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Before I have to leave this beautiful weather, I feel I must respond to the last 3 posts. SFP, the students have great seats, compared to mine so my dead body wouldn't be in their way. I know you probably weren't referring to me. Dogs, even you have to admit when the Braves are on a roll and the other teams call timeout and the crowd is on their feet cheering, they are soon sitting down being quiet, you included, as we watch someone being taken to a better seat, or someone trying to make a free throw for pizza, or hear about something that's going to happen next week, or watch the jalapenos race on the scoreboard, I could go on and on. Contrary to popular belief by some on this board, it wasn't always this way. I was horse many a next day morning after games and not just ISU games. Now during timeouts I have to go get a beer to wet my whistle.Finally, sure the Duke students have great seats, but half of those seats aren't empty except when they are playing NC, our ISU. Support the team on a regular basis, like the blue hairs do, win or lose, and I'll take their complaints seriously. Hope to see everyone at an NCAA sight out West this season. GO BRAVES
Chico I was also taking up, but in a round about way, for those blue hair citizens. They do show up regardless, support the team and the University in which they deserve to be treated special. I have no complaints there. I only wish we could have it both ways, where the students could be in position to help our team and the donors put in a seat that fits their generosity. Until the students come out in force I'll support the rights of our best fans.
Until the issues are resolved the school needs to figure out a way to get the most out of these games to truly create an environment where opposing schools hate to come.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
??” Thomas Jefferson
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???People say, ???Forget last year', but I want our guys to remember that one, because that will not happen again. We will be much better.??? Geno Ford, 9/22/12
Chico I was also taking up, but in a round about way, for those blue hair citizens. They do show up regardless, support the team and the University in which they deserve to be treated special. I have no complaints there. I only wish we could have it both ways, where the students could be in position to help our team and the donors put in a seat that fits their generosity. Until the students come out in force I'll support the rights of our best fans.
Until the issues are resolved the school needs to figure out a way to get the most out of these games to truly create an environment where opposing schools hate to come.
Thanks. It used to be that way until just the last few years. Now it's sit down and quiet down, they can't here me over all that cheering.
I wasn't going to jump in the way the week was going, but butts in seats are way more important than tickets sold. Some people seem fixated on that number but as posted earlier in this thread the number is deceiving. And I'm not buying the argument of "well other schools do it." Yes, but that still doesn't make it right. A good friend goes to every DePaul game and he tells me they announce 7000 in attendance when he says there is not even 3000 at the game.
It's not like we have a ton of students coming in anyway, but we should hope the admin. would see what is going on and attempt to get more students to the place. They may have a difficult job attempting to balance the needs of the big money donors and the students, but other schools have accomplished this. Why can't we? In order to create a "home team" atmosphere we need more students and more noise and more electricity. We seem to be lacking that right now.
One problem I've always had, why does the band have to be right in the middle of the student section? This in effect kills the atmosphere the section could have. As it is now, the two different side are not cohesive. In my opinion, if we just moved the band to the section furthest away from the visitors bench this would not only help the crowd noise, but also give us more of a presence to the visiting team.
People need to recognize there is a huge difference between playing hard, and playing well...
I wasn't going to jump in the way the week was going, but butts in seats are way more important than tickets sold. Some people seem fixated on that number but as posted earlier in this thread the number is deceiving. And I'm not buying the argument of "well other schools do it." Yes, but that still doesn't make it right. A good friend goes to every DePaul game and he tells me they announce 7000 in attendance when he says there is not even 3000 at the game.
It's not like we have a ton of students coming in anyway, but we should hope the admin. would see what is going on and attempt to get more students to the place. They may have a difficult job attempting to balance the needs of the big money donors and the students, but other schools have accomplished this. Why can't we? In order to create a "home team" atmosphere we need more students and more noise and more electricity. We seem to be lacking that right now.
What would Dick do?
