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anorris
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Posted: 2/23/2012 6:45 PM
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Traveled to Sacred Heart University in Fairfield tonight to root against Bob Morris. Less than fifteen minutes to tipoff, my hand count is 56 people not working, playing, cheer leading, or playing in the band. Make it 58, the (whole) student section just walked in.
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Posted: 2/23/2012 7:43 PM
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Official attendance at last night's game at EMU (1st in the West) vs. NIU (worst in the nation):  813.

And Michigan didn't even play last night (MSU was on TV at Minn.).
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Posted: 2/23/2012 7:59 PM
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Ouch.  That's brutal.
 
Have you been to Quinnipiac yet?  

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Posted: 2/23/2012 8:20 PM
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Don't know what's going on but attendance is down in a bunch of places outside the Big 10.  Watched an Oklahoma game a couple weeks back.  Sooners were playing a quality opponent and there were a LOT of empty seats in Norman.  Both the Washington Post and Wall St Journal have run stories recently about attendance woes in the ACC, including the fact that Duke, yes DUKE, has actually had to do a little work to get the students to fill up their seats at a game or two....
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Posted: 2/23/2012 9:32 PM
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brucecuth wrote:expand_more
Don't know what's going on but attendance is down in a bunch of places outside the Big 10.  Watched an Oklahoma game a couple weeks back.  Sooners were playing a quality opponent and there were a LOT of empty seats in Norman.  Both the Washington Post and Wall St Journal have run stories recently about attendance woes in the ACC, including the fact that Duke, yes DUKE, has actually had to do a little work to get the students to fill up their seats at a game or two....

I saw on TV that Duke actually has had to sell some of the student tickets to non-students.

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Posted: 2/23/2012 9:46 PM
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As much as we complain about game times, TV, whatever...you've got to admit we have great crowds relative to other schools at our level. When we're outdrawing the next highest MAC school by over 2,000...that's pretty impressive.
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Posted: 2/23/2012 9:51 PM
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Another random attendance related tidbit. 

D2 Northern Kentucky University hosted D2 Ballamine tonight at the Bank of Kentucky Center. The attendance was 5,246. 

NKU is moving to the Atlantic Sun and D1 later this year. 

10 years from now they might be a great team to have in the MAC. 
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Posted: 2/23/2012 10:01 PM
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bigtillyoopsupsideurhead wrote:expand_more
Another random attendance related tidbit.

D2 Northern Kentucky University hosted D2 Ballamine tonight at the Bank of Kentucky Center. The attendance was 5,246.

NKU is moving to the Atlantic Sun and D1 later this year.

10 years from now they might be a great team to have in the MAC.
Yeah - they could pad the numbers in Millet too............
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Posted: 2/23/2012 10:11 PM
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UpSan Bobcat wrote:expand_more

Don't know what's going on but attendance is down in a bunch of places outside the Big 10.  Watched an Oklahoma game a couple weeks back.  Sooners were playing a quality opponent and there were a LOT of empty seats in Norman.  Both the Washington Post and Wall St Journal have run stories recently about attendance woes in the ACC, including the fact that Duke, yes DUKE, has actually had to do a little work to get the students to fill up their seats at a game or two....

I saw on TV that Duke actually has had to sell some of the student tickets to non-students.



TV.  Yes that's what it's called.  It's cheaper, warmer and closer to home.  When you can get it for free, why pay for it particularly in this economy.
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Posted: 2/23/2012 10:38 PM
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Crowd probably better than doubled by midway through the first half, but still, counting the band, cheerleaders, etc., couldn't have topped 300.  Shame, too, because it was a tightly contested game won on a three at the buzzer.

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Ouch.  That's brutal.
 
Have you been to Quinnipiac yet?  

Tonight's trip actually completed my tour of all 7 DI schools in the state.  Caught Quinnipiac on a break, so can't really judge the crowd, but I liked their (pretty new) facility.  Good sight lines abound.  They apparently liked it too, since they decided to build the same thing twice:







It was rather odd, though, that it is on a sort of second campus a mile or so away from the main one that apparently consists of just dorms, a dining hall, and the athletic center.

Dorm buildings are architecturally interesting, and the view was nice from on top of the hill.  Sadly, I wasn't asked to participate in a poll while I was there.

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Posted: 2/23/2012 10:55 PM
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bigtillyoopsupsideurhead wrote:expand_more
NKU is moving to the Atlantic Sun and D1 later this year. 

10 years from now they might be a great team to have in the MAC. 


Why wait?  Let's dump EMU now, and just bring them in a few years from now.  Yes, I know it's not that easy, but EMU's athletics attendance in major sports is embarassing.


Here's a group of stats for you:  Go onto Mac-sports.  Look up basketball stats, conference only.  Scroll down to attendance.  On average per game, we out drawn all three Michigan schools and NIU combined by 600 people per game (6926 to 6304).  Even if you take out Gary Trent Day, we average 5912 during conference play.
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Posted: 2/23/2012 11:39 PM
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My son Ben was an Ohio student when the school wired dorms for cable.  He said in-dorm socializing decreased appreciably.  Today I wonder if the seemingly endless hours students spend talking and texting on their iPads apprecialbly reduces attendance at games across conferences. 
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Posted: 2/23/2012 11:53 PM
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Tours like that are fun.  I've been to about 70% of  Div.1 schools but had never been to Duke so we had a Tobaco Road long weekend recently.  I had kinda wanted to save Duke until last but gave in when Southwest had a irresistible sale. I  was surprised when we bought two tickets for 40.00 total  about half way up the uppper deck.  I figured we'd have to pay  at least 100.00.  It was a great place to watch a game ...I don't think they sold out until game time.  The banners hanging from the rafters  are awe inspiring   Also went to the Dean Dump what an embarrassment to such a great program...old moldy crush stone on the  exterior  and 4,000 empty seats inside along with a  quite crowd that seemed to have little  interest.  Wake Forest had a rowdy student section but not so great arena.    It really makes you appreciate the Covo which is a  stately  landmark  it no  matter which  direction you approach it from.  The Ozone also deserves the credit for giving our games the big time sound and feel and unlike many schools where the f bomb is prevalent the Ozone keeps it clean and has great time..
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Posted: 2/24/2012 2:07 AM
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Mike Johnson wrote:expand_more
My son Ben was an Ohio student when the school wired dorms for cable.  He said in-dorm socializing decreased appreciably.  Today I wonder if the seemingly endless hours students spend talking and texting on their iPads apprecialbly reduces attendance at games across conferences. 


Tbh, I lived in Jeff Hall freshmen year, (built in 1956, East Green, traditional-style dorm in case anybody reading this doesn't already know) and the brand spanking new Adams Hall my sophomore year.  I am still friends with 85% of the people in my floor section from Jeff and less than 15% of the people from Adams. Although social media is generally making us less social, there was still something fun about being a freshmen, going to someones dorm to play Madden and throw back a few Nattys someone had back-packed in.
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