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Liberty drew 59,000 fans for 18 home games for an average attendance of 3,000 a gm.

http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/m_ ... attend.pdf

The number one team for home attendance is U.K. with an average crowd off 22,000 going to their games.

If the Lord doesn't come i think Liberty may reach that plateau at home at some point.

school gms ttl att Avg att
Liberty 18 59,471 3,304

Rockthejungle wrote:The number one team for home attendance is UK with an average crowd off 22,000 going to their games.

If the Lord doesn't come i think Liberty may reach that plateau at home at some point.

Kentucky has led the nation 13 of the last 14 years (Syracuse led the one year)!

And LU will never reach the level of Kentucky. Simply lunacy to think that. UK drew more than 59,000 for one game against Michigan State a few years ago - 78,129 to be exact.

ToTheLeft wrote:

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Bah.

flamesbball84 wrote:

Rockthejungle wrote:The number one team for home attendance is UK with an average crowd off 22,000 going to their games.

If the Lord doesn't come i think Liberty may reach that plateau at home at some point.

Kentucky has led the nation 13 of the last 14 years (Syracuse led the one year)!

And LU will never reach the level of Kentucky. Simply lunacy to think that. UK drew more than 59,000 for one game against Michigan State a few years ago - 78,129 to be exact.

And also they have a much much much much much much much much bigger basketball stadium than we do.

flames1971 wrote:

flamesbball84 wrote:

Rockthejungle wrote:The number one team for home attendance is UK with an average crowd off 22,000 going to their games.

If the Lord doesn't come i think Liberty may reach that plateau at home at some point.

Kentucky has led the nation 13 of the last 14 years (Syracuse led the one year)!

And LU will never reach the level of Kentucky. Simply lunacy to think that. UK drew more than 59,000 for one game against Michigan State a few years ago - 78,129 to be exact.

And also they have a much much much much much much much much bigger basketball stadium than we do.

Why is it lunacy ?Kentucky did not start out drawing 22,000 a game.It just took time.

flames1971 wrote:

flamesbball84 wrote:

Rockthejungle wrote:The number one team for home attendance is UK with an average crowd off 22,000 going to their games.

If the Lord doesn't come i think Liberty may reach that plateau at home at some point.

Kentucky has led the nation 13 of the last 14 years (Syracuse led the one year)!

And LU will never reach the level of Kentucky. Simply lunacy to think that. UK drew more than 59,000 for one game against Michigan State a few years ago - 78,129 to be exact.

And also they have a much much much much much much much much bigger basketball stadium than we do.

And they used to have people camp outside the ticket office for over a month jsut to get tickets to Big Blue Madness (hte midnight madness celebration) - however they cant do that now because its been forbidden by UK administration.

Rockthejungle wrote:

flames1971 wrote:

flamesbball84 wrote: Kentucky has led the nation 13 of the last 14 years (Syracuse led the one year)!

And LU will never reach the level of Kentucky. Simply lunacy to think that. UK drew more than 59,000 for one game against Michigan State a few years ago - 78,129 to be exact.

And also they have a much much much much much much much much bigger basketball stadium than we do.

Why is it lunacy ?Kentucky did not start out drawing 22,000 a game.It just took time.

If you even have to ask that question, therein lies the problem...

Let's look at UK ... They play in a decaying arena while sending teams to the floor that seem to be poorer every season. I hope the blue faithful enjoyed playing in a full Rupp while it lasted. Thanks, Billy Clyde.

Sly Fox wrote:Let's look at UK ... They play in a decaying arena while sending teams to the floor that seem to be poorer every season. I hope the blue faithful enjoyed playing in a full Rupp while it lasted. Thanks, Billy Clyde.

UK has the #1 recruiting class and has future stud recruits literally begging to play at UK, is being consistently ranked in the top 10 of preseason polls already (and thats WITHOUT john wall or jodie meeks), and will begin construction on a new arena within the next year. The days of UK not being particularly good are gone with Calipari in town.

Wasn't that what I heard when Tubby was pushed out the door?

Calipari succeeding at Kentucky is a virtual certainty. The only question is whether or not he and UK can stay out of trouble doing it and history on both sides suggests that they can't. UK hiring Calipari is like putting Wile E. Coyote in charge of a dynamite factory. Sooner or later, something is going to blow up.

Sly Fox wrote:Wasn't that what I heard when Tubby was pushed out the door?

