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Right. Winning matters.
Actually women’s tickets are quite inexpensive. General admission season tickets are $99 and the lowest courtside ones are $200.
This hasn't gone unheard by the powers that be. There are some big donors that have stepped up in recent weeks for the women's hoops team, it just doesn't get publicized. It won't help this year's team, however.
Very good to hear. I like FLJ a lot. I hope she gets her help. I have contributed to her team personally as well.
All the more reason to shut up. If anything, her comment is the “Get A Life” moment for me. Tough to come back from.
Syracuse women’s basketball: is there a major gap in attendance for the program? What the numbers say.
Despite recent success, attendance for Syracuse women’s basketball might still be a problem. Does the data back up that claim?
This is a very relevant article regarding attendance that was just posted 10 days ago. Gives good context on the matter of how SU fan support compares to other ACC teams. Shows that, with all thing equal regarding stadium size, we're right in the middle of the conference. The problem being that we play in a massive (even for MBB) arena. I love FLJ and have gone to many games, but she's just dead wrong here. How did she expect the attendance would look after the season starting out how it has? MBB is no different, the fan support for them has been bad for their standards.
While I believe her when she says that they can't complete with NIL, there's no excuse for her to not be able to put out at least an adequate product. Do we really believe that outside of the biggest WBB programs, all these programs are spending big on players? I'm sure without adequate NIL funding we're unlikely to be a contender, but she should still be able to field a good team. In a sport that is not known to be a high priority to boosters, I refuse to believe all these other schools players are all getting paid big.
Good points. When I was at SU, literally nobody went to anything other than men’s basketball, football and men’s lacrosse.
No, lower level is the only level open. I was there with my daughter last night it felt super dead. Midweek game against what should be an inferior opponent will never draw well. Hopefully they get a nice crowd for Notre Dame and the Kayla Alexander ceremony, but that game may be real ugly.
The point is that those fans don't exist not because there aren't plenty of Syracuse fans or even Syracuse basketball fans specifically - it's that the majority of fans take men's basketball seriously and do not do the same for women's, despite them being level in terms of results for quite some time now. I know it's not something anyone wants to hear, least of all on the fan messageboard populated by the few people actually paying attention, but there's an element of misogyny at play there. People look for reasons to tune out from the women's team, while they give the men's team a far larger benefit of the doubt. "That sucked, see you next game lol" vs "That sucked, I'll watch when they actually show something."
I'll give her a pass -- and I do think her frustration with the team, which is clearly better than losing to Albany (St. Joe's is legit good), boiled over.
War Memorial over the Expo Center, there is nothing out there in State Fair land. At least with the War Memorial you have the downtown venues.
yes, exactly what I was thinking too. State Fair grounds is in no where land.
