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Recovering Journalist
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Posted: 12/20/2011 4:48 PM
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In lurking on the UNI fan board, it felt like I was reading BobcatAttack. It featured:
  • Dedicated fans who recognize the quality of their program a seemingly everyone ignores the team.
  • Complaints about attendance.
  • Infatuations with various polls and rankings.
  • Obsessions with mentions by national publications and prognosticators.
  • Disgust with regional BCS-obsessed fans and journalists.
I swear, change some names and URLs, and you could trade some posts between our respective sites verbatim. Life is hard as a "mid-major" fan (including having to use the reductive and unfair mid-major term), but it does make the victories sweeter. Best of luck to the Panthers after tonight.
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Posted: 12/20/2011 7:02 PM
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Any hot pretzel discussions?
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Posted: 12/20/2011 7:50 PM
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any for Robots only discussions?
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Posted: 12/20/2011 9:42 PM
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Any police docket reports?
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Posted: 12/21/2011 9:43 AM
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They even mentioned selling alcohol at games to get more fans.  

Also found this interesting:
In 2010-2011, of all the programs residing in MSA’s of less than 300,000 with attendance averages better than UNI, only 5 reside in non-BCS conferences. Those being Utah St. – 8,732; New Mexico St. – 5,860; ISUb – 5,602; Ohio – 5,599; and Colorado St. – 4,879. (UNI - 4,676).

Hopefully all these wins push our average up around 7 or even 8,000 once it is all said and done after MAC play.  We've got some big Saturday games that make it possible..

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Posted: 12/21/2011 1:34 PM
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The Optimist wrote:expand_more
In 2010-2011, of all the programs residing in MSA’s of less than 300,000 with attendance averages better than UNI, only 5 reside in non-BCS conferences. Those being Utah St. – 8,732; New Mexico St. – 5,860; ISUb – 5,602; Ohio – 5,599; and Colorado St. – 4,879. (UNI - 4,676).


That is interesting Optimist.  I made the statement awhile back that you couldn't name a program in a "mid major" conference that does NOT reside in a big city with better fan support than us.  The discussion that ensued included Utah State as being a possible challenger...But the Logan, UT area is much more populated than the Athens area.
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Posted: 12/21/2011 2:58 PM
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Do they have a poster named "Panther LOVE"??

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Posted: 12/21/2011 5:35 PM
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Jeff McKinney wrote:expand_more
Do they have a poster named "Panther LOVE"??
Not certain, but they do have a "Born-a-Panther"
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Posted: 12/21/2011 6:30 PM
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Andrew Ruck wrote:expand_more
In 2010-2011, of all the programs residing in MSA’s of less than 300,000 with attendance averages better than UNI, only 5 reside in non-BCS conferences. Those being Utah St. – 8,732; New Mexico St. – 5,860; ISUb – 5,602; Ohio – 5,599; and Colorado St. – 4,879. (UNI - 4,676).


That is interesting Optimist.  I made the statement awhile back that you couldn't name a program in a "mid major" conference that does NOT reside in a big city with better fan support than us.  The discussion that ensued included Utah State as being a possible challenger...But the Logan, UT area is much more populated than the Athens area.


Logan has over 125K. Las Cruces has 97K. Loveland has 67K but is also only 40 miles outside Denver. Not sure what ISUb is.
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Posted: 12/21/2011 7:04 PM
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anorris wrote:expand_more
Do they have a poster named "Panther LOVE"??
Not certain, but they do have a "Born-a-Panther"


I saw that....I spent my first 3 years in Lexington...I wonder if he is from Pittsburgh.

Remarkable research in this thread
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Posted: 12/23/2011 5:43 PM
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ISUb is probably IUSb, Indiana University, South Bend
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Posted: 12/23/2011 9:42 PM
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nj_bobcat wrote:expand_more
ISUb is probably IUSb, Indiana University, South Bend


An NAIA school? I don't think so.

EDIT: It's Indiana State. Don't know what the B is for, but their attendance matches

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=...

Oh and to compare to the other cities, Terre Haute has a population of 60k and 168k in the MSA
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Posted: 12/23/2011 10:14 PM
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Youngstown Bobcat wrote:expand_more
ISUb is probably IUSb, Indiana University, South Bend


An NAIA school? I don't think so.

EDIT: It's Indiana State. Don't know what the B is for, but their attendance matches

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=...

Oh and to compare to the other cities, Terre Haute has a population of 60k and 168k in the MSA


Looking at the chart one might conjecture that ISUa would be Iowa State
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Posted: 12/24/2011 12:18 AM
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Statistics fun!

                            Games     Attendance          Avg.
Boston College   17            90,509              5,324
Ohio                    19           106,373             5,599

And the capacity of their arena is listed at 8,606.
Last Edited: 12/24/2011 12:18:45 AM by DFrids
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