deadheaddawg plus 1. You have awful taste in music but I hear you cluckin' chickin'.....when it comes to football attendance.
The excuse is right in front of your eyes and is totally legitimate. Our football program is in reverse and our students and many many others know that. How can you blame anyone for not wanting to watch that ****.
Lol, I have great taste in music
I haven't seen DWS that dead for a full game in a long time. They definitely didn't contribute to the atmosphere. Plus, half the east side at 1/5 capacity is an eye-sore.I have always been an advocate of the students getting good seats like they have. But week after week this is embarassing. The section should be cut into 1/3 of what it is down low, the rest of those tickets be sold for big $, and the students thrown up into the Upper Deck. Pathetic. Week after week.
This ******** is so Genespage it`s unbelievable. It`s been going on over there for years. Obsessed, no-life alumni throwing insults and un-warranted & and un-wanted advice at students about how to act at football games. Beating their chest and saying "we`ll cut your ticket allotment or we`ll sit you on top of the stadium"...."we don`t care how crappy the program WE`VE put together for you to watch we demand you sit there and watch it til the end". It really is sickening and I just can`t fathom at all how these people think. If we put a good product on the field...the students will be there. If we don`t...they`ll leave. They have a lot more going on in their lives than the people who are bitching obviously.
And I don't disagree with much of what you said. I personally think it is a supply and demand issue.
There is a large supply of tickets for students right now and the demand is apparently low based on their actions. Reduce the number of quality seats in the lower level, sell the ones down low a couple of weeks earlier and create a situation where you promote the better seats heavily and the diehard student fans camp out for them. Sell the rest of the down low seats to the higher demand target market of young alumni. You end up with less student seats overall and a more important section.
Maybe by making the quality seating a coveted thing to have the AD can create a situation where some of the students see value in being at a game after halftime that is still in question. It has to concern you a little that we are in a close game and they pile out at halftime. This is a different sort of attitude than just not liking our team's quality of play. Something else is going on and I am saying they don't see value in the seating could be part of it. This isn't just an MSU question. A lot of AD's are trying to figure out how to get students to appreciate what is being offered.
This ******** is so Genespage it`s unbelievable. It`s been going on over there for years. Obsessed, no-life alumni throwing insults and un-warranted & and un-wanted advice at students about how to act at football games. Beating their chest and saying "we`ll cut your ticket allotment or we`ll sit you on top of the stadium"...."we don`t care how crappy the program WE`VE put together for you to watch we demand you sit there and watch it til the end". It really is sickening and I just can`t fathom at all how these people think. If we put a good product on the field...the students will be there. If we don`t...they`ll leave. They have a lot more going on in their lives than the people who are bitching obviously.
Don't badmouth my college sweetheart like that.unless it's a complete blowout. It's that easy. Your college years aren't going to be wasted away because you spend an hour less time chatting up that fat girl with a lazy eye 4 days a year.