After reading this thread there are going to be a lot of horny but unfulfilled wives and girlfriends tonight.

(12-03-2016 08:47 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  After reading this thread there are going to be a lot of horny but unfulfilled wives and girlfriends tonight.

only in Kentucky and Louisiana...in Mis'sippi we can post on the internets, watch 5 football games, down a coupla 6 packs and then fulfill our girlfriends' every wish (as long as the wife is outta town)..

What are the 3 worst words to hear while having sex? "Honey, I'm home!"

eagle, you are slowly but surely becoming my new favorite poster. Thanks for the laughs.

(12-03-2016 08:05 PM)BlueraiderJT Wrote:  Who cares about attendance? They have 2 back to back titles. People who talk about attendance and criticize are usually jealous. I'm a MT fan and I was at the WKU game to support my buddy and the environment was fun as all get out. I had a blast even though it wasn't my team. No LaTech fans were there. I saw maybe 4. USM brought a ton last year. People want to judge WKU but this is a championship game and LaTech fans should have showed up too I mean if we're judging.

WKU had plenty of folks and more importantly, they are kings of the mountain 2 years in a row. I'd rather have the full trophy case than say we sold out. The only fans on this board that can talk about attendance is ODU. They sell out just about every game.

Amen brother!

IT WAS PITIFUL. No excuses .
Here's a list of the citizens of BG's reasons...
1. UK was playing
2. Cold
3. Youth basketball
4. BG Christmas parade.
We will wonder why, when we are back to backers, players quit coming and coaches won't stay...

(12-03-2016 08:55 PM)freshtop Wrote:  eagle, you are slowly but surely becoming my new favorite poster. Thanks for the laughs.

But I's crazy I tellya, CRAZZZZY!!!

Thanks my friend....and congrats on your win today, and that's no bullchit....It was amazin' how everytime Tech scored, you guys would then score in about two plays----How DAYEM DEMORALIZING!!!

(12-03-2016 12:14 PM)LouisvilleHilltopper Wrote:  What would the attendance be if it was at a neautral site such as Birmingham?

I used to be on the neutral site bandwagon but if fans won't even fill their own stadium they sure as hell won't drive to another spot and fill that one. I'm looking at all of us too not just WKU.

(12-03-2016 05:11 PM)TopsonTop Wrote:  

(12-03-2016 04:34 PM)nastybunch Wrote:  You are right, we are jealous of your attendance at home for a championship. Congrats to the team in another great year, but shame on your fans....

The fans were there... i think you mean "its a shame you dont have more fans". And i agree. But the fans were there.

Team that good deserves to have a lot of fan support. keep winning and hopefully fanbase will grow.

1st off, I'm a diehard. I went by MYSELF an hour and 1/2 away...missed my sons HS BB game. This is NOT an excuse, but maybe an explanation. WKU has always considered itself a BB school in a BB crazy state. I was in school in late 80s and NONE of my friends attended FB games...I did. When you're a BB school in a state that ALSO is crazy about sUcK and UofL, who both are playing for National Championships on a pretty consistent basis, then FB plays second fiddle. sUcK has drawn decent crowds over the yrs because they are the flagship state U and in the SEC. Louisville only drew in the 20s while I was in school and took some time to build their program in the states largest city. WKUs dynamic is just different than most of the other C-USA schools from a FB history perspective. It's growing...its just slower than we'd like...The on field success came quicker than the growth of the fanbase.

(12-03-2016 10:40 PM)TitanTopper Wrote:  1st off, I'm a diehard. I went by MYSELF an hour and 1/2 away...missed my sons HS BB game. This is NOT an excuse, but maybe an explanation. WKU has always considered itself a BB school in a BB crazy state. I was in school in late 80s and NONE of my friends attended FB games...I did. When you're a BB school in a state that ALSO is crazy about sUcK and UofL, who both are playing for National Championships on a pretty consistent basis, then FB plays second fiddle. sUcK has drawn decent crowds over the yrs because they are the flagship state U and in the SEC. Louisville only drew in the 20s while I was in school and took some time to build their program in the states largest city. WKUs dynamic is just different than most of the other C-USA schools from a FB history perspective. It's growing...its just slower than we'd like...The on field success came quicker than the growth of the fanbase.

