Here is the issue. If UK is in the finals they will make the Dome look packed and they will be loud - which looks really good on TV - but Reliant would look empty even if UK was in the finals there. As stated before, you want to appeal to teams that travel well and distance is a factor.

UK has about 90% of the venue when they play early season tourneys in Alaska or Hawaii but those venues are small. UK will sell 90% in Nashville or Atlanta because they are close. UK will not do 90% in Houston. Local folks in Houston will not do 90% either as they have little or no vested interest. Florida and Kansas both have multiple NC's in basketball but the Jayhawks travel and the Gators do not. See the difference?

B1G was actually paying people to attend the B1G CCG the first year and the numbers were not bad, but the crowd was flat because of it. Best to mix venue with a group that will travel near it.

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Posted by EKG

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Posted on 3/15/14 at 12:30 pm to Cheese Grits

If it ever came down to Houston, I would think It would be in the Toyota Center (home of the Rockets), not in Reliant Stadium.

I honestly don't have a clue about who would come from where; but perhaps expanding the tourney site would help with marketing, as well as to pull fans from places other than just UK? Kinda like FB recruiting--teams like to play in different cities/states to develop a presence in new territories?

Regardless, it is where it is; and very few teams outside of 4 or 5 within the SEC are currently worth a walk across the street to watch em play.

This post was edited on 3/15/14 at 12:36 pm

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