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If the Big ten came to UND the answer should be yes please. This would be great for UND and all sports not just hockey image if Minnesota football came to the Alrus Center for a game or basketball team. I have been to all road games too and all home except for a couple and since we stopped playing Big ten teams there has been something missing can not put my finger on it but something. The best road series was WMU because they have fans.

Lots of Hockey east teams in the middle so that would be interesting. I think that the chances of UND being in St paul are small unless SCSU tanks or we beat them in the Frozen Faceoff but the chances of Michigan being a number one seed are small. So would you rather play Minnesota in St Paul or Michigan in Cinny?

1.77 at the airport in MSP but it changes everyday

Looking for 4 lower bowl for sat night for CC wesncc1701@gmail.com or 6513661559

7-5 Michigan over Ohio state

I guess it's not just us

JMU's attendance is among the best in the FCS, but is on a constant decline Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on pinterest_shareMore Sharing Services 1 By Andre Haboush | The Breeze | Updated 10 hours ago JMU has maintained an attendance rate that ranks in the top three of the entire Football Championship Subdivision since the 2011 Bridgeforth expansion. According to the NCAA, JMU averaged 19,816 attendees per home game in 2014, the second highest in FCS, but the numbers have dipped every year since 2011. In 2013 there was an average of 21,011 attendants per home game. In 2012 there was 22,783, and 2011 — when three of the five home games sold out — had an average attendance of 25,002, 125 more than the stadium’s current max capacity of 24,877. Through the first four games of this 2015 season, attendance is at 19,586 people per game. However, 2010 was the last year when Divison I saw an increase in its Football Bowl Subdivision and FCS attendance. “You have to remember this team was last in the playoffs in 2011 and started last year 2-3,” Interim Director of Athletics Communications Kevin Warner said. “So 2012, 2013 and the beginning of last year was a middle-of-the-pack team, then all of a sudden we won seven games in a row to make the playoffs. There’s some catching up to do there in terms of students, especially being used to this being a winning program. Historically, our older fans know what we’ve done in last decade.” The team is off to a 5-0 start this season, and its offense leads the FCS. The only other Division I team in the nation to have more total offensive yards a game is Baylor University, which is ranked third in the FBS Associated Press Top 25 poll. Although the Dukes haven’t make the playoffs as often as preferred in recent history, the team’s last losing season was in 2002. “I think overall, we’re in a pretty good place,” Warner said. “We’re leading the CAA by a lot in attendance. We’re right near 20,000 per game and the next best in the CAA is 14,000 … Even if you look at the next level up conferences, if you look at Conference USA, the MAC, Sun Belt, we’d be right in the middle of the pack of those schools.” Although last year’s team started the season slowly, the opposite of this year, attendance dropped a small bit, but largely went unchanged. The cause behind the slightly greater drop off this year could be unfavorable weather conditions this season. “Certainly there have been a couple of factors working against us — the weather, having four home games in five weeks is a lot,” Warner said. “That’s asking a lot of our fans, and some of that is out of our control how that schedule worked out in terms of getting conference games early on at home.” JMU’s first season of football was in 1972, making the program younger than many others. That could also play a part in current attendance. “I think the fact that we’re a young school overall, still factors into it. This is the 44th year of JMU football,” Warner said. “In the grand scheme of college athletics that’s still a pretty young school. So you could say that 20,000 per game is pretty good for a school that has some history … We have a really spirited group of alumni and current students, but we’re still young in tradition.” According to Warner, due to the program’s young age, only now are legacy families starting to create a stronger tradition of coming to Harrisonburg on Saturdays. Jeff Bourne, JMU’s athletic director, also welcomes the generating of future JMU alumni and fans at a young age. “Having gone through some very successful years here, and what I consider exceptional student attendance, I think there’s been a tradition of attendance,” Bourne said. “Every year though, you have to capture that, and you capture it when your team is exciting and it’s winning. Bridgeforth gained roughly 10,000 new seats in the expansion four years ago. No longer do sellouts happen as often as they once did. “The attendance problem appears to be one that many schools are experiencing,” Charles King, JMU’s senior vice president of administration and finance, said in an email. “I think one problem is with the expansion of the stadium [is that] getting a ticket is not a challenge like it was before we expanded the stadium. Students know that seats are always available so they do not see the urgency to reserve a seat.” For students, other obligations may cut down on free time available to attend games. “JMU is a good academic school and the students at JMU take their academics seriously, so there certainly could be decisions by individual students to concentrate [on] academic needs over the weekend,” Warner said. “The other piece is this is a really involved campus, students at JMU don’t just come to JMU to go to classes. They’re in four, five or six organizations and they’re probably on the exec board for two or three organizations.” While the reasons for why students and fans not being able to come are understood, the exodus of students well before the end of a game isn’t as clear. “It’s something we continue to talk about in meetings every single week, something we will continue to push and try to think of what we can do,” Warner said. “It’s a national thing. It seems to be a culture influence with 18-to 22-year-olds and their decision-making processes. I don’t know what that is, if it’s attachment to technology, if it’s attention span with games getting longer all the time.” As part of trying to convince students and alumni to come and stay for the entirety of the game, Michael Carpenter, the assistant athletic director for ticketing and customer relations, and others have produced a number of plans and programs to persuade people to partake in football games. The Dukes Rewards program came out in Sept. 2014 to encourage attendance by giving redeemable points toward gaining free gifts such as jerseys and shirts. Students earn points by going to games and “checking in” via the smartphone app. They earn even more for staying all four quarters. “They’re encouraging students to take us up on that and earn some additional prizes and help us with social media efforts to get to games,” Carpenter said. “Our ongoing email communications, which keeps students in the know of what’s going on with JMU athletics, so we email two to three times a week. Football game weeks even more, so people know how to reserve a ticket, to know what time the games are.” Several activities have been planned to promote JMU’s last two regular season home game this season — against the University of Richmond for homecoming on Oct. 24 and against Villanova University in the finale on Nov. 21 “Attendance is really predicated on tradition,” Bourne said. “It’s a very high level, exciting brand of football when you watch your team play. You got a team that’s scoring more points and has more offensive yards than any school pretty much in the country, and it’s a very exciting brand of football to watch, and I think that in of itself will help with attendance going forward.” Contact Andre Haboush at habousaw@dukes.jmu.edu. 1 image

Does the big sky app not work?

hindsight is 20/20 but all the Dakota schools should have went D1. I like the Big Sky but we all should be in the same conference

Did they get a new PA announcer? Sounds like the pre game was not that great.

They need some competition.

UND DENVER and ASU to the BIG TEN. CCHA forms and all is happy

So there is one channel in the Twin Cities CW St Paul. Backdoor to get Sioux games on in the Cities?

Yes if the NCAA changes the policy or hell freeze over whatever one is first

Will be going staying at the Embassy at the airport.

I know a long shot but need one ticket idc where. 6513661559 or wesncc1701@gmail.com

Well no team is on a streak or won their conference torny. If we can get this monkey off our back we should do fine.

So if not the Target Center where do you have it? There is more crime in Minneapolis than st paul.

I do not think if we lose one it will effect the PWR.

Can we please stop coughing up leads? Thanks oh and PS start scoring on the PP!!

What's more important protecting the number 1 seed overall or no intra conference match up? UND VS SCSU DENVER VS MINNESOTA

Just stay in Cincinnati it's not that far.

It's not just at the Ralph it's all over sports. Back in the day it was just the game and you. Now you have cell phones and jumbotrons etc.

If everybody cared about the name it would still be here. It's hard to win a battle when you are fighting internal battles as well as outside battles.

He going to be a nurse? I thought he would be an insurance or used car salesman.