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[JHutch]

I was looking at the Big 12 press release and i noticed the attendance figures of the games. we were 2nd to last in attendance (ok st being worse). thats right...baylor beat us.... come on clone fans... come to the game saturday unless listening to it on radio is so much more exciting...with attendance numbers like this we will never move into the upper tier of the conference. lets sellout saturday and lay a hurtin on UNLV

 

[monkeybrow]

I was looking at the Big 12 press release and i noticed the attendance figures of the games. we were 2nd to last in attendance (ok st being worse). thats right...baylor beat us.... come on clone fans... come to the game saturday unless listening to it on radio is so much more exciting...with attendance numbers like this we will never move into the upper tier of the conference. lets sellout saturday and lay a hurtin on UNLV

a downer indeed...but up in the only way...and I finally get to attend.

+1! Yaaaaa!

 

[colocy]

Well that's bad, but half of the crowd at the Baylor game were TCU fans.

 

[excytin]

TCU had almost as many fans as Baylor did...but I still see your point.

 

[gocubs2118]

I was really hoping for a sellout but it wasnt even close to being one. It was sad seeing all of those empty seats in the upper deck.

 

[dbronco7sc]

(wispering voice in the corn field) if we win... they will come...

 

[ericlambi]

The game was Thursday night . . . I know that was meant to keep the students around, but whether it maximizes total attendance is a little iffy.

 

[moforisu]

bronco, you got it, winning fixes a whole lot of things!

 

[billdo00]

regardless of keeping the students around, i know many students who didnt come due to class and homework and many alumni that couldnt come because of work obviously. so either way there should be a much better turn out this weekend and the place should be rocking. especially on a saturday night game. nobody has a reason to skip

 

[cyclonekj]

regardless of keeping the students around, i know many students who didnt come due to class and homework and many alumni that couldnt come because of work obviously. so either way there should be a much better turn out this weekend and the place should be rocking. especially on a saturday night game. nobody has a reason to skip

Also, of those who tailgated all day, how many slept through the game under a bus somewhere in the grass lots? 'Cause I've never done that.

 

[HiltonMagic]

I don't know...I've heard alot of grumbling about our close win. I know I will be there, but I fear some people have given up already.

 

[Psyclone]

I got home at 2:15 AM

I think the late Thursday game cost us a lot of people. I got home at 2:15 AM. I took 2 days off because of this game, but I don't know many people that can do that.

 

[johnsonjj]

No one has a reason to skip?...OK, I live in Africa for work, and the commute is just a we bit too long! My wife doesn't understand me being up in the middle of the night trying to catch night games on the web (we are 7 hours ahead of Iowa time)...but I do it anyway!

 

[NEPatriotscy]

MAJOR reason is.....

I was looking at the Big 12 press release and i noticed the attendance figures of the games. we were 2nd to last in attendance (ok st being worse). thats right...baylor beat us.... come on clone fans... come to the game saturday unless listening to it on radio is so much more exciting...with attendance numbers like this we will never move into the upper tier of the conference. lets sellout saturday and lay a hurtin on UNLV

There is no doubt about it in my mind. The major reason why we did not have a sellout for this game is due to the fact that it was a Thursday night game. I was there, but a lot of us that had to be at work early on Friday were hurtin' puppies for a couple days. And, as some have already posted, we have to prove that we can win consistently and also win the big game (e.g. KU. MU, NU from last season) once in a while.

I am looking for a bigger crowd this Saturday, but it probably still will not be a sellout because, afterall, it is just UNLV ;-).

 

[MrApathy]

I seriously doubt Baylor had more Baylor fans than ISU in attendance.
the crowd for ISU was good so the upper deck corners were not full big whoop rest of the stadium was full.

baylor beat us by 203 TCU fans big whoop.

 

[cyclonedrew]

Reasons for not going to the game Thursday.

1. Kid has school the next morning.
2. Work ends at 7:30 for wife
3. Work starts on Friday morning at 6:30 for wife.
4. No sitters

Now the excuses I can come up with if I don't attend saturdays game

NONE

 

[brinkch]

I love JTS...but

I don't see us ever selling out the upper deck corners (except in big games), because for all practical purposes, they are really bad seats. If you put our seating capacity in the configuration of a completely bowled in stadium, I think we'd sell out more frequently because the atmosphere is better.

It's hard enough to feel like your voice is being heard from the upper deck student section, much less the far corners of the stadium, not to mention you are sitting at the edge of the wind tunnel. Let's face it, people want to go to football games live for the atmosphere and are going to buy seats that puts them in the middle of it. That's why JP has put so much work into improving the atmosphere this year, but IMO those seats may be a lost cause.

 

[cyclonekj]

I don't see us ever selling out the upper deck corners (except in big games), because for all practical purposes, they are really bad seats. If you put our seating capacity in the configuration of a completely bowled in stadium, I think we'd sell out more frequently because the atmosphere is better.

It's hard enough to feel like your voice is being heard from the upper deck student section, much less the far corners of the stadium, not to mention you are sitting at the edge of the wind tunnel. Let's face it, people want to go to football games live for the atmosphere and are going to buy seats that puts them in the middle of it. That's why JP has put so much work into improving the atmosphere this year, but IMO those seats may be a lost cause.

I've sat in the corner the past two seasons and have no complaints, except that there tend to be more 'casual fans' and opposing fans in those areas and it's not as loud. This wouldn't be an issue if more 'true fans' would fill the corners and help me yell. I definitely wouldn't mark the corners as a 'lost cause,' though.

 

[melt]

I've sat in the corner the past two seasons and have no complaints, except that there tend to be more 'casual fans' and opposing fans in those areas and it's not as loud. This wouldn't be an issue if more 'true fans' would fill the corners and help me yell. I definitely wouldn't mark the corners as a 'lost cause,' though.

I have seats in section S for the UNI game this year, and I'll be cheering like crazy. I'll also be with a bunch of construction engineering guys, so the whole group should be pretty loud.

Last year I made it to the Baylor game and got seats in section H or so. It was me and one other guy cheering, so frustrating.

 

[Wesley]

Baylor, being a religious school, probably had its own problems filling a stadium Sunday afternoon. Definitely TCU fans helped them out. If I was a Colorado fan I would want my money back from my season pass. If I was a KSU fan, I would buy single game tickets to only the non conference games.