guinzone wrote:
I've made that quite clear already. Our attendance is not an issue. We get huge crowds when we are good, we get bad crowds when we play bad.
If you SELL the seat... you got the revenue... so it's kinda stfu on "inflated numbers"... you get paid whether the customer shows or not.
if its 29 degrees and sleet and slop... and my team is finishing up a 3-8 or 2-9 season... i'm probably not going... i'll try to pawn off the tickets on a buddy... but if i cant move it... oh well...
Disagree with what? YSU and other schools inflating attendance numbers? Or the fact YSU can't beat UNI?
If you are wondering how I know what numbers UNI turns in, I work for the UNI ticket office. It isn't that hard to report actual attendence. Either you count ticket stubs, if you are doing that. That really doesn't take that long. Or you have scanners that send seat information to the computer system. Eitherway, it is pretty easy to have real attendance numbers by mid way through the third quarter.
NDSU does tickets sold for football, if they had scanners they would probably announce butts in seats like they do for all other NDSU sporting events.
I don't think it is really a big deal either way since the ticket was sold, it's not like schools are using the eye test which led to some crazy attendance numbers for NDSU back in the 80s.
guinzone wrote:UNI fans don't know anything when it comes to weather and football.
They play in that concrete floored, purple seated, pUNI Dome!
lol
On the other hand, Montana fans that went to the '94 semi game in Youngstown do. 32 degrees and a downpour, the whole game. Stadium was pretty full that day in spite of the elements.
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guinzone wrote:UNI fans don't know anything when it comes to weather and football.
They play in that concrete floored, purple seated, pUNI Dome!
lol
On the other hand, Montana fans that went to the '94 semi game in Youngstown do. 32 degrees and a downpour, the whole game. Stadium was pretty full that day in spite of the elements.
Of course, it was a playoff game.
We weren't 2-6 and coming off a 31-0 blowout loss at home.
dgreco wrote:I think they would drop football and a few other sports, and stay at the minimum before they went DII. It would make no sense. Like the article says Ashland and Central State are not these great peer schools.
Sounds like the "logic" used at UOP when they dropped football. "Anything less than I-A is beneath our dignity, so we're just going to dump it altogether." I-AAA over FCS. How lame.
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
guinzone wrote:Could be a possibility, but it looks as though their President wants to bypass the FCS level and find a new home in the Division 2 ranks. They've pumped a lot of money into their stadium, so it would be a nice addition to the Missouri Valley Conf. if they were to choose the FCS level..
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