Diehard as well. I gave up being on my son's first train ride in Nashville, my wife took him instead. I went solo until she met up with me at halftime.

(12-03-2016 08:05 PM)BlueraiderJT Wrote:  Who cares about attendance? They have 2 back to back titles. People who talk about attendance and criticize are usually jealous. I'm a MT fan and I was at the WKU game to support my buddy and the environment was fun as all get out. I had a blast even though it wasn't my team. No LaTech fans were there. I saw maybe 4. USM brought a ton last year. People want to judge WKU but this is a championship game and LaTech fans should have showed up too I mean if we're judging.

WKU had plenty of folks and more importantly, they are kings of the mountain 2 years in a row. I'd rather have the full trophy case than say we sold out. The only fans on this board that can talk about attendance is ODU. They sell out just about every game.

I saw a couple MT fans at the game... i thought that was pretty cool

(12-03-2016 08:17 PM)benny_t Wrote:  

(12-03-2016 08:05 PM)BlueraiderJT Wrote:  Who cares about attendance? They have 2 back to back titles. People who talk about attendance and criticize are usually jealous. I'm a MT fan and I was at the WKU game to support my buddy and the environment was fun as all get out. I had a blast even though it wasn't my team. No LaTech fans were there. I saw maybe 4. USM brought a ton last year. People want to judge WKU but this is a championship game and LaTech fans should have showed up too I mean if we're judging.

WKU had plenty of folks and more importantly, they are kings of the mountain 2 years in a row. I'd rather have the full trophy case than say we sold out. The only fans on this board that can talk about attendance is ODU. They sell out every game.

Ftfy but it is only 20k. I wish the streak would end for 1 game so the administration would quit touting it. 20k seat sell out is not impressive to 99% of college football fans. I'm glad we "sell out" but our last game was several thousand short of being full butts in seats which makes touting the sellout streak even sillier.

This. I don't think ODU can smack talk attendance. Only if we have a brand new 30k stadium and are consistently filling it up with butts in the seats even then its a remote option. USM is down this year and they are averaging ~26k, i would say they have earned that right.

All I know is that if ODU hosted the C-USA Championship Game. Foreman Field would be packed!

(12-05-2016 09:33 AM)cmett003 Wrote:  All I know is that if ODU hosted the C-USA Championship Game. Foreman Field would be packed!

I have a lot of respect for ODU and what they've done there.

I'm not gonna knock WKU at all. They've lost 1 conference game in 2 years. They have a full Sonic restaurant IN THEIR STADIUM. Are you friggin kidding me? That was my favorite part of the experience. Why hasn't everybody done this? MT's Athletic Dept. could learn a lot from WKU. It was cold and dreary right in the middle of High School championship games and Christmas shopping. It is what it is. They won. Hate all you want.

Saturation?

I think we have seen the "future" of attendance in smaller population centers. I noticed the same thing with James Madison University hosting it's FCS playoff contest against conference rival New Hampshire.
Both schools reside in almost identical population centers, have almost identical enrollments, and had almost identical attendance figures Saturday in almost identical (size) stadiums.
Both programs are at the top of their respective conferences.

With the proliferation of cable and satellite television, and internet streaming, it will be very difficult to achieve any better attendance in smaller markets with less than say 30,000 enrollment (over years).

The time has long passed whereby a school can aspire to become a Va Tech or even an ECU, in areas of minimal populations; particularly with respect to "last minute" scheduling.

Not an embarrassment for WKU, just reality.

Read over the 10 pages of comments, here's a general response.

For WKU, I've never thought about it before, but I can definitely see how Kentucky would be a "basketball state." No NFL team. For years, the only P5 team was UK, who is one of the best in bball but horrid at football. UL is also good at bball, but their recent national football success hasn't been a thing for that long, has it? WKU wasn't an FBS team until roughly 10 years ago. Sounds like the state of sports in Kentucky is vastly different from what I'm used to in LA. Between the Saints, Cowboys, and LSew, we're definitely a football state (look at the Pelicans and tell me otherwise).

