Attendance problem for MBB?

The team's slow big ten start didn't help generate enthusiasm either - but there is a noticeable uptick in attendance once big ten play started.

Lower bowl is always sold out, so you're going to only get tickets to the nosebleeds. Half of the people with tickets in the lower bowl don't bother to show up to most games. Parking is horrible. You have to pay $10 or more to park over a mile away and then walk 20-30 minutes to Crisler, sometimes in horrible weather. Then after the game, you'll have to walk back. The entire trip is probably going to cost you at least $100 in gas, driving, parking, and food and that is just for 2 people. Game-times are horrible. Take the MSU game for instance; 9pm tip, drive an hour, get there 40 minutes early so you can walk and get to your seat on time, sit through 2 hr and 15 minute game, it's 11:15 pm now on a tuesday night. Get back to your car around midnight, 1 hr drive home...getting home at 1am on a night where most people have to get up to work. This is why you see so many old people at the games.

The ushers won't let you move down the entire game, even though those lower bowl people never show up.

 

It's just not realistic. You get a much better view of the game on your couch than paying all that money to sit in nosebleeds and taking all that time and effort to get to the arena just to be a "good fan."

 

Not really sure what the answers would be to improve the experience. Maybe put in a parking garage where the parking lot is next to Crisler. Lower the prices (not going to happen.)

I would love to catch all the football games and basketball games!  This team needs as much support as possible.  I really hope Crisler is packed for last home game of the year!

GO BLUE!!

7 pm Sunday night starts, marginal teams...

Many other outletss for entertainment.

It's happening.

Not saying anything thayt hasn't already been said, but I think its the culmination of two previous lackluster seasons building on each other, and it all rolling over into a season where we're honestly not doing much better. 

The days of Burke and Stauksas leading the team feel like a lifetime ago, and when you're not a blueblood like Duke or UNC that will always have a strong following to fall back on, regardless of record, losing will drive people away very quickly. So let's call it what it is: people don't want to spend a bunch of money to go watch a losing product. This team hasn't shown it is anywhere beyond where it was two years ago, when everything began really falling apart. We're not an exciting team to watch, and we're not a very good one either. 

Time to bring back the FRIEDER METER...!!!!!

 

 

How LAME is the crowd, really??

 

lol

It's surprising the numbers weren't worse. Hard to sell season tickets when the first interesting game is in January. (Texas and VT don't move the needle much for casual fans.) Aside from the obvious (win), what U-M needs to do is actually try to draw crowds. Start a series with Notre Dame. Revive the Duke series, even if it isn't annual. At present, U-M's nonconference scheduling has little point to it besides playing in an exempt tournament and going to New York every year—neither of which do anything for Crisler.

This is not a fun team to watch. I watched the Minny game. It was not fun. I wish I'd done something else with that time. I would not buy a ticket to watch an offense that consists of launching endless marginal threes and a defense that...wait, do we play defense?

I hate 9:00 starts and will not go to a game that starts so late. But I am old. That is all.

Some the comments on here are pathetic. Shouldn't be no excuse why that arena doesn't fill up.

I would say a combination of the schedule, prices, inconvenience of getting to the arena in the winter, and game pace. Someone mentioned the first 10 games on the schedule suck bad. That's $200 for season ticket holders practically down the drain. That's before parking and concessions. Then factor in conference games like Rutgers for every tournament caliber opponent and yeah...

The economy in A2 has always been insular, but it's still way overpriced for something that can be gotten easily online for free. Most people aren't fanatics and aren't so "loyal" any more than giving to the AD outweighs their own dollar : entertainment, not when players bolt at the earliest opportunity, resembling more of a semi pro than college team. Someone pointed out a couple years ago who would still have eligibility from the national runner up team vs who was actually on the team and that did it for me.

Pace of the game should be obvious - 30 free throws and the last "minute" lasts about 12 minutes or whatever it is in real time, 8 tv timeouts + up to 8 team timeouts + halftime. This problem plagues absolutely every sport

Getting to the arena, i wouldn't know since i haven't gone since my student days when i lived just a block from the stadium. But others have described the nuisance compared to sitting on couch

Maybe if we didn't have such a reactionary basketball fan base. We lose a game and people act on here like the sky is falling. People read that and genuinely think the team isn't worth watching because of that. I was talking to someone before the Indiana game that had a ticket but didn't want to go because they thought we would lose. I wonder who put those thoughts in their head. People get carried away with negativity here.