It was reported recently that ticket sales are down quite a bit for Lobo basketball. Here's why, in my opinion. 1. Prices: Prices for tickets, anywhere you sit in the Pit, are high. But what gets people is the parking charge and the extraordinary price for concessions. Add it all up and it makes it difficult to take a family to a game. It has also become too corporate, and the ordinary fan feels it. 2. Lack of local players: I know, I know, it's a broken record. And there are fewer great basketball players in NM at the High School level thank in other sports, that's a given. But when you have two guards last year, Jones and Patterson, that are elite material, both 6ft 1 to 6ft 3, and you go and recruit a 5ft 11 point guard from Texas and bring him in over these two, that's just wrong. Neither Jones or Patterson even received a courtesy call from Neal. And both are starting and killing it at their respective colleges, and both killed it in AAU competition against the best players in the country. There are a number of other kids from NM that are doing great in college basketball throughout the country right now, but not a single one given a shot as a Lobo.....3. Lack of competition - People want to come and see the Lobos play great teams, not Texas A @ G liberal arts academy for global warming. Bring in the big boys! 4. We all know it's just a smoke screen anyway. No matter what the Lobos do in the regular season, who they beat, and what their record is, they always seem to choke in the NCAA tournament, if they even make it. This isn't just Neal's issue. It has been going on forever. The Lobos are the ultimate paper tiger - great in the regular season but they crumble when it really counts. We are all tired of this, and it is getting really old, and embarrassing. I can't tell you how many times I thought "this is finally the year", only to get my hopes dashed again and again and again.
Lobo Basketball ticket sales way down
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