Les Miles

[K92]

Maybe around 9175?

[Buckzip]

1 hour ago, K92 said:

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I think Joe Akron would react to a 13-0 season with a collective yawn.  As long as the Buckeyes are riding high, no one in NE Ohio is going to spend one minute or one dime on the Zips.

 

Now, if the Buckeyes fell off the radar and lost to Michigan 10 years in a row at the same time Akron put together a 13 win season, then maybe around 9100 Joes might take note.

I hope you are being sarcastic here. If Akron was winning constantly, nothing going on in Columbus would matter to Akron. 

 

Look how many major teams Florida, Texas, Cali, Michigan, etc, etc. have. If you prove you can win consistently, you will draw attendance. No, UA will not draw 70,000, or 35,00 consistently, but I could see 20-25,000 on a regular basis if Akron was winning. 

 

This constant woe is me attitude and constant empathy is really sad to see. I really don't understand. I attended every home game and a few road games before I moved south. I knew the team wasn't good, but it was D1 football, it was close and it was my home team. I really don't understand.....

[K92]

1 hour ago, Buckzip said:

I hope you are being sarcastic here.

Me?  Sarcastic?

[zipsoutsider]

1 hour ago, Buckzip said:

I hope you are being sarcastic here. If Akron was winning constantly, nothing going on in Columbus would matter to Akron. 

 

Look how many major teams Florida, Texas, Cali, Michigan, etc, etc. have. If you prove you can win consistently, you will draw attendance. No, UA will not draw 70,000, or 35,00 consistently, but I could see 20-25,000 on a regular basis if Akron was winning. 

 

This constant woe is me attitude and constant empathy is really sad to see. I really don't understand. I attended every home game and a few road games before I moved south. I knew the team wasn't good, but it was D1 football, it was close and it was my home team. I really don't understand.....

I think if program became a perennial winner, it might start to draw locals. Otherwise, the season would be over before most noticed. We would get a small bump. The last home game against Buffalo in 2015 seemed slightly larger, but it would take a lot.

[Buckzip]

5 minutes ago, zipsoutsider said:

I think if program became a perennial winner, it might start to draw locals. Otherwise, the season would be over before most noticed. We would get a small bump. The last home game against Buffalo in 2015 seemed slightly larger, but it would take a lot.

Agreed. Which is why I said consistently. One season won't do much. 

[skip-zip]

4 hours ago, zipsoutsider said:

I think it's somewhere in the middle. The year the Zips went to a bowl game, 1/2 of Joe Akron did not know about it. There is not enough real coverage of the Zips and having GT as the beat reporter doesn't help, but it has to be more than GT, it requires the city and all local media to take an interest. The city still seems completely disconnected from the program. 

 

Keep in mind that I was responding to a post about being 13-0 with a New Years Day bowl game.  Not just a good season and playing in a bowl game.  

 

Those two things are not even in the same universe in terms of the interest they would draw from area sports fans.  

[kreed5120]

I'd expect a 13-0 Akron to draw as much attention as WMU received this year.

[CDMac]

1 hour ago, kreed5120 said:

I'd expect a 13-0 Akron to draw as much attention as WMU received this year.

We're going to need a good hook to go along with the record.

The "row the boat" slogan got so much play on ESPN.

 

 

 

[LZIp]

Have to admit I chuckled when I read this.