC play.

He was taking about the Walleye leading the league in attendance, not UT MBB.

I don't know if the Walleye could average 9000 a game in a bigger venue. Surely the ownership would have thought this out if they really believe in those numbers. If I am not mistaken, wasn't it mayor Finkbindner (sp) that wanted Toledo hockey to be on this side of the river instead of staying in east Toledo ? If they had located over there, perhaps a bigger arena would have been possible ?

(04-23-2022 09:08 PM)Springboromark Wrote:  I don't know if the Walleye could average 9000 a game in a bigger venue. Surely the ownership would have thought this out if they really believe in those numbers. If I am not mistaken, wasn't it mayor Finkbindner (sp) that wanted Toledo hockey to be on this side of the river instead of staying in east Toledo ? If they had located over there, perhaps a bigger arena would have been possible ?

The owndership of the Walleye (Mud Hens Corp) is different than the ownership of the Huntington (Lucas County). I don't know what influence they did or did not have.

My presumption it had more to do with relieving whoever was saddled with unusable downtown real estate. I couldnt for the life of me figure why they were so under building what was in Dayton, Grand Rapids and Ft. Wayne.

There were much better locations of open land not far, more visible and assesible from the hwy, more suitable to larger arena and expansion and more promising for building an entertainment district given the amount of empty land surrounded by the warehouse district, Libbey Market and the Highway. Would have built up both downtown and the near South. With that done, who knows? Maybe that would have encouraged the Casino to be more correctly placed in the same area instead of wasting water front on a windowless building.

Being the cynic I am, I'd presume it was land not owned by the right people.

I also seem to recall some county politician taking all the credit. Or maybe that was for Mud Hens stadium. Isenberg? something like that.