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Buffalo had 7 students standing there.. I'm not sure that was what did it.

That was with Toledo being ineligible. Makes sense now, 5-12 play in mondays games. The 4 winners play each other who then meet 3 & 4 at the Q.

Looks like you're right. We've never had to deal with it, but that 4 seed is a huge deal.

Oh wow, I thought top 6 went straight to Wednesday. So a win Friday saves us two games, pretty big deal.

I believe we've already secured a spot at the Q, with no campus games.

Haha no problem, I was just curious. ZTZ seemed to think they were pass-oriented, so I think the fact that no one is in agreement on what they do best shows they're semi-balanced. Pitt had a pretty rotten defense last year, could be a little bit of a shootout.

Saturdays generally (always) have much better attendance than any other day of the week for pretty much any event.

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He's still talking about an incident from last year. McCrea is MAC POY. There's no question. Nothing wrong with admitting it, the award is Tree's to lose next year.

Hurley is such a clown. I've never seen anyone complain so much. Outside of message boards.. Anyway, dude spent half his timeouts with the refs instead of coaching his team. I think he has legitimate anger problems.

It was a loud crowd. For once, I didn't even care about the number. It didn't look bad, and everyone was into it. No 500 greeks leaving at halftime, no hundred parents watching their kid in the halftime show and leaving, just 3k showing up to watch us play buffalo for 4th place, as the captain said.

Seriously though, what a game from Q. If he can keep it up, tree stays locked in, and we get our secondary scoring from Nyles, Reggie, Big Dog, Harney and hopefully Jake, why shouldn't we win the whole damn thing again? Beat Can't and head into the Q with some serious momentum.

We didn't need 80. We needed what, 72?

Their top 2 RBs averaged 5.47 ypc and 4.66 ypc. I don't think the rankings are indicative of a "balanced" offense. Washington State would be a good example of a one dimensional team.

Pitt also ran the ball 51 more times than they passed. Their QB graduated, and they bring in a 4 star RB. I wouldn't expect the same numbers in 2014.

Elaborate? I have Pitt season tickets and I can't figure out which part of their offense is one dimensional. It's pretty balanced. Depends how the new QB fares, but he looked okay in the Pizza bowl.

Fixed it

To be fair, you get free tickets to any event. I agree with the better seats sentiment. I wonder what the correllation is between students not caring and apathetic alumni. Treating the students better would go a long way towards the "disconnect" we talk about. Easy to feel disconnected when you're given the worst seats in the house. These "disconnected" students become "disconnected" alumni - that's not good.

Reggie practicing today per George Thomas

I feel like there's two different discussions going on here. One for those who believe student attendance is negligible, and one for those who believe students are there, but the student section is lacking. I'm under the assumption that attendance has been good, but I haven't heard much since the Coastal Carolina game one way or the other in terms of numbers. If anyone knows how student attendance has been, it would help.

Only one end is for students. I'm not there anymore, but I'd wager that the end that is students is full of the old rowdies. The student attendance has been good, they're at the games, just scattered about and up top. That's why I say make them all sit together. We'd have a very nice sized student section most games. Pick up your ticket the week of the game, and open a section or two for higher priced GA if it isn't going to fill up with students.

I understand the argument of not wanting to move donors/people that pay good money, but you need to take care of your students, the future donors and alums. We have a crappy alumni base when it comes to supporting our teams, something needs done to change it. Plus, a great student section makes it more fun for the rest the fans.

Make the student section in the lower bowl, require all students sit in it, and don't let non-students in. Put some temp bleachers in corners, and have the band in one of the corners.

We've had this discussion before. Student attendance has been very good the past two seasons.

The student section will never work with the way the seating is set up.