BGSU @ UA

[LZIp]

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

Yep. I wonder how our student attendance stacks up with programs of similar caliber; DiG? Now attendence vs involvement during the game is a whole other discussion.

Anyways, it's nice to see the Zips get back on a winning track. We are in serious need of McAdams and Kretzer back if we want a chance to win the tournament. Need some 3 shooters to spread the defense some.

[Hilltopper]

Yep. I wonder how our student attendance stacks up with programs of similar caliber; DiG? Now attendence vs involvement during the game is a whole other discussion.

Anyways, it's nice to see the Zips get back on a winning track. We are in serious need of McAdams and Kretzer back if we want a chance to win the tournament. Need some 3 shooters to spread the defense some.

I hope Kretzer can get back to form soon. McAdams will have a much tougher time shaking off the rust. Going 7 for 15 from the three point line was huge last night.

[Dave in Green]

Yep. I wonder how our student attendance stacks up with programs of similar caliber; DiG? ...

I just read an interesting ESPN story on this subject a couple of weeks ago and was going to post a link on ZN.o but forgot. Thanks for reminding me. The story focuses more on college football but is also applicable to basketball. Bottom line is that UA is far from unique. The story's headline suggests that it may be a generational thing:

Will Next Generation of Fans Show Up?

[Balsy]

Thanks for posting that Dave, I remember reading it a couple of weeks ago. I think it hits it right on those nose. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one in my generation (the one referred to in the story) gung-ho about going to games. If there's a home game, or even away game I can make it too I want to go. But most of my peers are not like this is at all. They seem to view it more as an obligation to go.

[GP1]

I just read an interesting ESPN story on this subject a couple of weeks ago and was going to post a link on ZN.o but forgot. Thanks for reminding me. The story focuses more on college football but is also applicable to basketball. Bottom line is that UA is far from unique. The story's headline suggests that it may be a generational thing:

Will Next Generation of Fans Show Up?

Love the link Dave. Thanks for posting.

College basketball games are perfect for the college age students of today. The games last two hours and they are in a climate controlled building. Reminds me of one of my all time favorite sayings, "No matter how hot it is out. No matter how cold it is out. It's always 72 degrees on a bar stool." Two hours of "entertainment" is about all the college age kid today can stand before they need another form of entertainment.

College football on the other hand has big problems.25% of the games at BCS schools are designed to be almost guaranteed wins for the home team. The games last in excess of three hours. There are entirely too many TV time outs and replays. As football consumers, we are having a lot of absolute crap thrown in our direction with a little football being played in between the handfuls of crap. College students of today cannot tolerate that amount of nothingness being thrown at them for 3+ hours. They have too many choices for how they spend their time and money now.

In addition to the crap throwing, the message being sent to football consumers is the only thing that matters is winning the national championship. In college basketball, making the NCAA Tournament, and for a lot of schools going to at least the Sweet 16, has become all that matters. If a school is not in the running for these events, they don't make any news. If they don't make news, they don't make the i Phones the students spend their lives looking at. If they don't make the i Phones, they don't matter. Why attend an event that doesn't matter?

College basketball is still in a good position. College football schools need to get control over how their events are covered and insist on proposals from the networks outlining how they are going to maximize the amount of time the telecast is actually showing actual football being played. I understand that hurts the "building process", but that process is nothing but a money sink anyhow so why not at least make the games more entertaining for those attending and watching at home. Hint: Replays automatically get some form of the upcoming TV time out squeezed in and the excitement of watching a middle aged referee talking into a headset squeezed out. More football and less contrived excitement.

[LZIp]

Ah, GP1 never missing an opportunity to write a 500 word rant on the "building process".

Thanks for sharing, Dave. I knew I could count on you to have something.

Mods, probably isn't the right place to inquire about it, but could we possibly get the "like post" feature turned on?

[Dave in Green]

I didn't mean to shift the focus to football. So I went looking and found an article focused on college basketball that's more relevant to the discussion here. I think the USA Today story below reinforces the generational thing even more strongly for basketball than the previous one did for football, as evidenced from what I thought was probably the most telling part:

Additional alarms sound at widespread drops in student attendance. Duke's famous Cameron Crazies no longer fill the student section of Cameron Indoor Stadium, and the school has begun putting unclaimed seats on the general-admission sales block. At Iowa State, athletic director Jamie Pollard says, fewer than half the allotment of 2,500 student tickets typically is used, compared with 80% of the non-student tickets sold.

"We've met with student groups and talked through it," Pollard says. "And the gist of what we get out of it is that that demographic has changed. They've grown up in a different environment. It's more quick-hitting — 'I can get it digital, I can get the highlights, I don't have to watch the game, I've got a lot of other things I can do.' "

Pollard sees it not only as a concern for today, but one that could shake the very foundation of college basketball in the coming decades.

"I don't have a solution, but it's something we all have to be aware of," he says. "Because when that demographic becomes the 40- to 60-year-old demographic, are they going to do what the current 40- to 60-year-old demographic does, which is buy tickets and make donations? I'm not certain we can say they will."

College Basketball Faces Questions As Attendance Tumbles

[Hilltopper]

Ah, GP1 never missing an opportunity to write a 500 word rant on the "building process".

Thanks for sharing, Dave. I knew I could count on you to have something.

Mods, probably isn't the right place to inquire about it, but could we possibly get the "like post" feature turned on?

Turning on the like function might ruin the preconceived notions of some on this forum who think they know what the members really think.

[Zipmeister]

I didn't mean to shift the focus to football. So I went looking and found an article focused on college basketball that's more relevant to the discussion here. I think the USA Today story below reinforces the generational thing even more strongly for basketball than the previous one did for football, as evidenced from what I thought was probably the most telling part:

College Basketball Faces Questions As Attendance Tumbles

So Akron students are 30 years ahead of students at Duke!

Represent.

[zippy5]

Louis Orr isn't coming back to BG next year.

[Dave in Green]

BUGS may have come up with a winner here:

Bowling Green hires Chris Jans (Wichita State associate head coach)