Attendance - Ideas to improve?

[unigriff]

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heard a few students as they left say, "wow, great game, but we (the panthers) got lucky and should have lost!"

i'm like woah! seriously? I thought that was the best we've played all year (along with the Drake game)

[ubuntuCAT]

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The crowd sounded great on the radio. (well after half-time at least since that's when all-access started working) I hope we can finish the last few home games with near capacity crowds.

[jegbomb52]

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Wow, that is 40 minutes of my life I will never get back. I just read every word of this thread. Seriously people, WE ALL NEED TO TAKE A DEEP BREATH. Lets please not forget that we are a middle of the pack mid major school. Tonight we played in front of a 85% full house and beat a team that HOSTED COLLEGE FREAKING GAME DAY LAST WEEKEND! Not too shabby.

Couple of things:

1. Everyone on here that said win and they will come, your right. Plain and simple if we don't lose another game the rest of the year we will not see a crowd less than 5,600-5,700. I can live with that.

2. We don't want bandwagon fans? Seriously JC, I love you so much but you are cutting off your nose to spite your face right now. We NEED bandwagon fans, every athletic team in the history of our free world needs bandwagon fans. Of all the season ticket holders I garauntee you that at least a third of them started as a bandwagon fan. Do you want to know how you are going to keep bandwagon fans? See number 1.

3. As far as athletes not talking to you at the bar for crying out loud? Seriously, get a grip. They are not trying to leave you out they just don't know who the hell you are. They are there hanging out with their friends which just so happen to be other basketball players. When I played football at UNI was I a jerk because I didn't talk to random people at the bars? No, I talked to my friends just like everyone else. If players in the past have been outgoing and wanted to talk to other people thats good for them but don't ridicule the players now because they aren't.

4. I live in Des Moines, I have FB season tickets. I cannot drive to C.F. on a Wednesday night for an hour and a half game every other week. It is just the facts. I have been, I will be again. Just not enough for season tickets. You hit the nail right on the head.

5. If you have season tickets and are not going to the game, GIVE THEM TO SOMEONE WHO IS NOT PLANNING ON GOING TO THE GAME! Don't give them to someone who was already planning on spending their money at the University to get their ticket. The school already has your money, if you give them to another person you might have just taken 60 bucks from our school. Shame on you. Find someone who has never been and make them a believer. EVEN IF THEY ARE BANDWAGON FANS!

None of these statements are trying to call people out. I just feel like maybe because I have absolutely no vested interest in this thread I can shed some light on things said.

[unigriff]

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After last night...I think we made some believers out of a lot of people.

[Newsbreaker]

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I just woke up, and I agreed with every word Jeg had to say. I'm going back to bed.

[dan_beeding]

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3. As far as athletes not talking to you at the bar for crying out loud? Seriously, get a grip. They are not trying to leave you out they just don't know who the hell you are. They are there hanging out with their friends which just so happen to be other basketball players. When I played football at UNI was I a jerk because I didn't talk to random people at the bars? No, I talked to my friends just like everyone else. If players in the past have been outgoing and wanted to talk to other people thats good for them but don't ridicule the players now because they aren't."
Buddy, I wasn't complaining about it. I was letting you know a fact that got the core of Mac's Maniacs to care about the team a few years ago. If you don't want to hear it, don't read it. But definitely don't come on here and ridicule me because I don't think there's any reason for a "middle of the pack mid major" athlete to act like he is Chad Henne.

[panthertrack]

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students except for the one or two clearly defined Iowa and anti-Panther fans 3 rows behind me. Don't even know why they showed up. Clearly drunk and was very harsh even to our own students.

totally put a damper on the fun.

I'll look for another well-written editorial trashing someone else's fanbase on Friday, Griff. Your diatribe on Drake's "appearance," was spectacular last week.

I didn't go to the game last night. I had a track meet that lasted til after 7 and I had to go home to shower. I must be a bad fan because I opted to watch the rest of the game on television instead of driving to the dome to catch the final four minutes.

I'm sorry for being a false fan. I want to be a true fan so bad!

[unigriff]

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its okay stout, i knew u had a track meet and i was actually at the track meet for a bit. I figured you wouldn't be going anyway.

[panthertrack]

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its okay stout, i knew u had a track meet and i was actually at the track meet for a bit. I figured you wouldn't be going anyway.

You miss my point. What positive outcome do you get from trashing other schools' fans- or even worse, your own?

