Re: More proof that the Regional system is a disaster: Today's attendance at the X is
You are right, of course, but since there is NO WAY that ticket prices are going to be lowered by the NC$$, some of us are trying to suggest SOME alternative that would allow for more people to go. Since it's either lower prices or reduce travel, the travel option has been brought up. Obviously it would be better if neither of these alternatives had to be implemented. But I'll bring up the BU example again (I'm sure there are many others). BU was a 9 seed and had to go to Minnesota. So instead of many more fans in either Worcester or Bridgeport, the NCAA thought it was a smarter idea to put them somewhere where probably less than 100 fans would go. This has NOTHING to do with ticket prices - it has to do with proximity and ease of getting to the game. It's not like they were a 16 seed. You could have kept each team in its own region and it wouldn't have made a huge difference. You could say the same for half a dozen other teams. This is NOT basketball. There aren't 64 teams where you HAVE to make them travel to maintain the brackets. And the basketball schools have much larger fan bases and clearly there is more money is what is a much more popular sport.
Originally posted by amherstblackbear
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