bincitysioux Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Attendance today was 6,996. Biggest home game of the DI era, and nobody saw it. Students were weak as usual. So was the rest of the building. Quote
Longtime fan Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Attendance today was 6,996. Biggest home game of the DI era, and nobody saw it. Students were weak as usual. So was the rest of the building. Really embarrassing on the student section. The 14 that showed, 2 could be heard. I guess the students nowadays dislike cheering for their classmates and school!? Used to be the students started chants, razzed the opposing teams.....now......now it's a chore. Really sad actually. The players feed off the students and us fans as well but the connection to the students was visible, as it should be. Bubba has tried nearly every option to try and promote his team to the students. guess they're just waiting for the wagon to jump on instead. Quote
Cratter Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 (edited) Let's not forget the student section isn't the extent of the "Student Section," at the Alerus. It's the students seats for those under 21. Edited November 15, 2015 by Cratter Quote
Cratter Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Attendance today was 6,996. Biggest home game of the DI era, and nobody saw it. Students were weak as usual. So was the rest of the building. 1,000 more than the last game last year. That's pretty impressive. Quote
UND1983 Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Actually the crowd was pretty loud today, IMO. And, they stayed until the very end for most part. Quote
SiouxVolley Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Really embarrassing on the student section. The 14 that showed, 2 could be heard. I guess the students nowadays dislike cheering for their classmates and school!? Used to be the students started chants, razzed the opposing teams.....now......now it's a chore. Really sad actually. The players feed off the students and us fans as well but the connection to the students was visible, as it should be. Bubba has tried nearly every option to try and promote his team to the students. guess they're just waiting for the wagon to jump on instead. Got a lot of grief for stating only 1% of students were hard core fans and were knowledgeable nickname voters. Looks like it's really 0.1%. 1 Quote
NoiseInsideMyHead Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Attendance today was 6,996. Biggest home game of the DI era, and nobody saw it. Students were weak as usual. So was the rest of the building. No explanation for students, but the fact that this was opening weekend for GFYHA play couldn't have helped vis-a-vis area families. Looked like there were games back-to-back-to-back at ICON all day. Quote
sprig Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 (edited) Got a lot of grief for stating only 1% of students were hard core fans and were knowledgeable nickname voters. Looks like it's really 0.1%. Students had to get their priority tickets for mens hockey at the alerus yesterday. The usual long line all day at the ralph was not there, so they must have gone to the alerus for hockey tickets, then left??? Edited November 15, 2015 by sprig Quote
JohnboyND7 Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Really embarrassing on the student section. The 14 that showed, 2 could be heard. I guess the students nowadays dislike cheering for their classmates and school!? Used to be the students started chants, razzed the opposing teams.....now......now it's a chore. Really sad actually. The players feed off the students and us fans as well but the connection to the students was visible, as it should be. Bubba has tried nearly every option to try and promote his team to the students. guess they're just waiting for the wagon to jump on instead. but hockey. Quote
Popular Post Uncle_Rico Posted November 15, 2015 Popular Post Posted November 15, 2015 ^^ butt head^^ 7 Quote
bincitysioux Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Students had to get their priority tickets for mens hockey at the alerus yesterday. The usual long line all day at the ralph was not there, so they must have gone to the alerus for hockey tickets, then left???Thst is really lame....... Quote
geaux_sioux Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Maybe chance the policy so it requires students to attend the football game and then receive the hockey tickets after the football game is over. Make those ungrateful students suffer through a boring old football game. Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Folks, it will take longer than two years to get the public excited about FB again. We spent years in the wilderness of a bad transition period and a horrible start to the Big Sky era. Give Bubba another two years of recruits and big wins and we'll have the student section we had from 2001-05; loud, crazy and a thorn in the visiting team's side. 1 Quote
Wildfan Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Maybe chance the policy so it requires students to attend the football game and then receive the hockey tickets after the football game is over. Make those ungrateful students suffer through a boring old football game.the policy stated that priority tickets are not valid unless punched at end of the game. I assume most just bypassed priority and stood in line at the Ralph. Quote
Popular Post bincitysioux Posted November 15, 2015 Popular Post Posted November 15, 2015 Just updated the attendance wiki. Overall average for this year was 8,318 which is about an 11% increase over last season, so that is a great sign. Best attended game was the opener against Drake. There was a glaring dropoff in attendance from the first 3 games to the last two. Averaged around 9,200 for the first three, and just about 7,000 for the last two. I suppose the 3 game losing streak heading into the game against the Bobcats played a big role in the poor attendence for that game, which was against what should be the most appealing opponent on our schedule.As a "die-hard", I continue to be frustrated by the lack of support that this program gets, but am pleased with the healthy increase in average over last season. I'll remain cautiously optimistic that a strong finish winning this last game and a potential playoff berth will spur even more ticket sales in the off season. 7 Quote
