Texas Game Attendance
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I can't recall for sure if things had started to go sour for Rhoads by then. I'm thinking that optimism and enthusiasm for the program has to be higher now than it was four years ago. I could be wrong, but it feels like that was right around the beginning of the end of the CPR era.
You'd think that with Campbell close to turning things around fan excitement would drive the attendance a little bit. But I don't know. Maybe there are a lot of fans still in wait and see mode.
We were 1-2 at that point. Home losses to UNI and Iowa. Win over Tulsa. I wouldn't say people were turning on him, but that was pretty damn disappointing coming off the first 4 years of his tenure.
EDIT: upon further review, this was the most poorly attended (on paper - the KU Snow Bowl had fewer butts in seats) game of that season
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In defense of KU snowbowl, they hadn't even shoveled our seats. I cleaned off our row with my hair brush, but feet were still in snow the whole game.
I got home at 1:15 am after the UNI game. It takes an hour just to get out of Ames at this point with the issues on hwy 30.
I've done numerous Thursday games and done it, I'm not trying to talk anyone out of going that lives a distance away I'm just saying walking in the door in Ankeny at 11:00 beats the hell out of 1:15.
I originally predicted 61,496. This confirms it will be a sell out.
Some advice from a fellow eastern Iowan....take old hwy 30 (lincoln way) east out of Ames thru Nevada and then get on 30. I get out of Ames in 5 minutes after every game, and never fight traffic.
Maybe we are obsessed but we are missing our softball championship game, dropping a kid off at the grandparents asap when we arrive in Ames (we're an hour away) and then going back to get him Friday after work.
If you wanna make it work you'll find a way.
If you wanna make it work you'll find a way.
Just was given a week off from Florida Power and Light.
Sounds like I'm going to make my first game this season if I don't get a call to help out with the Puerto Rico disaster.....Have been doing a lot of aerial surveying and mapping of critical infrastructure for Harvey and Irma in Houston,Miami, and Naples area. Finally coming to an end after riding out both Hurricanes.
Really hoping Cotton Moya is healthy because I have a feeling Herman is going to get pretty imaginative with his offensive Thursday as they need a win with Oklahoma State and Oklahoma coming up next for them.
I think we make a 4th quarter comeback for the win!
Sounds like I'm going to make my first game this season if I don't get a call to help out with the Puerto Rico disaster.....Have been doing a lot of aerial surveying and mapping of critical infrastructure for Harvey and Irma in Houston,Miami, and Naples area. Finally coming to an end after riding out both Hurricanes.
Really hoping Cotton Moya is healthy because I have a feeling Herman is going to get pretty imaginative with his offensive Thursday as they need a win with Oklahoma State and Oklahoma coming up next for them.
I think we make a 4th quarter comeback for the win!
We just accept we won't get home until 2:30 a.m. or so. Big issue will be teenagers homework,and they often don't know what that will be. Worst comes to worst, they have to stay home and we try and give away their tickets when we get there. I'm optimistic though, they talked to some teachers about it already, and their betters teachers already gave them the week's worth of homework. And they can do some homework in the car.
I'm 12 hours away and will be there
I hope you're right, and that their near miss against USC was just a product of them getting up for a big name opponent. If they've already started to turn the corner then this game could be trouble.
It's still early. USC may not be as amazing as advertised either. I have a hard time believing a bad loss to Maryland was all it took to wake up those spoiled Texas recruits.
That's more or less what I'm thinking, too. USC might not be the juggernaut a lot of the national media seems to think they are. And while I do think Tom Herman is going to get that Texas program rolling again, it's going to take a year or two. Even if he can fix the culture problem there, I'm not sure he has the kind of players he needs to run what he wants to run.
I think it was a combination of USC not playing at the level they were at the end of last season and Texas' 4- and 5-star guys getting up for a big game. We'll see if they can bring that same level of focus and intensity to a Thursday game in Ames against a team that might be better than they expect.