Didn't hear that from me.

Libertine wrote:Calipari succeeding at Kentucky is a virtual certainty. The only question is whether or not he and UK can stay out of trouble doing it and history on both sides suggests that they can't. UK hiring Calipari is like putting Wile E. Coyote in charge of a dynamite factory. Sooner or later, something is going to blow up.

Calipari has a clean record. Even the NCAA says he had nothing to do with the stuff that went down with Camby. you can bring up milt wagner if you want, but milt was there for six years, dajuan was only there for one, so that shows milt wasnt brought in just to being dujuan to town.

Dude, do you seriously want to stake your claim to Cal being clean? I don't know anyone in the coaching profession including cal who would be willing to do just that.

flamesbball84 wrote:

Libertine wrote:Calipari succeeding at Kentucky is a virtual certainty. The only question is whether or not he and UK can stay out of trouble doing it and history on both sides suggests that they can't. UK hiring Calipari is like putting Wile E. Coyote in charge of a dynamite factory. Sooner or later, something is going to blow up.

Calipari has a clean record. Even the NCAA says he had nothing to do with the stuff that went down with Camby. you can bring up milt wagner if you want, but milt was there for six years, dajuan was only there for one, so that shows milt wasnt brought in just to being dujuan to town.

Laurinburg Institute anyone....

Calipari may technically have a clean record. I think the question is, has a Calipari player ever had a clean record?

LUconn wrote:Calipari may technically have a clean record. I think the question is, has a Calipari player ever had a clean record?

Well, he's been coaching for 20+ years now so I'm going to say that he must have had some clean players. I'm going to guess that the number on that could be as high as six. Maybe even seven.

It'd be easier than you think to surpass Kentucky in attendance figures, especially considering that we make ours up.

Rockthejungle wrote:
If the Lord doesn't come i think Liberty may reach that plateau at home at some point.

If that Happens ill slam my.... hand.... in a car door.

and in the process, Liberty only outdrew the top D3 team (Hope College) by an average of 304 people per game - Hope averaged 2,696. Hope actually ended up having a higher per-game average than 156 teams, 167 including teams reclassifying to D1. That's a long, long, long way from competing with Kentucky.

flamesbball84 wrote:and in the process, Liberty only outdrew the top D3 team (Hope College) by an average of 304 people per game - Hope averaged 2,696. Hope actually ended up having a higher per-game average than 156 teams, 167 including teams reclassifying to D1. That's a long, long, long way from competing with Kentucky.

We all care SO much about D3 ball.

Anyways, Hope College is a fluke, they have double the attendance of the 7th highest attendance D3 school. Also, it's impossible to compare the midwest to the east coast in terms of basketball attendance. People go to Hope and Calvin for basketball games just to see basketball. People don't do that in Virginia.

And I didn't see LC on the top 30 list. I did see Randolph-Macon tho. Weird, huh? LC can't even crack a 893 per game attendance. I thought they were known up and down the eastern seaboard...

Nice try tho, shukwagon.

ToTheLeft wrote:

flamesbball84 wrote:and in the process, Liberty only outdrew the top D3 team (Hope College) by an average of 304 people per game - Hope averaged 2,696. Hope actually ended up having a higher per-game average than 156 teams, 167 including teams reclassifying to D1. That's a long, long, long way from competing with Kentucky.

We all care SO much about D3 ball.

Anyways, Hope College is a fluke, they have double the attendance of the 7th highest attendance D3 school. Also, it's impossible to compare the midwest to the east coast in terms of basketball attendance. People go to Hope and Calvin for basketball games just to see basketball. People don't do that in Virginia.

And I didn't see LC on the top 30 list. I did see Randolph-Macon tho. Weird, huh? LC can't even crack a 893 per game attendance. I thought they were known up and down the eastern seaboard...

Nice try tho, shukwagon.

LC is a lax and soccer school (aka sports in the US rich white people like), kids don't care about basketball at LC, not even that much at the D1 level for some reason. This school has been a lax/soccer school ever since i've been here and apparently it's been that way for at least 20 years now.

All the D3 schools on that list are either basketball schools (which is most of them) or football schools with strong basketball teams (like Randolph-Macon, for example). So yes attendance at those schools being higher than a lax/soccer school is to be expected. How is Randolph-Macon being on that list weird? They are normally a top-25 school in both men's and women's basketball, so yes they should rank on that list.