(03-08-2018 10:51 AM)JCMiner Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 10:20 AM)odu09 Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 10:13 AM)cmett003 Wrote:  

(03-08-2018 08:32 AM)MUsince96 Wrote:  If they wanted to do it there. They needed to flip the courts and have the cameras point toward the permanent 2 level seating. It looks very small time the way it is.

Also, the tourney needs to be in a place closest to the schools that fill their arenas. Marshall, ODU, Middle, WKU, UAB. If Charlotte became good again I'm sure their support would grow. Basically Charlotte or Nashville should be the main choices to hold the tourney.

If the West teams had all the attendance numbers keep it in Texas, but they don't so there's no sense in having it where no one will go.

Yes! Having it in Texas is a joke, all of the TX schools bring on avg about 1000 people to a game. That is just crap. I think C-USA will be lucky to get 1000 people at the title game.

UTEP has about as much fan support as we do, just not during this down year.

We have more fan support than ODU. Go back and check the last 20+ years of attendance records. UTEP usually outdraws ODU by 2-3 thousands fans per game. There were a couple of seasons ODU averaged around 3k while UTEP averaged 9k. Even during this down year of 20 losses and ODU with 24 wins we are about even in fan support.

Our arena only holds 8,500 and opened in 2002. When we were having our best years, the only unsold seats were at the club level, which is far away from the court and tickets are a lot more expensive. We have 7,319 seats, 862 upper club/priority seats and 16 luxury suites. The club level seats are nice, but aren't going to sell unless the game is big. Because of this our peak for an average game is about 7,800. We sell out the big games like when VCU, UVA, or VT are playing, but we also play our tune up games against teams like UMES and Mt. Saint Mary's over the Christmas break and it is empty. Unfortunately, nobody in CUSA has developed into a big fan draw as of yet, though WKU and MTSU are getting there (it would be nice to get them on a Saturday). Your capacity is 12,222 so your numbers are going to be higher in your better years because you can accomodate more people. We have had many games against VCU and VT that could have filled UTEP's arena. Any attendance numbers before 2002 you can throw out as we played in a high school gym. Our worst year in this building averaged 5,695 and there have only been 3 years under 6,000 (1st two years the building was open and in 2013-2014 coming off a 5-25 season with a new coach.