You don't make kids want to come to the game by writing nasty things about them in the newspaper. Do you understand this? Like it or not (and much to many people's disdain) you are the face of the student section at UNI. When you trash anyone who is considering going to games that they normally wouldn't go to, you're pushing them to the "screw it, I'm not going, let's go to Becks" side.

Two weeks ago, you claimed that the students made your experience (these are your words) 'absolutely worthless."

What do you expect out of these kids? To get off their haunches right away to make sure your "gameday experience" is better next game? Come on.

[ubuntuCAT]

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You miss my point. What positive outcome do you get from trashing other schools' fans- or even worse, your own?

You don't make kids want to come to the game by writing nasty things about them in the newspaper. Do you understand this? Like it or not (and much to many people's disdain) you are the face of the student section at UNI. When you trash anyone who is considering going to games that they normally wouldn't go to, you're pushing them to the "screw it, I'm not going, let's go to Becks" side.

Two weeks ago, you claimed that the students made your experience (these are your words) 'absolutely worthless."

What do you expect out of these kids? To get off their haunches right away to make sure your "gameday experience" is better next game? Come on.

huh?? who wrote nasty things?

[unigriff]

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huh?? who wrote nasty things?

he is referring to me calling the students out because of poor attendance.

[JCPanthers]

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2. We don't want bandwagon fans? Seriously JC, I love you so much but you are cutting off your nose to spite your face right now. We NEED bandwagon fans, every athletic team in the history of our free world needs bandwagon fans.

I love you too Jeg.....and more importantly I LOVE Bandwagon fans. My post was more aimed at all of the negative posters that were either bashing our team, our coach, players, type of offense we were running, our arena, etc. etc. I'll admit...I was frustrated and pissed off reading about all of the crap people were spewing about how or why they don't attend games.

So I'll take bandwagon fans every year....in fact, I'm guessing that every fan was a bandwagon fan at one point in their life. I started attending UNI games when we moved to the Cedar Valley 15 years ago. Guess who the coaches were at the time? Sam Weaver and Mike Dunbar. When they hired Mark Farley and Greg McDermott...our family jumped on the "bandwagon" and started purchasing season tickets. The rest is history.

[jegbomb52]

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3. As far as athletes not talking to you at the bar for crying out loud? Seriously, get a grip. They are not trying to leave you out they just don't know who the hell you are. They are there hanging out with their friends which just so happen to be other basketball players. When I played football at UNI was I a jerk because I didn't talk to random people at the bars? No, I talked to my friends just like everyone else. If players in the past have been outgoing and wanted to talk to other people thats good for them but don't ridicule the players now because they aren't."
Buddy, I wasn't complaining about it. I was letting you know a fact that got the core of Mac's Maniacs to care about the team a few years ago. If you don't want to hear it, don't read it. But definitely don't come on here and ridicule me because I don't think there's any reason for a "middle of the pack mid major" athlete to act like he is Chad Henne.

What are these athletes doing to act like "Chad Henne?" I am not ridiculing you, I was more complimenting the players that went out of their way to make you feel included many years ago. You make it sound like these guys had keggers at their house and asked a couple of thousand students in Mac's Maniacs over. You are not telling me that these guys are looking down on you are they? If they are then that is a totally different story. But if they are simply "not talking to you" at the bar then they are not acting like "Chad Henne."

[jegbomb52]

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I love you too Jeg.....and more importantly I LOVE Bandwagon fans. My post was more aimed at all of the negative posters that were either bashing our team, our coach, players, type of offense we were running, our arena, etc. etc. I'll admit...I was frustrated and pissed off reading about all of the crap people were spewing about how or why they don't attend games.

So I'll take bandwagon fans every year....in fact, I'm guessing that every fan was a bandwagon fan at one point in their life. I started attending UNI games when we moved to the Cedar Valley 15 years ago. Guess who the coaches were at the time? Sam Weaver and Mike Dunbar. When they hired Mark Farley and Greg McDermott...our family jumped on the "bandwagon" and started purchasing season tickets. The rest is history.

Oh my goodness, was that one member of Panthernation getting along with another member of Panthernation after they disagreed about something on Panthernation? WOW!!

Leave it to two level headed people like JC and myself to lead by example

[Deke3]

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Pull the games from local area TV (I don't want this, but I do believe we would see more fans coming to the game). I have asked many people to come to the games and they often say they would rather watch it at home.