geaux_sioux Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 the policy stated that priority tickets are not valid unless punched at end of the game. I assume most just bypassed priority and stood in line at the Ralph.Well then all that's left to do is win and become a hot ticket again Quote
iramurphy Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 UND students were weak this year at FB games and they were pathetic last night at the hockey game. The students who came to FB were loud but there weren't enough of them. Students at hockey were there in numbers, but nothing creative nor original come has out of these students in quite some time. The students used to be able to fire up the athletic teams. Now it takes the team to fire up the crowd. How did we "dumb down" our student fans? They show such a lack of class with the "who's he, he sucks sh#*" at the beginning. Have students become so shallow that they can't do better? I doubt they are studying rather than going to campus activities. Other than drinking what are they doing? Do the students participate in any campus activities other than hockey anymore? 1 Quote
sioux24/7 Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 UND students were weak this year at FB games and they were pathetic last night at the hockey game. The students who came to FB were loud but there weren't enough of them. Students at hockey were there in numbers, but nothing creative nor original come has out of these students in quite some time. The students used to be able to fire up the athletic teams. Now it takes the team to fire up the crowd. How did we "dumb down" our student fans? They show such a lack of class with the "who's he, he sucks sh#*" at the beginning. Have students become so shallow that they can't do better? I doubt they are studying rather than going to campus activities. Other than drinking what are they doing? Do the students participate in any campus activities other than hockey anymore?Smart phones have dumbed us down. Sat at the top of the student section last night and noticed so many students on there phones and a whole bunch of them with snapchat and there cameras open to try to capture a goal or the fans after a goal. Quote
SWSiouxMN Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 (edited) Smart phones have dumbed us down. Sat at the top of the student section last night and noticed so many students on there phones and a whole bunch of them with snapchat and there cameras open to try to capture a goal or the fans after a goal.Too many students go to hockey games just to "go and be cool" and just won't care about the game. It is why I enjoyed the Fargo regional so much... the students that went were the die-hards. Edited November 15, 2015 by SWSiouxMN 2 Quote
Longtime fan Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Smart phones have dumbed us down. Sat at the top of the student section last night and noticed so many students on there phones and a whole bunch of them with snapchat and there cameras open to try to capture a goal or the fans after a goal.Exacyly what I was going to say. They're more interested in where amy is!? You can see the tops of heads everywhere! Sickening, just sickening! Quote
NoDakFan Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 Exacyly what I was going to say. They're more interested in where amy is!? You can see the tops of heads everywhere! Sickening, just sickening! How dare people have different interests and priorities than I do? You know what else sucks? When you people with season tickets complain and make the students sit down in the lower bowl, and then complain even more that we don't get into it. Kinda hard some times then. 1 1 Quote
ClassB Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 But remember, these !@#!$ student fans deserve at least as much say as you all do on the nickname issue. #CognitiveDissonance Quote
sprig Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 the policy stated that priority tickets are not valid unless punched at end of the game. I assume most just bypassed priority and stood in line at the Ralph. There was not anyone in line at the ralph early like usual, and just a handful when the women's game finished. Quote
ClassB Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 There was not anyone in line at the ralph early like usual, and just a handful when the women's game finished.Aside from the first two rows, there was no spirit at the football game in the student section. It was pretty clear the rest of the students were there to get their priority hockey tickets. Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted November 15, 2015 Posted November 15, 2015 UND students were weak this year at FB games and they were pathetic last night at the hockey game. The students who came to FB were loud but there weren't enough of them. Students at hockey were there in numbers, but nothing creative nor original come has out of these students in quite some time. The students used to be able to fire up the athletic teams. Now it takes the team to fire up the crowd. How did we "dumb down" our student fans? They show such a lack of class with the "who's he, he sucks sh#*" at the beginning. Have students become so shallow that they can't do better? I doubt they are studying rather than going to campus activities. Other than drinking what are they doing? Do the students participate in any campus activities other than hockey anymore?This has been going on since the 1980's in the Old REA. And the hockey student section has been neutered by REA management in their quest to impose a "family friendly" atmosphere at games. I am surprised they don't do "Patty Cake" on the big screen so everybody can sing along with their toddlers. 3 Quote
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