Since the basketball program is averaging less than 65% full for games in recent seasons...including a yawning 9,936 for Kansas State this week...maybe a PRT stop extending all over the state with an at the gate drop off would help. I do realize that there is a whole catalog of excuses but lots and lots of blue seats as a rule. Shame of it is: WVU has one of the best all time coaches in Huggs and a team that IMO is truly special. Sports networks on cable and streaming online is killing attendance I believe. Happening in football too...all over the NCAA actually.
Maybe we should provide limo service from their homes to the front door, then golf cart them to the concourse, then install an escalator to their seats. The problem is not the program, it's the students. Then landscape of things is changing and it is not good for sports revenue. You could double the athletic fee and I expect the students will complain, but it will not be an encouragement to them attending games. They would rather sit at home on their fat a$$es squinting at their cell phone screen looking Cinda Bell's cute photo of her doggie dressed up in a Halloween costume on Facebook. They could care less about WVU football or basketball. Attending a game is just a bucket list item to be checked off as part of their college experience. Most of them won't even go hiking, ride a bike, go camping, white water rafting, skiing, or any other kind of activity that requires even one ounce of physical effort and required them to go off line for even one second.
The result will be that sports revenue is headed toward a fast shift downward, which means that those of us who do care will suffer. Agree or disagree, but get ready, it's comin.
