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Originally Posted by Rids
This is the seventh year of the Blue Jackets. If you don't have a ticket base by 7 years it's a very bad sign. Doesn't help them that they've had fairly poor teams over that time and that the Ohio State football team has been fairly strong during the same time.
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I'm too lazy to go looking for links, but I seem to recall that the Jackets were selling tickets like crazy for their first few year, selling out on a regular basis.
I don't think the problem is that they're new, or that they're a poor market... the problem is that after 7 years they're still delivering expansion-team results. Loyal fans will sometimes weather a drought, but new fans can only take so much punishment before they walk away.