24/25 MBB Attendance Tracker

[MeanGreenZen]

Student turnout is absolutely embarrassing. A Mean Green basketball game should be an absolute EVENT for the student body: even on Christmas break. Most of these kids live in DFW and would enjoy an opportunity to get away from their parents for an evening. 

An easy connection that has not been made here is with the Greeks. Did you see all the High Point Greek pledges wearing suits to the basketball game when we played them at their place? 

Why aren’t OUR Greeks competing throughout the season to show the most support for the basketball team/athletic program? The winner gets their letters displayed prominently inside the Super Pit/DATCU, gets their own commercial on the video board and Hell, Mosley should be putting up his own $$ as a cash award to incentivize this. 

There could be Greek basketball All-Star games at halftime or after our game to encourage attendance and get the whole community out. 

We gotta find a way to get consistent Greek attendance at these games. And once you have that base of students who are always there, it can turn into a snowball effect.

[southsideguy]

I sit on the opposite side of the players bench.  Last night there was two people sitting at those seats that are right next to court and the seats behind them had few people in them.  Do season tickets go towards the attendance numbers? if they need people to sit in those seats to make look better I am all in.

[GMG24]

On 12/21/2024 at 10:43 AM, southsideguy said:

I sit on the opposite side of the players bench.  Last night there was two people sitting at those seats that are right next to court and the seats behind them had few people in them.  Do season tickets go towards the attendance numbers? if they need people to sit in those seats to make look better I am all in.

This is why we need a new arena max 1500/2,000 and make that thing Rocking. 

[Cooley]

1 hour ago, GMG24 said:

This is why we need a new arena max 1500/2,000 and make that thing Rocking. 

Sounds like it may be time to take smaller projected attendance games to the Snake Pit. 

[Matt from A700]

Two more home games before students are back, then hopefully the athletic department is going all out to try to compete with last year's record-breaking numbers.

[keith]

Third home game in a row under 3K in attendance and 4th for the season.  Now at 2,947, average attendance is down almost 13% (439 per game) compared to the first 7 home games last year.  We are now down 1,185 in average attendance compared to last season's full year average.  The home conference slate kicks off with UAB on New Year's Eve.  Hopefully, we will be able to chip away at this attendance deficit as some familiar foes visit the Super Pit, but it looks like hitting a 4K average and growing average attendance for the 3rd year in a row is becoming increasingly out of reach.

Just win and they will come they said.  SMH.

On the bright side, we're currently sitting at 9-3 and 7-0 at home and own the 2nd best Net rating in the conference only behind Memphis.  Unfortunately, the conference is incredibly weak this year so we don't have many opportunities to improve that ranking.  Aside from winning on the road at Memphis, holding serve in terms of a Net rating may be the best we can do from here.   Actually, looking at the schedule, we do have three Q2 road games (Wichita St, FAU and Temple).  They need to keep winning and we will need to win those three to improve our resume.

 

Edited Monday at 01:58 PM by keith

[NorthTexasWeLove]

Basketball must have a 4-5k seat arena and juice it up. Otherwise, UNT basketball will always have a small time feel. 

[NT80]

11 hours ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

Basketball must have a 4-5k seat arena and juice it up. Otherwise, UNT basketball will always have a small time feel. 

No, we're good...

[NorthTexasWeLove]

13 hours ago, NT80 said:

No, we're good...

And how often does that happen? 

[MeanGreen22]

13 hours ago, NT80 said:

No, we're good...

When the Pit is packed, really good environment. When its not... woof. The downfall of the Pit is not the amount of seats, it's its cavernous size. Although I think a new arena in the 6-7k seat mark is the sweet spot and would do wonders for game environment even when attendance is low.

[DallasGreen]

On 11/26/2024 at 9:29 AM, Green Lantern said:

Well our perpetually underperforming football team gets all the promotion and human resources thrown at it while season is still underway, even when they don’t deserve it.

We didn’t promote this game heavily at all which is a shame. My oldest is going on a Denton ISD field trip for a women’s game next week which should be fun, but thought this was a missed opportunity to do a targeted promotion to families on Thanksgiving break, along with like a Denton Chamber Mixer pregame or something along those lines. Target the community with a great offer to see a quality opponent people have heard of since you know it’s going to be light on students. 

Why light on students during a break.? Our students’ homes are closer to campus than most schools. Yet we continually use this as an excuse. And BB compared to FB 3K  to 12K who do you promote? One FB game draws what 5 non conference BB games will draw.

[DallasGreen]

On 12/19/2024 at 4:07 PM, UNTLifer said:

Who?

For sure I would never pull for SMU unless they were playing ND most overrated team and most obnoxious fans in D1

[DallasGreen]

On 12/24/2024 at 10:37 AM, NorthTexasWeLove said:

And how often does that happen? 

