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Quite a few of you have mentioned that you have cancelled or will cancel. Question, have you let Harlan or President Taylor know? I think you should. I’ve sent both emails. But I’ve seen others do it on Twitter. If they don’t know, they won’t figure it out until it’s too late and the programs suffers.

I’ve been there. Had to wait 13 months.

Yeah listen, I’ve had MBB season tickets since the 19-20 season and those numbers are nowhere close to the facts on the ground. It’s a historical truth that teams of all stripes and sports regularly cook their attendance numbers to appear to be better than what they actually are. And this is particularly true of teams with low attendance…[Read more]

Street taco kit from Costco. Very romantic I know.

Yeah for some reason attendance at the JMHC is never good when we’re in the NIT. It drops significantly from the regular season average. I’ve never been able to figure that out.

During the 2023-24 regular season, the JMHC had between 7,000 and 9,000 for every game (sometimes a little more). But then when the NIT came around, attendance collapsed…[Read more]

Thank you, and I appreciate your thoughts and points on this subject as well.

Yeah I really don’t have a good idea of what Utah’s donor situation looks like. I imagine there are some deep pocketed supporters like the Huntsmans and Sorensens and Eccleses, but I’m not sure how many are looking to shell out for athletic purposes like NIL. Obviously…[Read more]

I think that’s a solid example.

To dig into the data a little more, here are Utah’s home attendance figures since Smith was hired in 2021:

Season/Total Attendance/Avg Attendance/Conf Rank
21-22: 118,351 / 7,397 (4th in P12)
22-23: 114,047 / 6,709 (6th in P12)
23:24: 140,431 / 8,777 (2nd in P12)
24-25: 117,145 / 7,810 (8th in XII)

Here are the…[Read more]

Mine went up 43% last year. Cancelled my 4 seats after 19 years. No regrets. Ended up going to the two games I could actually attend, that I wanted to attend, with who I could bring with me with secondary market tickets. I bought three total tickets. Which means if I renewed, I would’ve been trying to sell or begging people to use 21 tickets. No t…[Read more]

It’s funny…the reality is that fans have all of the power but are always seen as a cash cow or the “Bank of Fan.”

You could be right about whether 8,000 people will show up if the team continues to be like it’s been, but I myself doubt it. Even with how mediocre we’ve been over the last few years, we still have consistently turned out between 5,000 and 8,000 fans for every home game. I think we could count on that to continue at the very least, if we had a…[Read more]

Bingo.

If you want to get the Runnin Ute’s mojo back- get a rock-star coach and enough NIL $ to field an elite roster.

The Hunty would rock again.

The last game I attended was vs Iowa in the NIT. My son asked if we were going to see Caitlin Clark play and I said “we are watching the men play son.” He seemed disappointed.

We arrived about 10 min late and the Hunty was so empty they were giving away tiks for free. No kidding. Our group had 11 people and when we tried to pay they said “Don’t…[Read more]

All excellent points and I appreciate your starting this interesting discussion.

The number of students living on campus has increased dramatically since I was a student 30 years ago. I was in town last week and worked out at the student life gym- which was pretty impressive. I was surprised at just how packed it was on a weekend with cruddy…[Read more]

Exactly, and I think that would work well for us. At 7,500 to 8,500, most games would be at or close to a sellout. And I think the fans have shown they can show up in those numbers consistently no matter how good or bad the team is. Yes, in good years that may seem like it’s not enough capacity, but personally I’d rather have a consistently full…[Read more]

Mine went up 43% last year. Cancelled my 4 seats after 19 years. No regrets. Ended up going to the two games I could actually attend, that I wanted to attend, with who I could bring with me with secondary market tickets. I bought three total tickets. Which means if I renewed, I would’ve been trying to sell or begging people to use 21 tickets. No thanks.

Fond memories of the Hunty over the years beginning when my father took me to my first Utah game against Loyola-CA back in 1969. Place is so great when it is packed but that is rare and it looks barren when well more than half the seats are empty.

Real Salt Lake started in Rice-Eccles for a few seasons and certainly once they moved to Sandy in…[Read more]

Well, I’m of the opinion that only winning fixes everything. You could have an opulent arena sitting only 8K people and it would still be half empty if you had a product resembling what the Utes have been putting on the floor since Smith arrived.

There’s also the law of unintended consequences, otherwise known as cutting off your nose to spite…[Read more]

My wife of 6 months is peruvian and we were married in Cusco Peru last August. But until her marriage visa is approved I will have to travel to Peru to be with her. But I couldn’t for this Valentine’s Day and her birthday is tomorrow. So we are buying wine and talking on Facebook

Sorry I was mistaken on capacity, I couldn’t remember what Baylor’s new stadium was. But I know it’s what Utah is looking to model after. Baylor’s new stadium has a capacity of 7,500. Sucks for sports like Gymnastics where we sell out all the time. But for basketball and the lack of interest from fans 7,500 would be a packed house almost every…[Read more]

Haha…oops. I meant 13th.