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The Dome was empty...again. Where are the fans?

Scooch said:
Honestly, I spent most of the first half watching football. Can’t blame anyone for not wanting to pay to see us play a low-major on the weekend before Xmas. Things are a lot different than they were 30 years ago. These kind of games are dogs and attendance all over the country stinks for them.
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I feel asleep
Great nap
 
atlanticuse said:
What if we lose all ACC games?
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I think if we are 0-8 in ACC play, he would be canned. At that point we would have losses to a 6-6 Pitt team, 6-6 FSU team and 5-6 Boston College, as of right now.
 
hoopsupstate said:
From reading the comments in this thread, why do any of you care what they do? All you do is complain and whine about why you don’t go to the games. Stay home and continue to watch on tv. Please don’t say your fans because you’re really not.
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You couldn't read the room and already think none of us give af about what you think about our fandom?

We are Syracuse Fans bitching about your favorite team, grow up, be a man and deal with it.
 
hoopsupstate said:
What’s your definition of fandom! It’s obviously not supporting your team.
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What's your definition of holding somebody accountable? It's obviously not towards a grown man making a few million dollars.
 
Rage4CUSE said:
What's your definition of holding somebody accountable? It's obviously not towards a grown man making a few million dollars.
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That’s not my job. I can only support the team. I’m not the coaches boss and I don’t write the check. JW will determine what happens with the coach. If he’s not here next year I’ll support the next guy even if they struggle. Any decision will be made by the administration. I’d rather use my energy to support our team instead of questioning every decision the coach makes. As fans you can decide not to go to games if you want, that’s your choice, but it’s a little hypocritical to complain about attendance at games.
 
Scooch said:
When you have the chance to promote the guy with 6 losing seasons at Mt. St. Mary’s you can’t pass it up!

Seriously, Red’s had farrrrrr more success at the P5 level than that guy had as a low major.
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What’s crazy is I don’t think that’s true.
 
Bulldog04 said:
There’s nothing innovative to get people to the games. This time when students are gone they should literally be selling seats for $5. 7,100 people walked through the gates today I was told. Yet the women got 10,000 people and kids to the game because of great thinking to partner with the schools. Selling tickets for $60-90 as “standard admission” on Ticketmaster is insane. Get people there. They buy something at concessions. Makes zero sense to me to let 15,000 seats go empty for no reason.
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Kids day games for women’s basketball happen all over the country. It’s a thing.

Cut prices that much too often and then you’re gouging season ticket purchasers. And next year, you won’t have as many because they’ll say to themselves “why should I pay for season tickets when you’re going to discount them to $5 per game anyway?”.
 
hoopsupstate said:
That’s not my job. I can only support the team. I’m not the coaches boss and I don’t write the check. JW will determine what happens with the coach. If he’s not here next year I’ll support the next guy even if they struggle. Any decision will be made by the administration. I’d rather use my energy to support our team instead of questioning every decision the coach makes. As fans you can decide not to go to games if you want, that’s your choice, but it’s a little hypocritical to complain about attendance at games.
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Well, the only thing I can do as a family man with 2 kids and a 3rd on the way, is complain because of the lack of leadership that has been displayed by our team's head coach for 2, going on 3 years now.

And I sure as hell have never complained about attendance at the games.
 
Rage4CUSE said:
Well, the only thing I can do as a family man with 2 kids and a 3rd on the way, is complain because of the lack of leadership that has been displayed by our team's head coach for 2, going on 3 years now.

And I sure as hell have never complained about attendance at the games.
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Congratulations. You’re going to be a busy man. For your sake, I hope your kids don’t become coaches. If they do, you might change your perspective a little. I’m not trying to be a wise ass. You might look at things much differently. Trust me, I know.
 
hoopsupstate said:
Congratulations. You’re going to be a busy man. For your sake, I hope your kids don’t become coaches. If they do, you might change your perspective a little. I’m not trying to be a wise ass. You might look at things much differently. Trust me, I know.
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Neither of them like sports so far, so I don't have to worry about that too much.
 
SUFan44 said:
Kids day games for women’s basketball happen all over the country. It’s a thing.

Cut prices that much too often and then you’re gouging season ticket purchasers. And next year, you won’t have as many because they’ll say to themselves “why should I pay for season tickets when you’re going to discount them to $5 per game anyway?”.
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Just do it for these non conference snooze fest games and do it in sections where no one sits. When I say I didn’t see one person sitting in 6 or 7 sections I mean not 1
 
tbonezone said:
AD just don't get it. you're never gonna fill this place coasting along mid pack and playing lower and slower paced sub ACC division 1 level. people want to see excitement. a show. a slam and jamboree and people want to see winners. they'll come back when syracuse teams start playing for division titles and are once again respected nationally. til then don't hold your breath wildhack.
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As DC once said in a 1990 interview, “the fans pay money to come see us so we just try to give em a show.”
 
IthacaMatt said:
THANK YOU FOR BEING MAYBE THE ONLY PERSON ON THIS SITE TO USE "BIASED" PROPERLY !!!

"Bias" is not a verb, folks.
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If only there was a place where I could go and look up the proper application(s) of a word…

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I am sure this will be an unpopular opinion.
But WTH!

Our team is 8-4.
We lost in overtime to Houston, to Kansas the next day by 11, and then were blown out the very next day by Iowa State who is currently #4 in the country. All 3 are ranked.
3 huge games back to back to back.

We lost by a point to Hofstra at a game where three huge calls in the last minute sealed our fate. They aren’t that bad of a team either, quad 3.

We beat Tenn, quad 1 and 7 other teams along the way.
We have done this despite our best player Freeman only playing the first 4 games.

Our defense, for the most part, is exponentially better than last year.

Yet all I have read on this board in multiple threads for two weeks is how bad our team is, how Red is an awful coach, how the players don’t play for him, how the fans haven’t shown up because we stink, how Red should be fired.

No recognition of the obvious improvement in this team over last year.

Listen I was one of the many who wanted Red gone last year but I recognize the improvement and say let’s get thru January before we call for his head.

As to attendance, I am both a football and basketball season ticket holder and have either gone to each bball game or made sure my tickets were used if I could not go.

I was at Hofstra, Mercyhurst and Northeastern and the crowds were low at all 3.
As I said before, none of these teams have name recognition. Yet it still costs $35 to park and buying 2 pretzels and 2 sodas cost about $30. Concession costs are atrocious
I go because I am a die hard fan and want to support the team. And I am truly blessed to have the money to afford to go.

But just before Christmas, when money is tight, many need their money for gifts or food or family celebrations and don’t want to spend that kind of money watching no name teams.

As for the team effort the last 3 games, let’s try to remember that these our students who just finished their final exams. I remember what that was like not so long ago, and I wasn't
Playing a active sport at the time. I can only imagine how physically and emotionally tiring these last few weeks have been.
These are human beings, not AI, and they will have ups and downs.

And let’s support them when they succeed.

In this last game, Naithan George and William Kyle stepped up big time. At one point Kyle was 7 of 8 on free throws. He lost his form at the end when he was clearly very tired

Again, I assume I will be blasted as stupid, naive and wearing rose colored glasses for these thoughts 😊
 

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