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It did look bad when they showed the crowd towards the end of the game. The commentators even commented how bare the crowd looked.
The students left... If they don't come to the game or stay they need to take the damn seats away from them!!!
Agree 100%! Most of the empty seats were where the students sit. That end of the stadium was almost completely empty by the 4th quarter. Judging by my walk back to the car after the game, it appears that most students had left early to get their party on.
I'm sure that was in Mitch's plan. Make the stadium smaller so we don't look that bad after halftime
For the students to delay their partying another one hour and fifteen minutes should not be a big deal. They should stay and support the team or let their tickets go to fans that will. If we want to be a winning program we need to look like it matters to recruits and their families. Students or fans leaving early could potentially send the wrong message.
I think it was the other way around. A lot of those students were around at 2:00 in the afternoon and obviously haven't learned when you drink a lot in 90 degree heat, you aren't going to be around at 9:00 p.m
I can see if you're trying to poo poo on the attendance and the sell out you have to reach for something desperate.
Sorry, but it's flat out EMBARRASSING when half of the fans leave at halftime during a nationally televised game. Especially when you're trying to convince the nation and recruits, that the football culture in KY is changing.
Do you think half of the crowd would leave Rupp Arena at halftime of a basketball game?
The football culture isn't there yet, but you can't really expect it to be. Unfortunately, it won't be until there are real winning seasons to point to. That's one of the reasons it is so hard to turn a program around when that program has never had a winning football tradition. It will come.
Student section clearing out was most embarrassing but all the upper corners became bare and all the sideline sections thinned out as well, the empty blue chairs stood out big time.
Then we would have 20k empty seats at the beginning of the game and 15 years from now we'd be lucky to get 35k into the stadium.
Go yell at somebody to get off of your lawn.
folks...hard truth of the matter is that ULL has no appeal what so ever...
if the UKAD wants to start seeing full crowds through the entire game, then they're going to have to give said crowds a reason to stay...
ULL, Charlotte, Kent st, EKU, WKU, Central Michigan, etc....are not appealing enough...not when you can stay at home, save money, avoid fighting traffic n crowds, and watch a half dozen games on the big screen HD...
Bama can host Boogerville and keep the stadium full...but they've earned that ability...much like us in basketball...where folks will camp for three days to watch a 20 minute shoot around...
Established programs don't need to offer any extra incentive...because folks will pay just to see those teams sit around and pick their nose...
but when it comes to UK football...it's going to take more than Louisiana Lafayette...
if the UKAD wants to start seeing full crowds through the entire game, then they're going to have to give said crowds a reason to stay...
ULL, Charlotte, Kent st, EKU, WKU, Central Michigan, etc....are not appealing enough...not when you can stay at home, save money, avoid fighting traffic n crowds, and watch a half dozen games on the big screen HD...
Bama can host Boogerville and keep the stadium full...but they've earned that ability...much like us in basketball...where folks will camp for three days to watch a 20 minute shoot around...
Established programs don't need to offer any extra incentive...because folks will pay just to see those teams sit around and pick their nose...
but when it comes to UK football...it's going to take more than Louisiana Lafayette...
Drop the capacity of the building from 67,900 to 62K and yell "sellout" - that's like raising the blood/alcohol limit from 0.8 to 1.2 and claiming you reduced DUI's.
There's no way in hell were scheduling anyone tougher than ULL as our 2nd toughest ooc game, so whatever you're implying is moot.
I was there and stayed to the end. That being said, I "tailgated" at my house going in and out of AC whenever I wanted. It was 92 in the shade yesterday, and if you started tailgating at 2 or 3 in that heat on newly poured asphalt, plus a game that took FOOOORRREEEEVVVVEERRRR to play, and we did have a 23 point lead late in the 3rd quarter, my ass would have been dragging by 9 or 930 myself. Cant really blame some for heading home early, it had been a long long day.
I was at the game.. Stayed till the end.. But I'm confused.. Everyone is complaining about the students leaving.. But not the people in the club level keenland paddock?!?!? Interesting
I was there yesterday and stayed until the final play. The heat was nearly overwhelming and I'm not the most physically fit person but I don't have the opportunity to get to many games and when I do, I stay until the end.