Almost never, but when you lose 3 games on tv and play a SWAC schedule at home you don’t generate enthusiasm 

[Tommy Gadberry]

Valid points here

[Matt from A700]

Can we use a few of our on-campus shuttles when school is out to bring a few busloads of students from designated pick-up spots throughout the Metroplex?

[Coffee and TV]

22 minutes ago, Matt from A700 said:

Can we use a few of our on-campus shuttles when school is out to bring a few busloads of students from designated pick-up spots throughout the Metroplex?

Way too expensive, but not a bad idea to have something similar drive around campus/just off campus to pick some people up. I bet if you put up a flyer in the laundromat of nearby apartments with a schedule of the dates you'd have people take up the offer. 

[Matt from A700]

1 hour ago, Coffee and TV said:

Way too expensive, but not a bad idea to have something similar drive around campus/just off campus to pick some people up. I bet if you put up a flyer in the laundromat of nearby apartments with a schedule of the dates you'd have people take up the offer. 

Need to get RAs more involved. Lead "parades" from dorm to dorm to the Pit. Get the famous white tent out in front of the Pit slinging free sloppy joes to students before every game - though I guess those ideas would only work when school's in session.

Maybe we need to have a family game promotion, similar to football, but once the break has started. Discounted or free four-pack of tickets for any Winter Break game to all students. And buy a mailing list for Denton County households and send an offer blast good for four free tickets at any game over the break.

[Coffee and TV]

34 minutes ago, Matt from A700 said:

Need to get RAs more involved. Lead "parades" from dorm to dorm to the Pit. Get the famous white tent out in front of the Pit slinging free sloppy joes to students before every game - though I guess those ideas would only work when school's in session.

Maybe we need to have a family game promotion, similar to football, but once the break has started. Discounted or free four-pack of tickets for any Winter Break game to all students. And buy a mailing list for Denton County households and send an offer blast good for four free tickets at any game over the break.

I don't think either of those are bad ideas, except I'd do something other than sloppy joes lol. 

I think with ticket giveaways you run the risk of them only taking advantage during the break, rather than pulling them in more permanently, but sometimes it's worth losing the $15 on the ticket if they bought $50 in concessions and a $25 t-shirt. 

[NT80]

On 12/24/2024 at 10:37 AM, NorthTexasWeLove said:

And how often does that happen? 

Often enough...and it's paid for!!

[Green Lantern]

On 12/25/2024 at 10:38 AM, DallasGreen said:

Why light on students during a break.? Our students’ homes are closer to campus than most schools. Yet we continually use this as an excuse. And BB compared to FB 3K  to 12K who do you promote? One FB game draws what 5 non conference BB games will draw.

Reality? Our student attendance is always light as soon as students are out on break. Did the AD do anything special to market or promote the game to them either in order to draw them back to campus for the evening? Offer incentives to this group to attend our marquee OOC game?

I understand stadium capacity/attendance in football vs basketball.  There are also exponentially more opportunities to draw fans back to the Super Pit due to the number of games being played during a season at home - along with the AAC Tournament being in our backyard. Imagine 7,500+ fans a game at each opportunity where they witness the team win at a .750 clip. That’s why you work to promote an actual good product when it calls for it - which our basketball program is (9-3) - vs our perpetually underperforming football team who constantly finds new and innovative ways to disappoint. 

Edited 12 hours ago by Green Lantern

[southsideguy]

If it is a basketball only it needs to be smaller.  4-5k  at the most, no upper bowl unless they are suites.  It will also make tickets a little harder to get and people want what they cant have.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

On 12/26/2024 at 7:41 PM, NT80 said:

Often enough...and it's paid for!!

That dump of a place being paid for is the only positive thing it has going for it.  We rarely get it to half capacity. And we have maybe got it beyond 7k 5 or 6 times...ever. It's a terrible venue for a program that pulls 3k on average and surges to 5k on big games...7k on the very rare occasion. There is no need for it... but it is paid for... So, I guess it has that going for it. 

[NT80]

1 hour ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

That dump of a place being paid for is the only positive thing it has going for it.  We rarely get it to half capacity. And we have maybe got it beyond 7k 5 or 6 times...ever. It's a terrible venue for a program that pulls 3k on average and surges to 5k on big games...7k on the very rare occasion. There is no need for it... but it is paid for... So, I guess it has that going for it. 

We would not gain any more attendance in a new venue put across I-35 that students and fans have to walk further to.  They are lazy and won't walk to the football stadium now.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

29 minutes ago, NT80 said:

We would not gain any more attendance in a new venue put across I-35 that students and fans have to walk further to.  They are lazy and won't walk to the football stadium now.

Those fans aren't coming with consistency anyway. They can beat it. Lower the supply to create a faux demand and increase prices. Plus, the environment would be meaningful, and fans, players and coaches would enjoy it.