Varun Kumar

Staff Writer @OwlScoop_com & @hooplove215 | Germantown Academy '13 | Univ. of Pittsburgh '18 | 215 | Big 5 🏀 | #TeamTaggart

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@CrossingBroad @ZachGelb congrats brother!

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@BudElliott3 What does “buying college football” even mean? Also even if it’s something that could be purchased, why would the NFL want to spend money on the minor league system it doesn’t have to spend a dime on?

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@Coach__Strick The average game has 1000 less people than it did in 2000, a nearly 20% decline. That is a mind boggling loss. Even YoY there were 336,000 less tickets sold than the previous year. It been getting real bad out there and it’s looking like the bottom has fallen out this year

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@BBelefski Even bigger role in elevating college basketball into what it was when it was THE attraction

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@aidsapev It’s been trending down but the bottom has completely fallen out this year for CBB

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@Coach__Strick Here’s 1999-00

https://t.co/1ImSLLetoD

But I never claimed there was a sudden fall off since NIL? I’m saying there’s been a directional decline for like 15 years

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@Coach__Strick I can’t speak much to other levels but D1 men’s attendance is assuredly much lower across the board. Not sure where you’re getting the 1999-00 6K number from? They averaged 10,220, which was the capacity of Selland Arena.

[American U. Men's Basketball @AU_MBasketball]

MADDEN COLLINS FOR THE WIN!!!!

@SportsCenter | #PLTop3 | @MarchMadnessMBB

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@Seth_AR @whyamIonhere56 College basketball attendance and interest was growing/stable and the country’s U18 population was still on the rise. Nobody 20 years ago thought that the growth phase would come to an end, we are seeing things in decline now

[Miles McQuiggan @MilesMcQuiggan]

A lot of schools, conference tournaments, and neutral-site events seem to be calculating that selling fewer tickets at an excessive price point leads to slightly more total revenue.

It disregards the reputational damage that makes it a long-term negative.

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@mookjuice @Noahpinion @saikatc Again, you didn’t prove anything and you keep repeating that these are facts. AI chatbot replies aren’t facts, they’re for the lazy and uninformed

[Aaron Margo @margo19aa]

Almost anywhere you are in the country, you’re near a mid-major basketball game

Go support them, it’s incredibly high level basketball with cheap prices and a lot better access

Cannot recommend getting out to these games enough

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@mookjuice @Noahpinion @saikatc Bro thinks asking the wrong answer machine counts as facts. Once again I’m asking you to be serious

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@mookjuice @Noahpinion @saikatc I said be serious then you asked an AI chat bot “do Indian Americans care about India” 😭💀 holy shit

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@mookjuice @Noahpinion @saikatc Most Indian Americans do not give a single shit about politics in a foreign country halfway around the globe, be serious dawg

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@JakeKerchner55 @freecollin To be fair Andy did have personnel power that Nick doesn’t. But agree mostly, they were top 3 or 4 roster from 2001-04 but I’m not sure they were definitively #1 in any of those years. The Dream Team roster really wasn’t that good and definitely wasn’t as good of a coaching staff

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@TG2point0 Would rather see it be a real image in about 12 hours lol

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

@Zaneporter62 @SamDCooper

[Varun Kumar @vrkumar8]

It uh, did not help how expensive tickets were and that price didn’t even get you both games of the “doubleheader”

[John DiCarlo @jdicarlo]

Temple (1-0) and Richmond (2-0) are about five minutes from tipping off here at The Palestra. The historic West Philly venue is far from full today, unfortunately.