As a long-time attendee of Eastern regionals (as a BU fan), here's my take
on attendance.
 
Teams you want in the Eastern Regional, from an attendance point of view:
 
1. New Hampshire. Rabid fans, travel very well.
2. Maine. Even more rabid fans, but unfortunately not within easy driving
distance of any regional site. Fans will be there if they expect their team
to win, which is likely the case this year.
3. Vermont. What a great crowd in the years they were good.
4. Boston University.
5. Clarkson. An amazing number of alums for a school that size.
6. Rensselaer. Especially at home in Albany.
7. (tie) Any of the large midwestern state schools. So many alums, so few
chances to see their teams.
8. Boston College. Only the students travel well.
9. Harvard. Not even the students.
-. Cornell and St. Lawrence. The only other two Eastern teams to make it to
an Eastern regional. I didn't see their games.
-. All of the other eastern teams. Never made it to the East. Several have
only played out west (UML, NU, Yale, Princeton).
 
So this looks like a decent year for the East, especially since the West
only gets St. Lawrence and Boston College from the East, which wouldn't have
been major draws to Worcester. Also, it's better to have two days of Maine
than UNH since the Maine folks have to make the major travel effort anyway.
 
Patrick Abegg
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From: Cheryl A. Morris <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Actual tournament brackets
 
 
>On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Eeyore wrote:
>
>> I don't know if it involves changing priorities, but the committee picked
an
>> interesting time to not put attendance high on the list. I stand by my
>> prediction that the West Regional is going to die in the ratings.  Maybe
they
>
>
>And you know what, I think the East Regionals are going to take a bath
>attendance-wise as well.  No Boston teams in the tourney--bad karma for
>Worcester.  Thank God Albany didn't end up with this draw.  You basically
>have two teams with any fan base to accompany their teams--Maine and UNH.
>UNH fans most likely will only be there for the final (with the exception
>of Jim Love, who never has anything to do this time of year.  :-) )
>Clarkson won't bring many because there aren't many fans in Potsdam to
>bring.
>
>I don't think this years Regionals are going to present much of a
>marketing opportunity for the NC$$.
>
>And, in answer to Lance Riegert--no, RPI didn't deserve to be in the
>NC$$'s.  Their penchant for patsy schedules reared up and bit them in the
>*ss.  The only SOS they had, excluding their traditional ECAC opponents
>(read Clarkson) was UNH, and we all remember how that game turned out.
>They also were handled by Niagara,  a perhaps bubble team.  Finally three
>losses to SLU, 2 to Clarkson, in my book spells NO BID.
>
>Now a little bird has told me that next year's schedule just might be a
>little different...
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>Brian Morris                  RPI Engineers--Wait till next year
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