The hard thing to understand about attendance is the number of no-shows. Last home game vs Iowa st, attendance was listed as 11105. Obviously there were not 11000 people there. Plus a lot if those fans that do attend bail at either the under 8 timeout or definitely the under 4 TO. I've even noticed fans not even doing some of the "traditions" like standing until the first made basket of the half, or standing and cheering when the teams comes on the floor at the start or at the half. My guess is we have about 3000 "core fans" that really support the team game in game out. Another 2-3000 come to the games, but as evidenced in the seats around us, are on their phone, or even ipad, most of the game. It's frustrating for me to not see more local support as we have our tickets for the last 12 years, making the drive from Tulsa each game and only miss a couple of games a year.
As far as the theory people but season tickets for football points, I don't buy it. For my $600 I pay for season tickets, I get 1 priority point. If I donated that $600 to my football seating, I would get 18 points. The math doesn't support the theory. Now we might have football fans that buy basketball tickets just for 2-3 games a year, but they don't do it just to help their football points.
Finally what can be done? One, got to get more students. We need 3-4000 students a game, not 400. Second, the overall product of the Thunder has hurt, so we have to step up our marketing and in game LNC environment. Third, we have to find a way to reward those who come to the games by rewarding seating location. Make the lower bowl the same donation and season ticket price as the upper level for those that show up.
And most of all, keep winning.
