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a treatise on college basketball

bengal said:
I don't know how UCLA does it, but most schools report tickets distributed, not actual attendance, so the reported attendance is usually much larger than actual butts in the seats. A minor point, in any event, since the real news is that only 7,700 people out of 3 million in the greater LA Area are bothering to show for UCLA basketball these days.
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Well, 7,700 at UCLA on a week night is pretty good, considering that USC, the most popular school in the county of over 14 milllion draws @3500 a game on a good night with their spectacular new gym. And, that Pepperdine, Northridge, LMU, and the smaller colleges have even less. Of course, the Clippers, Lakers, the Getty, both of them, LACMA, Opera, theaters, high schools, junior colleges, cafes, restaraunts, movies, or plain old tv might account for it...but, most times, UCLA is sold out....consistently....attendance is another thing...LA crowds are a funny lot..like UM football fans vacate the stadium at the half, LA fans just leave mid 4th quarter, 9thy inning, 3rd act, etc....it's an LA thing..
 
Just for fun, I went on the UCLA official web site just now and ordered 10 tickets to their Feb. 6 game with Cal. No problem. That leads me to believe the Bruins are far less than sold out. You are right about USC, though. Beautiful, gleaming new building and nobody goes to their b-ball games. And all those other schools in the LA area are in the same boat. It's similar to going to Big Sky games in Portland and Sac -- nobody cares.
 
bengal said:
Just for fun, I went on the UCLA official web site just now and ordered 10 tickets to their Feb. 6 game with Cal. No problem. That leads me to believe the Bruins are far less than sold out. You are right about USC, though. Beautiful, gleaming new building and nobody goes to their b-ball games. And all those other schools in the LA area are in the same boat. It's similar to going to Big Sky games in Portland and Sac -- nobody cares.
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UCLA has most tickets sold, reserves some for visitors...thousands of tickets are sold and not really used so they are resold with the holders permit..it is a way of fundraising that is pretty good. Corporations buy them, studios buy them and distribute them, or return them for resale...a tax thing....but, not sure what USC does....there is simply too much going on here. But, let UCLA have a superior year, and things change quickly...the remodel will help, as it is a major makeover and long overdue...I was at UCLA tonight for a stage performance that was sold out...not an empty seat...and that is the norm in Westwood....personally, there is so much bball these days, it takes real dedication to sit through a lot of games unless you are an alumnus...USC announced a great schedule for next year...wish the Griz were on it..lots of heavies are...and they will be on probation, most likely..
 
Montana needs to do the same thing with Corporate tickets in order to get some fans in those good seats on the floor.
 
Evizzerate said:
Montana needs to do the same thing with Corporate tickets in order to get some fans in those good seats on the floor.
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Every home game that I have been to this year they allow people in the second level to come down and claim a good seat if it is empty. They announce that on the PA about halfway through the first half. Only stipulation is if the ticket holder shows up you have to find a different seat.
 
citygriz said:
last night i flopped down on my couch to watch the ucla-washington game, but the sound had gone out on our tv. still, i sat there and watched, and a couple of things became apparent. there were a lot of empty seats at pauley pavilion. and i didn't recognize a single name on the ucla roster, except for "keefe," and that only because adam keefe was one monty's first big recruits at stanford. (brother? son?) and i got to thinking, how far ucla had fallen from the days of jabbar, walton, even marques johnson. without the sound, the game looked more like a glorified intramual game.

and then it hit me, how much the one-and-dones and none-and-dones have hurt college basketball. probably helped parity, where a sac state can beat an oregon state, or a montana can compete straight up against an oregon or a washington. but also taken away the joy of watching a player develop over four years, or creating stars that you'd pay to see. in football, we still get to see a colt mccoy or a ndamukong suh or a tim tebow for four years, but in college basketball, the kevin loves and kevin durants are gone after one, while the lebron's never do show up. the big dance remains probably my favorite sporting event, but night in and night out, the absence of the stars has really hurt college basketball.
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City,

You really need to look up the definition of "treatise", because it is clear to me that you have not a clue what it means. I know you think you are an authority on all things college hoops related, but 2 rambling paragraphs hardly qualifies as a treatise. ;)
 
yo, gb1, i posted my "treatise" on Jan. 22 and it takes you till Feb. 1 to decide it's not a treatise? we know you're slow on the uptake, but this sets a record even for you!

(oh, it took you that long to read two paragraphs.)

anyway, it was not a "treatise" but a simple spelling error. i meant "treat us," as my posts always do.

and btw, i just got back from buenos aires, where i followed y'all on "e gris," and where will cherry is the only montana player to have his name changed in the box score into spanish--"cereza." yet every time i proclaimed his name in a bar, i got another "cerveza." see what i mean? a spelling error.
 
citygriz said:
yo, gb1, i posted my "treatise" on Jan. 22 and it takes you till Feb. 1 to decide it's not a treatise? we know you're slow on the uptake, but this sets a record even for you!

anyway, it was not a "treatise" but a simple spelling error. i meant "treat us," as my posts always do.

and btw, i just got back from buenos aires, where i followed y'all on "e gris," and where will cherry is the only montana player to have his name changed in the box score into spanish--"cereza." yet every time i proclaimed his name in a bar, i got another "cerveza." see what i mean? a spelling error.
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Is that the best spin you can come up with? I actually saw your post the day you did it, and was so busy laughing at the title I couldn't bear to open it because I knew it would be comprised of the usual drivel, and I was spot on. ;) ;)
 
Now you've gone and pissed him off, ci-tay!

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