OK, maybe the headline is a tad drastic but if you’re reading this I guess it worked. As we all know, attendance for Georgetown’s games at the Verizon Center has been really bad. Not just bad, but really bad. Last night was perhaps the crowing achievement of attendance horror, as just 3,996 people showed up to witness Georgetown’s thrashing of MEAC foe Coppin State. This figure is down from last season’s low of 4,062 against Maryland Eastern-Shore.
Despite the efforts of Athletics Marketing guru Chris Grosse (shudder to think where we’d be without him), the students aren’t showing up and it’s translating into a lackluster, stale environment that pervades every inch of that arena and influences the level of intensity on the court.