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Newsflash: UGA students in general are awful, pathetic fans
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:39 am
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:39 am
Mash here for Blutarsky's sad revelation
Just the fricking worst
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… For Georgia, heat certainly plays a role, though the exact reason for the school’s precipitous decline in student attendance still seems to be a mystery. This year, the University of Georgia cut its student section capacity from 18,026 to 16,200. Despite overselling on purpose (17,212), the school’s scanners revealed this sad fact: An average of 28.8 percent of those who bought tickets didn’t show up to home games.
Benjamin Wolk, a senior at the school who is a football beat writer for the student newspaper The Red & Black, says one of the reasons for the no-shows is because of a stale game atmosphere that caters to the old money that wants the traditions of decades ago.
“One thing Clemson, Vanderbilt and Auburn all had in common was a crazy stadium atmosphere,” Wolk said. “At Georgia? Traditional music and a PA announcer barely yelling ‘Let’s make some noise ‘on third down.”
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This, mind you, after a year in which Georgia played two of the most thrilling games I’ve had the pleasure of watching between the hedges. But evidently it takes a shot or three of fake juice to get Wolk’s generation motivated to put in an appearance.
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“The problem is in all the other areas. There’s nothing to do while I’m waiting on line for an hour to get into the stadium, and there’s little added value from being in the stands watching the game.”
Just the fricking worst
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Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:48 am to tylerdurden24
I knew this problem was bigger then I thought when they complained about no wifi in the stadium. Yo jackass watch the game and yell not your phone.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:49 am to tylerdurden24
While it's pathetic that so many students don't show up, I do agree with him that the stadium environment could be modernized a bit to appeal to the younger generation of fans. That's not a good excuse for not showing up though.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:53 am to bigdawg7780
Improving wi-fi is sorely needed, but it's not a solution to the problem. It just makes it easier ot disconnect from the stadium atmosphere while there.
If they actually want to improve anything:
1.) Stop selling 16-17,000 tickets on a 30,000 person campus. Instead, go more like 8-10,000 and give priority to Seniors and Double Dawgs.
2.) Remove the tailgating restrictions on campus, you fricking idiots. SEC football is a social event. When you start stepping on the social aspects (which make up the other 21 hours of the 24 hour football Saturday), it dissuades people form even wanting to bother.
3.) Start selling beer. Not hard liquor, just beer. The revenue and attendance will show up in droves. I hesitate to spend $8 for a beer at Turner Field, but I would gladly pay that same price without question for the sheer novelty of drinking a cold one in Sanford.
If they actually want to improve anything:
1.) Stop selling 16-17,000 tickets on a 30,000 person campus. Instead, go more like 8-10,000 and give priority to Seniors and Double Dawgs.
2.) Remove the tailgating restrictions on campus, you fricking idiots. SEC football is a social event. When you start stepping on the social aspects (which make up the other 21 hours of the 24 hour football Saturday), it dissuades people form even wanting to bother.
3.) Start selling beer. Not hard liquor, just beer. The revenue and attendance will show up in droves. I hesitate to spend $8 for a beer at Turner Field, but I would gladly pay that same price without question for the sheer novelty of drinking a cold one in Sanford.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 9:57 am to tylerdurden24
The in-stadium music would be a simple thing to update, IMO. I mean look at how well USCe students get into Sandstorm. We don't have anything like that at UGA.
I obviously don't want to get rid of any traditions, but some variation it what plays at kickoff and during timeouts wouldn't be a big deal, IMO
Eta- and selling beer would help a lot
I obviously don't want to get rid of any traditions, but some variation it what plays at kickoff and during timeouts wouldn't be a big deal, IMO
Eta- and selling beer would help a lot
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 9:58 am
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:03 am to Crowknowsbest
The easy fix to this is to simply return to selling paper student tickets and to stop this bullshite wristband nonsense for the student section. Know what's fun? Standing in a crowd of drunk people (who may or may not all be students) and going fricking apeshit at a football game. LOOK AT THE frickING UGA-UF GAME. Handcuff the drunks by making the student section first come, first serve and eliminate the young alumni and students from other state schools that relied on the paper student tickets as a reasonably priced way to get into games and this is the issue you're left with.
Personally, I say frick piped in music. I'm cool with them surprising the players and crowd with some rap and stuff to keep the atmosphere going, but I'll go suffer through a Hawks game if I want to listen to the latest Top 40 during every stoppage in play.
