Cameron only holds 9,500 so it's only packed. If SU games were still in Manley every game would be packed and the same number of students attending would look like great attendance. But I am dismayed by the poor stdent attendance at a lot of games. I also think the pricing of student tix and the marketing of them is poor. Frankly, I'm not sure that the AD really wants the students sometimes. Remember back to when Jake C went on campaign to tone done the student exuberance because he didn't like that they waved their hands behind the basket at opposing players (even though it's done everywhere) and the cursing and off-color chants. I think that was the beginning of the decline in student interest.
How about the teenagers, the twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty-year-somethings that have there heads buried in their laps as they text away. There are far more younger people who have leather lungs that aren't using them enough.
It's only $26 if you buy individual games. The student package for 12 games is $120 ...$10 a game.
To me that is a cop out. Put in a range of 12 to 16,000. Even 50% foreign born, that is 6 to 8,000! That's alot of american students. Are they saying that over half of the students are foreign born? In countries where basketball does not exist? Remember China has a basketball league. B-ball is big in Japan, South America, Central America and most of Europe. Are ALL foreign born kids so serious that they don't particapate in American culture. I think that the sports department is seriously hurting themselves if they don't even try to cultviate those sutdents. And that's just undergrads. What about Grad students? When you graudate, you lose your interest in b-ball? Naw, there has to be something else going on.
Are you disagreeing that $120 is a lot of money for student season tickets. I could be convinced either way on that one. It could be cheaper, but when you compare it to $40,000+ in tuition and fees, it's pocket change.
They come, and for the most part, they're idiots.
How does students paying students end the money flow from the TV deals that fund the other sports? How does added money from allowing endorsements change any single dollar already coming in?
Who's the student that wrote "thunder from down under" and "shove from above". Sounded like they aced the paper instead of failing, which they should have.
Eh, poor argument IMO. There are plenty of 'townies' with those same excuses that show up much more frequently than students ... and they don't get student prices or the convenience factor of living in walking distance from the dome.
Look, the fact is that most international students don't give a rat's ass about American sports, basketball included. I went to SU and knew some international students. They never went to any games, of any kind.I work for an international bank that employs student interns from abroad. We have had hundreds of them in the 15 years I've worked here. I can count on 1 hand how many of them were interested in basketball.
At SU in the early 60's much of this rings true. Although weed was somewhat scarce, cell phones, Iphones were non-existent and TV coverage was very limited. Game time enthusiasm was extremely high. Add that Manley Field House was always packed with as many as it could hold. Don't remember (beer) but think students got in free, no assigned seats. Great memories but a different generation and stadium size and requirements today.
Excuse me. If you want to say they don't have an interest in american sports, fine. It MAY be one reason, but what about the other 6 to 8,000 undergrads assuming 50% foreign students. That's a lot of people. And that's just undergrad. Even 10% of the graduate student is around 600. Half of the undergrad or 25% of the whole is still 3 to 4,000. From accounts, there aren't even that many.
