Saturday against Miami. 53 and sunny in Athens. Sibs weekend crowd. All of you casual fans in the Cleveland/Cincy/Columbus areas that only make 1 or 2 a season, come to this one. Hoping to see an atmosphere like we used to have. Can't wait.
We'll have a crowd. Will we have atmosphere? hard to say. Sibs crowds are normally more sedate and it's still two 11-10 teams. Waiting for the students to care, but can't make them care. two Saturdays ago, we might have had 3k in the house against EMU. I hope we can actually double that Saturday.
I hate that I have to hope for 6k on a freaking Saturday against miami.
Hoping for 7K...but I hear ya.
Have they ever considered GA for games?
Get everyone pushed down into the lower bowl area?
Kent State gets 2,000 people in the building and it looks like Cameron Indoor. OU gets 7K and it looks like Saturday morning at the JCC. Except less loud.
OU leads the league in attendance every year and you'd never think it. We REALLY have to re-think this. I've been complaining about it since I was a student, so I don't see it happening, but the Convo should be as intimating of a place to play in as any mid-major in the country. And we're fine with it, being absolutely not.
Last night was another example of a full student crowd and about 11 people behind the benches. It's like this every single game. That's the season ticket section, how many of those people live in Athens? How many of those people attend more than 25% of games? Of the game attendance, how much is season ticket holders? I've always thought season tickets was more of just a donation to the program. A lovely gesture. Certainly we can still take into account premium seating for season ticket holders, IF they attend, hell, move them down courtside, but it's just absolutely the worst atmosphere and even worse on TV.
They were showing the different views on the Hadaway dunk, running down the break-away looking at the 14 professors and a few janitors who showed up, and then running back after the dunk with the entire lower bowl filled with a jumping student section in matching white shirts. It could not have been any starker of a contrast.
Last Edited: 1/31/2024 12:42:23 PM by M.D.W.S.T