Personally, I say frick piped in music. I'm cool with them surprising the players and crowd with some rap and stuff to keep the atmosphere going, but I'll go suffer through a Hawks game if I want to listen to the latest Top 40 during every stoppage in play.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:04 am to tylerdurden24
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fake juice
GATA
and frick that student beat writer....he wants some pumped in garbage rap instead of the redcoats? traitor.
I was at the LSU and USCe game, and I would bet that those two games could match up with any in the country as far as atmosphere goes. the problem comes from scheduling all these sorry arse schools and then kickoff at noon. And its not just a UGA problem. Hell, i think Bama had some of the same issues.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:05 am to tylerdurden24
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Personally, I say frick piped in music. I'm cool with them surprising the players and crowd with some rap and stuff to keep the atmosphere going, but I'll go suffer through a Hawks game if I want to listen to the latest Top 40 during every stoppage in play.
I don't particularly care for it either, but like it or not it would be more appealing to more students, especially girls.
ETA- and I'm not talking about playing Katy Perry or some shite like that. frick that noise
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 10:09 am
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:05 am to tylerdurden24
Do other schools sell beer at college games?
And I think the tailgating thing is more the city and law enforcement than the school. The Athens Clark County police hate UGA students and especially athletes. They go out of their way to ruin people's day if they possibly can. I'm assuming this kind of mandate rolls down from the top, so I'm also assuming the people in charge are uptight miserable fricks.
And I think the tailgating thing is more the city and law enforcement than the school. The Athens Clark County police hate UGA students and especially athletes. They go out of their way to ruin people's day if they possibly can. I'm assuming this kind of mandate rolls down from the top, so I'm also assuming the people in charge are uptight miserable fricks.
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 10:06 am
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:08 am to tylerdurden24
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UGA students in general are awful, pathetic fans
This m'fcker gets it
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:17 am to BeefDawg
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Do other schools sell beer at college games?
A few do. West Virginia for one (which netted them $520,000 in extra profit through stadium beer sales). Arkansas just began selling it in their club levels (LSU, Wisocnsin, Illinois, etc. have also done so for a while). Minnesota did for a long time when they played in the Metrodome. Given Don Leebern's standing in the State and with the University, I'm kind of surprised the issue hasn't been talked about before.
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 10:19 am
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:29 am to BeefDawg
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And I think the tailgating thing is more the city and law enforcement than the school. The Athens Clark County police hate UGA students and especially athletes. They go out of their way to ruin people's day if they possibly can. I'm assuming this kind of mandate rolls down from the top, so I'm also assuming the people in charge are uptight miserable fricks.
Tailgating restrictions are directly related to people that can't be bothered to clean up their own trash. And considering that I was in plenty of classrooms at UGA where the students couldn't be bothered to deposit their own trash in the bins placed directly by the doors on their way out rather than leaving it by their seats, then no, it is NOT the Athens homeless population that was mostly to blame.
WHo he hell is waiting an hour to get into the game? I have never waited more than 10 minutes to walk into the game- as a student or an alumnus.
I have always loved how younger generations always expect to be entertained. It never occurs to them they could quite possibly entertain themselves and maybe, just maybe, set the tone for the rest of the stadium. And yes, it is possible to be entertaining without being drunk.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:54 am to tylerdurden24
I agree with all of your points, but our home schedule was so extremely front heavy this year which probably lead to some inflation in these numbers.
Hell, we were essentially done playing meaningful games Between the Hedges after the Mizzou game and that was in the middle of October. I'm not saying it's right, but after we lost that game and the Vandy game our season was essentially over, thus leading to a nose dive in attendance.
Again, not saying it's right but your average student isn't going to wake up at at 8am and head down to the stadium to tailgate for a 12:00 game vs App State when absolutely nothing is at stake.
Really the only things I could see that would significantly improve the turnout would be
1. More afternoon/night games
2. Wifi/general cell service improvements would be nice. It is nearly impossible to communicate inside the stadium for 3+ hours with people who you did not enter the game with, which causes a lot of problems for students who have friends visiting from out of town.
