Ky. Still, the season's top crowd thus far is the 5,854 which saw Marshall beat Kent on Jan. 8. Marshall's athletic officials have to be disappointed. But they haven't exactly helped the problem. There's a lack of aggressive marketing in basketball. And season-ticket packages, which require donations to the Big Green Club, are too expensive.
Sports fans have only so much disposable income.
And right now in Huntington, they're spending it on football. Marshall's jump back into the Mid-American Conference certainly hasn't helped attendance either. It will take time for the Herd to develop strong basketball rivalries in the league. In late October of 1983, that would have been a good number at Fairfield.