a-zip Posted November 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 TB was out preaching and encouraging fans at the basketball game last night......he was fired up. Problem was, there weren't many people at the basketball game. Maybe it was because it was a Saturday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipsoutsider Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 46 minutes ago, a-zip said: TB was out preaching and encouraging fans at the basketball game last night......he was fired up. Problem was, there weren't many people at the basketball game. Maybe it was because it was a Saturday I read that the sound system was so bad no one could understand what he was saying. I hope that wasn't true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, a-zip said: TB was out preaching and encouraging fans at the basketball game last night......he was fired up. Problem was, there weren't many people at the basketball game. Maybe it was because it was a Saturday It looked like it was your typical "lets go get our free t-shirts and leave" game for the young folks. I've never seen so many people in the lobby at 6pm, but never make it into the arena at 7pm. That sucks that it was our only opportunity to get him in front of a "crowd" of people before Tuesday night. But like I said last week in another post, there's certainly other opportunities for Terry, his staff, and his players to make appearances around the University during the week, and get some buzz going for the big game. Edited November 19, 2017 by skip-zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 1 hour ago, a-zip said: Maybe it was because it was a Saturday You may have just inspired the addition of a new excuse category. The "Akron people have to get up too early on Sunday for Church" excuse. Coming Soon to a Zips Nation thread near you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feetg10 Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 48 minutes ago, zipsoutsider said: I read that the sound system was so bad no one could understand what he was saying. I hope that wasn't true. I was at the basketball game last night and I only understood about 10 words out of his entire speech. And that's not hyperbole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyYo Posted November 19, 2017 Report Share Posted November 19, 2017 58 minutes ago, skip-zip said: It looked like it was your typical "lets go get our free t-shirts and leave" game for the young folks. I've never seen so many people in the lobby at 6pm, but never make it into the arena at 7pm. That sucks that it was our only opportunity to get him in front of a "crowd" of people before Tuesday night. But like I said last week in another post, there's certainly other opportunities for Terry, his staff, and his players to make appearances around the University during the week, and get some buzz going for the big game. Speaking of shirts, I was unable to make the game last night so if anyone got one of the shirts in a size large, feel free to send it my way! Haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-zip Posted November 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2017 I hope it is over 15K or will be embarrassed again as I was 3 years ago when I started this thread after convincing a bunch of my buddies to drive 7 hours for a game. This is one of the biggest games in school history for all the reasons I have listed prior, the lethargy is, well.............not suprizing. . Add to that we will be on ESPN and recruits will be watching. Soccer is about to win another star, the basketball team is playing well.....all good mojo. No excuses. What is better than wrapping up the conference championship against Kent Go Zips!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roo Posted November 22, 2017 Report Share Posted November 22, 2017 Stinks you can't see the home side on TV, the away side looks pathetic. Surprised there aren't more people on that side. Side note *** watching on TV, the Zips audio team needs to get some new songs. My goodness, they play the same 3-4 songs and none of them are new. Entertainment matters to the younger crowd, not winning any favors there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsy Posted November 22, 2017 Report Share Posted November 22, 2017 I don't care what anyone says. Most fun I've had at a Zips Football Home game in a long time. Even more-so than the Ohio victory. More students were there this evening than I thought would be. GO ZIPS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipsoutsider Posted November 22, 2017 Report Share Posted November 22, 2017 1 hour ago, Balsy said: I don't care what anyone says. Most fun I've had at a Zips Football Home game in a long time. Even more-so than the Ohio victory. More students were there this evening than I thought would be. GO ZIPS! From where I sat, tonight's crowd was second only to the Pitt game, in the span of the last 4 years. It was a fun game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted November 22, 2017 Report Share Posted November 22, 2017 Announced attendance was 21,683. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted November 22, 2017 Report Share Posted November 22, 2017 Had a great time last night! Got some lower reserved seats behind the Zips bench & loved the view! Crowd was great in lower reserved. Seemed like a good crowd overall. The student section was jammed. Loved it! Go Zips! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Willis Drummond Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 To everyone who attended the game yesterday: There were 16,000 fans there. I hope you all were able to see what 16,000 fans look like and what 16,000 fans sound like. Please remember this when tempted to buy into and/or justify the ridiculously inflated attendance numbers UA floats. