Attendance

When it comes to attendance, just think about it... if we win 5 of our next 6 we will for sure be a top 20 team going into that rematch with UConn at MSG on Feb 3rd. UConn fans will obviously be out in droves, but I feel like if we are a top 25 team, a lot of casual SJU fans will show as well.

Lets just keep winning and let the chips fall where they may!
 
monte said:
Not simply "homeless" NCJ, but dangerously deranged and homeless. Like you and I in the 70s and 80s, young people today tend to be somewhat oblivious to the potential dangers around them. I've been robbed and I was carjacked at gunpoint. Jan 1 1981. Coincidentally I was wearing my red SJU jacket snd they stole my SJU graduation ring. I never had it replaced.
Stuff like that will sharpen your senses to danger.

Anyhow I worry daily about both my children. My son lives down by Delancy street. He's a really street smart kid. Whenever I say to him "please stay safe", his answer is always "I'm staying as safe as I can". He's aware that the city is not the same one that even he grew up in, and he's only 28.
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I hear you Monte. I have also been robbed twice in NYC, once in the mid 1970s at gunpoint outside McSorley's Ale House and the other in the mid 80s near Times Square. Both were on the street though as opposed to the subway. Also agree that young people underestimate the dangers around them, or downplay them, because they are so enraptured with the good things city life still has to offer.
 
I've been lucky to be able to travel quite a bit. I'm always the person that complains about NYC when I'm away from it (e.g. in a lot of neighborhoods in Mexico City, there was almost no litter on the streets -- something that's really annoyed me about downtown Brooklyn, especially having a dog). It's honestly weird that I'm now in the position to defend the city. I obviously don't think a game thread about the upcoming Providence game is the appropriate venue for this (although Eric would love it for page count purposes). But I definitely think people that actually live here are more than aware of the issues the city faces but the trade-offs of great public transit + entertainment opportunities + diversity + walkability outweigh it for a lot of people.

Now, onto Providence.
 
Jack Williams said:
After living in Brooklyn I quickly realized the NYC Buses are way superior to the subway system as long you know where you’re going

Also again this is just my experience but I feel like almost everyone that takes the nyc buses are hardworking New Yorkers just trying to get to work/home.

It’s extremely rare I feel unsafe on a city bus
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Very true. It’s also really easy to jump a turnstile and spend all day on the trains menacing people largely unsupervised. Bus drivers won’t tolerate that and the ferry empties out after it completes every route…and it costs $4.00 which also acts a a deterrent.
 
SJU Center Court said:
Agree 100%.

I think the key to get the "attendance bump" will be the return of the "Subway Alumni" (NYC college basketball fans who did not go to SJU). I have a season ticket and know some long time "Subway Alumni" season ticket holders who dropped their seats the last few years. Winning will draw those fans back.
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Love that term. That applied to me 100% when I became a fan. MSG only season tix made that a reality for me and my college buddy for 10+ years.
 
johnsliva said:
I live in rose hill, we may have to meet up for a beer and a taco sometime. (Bluffton may have some oh the best Mexican east of the Mississippi)
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Maybe watch a Johnnies game at a Bar somewhere ? But , we might have to outfox the locals who might like to watch SC Vs Georgia in BB ?
 
smalley said:
The subway is approximately as safe as it has ever been. I ride daily. Violent crime is statistically way down in NYC despite what your favorite news source may be transmitting. Crime has become a state of mind.

I highly doubt it meaningfully affects attendance.
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This from 2022, and crime has continued to drop since then:

It is true that crime has risen in the city, both over the past year and over the past several years. While the number of murders is down, violent crime overall is up 30 percent. But, as is the case with other places where crime has measurably increased, crime is still nowhere near what it was 30 years ago.

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NCJohnnie said:
I hear you Monte. I have also been robbed twice in NYC, once in the mid 1970s at gunpoint outside McSorley's Ale House and the other in the mid 80s near Times Square. Both were on the street though as opposed to the subway. Also agree that young people underestimate the dangers around them, or downplay them, because they are so enraptured with the good things city life still has to offer.
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"Ignorance is bliss" lol
 
NCJohnnie said:
I hear you Monte. I have also been robbed twice in NYC, once in the mid 1970s at gunpoint outside McSorley's Ale House and the other in the mid 80s near Times Square. Both were on the street though as opposed to the subway. Also agree that young people underestimate the dangers around them, or downplay them, because they are so enraptured with the good things city life still has to offer.
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The city and subways were far more dangerous in the 80's when I first moved into the city than they are now. Stats bear that out. Pandemic definitely drove up crime and homelessness the past few years though. Throw in our national indifference to mental health and there are definitely issues this country needs to address, not through panic though.
 
You guys complain about crime. Nathalie had her cell phone stolen in Lima Peru while she was sitting in the back of a taxi and talking on the phone. Had it ripped right from her hand and ear not looking. lol
 
austour said:
This from 2022, and crime has continued to drop since then:

It is true that crime has risen in the city, both over the past year and over the past several years. While the number of murders is down, violent crime overall is up 30 percent. But, as is the case with other places where crime has measurably increased, crime is still nowhere near what it was 30 years ago.

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I love when out of towners quote doctored/manipulated stats to try and convince long time new yorkers that things are just hunky dory here. Look, I thought I'd live the rest of my life in NYC. I had no plans of every leaving the place that my Great grandparents settled in over 100 years ago. But thanks to policies enacted(I'm not gonna turn this political) and me being astute enough to see where the city was headed, I felt like I had no choice but to leave. And on the rare occasion that I return, my decision to move is only reinforced.

So you can take your BS stats and stick em where the sun don't shine.
 
monte said:
I love when out of towners quote doctored/manipulated stats to try and convince long time new yorkers that things are just hunky dory here. Look, I thought I'd live the rest of my life in NYC. I had no plans of every leaving the place that my Great grandparents settled in over 100 years ago. But thanks to policies enacted(I'm not gonna turn this political) and me being astute enough to see where were headed, I felt like I had no choice but to leave. And on the rare occasion that I return, my decision to move is only reinforced.
So you can take your BS stats and stick em where the sun don't shine.
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Yeah screw stats, and science too while you're at it. LOL
 
mjmaherjr said:
You guys complain about crime. Nathalie had her cell phone stolen in Lima Peru while she was sitting in the back of a taxi and talking on the phone. Had it ripped right from her hand and ear not looking. lol
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George Soros backed DA I'll bet 😉
 
Attendance issues, NYC crime. If we start to rank coaches pre-Pitino and after Lou, we will have hit the trifecta of message board topics to make this over 20 pages before tip.
 
One last thing and then I'm done with this subject: when you choose not to make arrests, and/or choose not to prosecute, of course crime stats look better. Not sure why some of you guys don't get that. But then again, most of you ain't in NYC so you don't have any real knowledge of the situation other than what you read and hear from your fake news sources
 
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