So damn proud of this team...

[Scooch]

Maybe it's the quick strike offense that never leaves us out of game no matter the deficit for the past 15 years... That's gotta be it.

I hear ya.

In all seriousness, I get why people leave blowouts early, in either direction.

But it's that SU fans also seem to bail the split-second they want to think a game is over, even if the point differential is only a score or two. I've seen it happen so often, even back when we had great offenses. "Look, SU just punted and is down 7 with 4 minutes to go... SEE YA!!!". It's so weird.

 

[RF2044]

I hear ya.

In all seriousness, I get why people leave blowouts early, in either direction.

But it's that SU fans also seem to bail the split-second they want to think a game is over, even if the point differential is only a score or two. I've seen it happen so often, even back when we had great offenses. "Look, SU just punted and is down 7 with 4 minutes to go... SEE YA!!!". It's so weird.

What I think is even weirder is the mass exodus that occurs during CLOSE games [especially during basketball]. We can be up 3 against Georgetown with two minutes to go and the game's outcome still capable of going either way, and as soon as there's a stop in play, people stream toward the exits. Huh?

I'll concede IBs point above about being down 50, or the inept Gerg days we you just knew five minutes in that we had no chance to play competitively against good teams. And I get that the travel is a different commitment when you're driving an hour from Ithaca [again, just sticking with the IB example] than it was for me and my father, having to drive 10 minutes to Onondaga Hill area.

But close games? Head scratcher to me.

 

[RoatanCuse]

Long may seek greener pastures

Culpepper should prep for a year, both to rehab and then have 3 years as a starter taking over for the 2x defending champion QB Dungey and following in the footsteps of Zack "the Mack" Mahoney who is going to Philcox the NFL

I prefer to let the traffic beat me. Watch the whole game, take my time getting back to the car, (unless the weather is bad). Get in it and just go home. If everybody tries to beat the crowd, then those people ARE the crowd.

it's simple. Older grads like me (73) are simply less impatient...nor can we move as fast as we used to. Geez, I used to have some good moves....

 

[chakka3421]

I prefer to let the traffic beat me. Watch the whole game, take my time getting back to eyes defense the car, (unless the weather is bad). Get in it and just go home. If everybody tries to beat the crowd, then those people ARE the crowd.

You have it right. Exactly what I've been doing and I go down to the first row and high five the players (when they win) after the alma mater as they walk from the student section to about the 50 yard line. By that time, the crowds have cleared, the walk to the car and the drive to the highway is quick but even more gratifying it's great seeing the pride and gratefulness in the eyes of the players when you stay while they walk by!

 

[Chip]

I hear ya.

In all seriousness, I get why people leave blowouts early, in either direction.

But it's that SU fans also seem to bail the split-second they want to think a game is over, even if the point differential is only a score or two. I've seen it happen so often, even back when we had great offenses. "Look, SU just punted and is down 7 with 4 minutes to go... SEE YA!!!". It's so weird.

It was just so deflating on Saturday. It's as if people were waiting for it. And on that tipped pass INT, they saw their opportunity. It was like watching cattle.

 

[dollarbill44]

Were you at the GT game in 2013? If you sat through the end of that game, you have a higher pain threshold than I do. Like I said, I just prefer to head to the parking lot and continue the tailgate for a couple more hours and have some fun than watch sh!te like that. Plain and simple, nobody is paying me to sit through that crap, if you do, great for you. I hope you wave your pom poms and wear your orange zubas until the cows come home down 50

I've been to some very, very bad games and I haven't left - we had season tix during the GRob years. I am always looking for one bright spot that I can cling to. It drives my family and friends crazy that I won't leave, but that's how I was brought up by my dad. Maybe it's because we left CNY in 1977 that we're not so curmudgeonly.

I do know that by languishing through a 50 point loss to the end, it is that much sweeter to witness the upside.

 

[rrlbees]

What I think is even weirder is the mass exodus that occurs during CLOSE games [especially during basketball]. We can be up 3 against Georgetown with two minutes to go and the game's outcome still capable of going either way, and as soon as there's a stop in play, people stream toward the exits. Huh? I'll concede IBs point above about being down 50, or the inept Gerg days we you just knew five minutes in that we had no chance to play competitively against good teams. And I get that the travel is a different commitment when you're driving an hour from Ithaca [again, just sticking with the IB example] than it was for me and my father, having to drive 10 minutes to Onondaga Hill area. But close games? Head scratcher to me.

