Disappointing Turnout
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37,345 was the official announced attendance...it was the least amount of students I have seen on a non rainy Saturday in years. No way to put lipstick on the declining interest in the program currently. Going to see that really come into play next year with season ticket sales and parking donations. Very easy to cherry pick , especially a schedule like how next year shapes up
I really don't get concerned about attendance figures but I have to say, watching on TV, I can not recall so many empty seats on a very nice fall day.
I was there, die hard. I couldn't give an extra ticket away for today's game. A friend offered me an additional parking pass & 1 ticket, couldn't get any takers. The other home games I brought 5 with me & tailgated with 10-15 others. Today, brought sandwiches, ate on the way up & dropped in on a friends tailgate. Zero interest from casual fans when we are playing poorly. Not a judgement it's the reality of RU football. Graber/Shea/EARLY Schiano years it was much of the same. Win & they will come.
If I still lived in Piscataway I' d be at every game. But, 110 miles way, retired 12 years on fixed income, I didn't renew season tix when Schiano left. Looks like the right decision. Next game? Temple at the Linc, if health holds. So how much do we still owe on the stadium expansion ?
Not sure what prompted that question/remark, but if we don't expand the stadium we probably don't get a B1G invitation. Whatever it cost, and whatever we still owe, was well worth it.
I was one of those 200 in the stadium with you. I looked at my seatmates and said this is going to be great we're moving over to the 50 at kickoff. Then these 35,000 jerkoffs decided to show up and my awesome plan was crushed.:angry:
Yes, no way there was 37000 at that game no way, the stadium was barely half full.
I walked in at noon right before kick off. No lines at the gates and easy to get around.
Neither team was good today and during the game I was thinking about what else I could have been doing instead of sitting in the stadium. This is a hard team to watch and I don't know how much longer I can do it.
Neither team was good today and during the game I was thinking about what else I could have been doing instead of sitting in the stadium. This is a hard team to watch and I don't know how much longer I can do it.
I think suitcase school status hurt student attendance today. Theory is that since they all stayed up at school last weekend for all the Halloween parties... that they'd be headed home this weekend.. and then again at Thanksgiving.
I went to the men's room 3 minutes after the start of halftime.
No one in line and only one person inside. Never saw this
before, there is no way there were 30,000 people there. Also
The area in the blue lot behind the red fence had not one car.
No one in line and only one person inside. Never saw this
before, there is no way there were 30,000 people there. Also
The area in the blue lot behind the red fence had not one car.
I DISAGREE. For a team pregame that was 2-6 with little, if any, hope for a bowl the crowd was decent if not good.
It seemed to be a very late arriving crowd. There weren't very many students in the student sections pregame but by the end of the 1st quarter if not half. However by the 2nd half the one section was 2/3 full and other end zone half full. We're 2-6, playing a mediocre team and these are big exam weeks-given such I thought student attendance was great.
The tailgating was slow (yellow lot filled up slow) but tailgating isn't attendance. It was 1) 40 degrees to start for a 2) noon game. Frankly re our "crew" there were so many nooners and our hosts (one of whom couldn't make the last tailgate because of kids' soccer-he REFUSED to take his "executive" position unless he could tailgate) had made so many "breakfasts" that some of the crew were untactfully complaining that we weren't having any lunch/dinner items=MEAT. On that note the one host and two guests cooked MEAT (INCREDIBLE PULLED PORK AND A BEEF/CHEESE entrees) that we should have been awarded best tailgate from just the food (How good was our food?-chef "2" who felt a bit useless he didn't cook last game agreed we didn't need to cook his meat-the BEST we ever had In a Rutgers tailgate-Saturdays entrees were RIGHT UP THERE). FOR R CREW IT WAS THE BEST TAILGATE OF THE YEAR IF NOT SEVERAL YEARS OR EVER. ALSO PERFECT WEATHER-THE BEST OF THE YEAR! Again, though, the leaders of R crew are serious, experienced tailgatgers and the setup is like a machine at this point. The tailgate was better than the game, and depending on how things break on the 19th it isn't out of the question at least some of our crew could do a breakfast, lunch AND dinner tailgate. The weather was pretty much PERFECT after 10:30AM (inside the stadium on the home side there was no sun and I had to put thermals back on after taking them off in what is known as my *AS Saturday pregame bathroom routine. Note my body was so happy to digest quality food that nothing was excreted until evening-that food was UTILIZED...Note also the cool weather kept the bees away-at most I might have seen one.
