(11-21-2018 10:29 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let's be honest for a second. Go back six years, and USM is packing their student section to the top of the Rock. There was even talk of giving them another section in the lower area because we had so many coming. But when your students realize (a) the teams you're playing aren't good, (b) your team is losing to those bad teams, and © they don't have a connection to the school outside of attending (didn't grow up cheering for them), you're going to find numbers dropping quick. Win the games, show you're competitive with good teams, and you'll find students showing up. Historically that's been the case.

As opposed to CUSA 2.0? In the 2000’s let’s be honest CUSA was pretty awful back then too.
No BCS Bowls, Houston and Memphis we’re both horrible. The WAC was better than CUSA
Yes Southern Miss had some decent seasons but was it because majority of CUSA was awful?

(11-22-2018 11:54 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(11-22-2018 11:36 AM)SVHerd Wrote:  

(11-22-2018 08:42 AM)The Knight Time Wrote:  The solution is: win.

We've averaged 15K students per game and had over 18K last game.

Considering you have what 55K students? Not good.

It’s a trend everywhere except a handful. Even Saban and the Bama AD called them out for not attending. They’d rather stay on their phones in the frat and sorority houses, eat, drink, have sex and watch MTV. Can you blame them? Lol!

Here's someone clearly in tune with America's young people.

Are you sure they aren't listening to their disc man or watching In Living Color?

FU! I used it as an example. Geezus.

(11-23-2018 08:41 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(11-21-2018 10:29 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let's be honest for a second. Go back six years, and USM is packing their student section to the top of the Rock. There was even talk of giving them another section in the lower area because we had so many coming. But when your students realize (a) the teams you're playing aren't good, (b) your team is losing to those bad teams, and © they don't have a connection to the school outside of attending (didn't grow up cheering for them), you're going to find numbers dropping quick. Win the games, show you're competitive with good teams, and you'll find students showing up. Historically that's been the case.

As opposed to CUSA 2.0? In the 2000’s let’s be honest CUSA was pretty awful back then too.
No BCS Bowls, Houston and Memphis we’re both horrible. The WAC was better than CUSA
Yes Southern Miss had some decent seasons but was it because majority of CUSA was awful?

The teams were far from as bad as you make them out to be, and even those that weren’t great we at least had a history playing. No one at USM cares about anyone on our conference schedule outside of our yearly beating of Tech.

clt says Charlotte hands out avacado toast at the games now. Student attendance is increasing.

(11-23-2018 08:52 AM)SVHerd Wrote:  

(11-22-2018 11:54 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(11-22-2018 11:36 AM)SVHerd Wrote:  

(11-22-2018 08:42 AM)The Knight Time Wrote:  The solution is: win.

We've averaged 15K students per game and had over 18K last game.

Considering you have what 55K students? Not good.

It’s a trend everywhere except a handful. Even Saban and the Bama AD called them out for not attending. They’d rather stay on their phones in the frat and sorority houses, eat, drink, have sex and watch MTV. Can you blame them? Lol!

Here's someone clearly in tune with America's young people.

Are you sure they aren't listening to their disc man or watching In Living Color?

FU! I used it as an example. Geezus.

You might as well have said going to the sock hop, it would have been about as accurate of an "example".

(11-23-2018 09:26 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 08:41 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(11-21-2018 10:29 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let's be honest for a second. Go back six years, and USM is packing their student section to the top of the Rock. There was even talk of giving them another section in the lower area because we had so many coming. But when your students realize (a) the teams you're playing aren't good, (b) your team is losing to those bad teams, and © they don't have a connection to the school outside of attending (didn't grow up cheering for them), you're going to find numbers dropping quick. Win the games, show you're competitive with good teams, and you'll find students showing up. Historically that's been the case.

As opposed to CUSA 2.0? In the 2000’s let’s be honest CUSA was pretty awful back then too.
No BCS Bowls, Houston and Memphis we’re both horrible. The WAC was better than CUSA
Yes Southern Miss had some decent seasons but was it because majority of CUSA was awful?

The teams were far from as bad as you make them out to be, and even those that weren’t great we at least had a history playing. No one at USM cares about anyone on our conference schedule outside of our yearly beating of Tech.

They were bad enough for Skip Holtz to win two CUSA championships. This new version of CUSA must be better because he hasn't won another since.

(11-23-2018 02:40 PM)deb025 Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 09:26 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 08:41 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(11-21-2018 10:29 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let's be honest for a second. Go back six years, and USM is packing their student section to the top of the Rock. There was even talk of giving them another section in the lower area because we had so many coming. But when your students realize (a) the teams you're playing aren't good, (b) your team is losing to those bad teams, and © they don't have a connection to the school outside of attending (didn't grow up cheering for them), you're going to find numbers dropping quick. Win the games, show you're competitive with good teams, and you'll find students showing up. Historically that's been the case.

As opposed to CUSA 2.0? In the 2000’s let’s be honest CUSA was pretty awful back then too.
No BCS Bowls, Houston and Memphis we’re both horrible. The WAC was better than CUSA
Yes Southern Miss had some decent seasons but was it because majority of CUSA was awful?

The teams were far from as bad as you make them out to be, and even those that weren’t great we at least had a history playing. No one at USM cares about anyone on our conference schedule outside of our yearly beating of Tech.

