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It is amazing....my son wanted a hot dog at the beginning of the game...and was told they were sold out. UA Athletics laments the fact they are so underfunded... yet people at the JAR can't figure out: A.) That 5,000 people are coming to a Tuesday night game, they they should plan their food supply accordingly B.) At the F-ing Akron/K.e.n.t. game, you can sell hot dogs for $3.00, and sell a TON The idiot will look at these comments and say "Gee...it's only hot dogs...it has nothing to do with basketball." Wrong. It shows there's no attention to detail. If you lose $1500 in hot dog sales, that's equivalent to 25 season tickets for football. Ask anyone selling Akron season tickets how difficult it is to sell 25 of them.

Too bad they're not playing the Riverhounds at Highmark Stadium.

To cap off a disappointing loss...... You'll all be comforted to know that our "hometown" newspaper covered this game with a "staff reporter", and the score and opponent were listed on the front of the sports page yesterday as CENTRAL MICHIGAN.

There are two main non-basketball issues when it comes to attendance. 1) Marketing. Name one thing the Marketing Department has put together for basketball this season. You'll have a tough time because there isn't anything. Even the fact that Tuesday home games are Dollar Hot Dog nights has never been, to my knowledge, promoted. The Social Media Rewards site has died, there have been no promotional giveaways, there have been no special nights created by marketing...it's like there isn't even a marketing department. Seriously, as another poster said, someone from UA needs to have dinner with Ken Babby and see how to stir up some excitement about a product. 2) The AK-Rowdies. The group needs to disband. I know it won't happen because nobody has the guts to make it happen, but it really does. I'm not going to pretend like I know the current setup of the Rowdies. I do know that students view it as a group that you have to join, which is why so many of them sit up ton in the GA seats. Whether or not they still require a special shirt or membership to sit down low (I hope not - that decision started the decline of the group), the perception is that it's not an inclusive group. Rename the student section, offer tons of freebies to students WITHOUT making them register for anything, and start fresh. The Rowdies have run their course.

Because that's not how it was when they grew up so it must be wrong

You're right. I was only using an anomaly to make a joke.

Right or we could have won both road games against sub-200 RPI teams and have 4.. If we want to win a MAC championship - I'd say 2-7 isn't gonna cut it.