Ive never seen an exodus of any significance during an SU-Gtown game or any other close big game. But I do know where a lot of people go when we have 30k and there's a couple minutes left. Many people, sometimes 3 deep, stand in the corridor behind the last row of the 1st level and last row of the 2nd level.

 

[rrlbees]

I hear ya. In all seriousness, I get why people leave blowouts early, in either direction. But it's that SU fans also seem to bail the split-second they want to think a game is over, even if the point differential is only a score or two. I've seen it happen so often, even back when we had great offenses. "Look, SU just punted and is down 7 with 4 minutes to go... SEE YA!!!". It's so weird.

I don't think it's unique to Syracuse at all. Seen it at Pitt and wvu. Think only the year in and year out powers don't have the same issue.

 

[Scooch]

It was just so deflating on Saturday. It's as if people were waiting for it. And on that tipped pass INT, they saw their opportunity. It was like watching cattle.

I've noodled this theory around in my head for years and never been able to articulate it well, but I think it shows a certain detachment from the program. Like the fan knows that the program isn't any good, and that the fan is some objective spectator, so getting up and leaving even when the outcome is plausibly in doubt shows some kind of superiority.

And obviously, people can do whatever they want. I just think that having that mentality detracts from the experience.

 

[Scooch]

I don't think it's unique to Syracuse at all. Seen it at Pitt and wvu. Think only the year in and year out powers don't have the same issue.

I'm sure it happens other places, but I don't really pay much attention.

And we should never be saying that emulating Pitt fan behavior is acceptable.

 

[RF2044]

Ive never seen an exodus of any significance during an SU-Gtown game or any other close big game. But I do know where a lot of people go when we have 30k and there's a couple minutes left. Many people, sometimes 3 deep, stand in the corridor behind the last row of the 1st level and last row of the 2nd level.

I have -- often. Even during close games.

 

[TheCusian]

The problem is that it seems like people are saying "the chance we can comeback and win is really low" - but the best thing in sports is when your team beats those odds.

That's why I never leave. Plus - I think people think players don't notice or something. Shows a lack of respect, IMO.

 

[Scooch]

The problem is that it seems like people are saying "the chance we can comeback and win is really low" - but the best thing in sports is when your team beats those odds.

That's why I never leave. Plus - I think people think players don't notice or something. Shows a lack of respect, IMO.

The timing always strikes me as odd too. I get bailing when the team is down 42-0 in the 3rd quarter. It's leaving when (cue Lloyd Christmas) there's still a chance with 4 minutes left that seems strange. How much time is someone saving in traffic? 10 minutes? Maybe? It almost comes across as petulant: "Screw you guys, you lost, I'm leaving. Goodbye!"

 

[rrlbees]

I have -- often. Even during close games.

Check where they go. My parents used to do the same thing. As to my section I've never seen even 1 person leave a close game against the big teams.

 

[Jake]

There are lots of reasons people leave early...eh. To each his own...someone help me out here, there was a game in the Nassib era where we were dead to rights at home. Done emptied out but we ended up winning. Can't remember the game, but do remember thinking that a lot of people missing a great comeback.

 

[GoSU96]

There are lots of reasons people leave early...eh. To each his own...someone help me out here, there was a game in the Nassib era where we were dead to rights at home. Done emptied out but we ended up winning. Can't remember the game, but do remember thinking that a lot of people missing a great comeback.

Might have been Northwestern, came back from way back and lost the lead with a couple of seconds left.

 

[orange79]

There are lots of reasons people leave early...eh. To each his own...someone help me out here, there was a game in the Nassib era where we were dead to rights at home. Done emptied out but we ended up winning. Can't remember the game, but do remember thinking that a lot of people missing a great comeback.

Wake? Down 14 or 15 points early in the 4th, IIRC

 

[KellySyracuse]

Yea, that's it.

So you're CNY people. You're a Syracuse fan. You've left early. You're miserable at times. So what's you're excuse?

