[Famous Potato Bowl]

Great win for the program.

[9100 Attendance]

The current NCAA rule is as follows:

Average at least 15,000 in actual or paid attendance for all home football contests over a rolling two-year period. [bylaw 20.9.9.3]

http://https://www.ncaa.org/sites/default/files/Football%20Bowl%20Subqa%2012%208%2014.pdf

[9100 Attendance]

There were 9,800 alumni tickets sent out for every game, so the announced total includes that number. My guy in the ticket office tells me that the following totals were what was actually in the stadium this season.

Pittsburgh, 10,389 actual, 21,840 announced = 11,451 fudge

Savannah State, 3,562 actual, 15,883 announced = 12,321 fudge

Ohio, 3,612 actual, 16,718 announced = 13,106 fudge

Central Michigan, 3,659 actual, 18,568 announced = 14,909 fudge

Buffalo, 2,458 actual, 15,162 announced = 12,704 fudge

Can't State, 4,240 actual, 16,134 announced = 11,814 fudge

As you can see, there is a wide variance between actual people in the stadium and the number of tickets they send out. On average its a fudge of 12,717 imaginary fans per game. Pretty depressing numbers. Hard to have any credibility when you are making stuff up like this. Even the Pitt game had more imaginary fans than real fans in the stadium.

[Zips FB Coaches in the News]

I would agree. If Bowden were to leave in the next few years Moorhead should be one of the first people called to be the new Zip head coach. He did great things at Fordham and now is in one of the top OC jobs in the country.

[2015 Bowl Thread]

Back in 2005 who would have thought it would have taken 10 years to get back to a bowl game. Great job by Coach Bowden to revive the program to 7 wins in the wake of the Ianello reign of terror.

Let's go to the Bahamas Bowl

[Tom Wistrcill Resigns. Larry Williams hired.]

Sometimes being behind the scenes is a good thing. It could just mean that a thoughtful new AD is taking his time to get to know the landscape before coming in and making a lot of quick changes that he would look back on and regret. With all of the turbulence going on with the President the smart thing to do for LW right now is to keep your eyes and ears open, mouth shut, take lots of notes about what is off about the football program and then begin planning 2016 so that we have some actual people coming to the games. With soccer you need to make sure that the program gets out in the community after they finish this Tournament run. Basketball is off to a nice start, but we need to get some people in the JAR and make that place a snake pit to play in.