geaux_sioux

I'd say that's pretty decent trolling right there.

I saw an article that they were requesting tipis to prepare for the frigid temps. I really hope they get some so we can stand back and laugh.

Zach Wilkinson Isaak Sirko - Dexter

You guys all realize that our starting QB may not play this week right? Let's step it up. The team needs us more than usual this week.

For how true and popular this comment is perhaps we should send some emails to Bubba.

Interesting. I went through game by game..... probably the dumb way to go. I wonder why they differ. Either way our attendance is closer to the D2 days than people think. The main difference to me is the student section.

2003 I have them at 9423. 2006 - 9578. 2007 - 10790. 2014 - 8802. Every other discrepancy is due to the site missing data.

Interesting that the stats from the UND website would differ in a couple of years from the wiki. Have we really only sold out a single game at the Alerus?

I think we need to bring in two the next two years.

Other things to make a note of. The first playoff game in Alerus history drew 5370..... that's worse than any game in the Mussman era. Homecoming is the best attended game of the year. We already knew that but it's pretty crazy how much of a difference it makes. Homecoming Attendance Overall 10360 Mussman 9797 9323 8546 Bubba 9196 9847 At glance the Mussman era isn't too far down on Homecoming attendance but if you remove the first two homecomings where the success of D2 carried into the beginning of D1 then it reveals the truth. Opposite for Bubba. Remove his first year digging out of the Muss hole and his average isn't too bad considering the situation. D2 11487 D1 9496 Non Homecoming Attendance Avg 9051 D2 9999 Mussman 8258 Bubba 9057 It appears that for D2, homecoming meant about 2000 more tickets sold. D1 equals out to only 1000 more. The extra 1000, I assume, headed south. Bubba will get them back. Bubba is only a little under 1000 below the non homecoming attendance of the "glory days". The way some people talk you'd think back then we averaged about 12k/game but it was basically 10k on the nose. In reality we're not far off at this point which is a good thing because it feels like Bubba is just starting to build this thing up.

Below are the yearly averages of the three Alerus eras. Note that for 2005 I could only find numbers for two games, one of which was homecoming. So obviously the Mussman era had a clear 1500/gm drop in attendance with 2011 being the lowest point in attendance despite being an 8-3 conference title season. 2010 and 2011 had the worst schedules by far of the D1 era and it shows. The 2013 season had the best schedule we've ever had: 7 home games, 4 top 15 home opponents in a row, and OOC ranked regional rival SDSU. Without that awesome schedule I don't even want to know what the attendance would have been. Avg Era Avg 2001 10904 2002 9816 2003 9423 D2 2004 ? 10325 2005 11441 2006 9578 2007 10790 2008 10167 2009 8539 Mussman 2010 8154 8556 2011 7158 2012 8961 2013 8357 2014 8802 Bubba 2015 8317 9104 2016 10194

For the love of God just kick down the near sideline and hit it as deep as possible.

I've gone back and looked at all of the available attendance numbers since we moved into the Alerus. Let's just say that the D2 glory days weren't as well attended as we like to make it seem. 2001 2006 and 2007 were really good years. Figures for 2004 apparently don't exist and 2005 I could only find 2 games, though they were each really well attended. I'm gonna break down the numbers in a few more posts.

This years defense would be awful thanks to that offense. It's not a winning strategy to have an offense that antagonizes your own defense. At least when you run the ball and go 3 and out the clock runs a bit, passing not so much.

I don't think it is at all. Weston Dressler and Santiago come to mind. A few of my hulking former teammates who couldn't stay healthy do on the other side of the coin.

Absolutely agree with all of this. Night games were even well attended in the Mussman days.

Taj was in sweats but had no limp at the Weber game. Could be upper body though. Never know with these things.

Lack of patience. We will build it back up slowly and that will have longer lasting results.

Durability has nothing to do with size. Some people just are and some just aren't. It's a God given gift that you can't measure in a physical.

I miss these commercials

I mean if we can find some qbs that are built like Clark from Weber that would be great. Big arm too.... but also lots of picks.

I mean you can't make chicken soup from chicken !@#$....

So BU is now to hockey what Kentucky is to basketball?

If they get one that thumps instead of the shrill one they have now it would improve a lot of things. Also they could pump the PA through the concourse.

First round playoff games with 6000 in the D2 days..... I think we'd do better but by how much is the question. I was looking at some old attendence numbers from the hay day of the Alerus and they aren't too great. A few 12k games here and there but a lot of 8k and even some 6k. Basically we've never consistently packed the place.