What do you want the school to do, take the grown up students by the hand and lead them to the Civic Center? They know where the arena is. No matter where the band sits it doesn't make any difference, if they have to wait until the announcements and gimmicks are over before they can play. Dick would tell the PA announcer to shut up and let the crowd stay in the game.
The students are going to have to get their butts off the couch in mass, away from their online games and away from texting each other of where they are at. There needs to be a cultural change overall. It use to be lets party hard and roll down the hill for the game. It was the place to be seen and pre-parties were in vogue. Then again, getting a keg into a Frat house was no problem either. In fact there ware usually a few in backup mode. I also do not rememeber mass students getting arrested for under-age drinking. I thought the police were pretty stingent back then and what I'm hearing they are frightfully agressive now.
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
??” Thomas Jefferson
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What do you want the school to do, take the grown up students by the hand and lead them to the Civic Center? They know where the arena is. No matter where the band sits it doesn't make any difference, if they have to wait until the announcements and gimmicks are over before they can play. Dick would tell the PA announcer to shut up and let the crowd stay in the game.
Yes, Dick would tell him to shut up. Back then, Dick ran the show and we were better for it.
The students are going to have to get their butts off the couch in mass, away from their online games and away from texting each other of where they are at. There needs to be a cultural change overall. It use to be lets party hard and roll down the hill for the game. It was the place to be seen and pre-parties were in vogue. Then again, getting a keg into a Frat house was no problem either. In fact there ware usually a few in backup mode. I also do not rememeber mass students getting arrested for under-age drinking. I thought the police were pretty stingent back then and what I'm hearing they are frightfully agressive now.
The police at BU are over the top. I was an RA, and no friend to irresponsible drinking. However, this notion that BU is even in the same realm with irresponsible drinking as the state schools is an absolute joke. At BU very rarely does ANYONE drive under the influence, and parties are much more in control than at other schools and still the Illinois State 'Task Force' focuses on BU. BU has most definitely had incidents that warrant attention, but pretending that this is isolated to BU is assinine, and clearly shows the government either is only doing it to show that it's 'helping' at BU (read: trying to stop bad pub not really caring) or they have never even set foot on a state schools campus on a Wednesday - Saturday night.
That being said, it is very difficult at times to get a group to go to games because of the driving and parking situation. Students do things in groups. Period. And the Bus service is great, but it's well known that you can't get a decent seat(maybe my standards are a little high there ) if you ride the bus. On top of that, there are few good parking spots that are free, and those fill up early and college students are cheap.
Finally, even I, a fairly optimistic BU fan, realize that we have not played consistent enough to warrant large student turn-out recently. I was the first one in-line for nearly every game for 4 years, but with a student population right at 5,000, and an off-campus arena, those types of fans are not going to be common.
I agree with AZ_BU_FAN in some of his posts though, food wouldn't hurt...
On top of that, there are few good parking spots that are free, and those fill up early and college students are cheap.
I understand your other points, but there is a sizeable parking lot across from the PCC that doesn't always fill to capacity. I believe this year they are even going to open an adjacent lot, probably only when needed.
Get 4-5 students in a car and they only pay $1 for parking on top of their $1 ticket price. I'm not sure how "cheap" college students are these days, but I don't think $2 is too much. Maybe that's just me.
???People say, ???Forget last year', but I want our guys to remember that one, because that will not happen again. We will be much better.??? Geno Ford, 9/22/12
???People say, ???Forget last year', but I want our guys to remember that one, because that will not happen again. We will be much better.??? Geno Ford, 9/22/12
10,506 - TCU @ Wichita State (largest crowd this season for WSU) 5,096 - Siena @ Northern Iowa 4,407 - Alabama State @ Southern Illinois 3,065 - Binghamton @ Drake (smallest crowd this season for Drake)
???People say, ???Forget last year', but I want our guys to remember that one, because that will not happen again. We will be much better.??? Geno Ford, 9/22/12
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