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balsy Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 2 hours ago, Bruce Willis Drummond said: To everyone who attended the game yesterday: There were 16,000 fans there. I hope you all were able to see what 16,000 fans look like and what 16,000 fans sound like. Please remember this when tempted to buy into and/or justify the ridiculously inflated attendance numbers UA floats. Thank you. We already know that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipsoutsider Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 3 hours ago, Bruce Willis Drummond said: To everyone who attended the game yesterday: There were 16,000 fans there. I hope you all were able to see what 16,000 fans look like and what 16,000 fans sound like. Please remember this when tempted to buy into and/or justify the ridiculously inflated attendance numbers UA floats. Thank you. And that's different from what other teams do....how? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZipsVoice Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 4 hours ago, Bruce Willis Drummond said: To everyone who attended the game yesterday: There were 16,000 fans there. I hope you all were able to see what 16,000 fans look like and what 16,000 fans sound like. Please remember this when tempted to buy into and/or justify the ridiculously inflated attendance numbers UA floats. Thank you. Why do we keep beating this dead horse? Is there ANYONEon this form that ever...EVER... argues that it’s real? Sheesh... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LZIp Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 25 minutes ago, ZipsVoice said: Why do we keep beating this dead horse? Is there ANYONEon this form that ever...EVER... argues that it’s real? Sheesh... The funny thing is that he is assuming that 16k is real and there were not tickets given away that weren't used. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipmlady Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 The crowd was great yesterday; and when the boys looked up into the stands all they saw were people that wanted to show support. They had no idea or cared what the count was; and it was enough for them. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDMac Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 3 hours ago, Zipmlady said: The crowd was great yesterday; and when the boys looked up into the stands all they saw were people that wanted to show support. They had no idea or cared what the count was; and it was enough for them. Amen to that. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDMac Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 Ran across this interesting tidbit on twitter: Not sure if they did anything specific (game day experience, publicity, marketing, etc.) or if this meteoric rise in attendance is simply the result of them being a better team but it would be an interesting case study. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippy5 Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 Beating LSU can do that for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDMac Posted December 13, 2017 Report Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) 16 minutes ago, zippy5 said: Beating LSU can do that for you Yeah but they didn't do that util this year. They jumped 20% between 2015 to 2016 and they went 4-8 in 2015 in Brown's first year. So what was it that the fanbase was excited about going into 2016 (they went 10-3) to get them to come out and support a previously 4-8 team? Was it simply the promise of the new coaching staff ? Maybe it's just an anomaly. This article gives a little more detail but doesn't venture a guess to the "why" the dramatic increase. http://www.troytrojans.com/news/2017/4/20/troy-football-attendance-improvement-among-nations-best.aspx Edited December 13, 2017 by CDMac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZipsVoice Posted December 14, 2017 Report Share Posted December 14, 2017 1 hour ago, CDMac said: Yeah but they didn't do that util this year. They jumped 20% between 2015 to 2016 and they went 4-8 in 2015 in Brown's first year. So what was it that the fanbase was excited about going into 2016 (they went 10-3) to get them to come out and support a previously 4-8 team? Was it simply the promise of the new coaching staff ? Maybe it's just an anomaly. This article gives a little more detail but doesn't venture a guess to the "why" the dramatic increase. http://www.troytrojans.com/news/2017/4/20/troy-football-attendance-improvement-among-nations-best.aspx Maybe it has something to do with the fact Troy Alabama is in the middle of freakin' nowhere! Nearest cities - Macon GA is the biggest city besdies Montgomery AL. It is in the middle of a very rural area. There is no major sports teams with in hundreds of miles to compete with....I know we all are looking for something - ANYTHING - to figure out how we can boost attendance, but Troy's success at bringing in more fans has a lot to do with nothing else to do in Troy AL or anywhere within a 100 mile radius. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAZippers Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 I haven't seen anyone post this yet. I apologize if I just missed it. The NCAA has released the attendance data for every team last season. Akron had the second largest increase in attendance for all of FBS from 10,337 in 2016 to 19,569 last year. Obviously winning must solve all problems! Or, maybe last year was the number fudging year to keep our multi-year average up. Another interesting note is that the MAC was dead last in attendance league-wide at 15,394 per game. The Sun Belt came in 9th with over 2,000 more people per game. You can also really see the divide between the P5 and G5. The lowest average attendance in P5 (ACC) was 48,442. The highest G5 average (American) was 28,669. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, UAZippers said: Another interesting note is that the MAC was dead last in attendance league-wide at 15,394 per game. The Sun Belt came in 9th with over 2,000 more people per game. I've witnessed some of this first hand. A big difference in loyalty down South. The businesses, people and alums of Lafayette support their team. They decorate the friggin town on game days. When have you seen that in Akron? Likewise, Arkansas State grads don't bandwagon with Arkansas, and App. State grads don't bandwagon with the Tarheels. There's something different with that hometown/homeschool loyalty culture here. Edited February 15, 2018 by skip-zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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