The stands themselves eventually filled up. There were empty seats in the sections (there always are) and less people up top but it was a fairly decent crowd. I honestly thing if it weren't a B1G game, there would have been 5,000-10,000 less in attendance. By halftime I was thinking I was REAL impressed given this was a 2-5 team pregame.
The 1st half/big plays were as good as any game this year. Unfortunately, given the quality of the opponent (Indiana has a decent defense and the team is Yankee Bowlish give or take quality) the 2nd half was as disappointing as any. The crowd didn't seem any less loud than "Normal". Nice job by those who attended, Sans the outcome I had a wonderful early day! Note, I also had not gone to sleep Friday night.
It seemed to be a very late arriving crowd. There weren't very many students in the student sections pregame but by the end of the 1st quarter if not half. However by the 2nd half the one section was 2/3 full and other end zone half full. We're 2-6, playing a mediocre team and these are big exam weeks-given such I thought student attendance was great.
The tailgating was slow (yellow lot filled up slow) but tailgating isn't attendance. It was 1) 40 degrees to start for a 2) noon game. Frankly re our "crew" there were so many nooners and our hosts (one of whom couldn't make the last tailgate because of kids' soccer-he REFUSED to take his "executive" position unless he could tailgate) had made so many "breakfasts" that some of the crew were untactfully complaining that we weren't having any lunch/dinner items=MEAT. On that note the one host and two guests cooked MEAT (INCREDIBLE PULLED PORK AND A BEEF/CHEESE entrees) that we should have been awarded best tailgate from just the food (How good was our food?-chef "2" who felt a bit useless he didn't cook last game agreed we didn't need to cook his meat-the BEST we ever had In a Rutgers tailgate-Saturdays entrees were RIGHT UP THERE). FOR R CREW IT WAS THE BEST TAILGATE OF THE YEAR IF NOT SEVERAL YEARS OR EVER. ALSO PERFECT WEATHER-THE BEST OF THE YEAR! Again, though, the leaders of R crew are serious, experienced tailgatgers and the setup is like a machine at this point. The tailgate was better than the game, and depending on how things break on the 19th it isn't out of the question at least some of our crew could do a breakfast, lunch AND dinner tailgate. The weather was pretty much PERFECT after 10:30AM (inside the stadium on the home side there was no sun and I had to put thermals back on after taking them off in what is known as my *AS Saturday pregame bathroom routine. Note my body was so happy to digest quality food that nothing was excreted until evening-that food was UTILIZED...Note also the cool weather kept the bees away-at most I might have seen one.
The stands themselves eventually filled up. There were empty seats in the sections (there always are) and less people up top but it was a fairly decent crowd. I honestly thing if it weren't a B1G game, there would have been 5,000-10,000 less in attendance. By halftime I was thinking I was REAL impressed given this was a 2-5 team pregame.
The 1st half/big plays were as good as any game this year. Unfortunately, given the quality of the opponent (Indiana has a decent defense and the team is Yankee Bowlish give or take quality) the 2nd half was as disappointing as any. The crowd didn't seem any less loud than "Normal". Nice job by those who attended, Sans the outcome I had a wonderful early day! Note, I also had not gone to sleep Friday night.
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Friday night will make a big difference.
And as others have said if B1G is going to give us the most noon starts of any team we are always going to have a late arriving crowd. Fans are arriving day of game, not the night before.
Stadium filled in nicely for a 2-6 team against Indiana.
Find it absolutely mind boggling that any one would ever criticize RU fans.
And we had the silly ATV patrols again. Why on earth would RU alienate the most loyal fans in the world? (Given our history).
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37345.....ANNOUNCED...probably less and we have people saying that wasnt so bad...wow what a low bar
My friends chose to play golf instead, can't blame them. Their wives said, oh I didn't realize there was a game today, again understandable.
I was also one of those but I didn't have to move - I'm already on the 50. There were a few empty seats around me where you could have sat.
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