Because no one gives a shit about UTA. It's a branch school operating under the thumb of someone else. For them to avg 1k+ is surprising and good.
We don't have 80 million to do anything with. We don't have the 15-20 to renovate the athletic center, and can't seem to employ the people in place to raise it. I don't expect a new arena, but it'd be awesome to have one.
Yes. I literally just edited my post. 1. 1977. We have hit 7k ore more in attendance 10 times. 50+ years ino this...
But..."wE jUsT nEeD an Ad tO mArkEt BeTtEr"
Yes, we do. I agree. But no AD is marketing to fill up to 10K. Hell, or 7 or 8K either. Too big. Proof is literally right in google. Just isn't happening.
Besides UTA being in DFW like us, you just ignored the other similarities: same enrollment size, public university, non-P4 athletic conference. We are going to turn into UTA if we don't get our Athletic support fixed and grow our fan base attendance more!
The Pit is not going away or being modified (made smaller). The University still uses the full capacity for graduations and other events.
The only reasons I see the need for a new arena is mainly so athletics can control scheduling of the building, have suites for big donors, and improve the sound and have special lighting. Capacity to be determined. Would spending $80 million on a new arena really improve our attendance? What else could we do with the $80 million in marketing to get fans behind the program at the Pit instead? Back to UTA...the new arena didn't help UTA's basketball attendance.
I appreciate the positive reinforcement at the end.
It's just too big. Want to be a small time program? Keep maintaining the small time feel. Want to have a small time feel? Have a basketball arena that is outdated and 50% too big. We gotta get it fixed.
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