PennFan10
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03-16-22 02:21 PM - Post#339382
In response to LocalTiger
Here is an interview with Robin Harris from 2019 that "tries to explain" some of the rationale for rotating venues:
https://www.inquirer.com/college-sports/ivy-le ague...
Some of the quotes include:
"What a wonderful opportunity, to be able to bring this terrific event to each campus community and have the local fans that support their teams at the school throughout the year have a chance to attend. And for fans that travel, to get to our campuses."
Is the small capacity of some Ivy venues a concern for you?
"We have to pay attention to capacity, and we have to make sure that we give our most ardent fans the opportunity to attend. All the venues can do that. We’re going to have terrific environments for our student-athletes who are playing, because we’re going to have packed venues everywhere we go. The Palestra was a great environment, the way the sound reverberates, for the men and the women. At the smaller venues, we’ll pack them"
"During the past several years, we’ve looked at a number of neutral facilities. That’s been part of the process throughout. There’s a couple of issues.
One, it’s very costly. It’s much more cost-effective to be in one of our campus venues.
The second piece is the atmosphere at neutral venues. Some conferences choose to go to neutral venues. Obviously all of the so-called “Power 6” conferences are at neutral venues, and sometimes their crowds are just not that great, and the atmosphere’s not that great, frankly."
"The tournaments were never about generating revenue. We want to cover our costs, and operate them in a cost-effective way, and we want to make sure ticket prices remain accessible to our fans."
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