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Posted on 11/13/12 at 6:34 am
Posted on 11/13/12 at 6:34 am
I couldnt help notice the number of UGA fans dressed as empty seats when they played Youngstown St on tv...announced boxscore crowd was listed as 4,200...but must have included personnel, cheerleaders and so forth. Pretty bad.
Gators had 8,000 for Alabama State and thats bad when you consider the success of the program for some time. I know the SEC is a football conference, but shouldnt there be more interest in roundball? I cant make it to weekday games unfortunately and stepson has school. Can see some of the holiday games perhaps and I am going this sunday to game in Tampa...but wish there was a way to attract more crowds...thoughts?
Gators had 8,000 for Alabama State and thats bad when you consider the success of the program for some time. I know the SEC is a football conference, but shouldnt there be more interest in roundball? I cant make it to weekday games unfortunately and stepson has school. Can see some of the holiday games perhaps and I am going this sunday to game in Tampa...but wish there was a way to attract more crowds...thoughts?
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Posted on 11/13/12 at 6:43 am to reel_gator8
merge? I answered this on the other thread.
Posted on 11/13/12 at 6:45 am to reel_gator8
The NCAA needs to adopt a turnstile number over paid attendance as it is too easy to manipulate the numbers in sports. I hate when an event is SOLD OUT and there are blocks of empty seats.
Also, your avatar always cracks me up for some reason
Also, your avatar always cracks me up for some reason
Posted on 11/13/12 at 6:51 am to reel_gator8
From your post on the other thread :
The problem is the students are tuning out live sports to stay home and watch it on TV. Even the ones that show up are on their phones, texting, or playing video games instead of actually watching the live game being played. The biggest draw of live sports is that they are in fact LIVE.
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I just posted a new thread about similiar thoughts and UF had 8,000 for Alabama State...we should have more butts in the seats. Surely more students would like to attend?
The problem is the students are tuning out live sports to stay home and watch it on TV. Even the ones that show up are on their phones, texting, or playing video games instead of actually watching the live game being played. The biggest draw of live sports is that they are in fact LIVE.
This post was edited on 11/13/12 at 6:52 am
Posted on 11/13/12 at 7:22 am to reel_gator8
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I know the SEC is a football conference, but shouldnt there be more interest in roundball?
We couldn't have more interest. Go Big Blue!
This post was edited on 11/13/12 at 7:23 am
Posted on 11/13/12 at 9:36 am to reel_gator8
We have no basketball tradition. Why? The answer probably has more to do with focus than anything. Football is obviously the most popular sport in the state of Georgia and the recruiting numbers support this. As a result, football is the cash cow for UGA so it's what our admins focus on. Basketball is just not nearly as popular in the state of Georgia as football.
Part of it relates simply to the nature of the 2 sports. Football is pretty much 1 game every Saturday during football season. There are traditional rivalries and every game is critical with just 12 games during the regular season. Basketball is faster paced on a smaller field of play which constrains the venue and attendance. There are more games many against teams with no identity for local fans. The net effect is that regular season basketball games seem less important and less intense. Teams like Kentucky who do have basketball tradition, just have to win enough games to get into the tournament where they have about as good a chance as anyone on winning it all. This is why I hope football never goes to a broad based tourney type format; it definitely detracts from the intensity of the regular season.
Part of it relates simply to the nature of the 2 sports. Football is pretty much 1 game every Saturday during football season. There are traditional rivalries and every game is critical with just 12 games during the regular season. Basketball is faster paced on a smaller field of play which constrains the venue and attendance. There are more games many against teams with no identity for local fans. The net effect is that regular season basketball games seem less important and less intense. Teams like Kentucky who do have basketball tradition, just have to win enough games to get into the tournament where they have about as good a chance as anyone on winning it all. This is why I hope football never goes to a broad based tourney type format; it definitely detracts from the intensity of the regular season.
This post was edited on 11/13/12 at 10:25 am
Posted on 11/13/12 at 9:40 am to reel_gator8
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...announced boxscore crowd was listed as 4,200...but must have included personnel, cheerleaders and so forth. Pretty bad.
it was probably just paid attendance. there may have been 1k in there.
LSU's attendance wasnt great either but it was actually better than i expected (my expectations were not high at all).
Posted on 11/13/12 at 9:47 am to reel_gator8
you sound like a Kenutucky fan caring about basketball attendence whil football season is still going on
Posted on 11/13/12 at 10:11 am to reel_gator8
Ours was reported at 7,335
Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:12 am to reel_gator8
we probably won't sell out a single game this year
Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:22 am to reel_gator8
Auburn is located too far away from a main city to support a basketball team during times in the winter when students are out on break. The city of Auburn can't support all AU athletics while the students are gone and our lack of success on the hardwood also has a major factor in this discussion.
Posted on 11/13/12 at 11:31 am to reel_gator8
It was a rainy Monday when most of the students had midterms . Most of our non student fanbase is over an hour away in metro Atlanta and I guess the appeal of seeing the Youngstown State game on a week when there will be a home game anyway just wasn't enough of a selling point.
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