I was thinking in more general terms than this year specifically.  As you say, the
financial/attendance success of the western regionals have a lot to do with location.

A couple of years ago, there was a very interesting discussion about relative attendance at the
regionals.  I was in what was basically a full house at Worcester, while thousands of folks were
at the western regional (I think it was Madison that year) disguised as empty seats.

I'm also admittedly mixing issues.  Part of the discussion was also about on-campus sites, which I
think are a bad idea, since they are inherently non-neutral if the host team is in the regional.
There were many responses that it was pretty much necessary to have them at on-campus sites
because attendance at non-campus sites tended to be poor.

Clay

--- Pamela Sweeney <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Your point is good that while the Frozen Four is most certainly in the black, the regionals may
> not be money-makers, but why in particular the Western regionals?  I would think the Western
> regional attendance would be highly dependent on the sites, but this year they're in Mariucci
> and Yost, more or less guarranteed to have their home teams in arenas where they routinely sell
> out 10000 and 7000 (?) seats, respectively.


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