From those who were there:  What was the atmosphere and enthusiasm..intimidation?  Was it subdued during the first half....rabid during the 2nd half?  How many students vs. other/old people?

I bought some of the $6 "cheap seats" since the $20 and $12 varieties were sold out by the time I confirmed with my father ('70 OU alum) that he could actually come with me. We were about half way up the upper bowl.

The entire row behind me was made up of current OU students and their fathers for Dad's weekend.

The conversation directly behind me between father and daughter went like this "So, how many games have you been to? Oh, this is my first one dad. I think we're supposed to be pretty good or something, I dunno." At halftime the father remarks "Hey this is fun, we're getting to see a pretty close game!". About half-way through the second half the father says "Yeah I guess this team IS pretty good." Followed by the daughter putting down her iphone and responding "Yep. Alright well have you seen enough dad? We're going to win. I need to get back so I can get ready. There's a bunch of us going out tonight."

And they got up and left.

I'd like to chalk it up to first game of the season. Chalk it up to a really nice warm day outside. Chalk it up to people still being in football mode. Chalk it up to lots of dads in attendance. But to me, that crowd (outside of the 110 and students) was pathetic. I've seen louder crowds at Wright State and that's sad.

Also, I only attended away games (Miami/WSU) and our neutral court games (Cleveland/Nashville) last year, but I now agree 100% with all the others that complained about the crazy promotions during EVERY play stoppage. Good lord the PA announcer even got EXCITED about it. "Alright Convo, there's a STOPPAGE IN PLAY!" followed immediately by half a dozen grad students running on the court and somebody speed-reading through the next
contest brought to you by *insert random company here*.

It's the nature of the beast when it comes to fund raising today, I get it. I'm not complaining about aiding any would-be donors to help support our program. But good grief does it have to be literally EVERY stoppage?

I miss a good old fashioned tv timeout with the cheerleaders on the court and the band playing. Period.

Which is why we will never again hear a complete rendition of "Long Train Runnin" in the Convo - they only get the last minute of a break to start it.................and I for one think that Really Sucks................ 

Am I the only one who thought the crowd was, for lack of a better term, weak?

I've not been to a game since the 2009-10 season and I've got to say I was quite disappointed in the crowd noise level and enthusiasm throughout. The band was more into it than the O Zone, but I am sure there is someone here who will tell me why that happened. And I thought this was supposed to be a sellout? There were PLENTY of open seats everywhere.

It was a great opener for sure, but let's not make this out to be what it wasn't.

Big props to Ted Thompson for the tickets, btw.

Dad's weekend is always a big but quiet crowd.

The word "sellout" implies every seat being sold. I believe that was the case, except for what they held back for students/dads the day of the game. I think the lack of a 13K sort of crowd was due to...1. A lot no-shows, either who had season tickets or bought the $1 tickets and 2. Less students/dads on gameday than expected.

Either way, it was probably the 2nd biggest crowd over the last 20 years. Nothing to sneeze at!

Media TO

I know. Long Train is longer than media timeouts unless it's an NCAA or ESPN game. They have longer timeouts.

When you sell $1 and $2 tickets for an afternoon game and it happens to be a very nice weather day, it isn't much of an investment to burn by not showing up.

Crowd was indeed on the weak side, which was to be expected for Dad's weekend.  But what concerned me was despite the mega 110 taking up one more full section than usual, plus Dads taking up seats...that the Ozone didn't exactly look like it was busting out at the seems.  The non-110 half of the bleachers looked Ozone-like, but the sections behind the bleachers looked "semi-interested student" like.  I would hope Ozone turnout would be at an all-time high...and it was an odd weekend with Dads/110/etc...so I'll reserve judgement until things get a little more normal.

I also thought the 110 halftime show was kind of disappointing...Short and not all that exciting.

You might be waiting a little longer than that. The Marshall game is during winter break.

GREAT crowd for a November basketball game at the Convo, but not the packed, raucous affair that one might expect with the game having been touted as a "sellout."