The crowd was great Saturday night

[Newhouser]

I know the pre-game imbibing helped, but even with what I thought was a low student turn out and a deflating early pick, the crowd showed up. Kudos to those of us who were there.

The fan base is the least of the problems with SU athletics.

 

[JRHEETER]

I know the pre-game imbibing helped, but even with what I thought was a low student turn out and a deflating early pick, the crowd showed up. Kudos to those of us who were there.

The fan base is the least of the problems with SU athletics.

The crowd was far more impressive than I thought it was going to be.

Just unfortunate they did not have anything to cheer about.

It would also help if someone from gameday marketing maybe went to another schools football game so they could see how to actually do gameday event stuff. So many missed opportunites there.

However, the crowds this season have been fantastic despite the meh performances by our team.

 

[Newhouser]

I was laughing at the 4th quarter promotions aimed at getting the students to stay...good luck.

 

[OttosShoes]

Yeah there were 5 or 10k more butts-in-seats than I thought. And it got loud; Pitt clearly had some false starts and miscues.

 

[OttosShoes]

I was laughing at the 4th quarter promotions aimed at getting the students to stay...good luck.

Haha yeah that was kinda desperate and drew attention to it. I hope the ones that did stay got rewarded for it though. They all moved down and seemed to be having a good time.

 

[OrangeAl]

Historically, we have 30,000 fans that are diehards and make a lot of noise. The other 12,000 are extras for the big games. The core group makes enough noise to create the loudhouse environment.

 

[cusefan88]

They messed up the team entrance. The video package was still playing and the horn came on and the players went out.

Timing was off. Not great for the gameday staff.

 

[richmondcuse03]

Agree was pleasantly surprised by the crowd. Our fan base definitely does better with night games.

My only pet peeve - I wish folks would get loud on defense on downs besides third down. We could have a massive advantage for night games with good crowds. Closest we’ve gotten to in a while was Miami last year. Team does feed off the energy.

 

[JRHEETER]

Agree was pleasantly surprised by the crowd. Our fan base definitely does better with night games.

My only pet peeve - I wish folks would get loud on defense on downs besides third down. We could have a massive advantage for night games with good crowds. Closest we’ve gotten to in a while was Miami last year. Team does feed off the energy.

Yes, I agree 100000000%

This is why the gameday promo staff really needs to attend games at other venues on away games etc so they can see what they can do to hype the crowd up.


The only down we are loud on is 3rd down and ONLY 3rd down. Big FG kick on 4th down? Everyone sits and is quiet again.

Again, need to find ways for the promo staff to get the crowd more into it.

Having a LIVE decibel meter would probably help with a section on a video board telling us the decibel at all times. Pop that thing up on a screen in between plays where it is more visible on big plays.

This stuff is kind of common sense stuff but unfortunate we do not see anything done. We are too scared to try anything new.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

It was a good crowd. It was still well short of a sell out. One would think that homecoming would get a big bump like parent's weekend but that doesn't seem to be the case. We did outdraw last year's homecoming though by 2,318.

It will be interesting to see where we land for our home avg vs last season. Last season we had 39,130 and this year so far we have 40,497. So we only need to avg 36,397 in the last two games to beat last season.

I would worry a bit about BC, being that it is a normally bad attended weekend. But even if BC is 35k we only need UNC to be 38k to beat last year. UNC does stink now but people might have bought tickets to see Belichick in advance.

 

[dollarbill44]

I was laughing at the 4th quarter promotions aimed at getting the students to stay...good luck.

They gave out 25 free hot dogs halfway through the 4th quarter. What more can they do?

 

[upperdeck]

The lack of effort across game promotion is pretty glaring when you bring new people to the game.

I took a friend and got to the game much earlier than normal to walk around the quad. WIth most of the food gone its left to a few food trucks to provide some food. Being a night game it was mostly done in the dark and not many options. I did see some random chick fila tent in the corner but again too dark to really know what they were doing and in such a far corner it was just random i even walked by it. I miss the old food tent where you could get burgers and dogs and such, now its just a few random drinks in there. went thru one tent area and the had a couple TVS you couldnt watch because people were standing in front of them. With TVS being cheap and light get them up in the air. At least being a nice night people could stand outside and talk but if you had time to kill and it was raining people might want more to do than grab a $20 drink.

Went inside the new atrium, pretty busy, very hard to move around or stand, but its very bright and you could watch some games. My friend wondered over to the food/drink but again very little signage and you basically had to be in the front to even know there was something to be bought over there if you were not familiar with the place. Again no signage

So we went over to just grab some of the same old bad food. being early no real lines which was great. Also no food. No dogs/no sausage, no pretzels. People with kids complaining because there is no candy. 30-45 min before a game and nothing to be had. Grab and go empty except for a few chicken sand. So waiting 15 min to get my cold hot dog and stale bun.. fun times.

I mean grab and go to get cold hot food and warm cold drinks just isnt working out. Go back to drinks in cups behind the counters and leave bottles to the grab and go. Much cheaper and mostly cold. Bring back variety. 4-5 choices .

The dome has 50+ events a year to get this working and it never gets better.

How about a couple food trucks near the dome so people could grab some choices and take that inside? Would love a burger one time that didnt require oceans 11 expertise to find it and get back my seat.

Maybe just some snacks or chips or something.

