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We are coming off a big win vs Purdue...a trophy game vs Michigan to get two a bowl game....and our students cant even fill up the bottom bowl at TCF......Pathetic!!! Thanks for the die hard students that at least showed up.
 

What's a good idea to get kids interested in a bad football team to come and cheer? Quit bitching about students
 

They were somewhere not giving a *&^!#*&^!#*&^!#*&^!# what you think.
 

Play the game under the lights, better product on the field, weather, etc.....Whether its at Memorial, Metrodome, or TCF, WIN consistently and they will show up.
 

The same place 50% of the regular crowd was. Lower bowl was 90% full at its max with a few in the upper deck. Not sure why anyone is surprised.
 


What surprises me is that they showed much better to the Metrodome than they do the TCF stadium. Remember all the talk about moving back to campus and getting 10,000 crazy students there every game. I guess Brew's reign was a huge buzzkill for them as we seem to have almost completely lost the student fan base.
 

For how bad we've been the last 30 years, I'm shocked 40,000 people still show up. This is a tired complaint.

History has proven that stadiums do not improve attendance. All they do is get a little bit better recruits. Winning improves attendance.
 

In bed, hungover, trying to remember the name of whoever they brought home last night. :confused:
 

afurry91 said:
For how bad we've been the last 30 years, I'm shocked 40,000 people still show up. This is a tired complaint.
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It certainly is yet people keep thinking there's some sort of magical solution. If we win, it's a hell of a lot more fun. Lose consistently and only the loyal fans show up. And I'm having my doubts them. I sit in the middle of the second deck almost on the 50-yard line. Today there was a group of about 20 Michigan fans all sitting together a few rows down. How in the heck does that happen?
 



Take 1/2 of the student section and develop a donation program to the pewee/little league football programs, especially tiered to the inner cities. The students don't deserve 10,000 seats. Then, when we get good, the students can fight over the 5,000 seats, much like Duke hoops kids do.
 

balds said:
Take 1/2 of the student section and develop a donation program to the pewee/little league football programs, especially tiered to the inner cities. The students don't deserve 10,000 seats. Then, when we get good, the students can fight over the 5,000 seats, much like Duke hoops kids do.
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The general public doesn't deserve 40,000 seats.
 


Announced attendance: 48,801

Anyone want to guess the actual.

Could it be a new record for no-shows.
 



afurry91 said:
The general public doesn't deserve 40,000 seats.
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Exactly. Same goes for other sports - looking at you, hockey. They gave up a good number of student tickets to sell to the general public and I haven't seen a single game (in person or on TV) where the sides are more than 75% full in the last 2 years, and that includes the UND series.

For football, the students have had bad showings, but so has the general public. There's more than enough empty seats to give to donation groups without compromising the loudest section.
 

No they announced 48,804 but the giant screen said 48,801.
 

station19 said:
Announced attendance: 48,801

Anyone want to guess the actual.

Could it be a new record for no-shows.
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No, I think Purdue or SDSU 2009 were worse. Not sure how given the team's performance and first year in the stadium..
 


I know and that was correct. It was just a shot at our PA guy who said the wrong number.
 

The University has to make coming to the game more attractive than staying home for the students. That means lowering the ticket prices for the students and providing cheap or free food for them to scarf during the game. (One way might be for the adult Gopher fans to make it fun for the students to come tailgate before the games and then come to the game.) With the tuition prices at the U I'm sure a number of students simply do a cost benefit analysis and figure the cost is greater than the benefit to go to a game.

Certainly complaining won't bring more students. But, give them a big enough incentive and they will be there.
 

No excuse for either part of the fan base. But lack of student support is more worrisome in my opinion. Their tickets are extremely cheap, and most have very little distance to travel to get to the game.
 

tinyarch said:
The University has to make coming to the game more attractive than staying home for the students. That means lowering the ticket prices for the students and providing cheap or free food for them to scarf during the game. (One way might be for the adult Gopher fans to make it fun for the students to come tailgate before the games and then come to the game.) With the tuition prices at the U I'm sure a number of students simply do a cost benefit analysis and figure the cost is greater than the benefit to go to a game.

Certainly complaining won't bring more students. But, give them a big enough incentive and they will be there.
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It has very little, if anything, to do with money. Most of the students don't care about the team because the team is bad and being at the football games is not considered a fashionable thing to do. It's not as if the students are watching the games in their dorms on TV to save money; they just don't care.
 


GophersInIowa said:
No excuse for either part of the fan base. But lack of student support is more worrisome in my opinion. Their tickets are extremely cheap, and most have very little distance to travel to get to the game.
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Just keep passing on the blame...
 

Gopherprof said:
It has very little, if anything, to do with money. Most of the students don't care about the team because the team is bad and being at the football games is not considered a fashionable thing to do. It's not as if the students are watching the games in their dorms on TV to save money; they just don't care.
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You can change that by giving them an incentive to care. Feed them and they will come... ;)
 


GophersInIowa said:
Exactly how did I blame anyone in my message? Am I wrong in saying that it's easier and cheaper for students to go to games?
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If you would like to pay tuition for the right to get cheap student tickets, by all means go for it.

The students that aren't coddled by their mommy and daddy and aren't majoring in business are studying 40 hours a week, working 20 hours a week, and racking up student loans. Life as an old man is SO much harder isn't it?
 

afurry91 said:
If you would like to pay tuition for the right to get cheap student tickets, by all means go for it.
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You obviously don't care about the point I'm trying to make, so I'll just end it there.
 

tinyarch said:
The University has to make coming to the game more attractive than staying home for the students. That means lowering the ticket prices for the students and providing cheap or free food for them to scarf during the game. (One way might be for the adult Gopher fans to make it fun for the students to come tailgate before the games and then come to the game.) With the tuition prices at the U I'm sure a number of students simply do a cost benefit analysis and figure the cost is greater than the benefit to go to a game.

Certainly complaining won't bring more students. But, give them a big enough incentive and they will be there.
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You are right. The students should receive free tickets for the tuition they pay and first come first serve basis.
 

afurry91 said:
If you would like to pay tuition for the right to get cheap student tickets, by all means go for it.

The students that aren't coddled by their mommy and daddy and aren't majoring in business are studying 40 hours a week, working 20 hours a week, and racking up student loans. Life as an old man is SO much harder isn't it?
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First, the number of people in college with the workload you're describing is roughly 7.2% of the student body. Honestly. I'm sure there are many. The fact that you think business majors are the only ones exempt proves you know nothing. I'd say Carlson students work more often than CLA or other similar schools. Most regular degrees (education, liberal arts, basic sciences, etc) have maybe 12-16 hours of class and less than that study/homework time.

I can honestly say, having been in engineering, working during school at my internship, being in marching band (which included going to games), I still had plenty of time for a social life. The stresses of school were far less than that of being an adult with a house to take care of, commute to work, working 50 hours a week (more as needed), paying bills, etc. And I don't even have kids yet. The only advantage is now I make money. And to that point, I knew very few people at the U who didn't have a significant chunk of school paid for or a heft "allowance."
 


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