Where in the world is everyone? This place is empty. Pathetic turnout no matter what the announced attendance is going to show. The East title is out of reach but there's still meaningful football to be played. There's been a lot of people on here critical of other schools for their attendance during these midweek games. We can now shut our own mouths on that topic as we have no room to talk.

I was expecting much worse to be honest. Misty midweek game after a three-game skid. Could've been way worse.

Come on. Tuesday night. Terrible Weather. Saturday in Athens is a destination. Tuesday, although I have made a few over the years is pretty tough.

Some of us have these things called "jobs" (I think it's pronounced with a soft J). The way it works is we show up at scheduled/predetermined times and do things and in exchange for that they give us money. Who knows, maybe you have one too. Anyways, some of us (me for example) are expected to show up for said "job" tomorrow morning. (Actually I've also been working while watching the game, but that's neither here nor there)

We don't say we're the best fans in the SEC. Why not give the fans a little credit. What a bunch of jerks

The Optimist's avatar is proof that mid-week attendance doesn't have to be bad. That being said, mid-week games can certainly discourage ticket holders like me from making the 3 hour drive to Peden. While the students don't have to deal with the travel time, they also have a job...it's called studying and getting an education.

I'm surprised that there wasn't a bigger student turnout considering that there are no classes today for Veterans Day. Last night should've been like a Friday or Saturday night. But a lot of students weren't even aware of the day off today.

My wife and I have been season ticket holders for nearly 20 years. We purchase ten tickets a year. We give one to a friend that works for the University, use four for our family and give the others to friends that have high school aged kids that we want to introduce to our university. This works well on Saturdays. We make a day of it. We enjoy Athens. We visit with my 5th year senior nephew. We play at Tailgreat Park. We enjoy the atmosphere in Peden.

When the MAC schedules football games on a night that has been traditionally reserved for the local seventh grade football team, we can not do this. For instance, after working all day and doing the commute home I did not even get to see my wife. She had already left for parent teacher conferences and PTA meetings. I took our oldest to a meeting about a scout trip he is taking to Seabase this summer. By the time we all got back home together around 9:30, we actually took time to talk to one another and see how the day went for everyone in our household. In summary, we have a life. Not only did I not make it to Athens to enjoy the tickets I had already purchased, I could not even see the game on TV.

As a college student, I was not a morning person. Each quarter I would schedule an evening class. Usually 6-8 Tuesday/Thursday or Monday/Wednesday. I liked the classes as they were not in the morning and they usually were taught by someone that may have recent or current industry experience. I also had a job to help pay my costs and for my excursions uptown. So I assume that the students on campus today also have lives that may require their attendance at classes, meetings or jobs on a Tuesday evening. I do not blame them one bit for making these a priority over a meaningless game against a team with a losing record.

Attendance at a Tuesday night game is not a fan problem. It is a MAC problem. It makes the entire league look second rate and it denies fans the opportunity to enjoy the game because our life does not revolve around college football. All this so a game can be broadcast on ESPNU.

Agreed. Rainy/misty, and 140 points given up in the prior 3 games led me to say "I'll watch from the couch" rather than commit to 180 miles of driving and time spent in the cold rain.

35-40 mins max from my house downtown to campus.

+1,000,000,000

(and it's not just ESPNU....they put some midweek games on ESPN3....sacrificing attendance for an online broadcast....pathetic)

The 50 bypass is glorious.

I hate midweek games too, but to say that it's being done "for an online broadcast" is to completely miss the point. The point is a package of games that include premier matchups on national television (espn or 2), secondary matchups on ESPNU, and at least online national (and high quality) broadcast on espn3 for, shall we say, less interesting contests. You can't just peg one matchup for espn or espn2, then have the rest of the games be saturday. Imagine the scheduling nightmare that creates, on top of the unfair number of prep days for the next matchup where one team gets a week and the other gets three days. Doesn't work.