Bloomington Bison joining ECHL in 2024-25
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JMCx4
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Ask the folks the League pays to answer such things (and lots of other things as well) ...
And if you believe any of those attendance #s, I've got some "authentic" hockey jerseys to sell you, too.
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JMCx4
Censorship is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Of course, gotta keep an eye on the NYR affiliates. All 1 Rangers prospects in the ECHL!.....
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Coach Barski is restocking the Herd, as his 4th-place Bison 
rumble toward a hopeful playoff position in their inaugural season ... 
rumble toward a hopeful playoff position in their inaugural season ...
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And I deserve US$10M. Who you think gonna get theirs first?
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No bad rumblings yet, so seems like the Bison will be back next year, so my fandom didn’t kiss of death ‘em like the Express.
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I guess you survived another season of Grossinger Motors Arena concessions then, too.
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Hey RuZZia - Cut Your Losses and Go Home.
If I had a dollar for every time someone said that "fans deserve XXXX", be it a better league, better management, better coach, better players, whatever - I'd have at least enough to start an FPHL franchise in Danville.
Here's reality: Markets get what they deserve, whether it's because of local economics, arena management, or whathaveyou, and fans can either buy tickets or not.
There's a reason the arena in Bloomington has had so much trouble keeping tenants. Same with Danville. Same with a lot of these cities. You have arenas that are either owned by city or county governments that are run one of two ways: they are leased out to arena operators, Global Spectrum, for example, or are run by a board of political appointees. With an arena operator, you have to deal with high per game rent costs and fees for changeover and maintenance, because the arena operators aren't in business to lose money. With a board of political appointees, you have political cronies who are often corrupt running what is essentially a government operation with minimal oversight. While they MAY, ostensibly, have a mandate to make a profit, the board and its top-level appointees, more likely, are finding ways to profit for themselves via self dealing.
What fans get is, at least partially, a function of what they voted for at the ballot box and where they spend their money for news. Want a competently run arena? Don't elect people who will put it in the hands of a board that answers to no one, as the Jackson Fairgrounds Coliseum and Mississippi Coast Coliseum are. Want an arena run by a public board that is held accountable? Subscribe to your local paper and encourage them to investigate the functioning of your local arena.
Don't want to vote for accountability or spend money on local journalism? Well, good luck.
The third option is for the team owner to also own and operate the arena. But with an ECHL-level arena now running as much as $100M in construction costs, that's not going to be a frequent occurrence ever again.
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