They were bad enough for Skip Holtz to win two CUSA championships. This new version of CUSA must be better because he hasn't won another since.

No, we had many good teams in 2.0, far more than the current version.

(11-23-2018 04:13 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 02:40 PM)deb025 Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 09:26 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 08:41 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(11-21-2018 10:29 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let's be honest for a second. Go back six years, and USM is packing their student section to the top of the Rock. There was even talk of giving them another section in the lower area because we had so many coming. But when your students realize (a) the teams you're playing aren't good, (b) your team is losing to those bad teams, and © they don't have a connection to the school outside of attending (didn't grow up cheering for them), you're going to find numbers dropping quick. Win the games, show you're competitive with good teams, and you'll find students showing up. Historically that's been the case.

As opposed to CUSA 2.0? In the 2000’s let’s be honest CUSA was pretty awful back then too.
No BCS Bowls, Houston and Memphis we’re both horrible. The WAC was better than CUSA
Yes Southern Miss had some decent seasons but was it because majority of CUSA was awful?

The teams were far from as bad as you make them out to be, and even those that weren’t great we at least had a history playing. No one at USM cares about anyone on our conference schedule outside of our yearly beating of Tech.

They were bad enough for Skip Holtz to win two CUSA championships. This new version of CUSA must be better because he hasn't won another since.

No, we had many good teams in 2.0, far more than the current version.

Agree to disagree. No you did not have many good teams in CUSA 2.0
Nothing you can say will change my mind because it's the truth. Those teams were having down years during long parts of CUSA 2.0 stretch.

(11-23-2018 05:27 PM)deb025 Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 04:13 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 02:40 PM)deb025 Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 09:26 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 08:41 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  As opposed to CUSA 2.0? In the 2000’s let’s be honest CUSA was pretty awful back then too.
No BCS Bowls, Houston and Memphis we’re both horrible. The WAC was better than CUSA
Yes Southern Miss had some decent seasons but was it because majority of CUSA was awful?

The teams were far from as bad as you make them out to be, and even those that weren’t great we at least had a history playing. No one at USM cares about anyone on our conference schedule outside of our yearly beating of Tech.

They were bad enough for Skip Holtz to win two CUSA championships. This new version of CUSA must be better because he hasn't won another since.

No, we had many good teams in 2.0, far more than the current version.

Agree to disagree. No you did not have many good teams in CUSA 2.0
Nothing you can say will change my mind because it's the truth. Those teams were having down years during long parts of CUSA 2.0 stretch.

Is C-USA like Congress in that everyone hates Congress but their Congressman is not the problem and constantly gets re-elected? If the conference sucks so bad and their is virtually no way to move out of it why do you self haters continue to watch an inferior crappy 1.0; 2.0 or 3.0 version conference.

(11-23-2018 02:40 PM)deb025 Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 09:26 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 08:41 AM)Dawgxas Wrote:  

(11-21-2018 10:29 AM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let's be honest for a second. Go back six years, and USM is packing their student section to the top of the Rock. There was even talk of giving them another section in the lower area because we had so many coming. But when your students realize (a) the teams you're playing aren't good, (b) your team is losing to those bad teams, and © they don't have a connection to the school outside of attending (didn't grow up cheering for them), you're going to find numbers dropping quick. Win the games, show you're competitive with good teams, and you'll find students showing up. Historically that's been the case.

As opposed to CUSA 2.0? In the 2000’s let’s be honest CUSA was pretty awful back then too.
No BCS Bowls, Houston and Memphis we’re both horrible. The WAC was better than CUSA
Yes Southern Miss had some decent seasons but was it because majority of CUSA was awful?

The teams were far from as bad as you make them out to be, and even those that weren’t great we at least had a history playing. No one at USM cares about anyone on our conference schedule outside of our yearly beating of Tech.

They were bad enough for Skip Holtz to win two CUSA championships. This new version of CUSA must be better because he hasn't won another since.

Aint that the Truth! CUSA2.0 was really bad, the WAC was better.

nekkid cheerleaders.

next question?

WKU finally got students to the game for basketball and now they are fighting in the stands because 6 students decided to stand for the entire game.....How soft are these millennials now days? Seriously students cannot stand for maybe an hour in a half total....Student section literally sat on the butts and stared at phone for the entire game and now since we lost to Indiana St, we will be lucky if they are back by end of Jan....WIll never understand students even when I was a student...Was not that hard for me to have fun and be into the game, heckle the opposing team, yell scream, etc...Now I guess cheering is not allowed, the 2 or 3 sellouts we had last year were amazing and students make the atmosphere so much better, you would think they would want to have that much fun again but I guess that is too much to ask...

(11-21-2018 12:16 PM)OwlFamily Wrote:  Students get into every FAU athletic event free because of thier fees. This year FAU gave every student 2 free slices of Pizza at each game and introduced Paradise Pricing. I think it worked the student section was more full this year. A combination of last year success and these efforts.

Although, in fairness, those hot dogs are nasty and get sold out by half time.

I know WKU students show out really well for football games (and basketball games now, too). The problem for football was that half leave at halftime. I did the math not long ago, and WKU had about 7-8k students showing up for football games. That's pretty good considering our main campus undergrad enrollment is only about 14k.