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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.

Props to Melo. 6 assists, 5 steals, 2 turnovers.

Beat buffalo, add Kretzer and maybe Reggie, and suddenly we'll be feeling pretty good over here again.

There are more students on campus during the week than the weekend, sadly.

Damn the MAC for giving us some respect and national TV time.

We need to use what's unique to us. I'd expect more gold, and more "Z"

MAC schedule leaked. They took the page down.. But unless there are changes we have 4 or 5 straight Tuesday night games in November/December. Two MAC games on each Tuesday starting in November, with one being selected for ESPN2 and the other on ESPN3

Nice, very overdue.

I still think we get a top 4 seed and go into the Q with some momentum. 3 in a row is nothing, weren't we at 40 or so a few years back?

Sure.

I figured as much