A question for all Blue Jackets Fans.

• End of Line

  

  I loved going to Chill games when I was real little.
  
  LJ, I can see that happening with Chill fans boycotting the CBJ.
• justcompete

  Just the opposite. The Blue Jackets gave Chill season ticket holders VERY good deals for BJ tickets.
• LJ

  

  justcompete wrote: Just the opposite. The Blue Jackets gave Chill season ticket holders VERY good deals for BJ tickets.

  opposite of what? I mean I am only going off of what I have been told by a giant group of Chill supporters. They didn't want anything to do with the CBJ when they came to town and still don't.
• NNN

  

  queencitybuckeye wrote:

  NNN wrote:
  Various studies done on new teams and new facilities seem to suggest that there's a seven- or eight-year window where attendance spikes regardless of the team's success for the simple reason that it's something new to check out.
  
  The fact that the CBJ sold out every home game in 2001-02 (the worst team the franchise has ever had) falls in line with that rather than the idea that success is itself the biggest draw.

  I don't disagree with this, but it has nothing to do with your prior assertion that the attendance is in some strange way linked to an arena several miles up the road. Which of course is patent nonsense.

  krazie45 wrote: If the Blue Jackets were good, this wouldn't be an issue and they'd be selling out regularly. Columbus is a city that supports its hockey (my aunt and uncle went to every Chill game for years) and does have a great arena in Nationwide. The have just never had even a respectable team on the ice except for last year when they still failed to win a single playoff game. The Schott has nothing to do with attendance for Blue Jackets games. While I have been as anti-Schott as possible in my lifetime (simply should have renovated St. John and the Ice Rink, instead we are subjected to the worst atmosphere in college basketball), there is no correlation between CBJ attendance and OSU except for the students buying up tickets and filling the seats through the Rush CBJ program.

  I said "support", not attendance. Nashville has a tremendous arena atmosphere, but they're not in great financial shape because most larger companies hitch their wagon to the Titans or to Vanderbilt first. They have a solid base of season ticket holders who are actually fans instead of corporate suits but need more of the high-roller cash.
  
  So when OSU's dump of an arena has a full array of luxury suits and Nationwide has quite a few sitting vacant, it most certainly affects the overall bottom line and support of the team as a whole.
  

  The_Crosby_Show wrote: ^^^^^I remember hearing about that, Nationwide Arena played OSU's "Drive Down the Field" and the fans started booing, so idk.

  It was beautiful too.
  

  krazie45 wrote: I remember they played "Don't Give a Damn" when they played the Red Wings so idk either. If Blue Jackets fans are anti-OSU that's pretty damn pathetic. Let's not forget that RJ Umberger, one of the Jackets' most popular players, is a Buckeye.

  The Jackets have been pissed on by OSU every step of the way since, oh, about 1994, so there's certainly some justified hostility. The NHL basically stood up and said, "If Columbus gets an arena built, they get an NHL team" and the jackasses involved with OSU succeeded in getting a public venture shot down by a 2:1 margin.
  
  Of course, the sales tax went up the next year anyway (and currently exceeds what it would have been raised to for the arena venture), OSU has their illegal arena, and the only reason that people outside the Midwest don't need the ", Ohio" qualifier after Columbus struggles because of them.
  
  Funny thing about Umberger: I have yet to meet a CBJ fan who cares about where he played his college hockey. The only people I've ever heard actually reference it are those who say that they remember him playing but don't seem to remember anyone else on that team (like, say, Dave Steckel, who was just as highly regarded and is also in the NHL). That'd be like an Indians fan saying "I remember Thome and Lofton and Nagy back in the day", someone else asking them if they remember Albert Belle, and getting a blank look in return.
• hoops23

  

  If Columbus had to choose between the Blue Jackets and the buckeyes, we know who wins that battle and it wouldn't even be close.
  
  Fact is, the Jackets have sucked. Last year was the exception. They gave people hope for this season and even got off to a very good start.. Then they fizzled and are now irrelevant in the NHL.
  
  At least they have Rick Nash locked up.
• NNN

  

  LTrain23 wrote: If Columbus had to choose between the Blue Jackets and the buckeyes, we know who wins that battle and it wouldn't even be close.
  
  Fact is, the Jackets have sucked. Last year was the exception. They gave people hope for this season and even got off to a very good start.. Then they fizzled and are now irrelevant in the NHL.
  
  At least they have Rick Nash locked up.

  There's two things to consider.
  
  1) I don't think anyone who's in any way involved with the CBJ is asking for or expecting to take the top spot away from OSU football. Simple acknowledgment that there is something in town outside of OSU would be nice though.
  
  2) Most people would say OSU, but how many actually support OSU sports that aren't football in any way? If you ask a person on the street decked out in scarlet and gray how many games they've been to that aren't football or basketball, what do you expect the answer to be? For that matter, if you ask them how many basketball games they've been to, what do you expect the answer to be? I can think of exactly two people off the top of my head who actually make an effort to go to an OSU basketball game, by which I mean actually setting that time frame aside and buying tickets. Basically, Ohio State is like a high school. The biggest support exists for football, there's some support for basketball, and support and attendance for everything else comes down to the players and their parents and nothing more.
  
  The people I work with are about a 50:50 split between natives of central Ohio and folks from elsewhere. I think the best description I've heard comes from one of the outsiders, who has made the statement that there's something "so hickish" about a city of this size that has this type of unhealthy obsession with a college football team.
• gerb131

  

  Always followed hockey and will do so whether Columbus is good, bad, or not here. I hope they can turn things around and be in the playoffs more often.
• LJ

  

  The OSU Hockey games I went to this season had a pep band and a whole corner of the lower bowl in the schott as a filled student section.