Looks like the visitors corner section actually was pretty full this game:
https://www.facebook.com/ohiobobcats/photos/pcb.101544138...

Is it that the product on the field is stale? Or that the games take in the area of four hours? (factors for my situation sometimes)

There is a lot of parity these days once you get beyond the Top 25 teams. Ohio for a game look liked a Top 25 team against Tennessee. You could take almost any of these FBS teams and if they played their absolute best they could look like a Top 25 team for a day. Consequently if you don't play well or make a few bad calls your capable of losing anytime. Its not easy to put a way a team by 30 points unless the school plays really poorly like Marshall did against Akron or a school is truly very good like WMU did against Akron. It was that you could tell okay this is a Top 25, this is a Top 40 team this is a team that will be in a bowl ect and they'd crush teams with bad records. The Miami's and the Kent's today will play you physical and they have athletic players so can't just show up and expect a win. The Solich system is about overwhelming the opponent with more experience and depth, that doesn't work too often anymore.

The "we just have to execute better" and "practice harder" approaches.



The slow moving part has been an issue in the first half of all but maybe the BG game. A lot of that has to do with TV/media timeouts.

A BG alum who has been to the last two games said it was good to see most people actually going to the games after tailgating. He says that at BG, they dont. Our football fans are lacking in a lot of ways, but at least the ath dept has found a formula to get a decent number of butts in seats except for the November midweek games.

Amazing that BGSU fan support is so mediocre, maybe less than mediocre, considering their recent success. We have to admit that when it comes to fan support, the MAC is the minor leagues. Despite the lack of energy in Peden, unfortunately, most MAC schools would kill to replicate our game day experience.

As for the 110. I like em as much as anybody else...but I do get annoyed at halftime as the press box side fans en masse stand in absolute rapture for the 110. People who haven't done one darn thing to support the team from the stands the whole first half.

Heck, these "fans" make more noise for the insipid contests and games done during times out than they do during the actual game or even when the team comes thru the tunnel pregame.

Life in the FBS minor leagues...we are lucky to have the good sized crowds that we do. The ath dept takes it one game at a time and finds a formula to get a good crowd for each game. So what if 25% of the crowd on band day are the bands and family members? It's still getting people in the stadium.

Updated attendance through 10/15/16
1.Toledo-24,322 (3 games) Note -last game was 30,147
2.WMU-22,992 (3)
3.Ohio-22,750 (4)
4.CMU-21,648 (4)
5.Buffalo-19,469 (3)
6.Miami-18,641 (4) Note-last game was 15,160, Ohio game of 22,212 holding up avg.
7.EMU-17,548 (3) Note-EMU averaged 4,897 last year.
8.BG-16,794 (4)
9.Kent St-15,991 (3)
10.NIU-12,835 (3) Note-last game was 8,495
11.Akron-12,214 (4) Note-3 of 4 games were under 11,400
12.Ball St-9,075 (2) Note-Ball State only has 3 more home games, 5 total

NIU had attendance problems even when they were winning. Losing not helping them.

It will be particularly interesting to see how Toledo does as the weather gets cooler.

The same cold be said for WMU, CMU, and UB when it gets colder.

And NIU is talking about adding seats. That's comical!

Consider for UT that the 30k+ number for the last game was against BG, their biggest game of the year.

The UT vs BG game was also Toledo's homecoming.

I screwed up, Toledo only has 3 more home games so skip that note.
Cold weather will be a negative for every MAC team, but there's a little more down side for Toledo to me.

Well, The Tribe is going to the World Series, Party at Napoli's.


Most of you are shaking your heads and going 'That Monroe, always going waaaay off topic.'

But no.

The Tribe averaged only about 19,000 per game this year.

Attendance is a little better now that they are playing really well, winning and contending for the title in the league that they're in.



Winning, playing well, winning the MAC title.

How to solve all that's wrong with OHIO FOOTBALL:

Winning, playing well, winning the MAC title.

Good play and the excitement of a title chase brings 'em out.

Look for The Tribe to have a big attendance uptick next year as people realize this is real ball.


Probably the same re excitement levels at OHIO FOOTBALL.

They had the third lowest attendance of all major league teams. The Reds beat them by 4000 or so. Where is that excitement for a team that won 94 games? Where were the fans this year in the middle of a pennant race? There are lots of examples showing increased attendance while winning. This years Indians are not one of them.