FWIW, in 2014 the Louisiana Tech Band of Pride went to Marshall because C-USA paid for it. They did not pay for it this time, so they couldn't afford to go. (although I do appreciate hearing our fight song over the loudspeakers every time we scored).

Southern Miss did bring more fans to WKU last year, but then again Southern Miss had just won the west with a huge win over a rival and felt like they were back. This year, Tech had just lost and morale was down. I don't recall the feelings going into WKU-USM last year, but no one was giving us a chance after the Southern Miss game. Not many people would want to travel that far for a game if you don't think you'll win.

As for comparing our title game to the MAC, the MAC is way more compact than C-USA. Buffalo is the one outlier, and they are still closer to Indy than Ruston is to Bowling Green. Now imagine UTEP vs ODU, hypothetically. The MAC will have better numbers at their game because those teams are all close together.

As for the neutral site argument, again, the MAC schools are all pretty close, so driving to Indy isn't terrible. C-USA? Way too spread out, and if we can't get a strong crowd from a team to a home game, it's gonna be worse at a neutral site.

And where would that neutral site be? Over my dead body would it be in Birmingham. UAB already gets to host the bball tourney every year (which is bullcrap in and of itself), no way they should get to host the football title game, ESPECIALLY if they're in it. Where else, then? Can't do Atlanta, the SEC already claimed it (anyone know what's happening to the Georgia Dome once the Falcons finish their "we ripped off the Saints' sponsor" Stadium? Could SEC use one and C-USA the other?) Anywhere else would be too much towards one division or the other. Hell, even Pac-12 fans don't like there title game at a neutral site and want it brought back to campuses, and attendance is the primary reason.

(12-05-2016 12:33 PM)techdawg28 Wrote:  FWIW, in 2014 the Louisiana Tech Band of Pride went to Marshall because C-USA paid for it. They did not pay for it this time, so they couldn't afford to go. (although I do appreciate hearing our fight song over the loudspeakers every time we scored).

I don't believe CUSA paid for USM's band to travel last year either. La Tech's band is something that makes me scratch my head. It just doesn't seem like y'all take it seriously. For instance, last year you had less than a pep band at our home game. I get that it was break for them, but I can't comprehend that ever happening at USM. If we have a home game, they're gonna be there. Oh you're on break? Sorry you signed up for this. I was absolutely shocked that our band outnumbered (or was really close to outnumbering) yours at your place. Funds seem to be the issue though if they couldn't afford to make the trip to BG.

(12-05-2016 12:38 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(12-05-2016 12:33 PM)techdawg28 Wrote:  FWIW, in 2014 the Louisiana Tech Band of Pride went to Marshall because C-USA paid for it. They did not pay for it this time, so they couldn't afford to go. (although I do appreciate hearing our fight song over the loudspeakers every time we scored).

I don't believe CUSA paid for USM's band to travel last year either. La Tech's band is something that makes me scratch my head. It just doesn't seem like y'all take it seriously. For instance, last year you had less than a pep band at our home game. I get that it was break for them, but I can't comprehend that ever happening at USM. If we have a home game, they're gonna be there. Oh you're on break? Sorry you signed up for this. I was absolutely shocked that our band outnumbered (or was really close to outnumbering) yours at your place. Funds seem to be the issue though if they couldn't afford to make the trip to BG.

So from someone I know on the band, for that game last year anyone within a certain radius was required to come, but my friend who lived near New Orleans wasn't. I don't recall it being significantly smaller than normal, but maybe I just didn't notice.

My friend also has told me that the BOP doesn't practice as much as other bands do. We're first and foremost an engineering school and most of the band are engineering students. Tech's engineering program is rigorous and the band director (Jim Robken) apparently made the decision to limit practice time so that the members had more time to study. That's why our pregame/halftime shows are simpler than some other schools. So if it seems like our band isn't very serious, maybe that's why.

Personally, I love our band. They may not have the most impressive shows and formations, but they're a rowdy bunch. When he was at Arky, Robken was one of the first to have the band at basketball games, and today the Hoop Troop at Tech is known for its antics and is the only basketball band to have been recognized in a national publication. They also love to talk trash and heckle the other team, and that's one of the main things I like about them.