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Re: Worst crowd ever.
I think the Waterloo support is lacking in part due to a fairly significant percent of their population not having the finances to attend and/or any interest. There is also some CF/Waterloo angst and UNI is part of CF from many Waterloo citizens perspective. Also, they do support the Black Hawks pretty well and I think that is more of the type of entertainment they are looking for plus they sell BEER! I'd personally much rather watch a basketball game, UNI or high school.
As for the CF high school attendance. My observation and experience with that has been that has been that some fans are turned off by politics involving coaches and how the non-elite athletes are treated. I've had discussions with parents who's kid was directly encouraged NOT to go out for certain sports. This certainly doesn't sit well with their parents and they talk to others and before you know it, there is a bad feeling in the community unless you have an active child or relative playing. If the only adults attending are related to the players, you're not going to have much of a crowd.
For CF football, 90 percent of their regular season games have been complete blowouts the last several seasons. Those games get old really fast. They've just had a very easy schedule recently in football with the Waterloo and Dubuque teams. Again, not much desire to attend when the 35 point rule for running clock is in effect at the beginning of the second half every game.
The students at CF have stepped it up this year though, at least for boys basketball. Much better students crowds this year. I was really surprised when they played Linn Mar earlier this year that the place wasn't packed. It was a great duel between Harrington and Paige from Linn Mar. It wasn't more than 3-4 years ago, the gym would be pretty full for East, West and several other games. I just think you have your "stars" now who are the kids who play AAU ball and the other kids don't seem to matter much to some people and that does make a difference in the crowds.
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As for the CF high school attendance. My observation and experience with that has been that has been that some fans are turned off by politics involving coaches and how the non-elite athletes are treated. I've had discussions with parents who's kid was directly encouraged NOT to go out for certain sports. This certainly doesn't sit well with their parents and they talk to others and before you know it, there is a bad feeling in the community unless you have an active child or relative playing. If the only adults attending are related to the players, you're not going to have much of a crowd.
For CF football, 90 percent of their regular season games have been complete blowouts the last several seasons. Those games get old really fast. They've just had a very easy schedule recently in football with the Waterloo and Dubuque teams. Again, not much desire to attend when the 35 point rule for running clock is in effect at the beginning of the second half every game.
The students at CF have stepped it up this year though, at least for boys basketball. Much better students crowds this year. I was really surprised when they played Linn Mar earlier this year that the place wasn't packed. It was a great duel between Harrington and Paige from Linn Mar. It wasn't more than 3-4 years ago, the gym would be pretty full for East, West and several other games. I just think you have your "stars" now who are the kids who play AAU ball and the other kids don't seem to matter much to some people and that does make a difference in the crowds.
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