The number of fans was alright. The attention paid to the game is at an all-time low. You could have heard a mouse fart at the Ridges from that stadium last night.

The weather helped, perfect night for mid-November. The student crowd was really looking thin right before kickoff, some did fill in a little as the game got going. There were a lot of empty seats, which is a shame for the seniors.

Personally, I think they need to revisit mid-week games as compared to a Saturday, just to get on TV. Exposure can be great, but personally, I'd rather see bigger crowds. I have to think that making it very tough for non-locals to get to the game by having it mid-week hurts the attendance numbers.

actually it was only around 4200 I think...

Saturday game would also make it easier on family and friends to attend. More festive (before and after with tailgating, etc.) Really a shame we do not think of the players/seniors. Even if we make "Senior Day" the last Saturday home game - that would be better.

This has always been my biggest beef with the November mid-week games. Allow the Seniors to get some real love, PLEASE! I couldn't do it last night but in years past I have driven from Columbus just so I could be there for Senior introductions. The game became secondary. Very troubling thing to me to see these guys standing in front of a nearly empty grandstand as has been the case in a couple of these games.

If we are going to persist with this mid-week nonsense, let's have Senior Day on Opening Day. Hell, even Band Day got a prime spot on the schedule after being moved from the Marshall game. Let's let them come on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving next year.

One home weeknight game is alright but these last two every season kills me. Just an impossible trip to make.

At least the 7:00pm start time helped those of us who came down from Columbus. We took days off for the weeknight games this year to come down early and start a new weeknight Court street "tailgating" tradition. After Monday Basketball and Tuesday Football, I am going to go to sleep early tonight.

This is 2015. Every game can be seen...just maybe not on national TV.

There's no reason why some of these weeknight jokes can't be moved to Saturdays and be broadcasted somewhere else.

If a game isn't on one of the networks it has most certainly been on ESPN3. I agree just move it to Saturday. Those who can't attend will find a way to watch it for sure.

There's actually a really good legal reason: It's called a contract. Like it or not, the MAC is ESPN's bitch when it comes to a November schedule. It's not going to change any time soon.

http://www.hustlebelt.com/2014/8/19/6045303/explaining-th...

I would like to see the number of mid-week games drastically reduced, but not eliminated entirely. Instead of having all the MAC play mid-week games, make it a showcase game. One big-game a week. I realize this is very tough logistically managing the entire schedule to give teams fair rest and also not perfect to guess who will be good in pre-season.. It certainly isn't the EASY route but I believe this is the BEST route.

As my profile pic shows, we CAN get the students to show for mid-week games under the right circumstances. When we pull it off, it makes for an incredible atmosphere. That game was one of the better atmospheres I've been apart of in Peden. That was a special set of circumstances, but I believe it could be replicated again. We have the benefit over the rest of the MAC over having almost no commuter students. Our students are almost always on campus, including during mid-week night games. Other MAC programs have the advantage over having the bulk of their non-student season ticket holder base closer by. We have season ticket holders in Athens, but I would assume compared to other MAC fanbases our season ticket holders are (on average) the furthest away from our campus. That will always hurt our mid-week attendance negatively, but if we were only doing this occasionally maybe once a year I think people like myself, who live too far to make the drive for a mid-week game when I have to work the day of and next day, might be more open to making the trip.

We can't scale down the number of games because that's the whole point of ESPN buying them. They want a boatload of games to fill programming in the middle of the week. They don't want the "MAC Game of the Week" for a month. They want a bunch of games that pads the amount of live programming they can sell to advertisers (who are insanely overvaluing live programming right now -- a bubble of historic size waiting to burst any day now when we've reached the ever-nearing sports saturation point in our culture).

(Sucks on oxygen mask)