A tremendous opportunity missed!

There were a lot of empty seats -- it was an exhibition game -- but I think there was a lot of missed opportunity...

-First - a missed chance for folks to get virtually courtside seats - better than most people ever get. I needed some extra tickets so I got there early and there were seats not only in the lower bowl but at midcourt only a couple rows from the court...
and the reason some of those seats are NOW available is because there ARE people who did not re-up on their season tickets -- people who have moved out of town, or for whatever reason -- but the seats I got on little notice were INCREDIBLE.

-but even if people were further back in the lower bowl - there were still many unoccupied seats right down by courtside that they could have come down and taken and enjoyed.

-lastly a lot of people stayed home because this was an exhibition game....and I don't want to sound like I am getting down on fellow BU fans, but what they heck -- it's still a Bradley game and those "fans" need to show up!
As I said elsewhere - the low attendance and the slow sales for tickets to the other games and the games at Renaissance Arena are unfortunate -- the people claiming to Bradley fans but who are waiting to see how the team is going to do are missing out...

plus -- those folks who simply are going to wait and catch the games later may have missed the last chance to see Nate wells. If he redshirts then he is not going to play any more....look for Nate to stay on the bench and not play the next game and thereafter. There's a chance they still might use him but not likely he'll play in the next few games so that they can keep the redshirt option open.

Finally - a few of the folks who have loudly claimed to be the very best Bradley fans - are among those who were no-shows last night...so those folks really make it easy to support the argument they are NOT good fans.
They are fair weather fans.
That's OK -- every team knows there are fair weather fans and if the team does well enough they'll get some of those fans...some will buy tickets for upcoming games and some will be walk up buyers...
but I think it clearly shows there are different degrees of fandom.
If the shoe fits ....

And what's with a fan message board claiming to be a Bradley board not even having a SINGLE discussion thread about a home game - even well more than 12 hours after the game is over? Can you say demise???