I especially love the blanket statement that somehow we're all miserable just because he is. Good God

 

[IthacaBarrel]

There are lots of reasons people leave early...eh. To each his own...someone help me out here, there was a game in the Nassib era where we were dead to rights at home. Done emptied out but we ended up winning. Can't remember the game, but do remember thinking that a lot of people missing a great comeback.

It was Wake for sure and just so sarge hulka, aka Big Toe, aka Bees knows I was there until the end. Game was on a Thursday I believe as well which was way past my bedtime. In addition, I actually walked up and down the hill to get there as well and sat through the brutal traffic as I tried to get on the 81 s exit in mother ---ing NEDROW. Was brutal. I think missing that one light cost me 45 seconds...

 

[rrlbees]

It was Wake for sure and just so sarge hulka, aka Big Toe, aka Bees knows I was there until the end. Game was on a Thursday I believe as well which was way past my bedtime. In addition, I actually walked up and down the hill to get there as well and sat through the brutal traffic as I tried to get on the 81 s exit in mother ---ing NEDROW. Was brutal. I think missing that one light cost me 45 seconds...

Intelligent post.

 

[RF2044]

Check where they go. My parents used to do the same thing. As to my section I've never seen even 1 person leave a close game against the big teams.

I don't dispute that some vacate seats so they can get a head start by being in the tunnel already, and watch until the last possible moment. But your observation that you've "never seen even 1 person leave a close game" isn't accurate. Dick Vitale even made fun of our fanbase for leaving early during that game at Manley when we were down 3, before Michael Lloyd nailed a buzzer beater to send the game into OT.

Before anyone points out that was 20 years ago, the point is--it happens. It happened prior to 1995, and it has happened often in the interim 20 years between that game and now.

I'm not sure what you're watching, bees--and I'm not trying to be snarky. To claim it doesn't happen--I don't get it. It happened my entire life when I lived in town and was a season ticket holder, and it happens every game since I've returned.

 

[KellySyracuse]

I don't dispute that some vacate seats so they can get a head start by being in the tunnel already, and watch until the last possible moment. But your observation that you've "never seen even 1 person leave a close game" isn't accurate. Dick Vitale even made fun of our fanbase for leaving early during that game at Manley when we were down 3, before Michael Lloyd nailed a buzzer beater to send the game into OT.

Before anyone points out that was 20 years ago, the point is--it happens. It happened prior to 1995, and it has happened often in the interim 20 years between that game and now.

I'm not sure what you're watching, bees--and I'm not trying to be snarky. To claim it doesn't happen--I don't get it. It happened my entire life when I lived in town and was a season ticket holder, and it happens every game since I've returned.

I'm pretty sure it happens everywhere. Syracuse fans don't have a lock on leaving the stadium early

 

[rrlbees]

I don't dispute that some vacate seats so they can get a head start by being in the tunnel already, and watch until the last possible moment. But your observation that you've "never seen even 1 person leave a close game" isn't accurate. Dick Vitale even made fun of our fanbase for leaving early during that game at Manley when we were down 3, before Michael Lloyd nailed a buzzer beater to send the game into OT. Before anyone points out that was 20 years ago, the point is--it happens. It happened prior to 1995, and it has happened often in the interim 20 years between that game and now. I'm not sure what you're watching, bees--and I'm not trying to be snarky. To claim it doesn't happen--I don't get it. It happened my entire life when I lived in town and was a season ticket holder, and it happens every game since I've returned.

Nobody's gonna say zero, but I will say it's not a number that I notice in a gtown close game type thing. And I've never seen anyone in our section actually leave. Has someone? I'm sure over the years. But not that I've noticed. Now I'll have to pay attention.

 

[RF2044]

Nobody's gonna say zero, but I will say it's not a number that I notice in a gtown close game type thing. And I've never seen anyone in our section actually leave. Has someone? I'm sure over the years. But not that I've noticed. Now I'll have to pay attention.

Fair enough. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just saying it happens with a pretty high degree of frequency [perhaps Georgetown was a poor example to choose].

 

[Millhouse]

There are lots of reasons people leave early...eh. To each his own...someone help me out here, there was a game in the Nassib era where we were dead to rights at home. Done emptied out but we ended up winning. Can't remember the game, but do remember thinking that a lot of people missing a great comeback.

wake forest