3. Sell beer. I know quite a few individuals (mostly female)who get way too drunk before hand, and either leave the game in the first quarter or don't even make it in at all. Their reasoning is that they would rather pass out and wake up around 2:00 and be able to go downtown that night, as opposed to staying for the rest of the game and then crashing around 4:00 when they get back to their apartments. This is not limited to just females, but it definitely seems like a more common problem with them which subsequently is a problem for the university when you consider that roughly 60% of the student population are females.
Hell, we were essentially done playing meaningful games Between the Hedges after the Mizzou game and that was in the middle of October. I'm not saying it's right, but after we lost that game and the Vandy game our season was essentially over, thus leading to a nose dive in attendance.
Again, not saying it's right but your average student isn't going to wake up at at 8am and head down to the stadium to tailgate for a 12:00 game vs App State when absolutely nothing is at stake.
Really the only things I could see that would significantly improve the turnout would be
1. More afternoon/night games
2. Wifi/general cell service improvements would be nice. It is nearly impossible to communicate inside the stadium for 3+ hours with people who you did not enter the game with, which causes a lot of problems for students who have friends visiting from out of town.
3. Sell beer. I know quite a few individuals (mostly female)who get way too drunk before hand, and either leave the game in the first quarter or don't even make it in at all. Their reasoning is that they would rather pass out and wake up around 2:00 and be able to go downtown that night, as opposed to staying for the rest of the game and then crashing around 4:00 when they get back to their apartments. This is not limited to just females, but it definitely seems like a more common problem with them which subsequently is a problem for the university when you consider that roughly 60% of the student population are females.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:01 am to Crowknowsbest
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The in-stadium music would be a simple thing to update, IMO. I mean look at how well USCe students get into Sandstorm
I was at the UGA-AU game this year ( I know,
) and their music was LOUD and the students were into it. The players feed off the noise and it creates an advantage. As a current student, there seems to be an awful contingent of apathetic football fans coming to UGA nowadays..which sucks for the rest of us
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:09 am to tylerdurden24
When I went to UGA.. the problem was tons of student left during half time. Looks like it has gotten even much worse :(
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:14 am to tylerdurden24
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1.) Stop selling 16-17,000 tickets on a 30,000 person campus. Instead, go more like 8-10,000 and give priority to Seniors and Double Dawgs.
YES
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2.) Remove the tailgating restrictions on campus, you fricking idiots. SEC football is a social event. When you start stepping on the social aspects (which make up the other 21 hours of the 24 hour football Saturday), it dissuades people form even wanting to bother.
YES
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3.) Start selling beer. Not hard liquor, just beer. The revenue and attendance will show up in droves. I hesitate to spend $8 for a beer at Turner Field, but I would gladly pay that same price without question for the sheer novelty of drinking a cold one in Sanford.
Meh, I am indifferent. Fix the rest and students will be there. I would rather them work on how concessions are laid out, and how few of them that there are. Students will be sneaking in the bottles instead of buying beer, so this probably wont help the student pop.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:21 am to IT_Dawg
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so this probably wont help the student pop.
But I can about guarantee the noise level in the stadium increases
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:28 am to tylerdurden24
If the students just aren't interested in going to the games, then there's no point in having empty seats because of them when non-students are still showing up in support.
Cut the amount of allotted student tickets and take the remainder and put it into a "flex section" where students get priority for x days leading up to that game and then any leftovers are sold to the general public.
Cut the amount of allotted student tickets and take the remainder and put it into a "flex section" where students get priority for x days leading up to that game and then any leftovers are sold to the general public.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:33 am to tylerdurden24
They are trying to make this all to difficult. People don't NOT go to a game because of a lack of canned music or wifi access. There are two things that affect attendance:
1. Opponent
2. Time of Day
ETA: There are 3. I forgot weather.
1. Opponent
2. Time of Day
ETA: There are 3. I forgot weather.
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 11:34 am
Posted on 2/18/14 at 11:34 am to tylerdurden24
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3.) Start selling beer. Not hard liquor, just beer. The revenue and attendance will show up in droves. I hesitate to spend $8 for a beer at Turner Field, but I would gladly pay that same price without question for the sheer novelty of drinking a cold one in Sanford.
I agree with this 100%. One of the main reasons for students not staying the whole game/ or not going at all is b/c they want to be drinking while they watch the game. So they leave and go downtown to the bars.
I haven't looked this up, but do any SEC schools sell beer at there games? If so, why in the hell are we not?
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