Re: WISCONSIN Hockey Vol. XXIV - Craziest Season Of All Time
Basketball: 11 road trips per season
Hockey (single game per trip): 10 road trips per season.
That's not even counting if you play one team on Friday and a different team on Sunday.
It isn't even about ad revenue with the BTN, it is that move live events means that they can request higher carrier fees from the cable/sat networks.
Filling all of the Wednesdays between the end of the football season and the conference tournament would require each team to play in 2 Wednesday games.
I'm not saying that it will happen overnight, but I would not be surprised to see it in the next 5-10 years.
UW's attendance problems are the result of putting a generally unappealing and clearly sub-par product on the ice far to regularly over the past 7 seasons. People will come out to see a winning team play engaging hockey, even on a Wednesday, for any of the Big Ten programs.
Originally posted by Chuck Schwartz
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Hockey (single game per trip): 10 road trips per season.
That's not even counting if you play one team on Friday and a different team on Sunday.
It isn't even about ad revenue with the BTN, it is that move live events means that they can request higher carrier fees from the cable/sat networks.
Filling all of the Wednesdays between the end of the football season and the conference tournament would require each team to play in 2 Wednesday games.
I'm not saying that it will happen overnight, but I would not be surprised to see it in the next 5-10 years.
UW's attendance problems are the result of putting a generally unappealing and clearly sub-par product on the ice far to regularly over the past 7 seasons. People will come out to see a winning team play engaging hockey, even on a Wednesday, for any of the Big Ten programs.
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