 

[Chip]

I couldn't blame my lost voice on screaming during the game, because there was really nothing to scream about. So my wife blames the alcohol because of course.

Anyway, one of the oddly latest crowd pops was on that onside kick. Most of my group, section, and the entire crowd had left by then, but it was still loud when that happened. I remember thinking I didn't believe 12,000 people in a 42,000 seat stadium could make that much noise.

Was a good crowd. They were ready to go. I thought Fran gave it a bit of an unnecessary shot at the start of his presser, or at least it came off that way to me.

 

[Cuse4455]

Agree was pleasantly surprised by the crowd. Our fan base definitely does better with night games.

My only pet peeve - I wish folks would get loud on defense on downs besides third down. We could have a massive advantage for night games with good crowds. Closest we’ve gotten to in a while was Miami last year. Team does feed off the energy.

I agree. I tried getting my section to but alot of new people, newer football fans... they got really loud on Third down but quite on every other

 

[tbonezone]

The crowd was great Saturday night​

from the looks of the seats in the 4th i'm thinking a lot of fans were not only early for their dinner reservations but also drinking heavily at the bar whilst waiting for their tables. and oh by the way there was that whole boo thing. and that wasn't just halloween practice. the crowd was really pissed.

 

[JeremyCuse]

I couldn't blame my lost voice on screaming during the game, because there was really nothing to scream about. So my wife blames the alcohol because of course.

Anyway, one of the oddly latest crowd pops was on that onside kick. Most of my group, section, and the entire crowd had left by then, but it was still loud when that happened. I remember thinking I didn't believe 12,000 people in a 42,000 seat stadium could make that much noise.

Was a good crowd. They were ready to go. I thought Fran gave it a bit of an unnecessary shot at the start of his presser, or at least it came off that way to me.

It may have come off sounding worse then he meant but I hope for his sake he isn't starting to go down that path because if he is it's gonna get real ugly real quick.

 

[dollarbill44]

I agree. I tried getting my section to but alot of new people, newer football fans... they got really loud on Third down but quite on every other

I've been at every game. The crowd gets loud on other downs when good things are happening. Even during the first half against Duke, but we get ground down. So much potential energy got sucked out of the crowd after Rickie threw a pick on his first pass of the game and the Pitt QB waltzed into the end zone from 40 yards out.
If you were at the Miami game last year, the crowd was plenty loud on every down in the 2nd half.

 

[shandeezy7]

I couldn't blame my lost voice on screaming during the game, because there was really nothing to scream about. So my wife blames the alcohol because of course.

Anyway, one of the oddly latest crowd pops was on that onside kick. Most of my group, section, and the entire crowd had left by then, but it was still loud when that happened. I remember thinking I didn't believe 12,000 people in a 42,000 seat stadium could make that much noise.

Was a good crowd. They were ready to go. I thought Fran gave it a bit of an unnecessary shot at the start of his presser, or at least it came off that way to me.

Ha I also had no voice Sunday morning and my wife also blamed it on the alcohol.

 

[pattycuse]

Agree was pleasantly surprised by the crowd. Our fan base definitely does better with night games.

My only pet peeve - I wish folks would get loud on defense on downs besides third down. We could have a massive advantage for night games with good crowds. Closest we’ve gotten to in a while was Miami last year. Team does feed off the energy.

Agree on night games. Crowd was engaged on third down/key plays despite not much to cheer for.

I have zero empirical data to prove this poin, but I do think the sound system/insistence on an emcee during timeouts actually impacts the crowd participation negatively. They bombard us with every promotion at deafening sound levels- in a crazy way, the best time to talk with your friends is during game action! One of the younger guys I was with Saturday actually wore ear plugs…

I know we have to pay the bills but I have to believe there is room for improvement here..not that I am holding my breath.

 

[OttosShoes]

I couldn't blame my lost voice on screaming during the game, because there was really nothing to scream about. So my wife blames the alcohol because of course.

Anyway, one of the oddly latest crowd pops was on that onside kick. Most of my group, section, and the entire crowd had left by then, but it was still loud when that happened. I remember thinking I didn't believe 12,000 people in a 42,000 seat stadium could make that much noise.

Was a good crowd. They were ready to go. I thought Fran gave it a bit of an unnecessary shot at the start of his presser, or at least it came off that way to me.

Ha I also had no voice Sunday morning and my wife also blamed it on the alcohol.

FWIW I lost my voice but only had mountain dew on account of migraine medicine.

Defense showed up. That side of the ball was fun to watch.

Big FG kick on 4th down? Everyone sits and is quiet again.

Heh, QFT. I kept screaming and a few people looked at me like it was a children's piano recital. I don't get it.

 

[CanadianSU]

It may have come off sounding worse then he meant but I hope for his sake he isn't starting to go down that path because if he is it's gonna get real ugly real quick.

I don’t think he was. Fb has always been a realist on crowd support saying multiple times the team needs to win the fans. Coming off two losses I think he probably appreciated the support.

That’s just my take, idk maybe he was being a bit snarky but we shall see.

 

[310Pigpen]

Narduzzi agrees!

 

[Chip]

Narduzzi agrees!

When the other team gets a false start, our crowd sees blood in the water. It was so loud on that first 3rd and 9.

But then all the players ran with their man to man coverage to the outside, the seas parted, and that QB ran for the TD that even I could have probably gained about 15 yards at my 27 minute mile pace.