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[bac2therac]

Wooooo

our standards for the student sections have lowered considerably on this board. That being said while it was horrendous for the first 5 minutes of the game, they did show up and had a solid but not spectacular showing. Looks like Alleygate was a bust, they will come if you take their safe drinking/drug space away

 

[sct1111]

Students did a heck of a better job then the rest of the stadium. The north end zone was bare. The rest of the stadium needs to learn the cheers and participate.

You also have to realize that students pack in the middle sections of the student section to over its designed capacity. If you really had one student per "seat" there, the corners fill up. The corners of our stadium just aren't great seats.

 

[RutgersB1G]

You have not in any way, shape, or form, been proven "correct" about there being less than 44K'ish in the stadium. You're WRONG for listening to a reporter from Iowa who has NO CLUE WTF he is talking about. No question in my mind there was right about 44K in the house. Move along sunshine.

No thanks, you can move along since you're the one that's been PROVEN wrong. A reporter who was at the game has a lot more credibility than you or any other poster on this board. Sorry, but I believe him and most others do, too.

 

[RutgersB1G]

so less than 44,000 is 34,000. You are clueless. We had very few no shows today. Actual attendance was close to paid. Please give it up. Your posts are down right ridiculous. Just admit that you missed this one; by a long shot. You were not even close.

No, I was right and have proven it, and am actually waiting for you and a few other posters to apologize.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

No thanks, you can move along since you're the one that's been PROVEN wrong. A reporter who was at the game has a lot more credibility than you or any other poster on this board. Sorry, but I believe him and most others do, too.

You have NOT "proven" anything. What the f*ck planet are you from?

 

[RutgersB1G]

For the second time, I'd appreciate if you'd stop cursing at me and others, AreYouNUTS.

I hate fighting with fellow RU fans, so in the interest of board harmony, I'm going to bow out of this thread while resting my case based on the evidence I've provided. I firmly believe that today's actual attendance was 34K. I'm sure you firmly believe whatever your number is. But what we know for sure is that the 44K number Rutgers announced is not true, as usual. Have a good night.

 

[RUin2WIN]

You guys did a very good job today. 99% of us aren't giving you shit. Let's ALL hope that something can be worked out here. Present the following to Hobbs:

- use The Bubble (more than big enough)
- put a gigantic piece of plastic (okay, get a roller...) over the surface
- card at the door and bracelet all students over 21 who enter
- hire a team of bouncers to work inside.
- have a DJ
- easy walk from bus drop-off and to stadium entrance

That's not a terrible idea and could definitely be doable. And I know most here aren't giving us shit. If we deserve it we deserve it. But so far this year I think we've done a great job all things considered. But there's a very vocal 1% who like to put the blame for stadium attendance on the students and it's obnoxious.

 

[Upstream]

Reported attendance was 44K.

There were about 10,000 empty seats which puts actual attendance between 42 and 43K.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

For the second time, I'd appreciate if you'd stop cursing at me and others, AreYouNUTS.

I hate fighting with fellow RU fans, so in the interest of board harmony, I'm going to bow out of this thread while resting my case based on the evidence I've provided. I firmly believe that today's actual attendance was 34K. I'm sure you firmly believe whatever your number is. But what we know for sure is that the 44K number Rutgers announced is not true, as usual. Have a good night.

I'm not cursing AT you. I'm asking a question. That being said in no way, shape, or form, have you been "proven" right about today's actual attendance.

 

[mildone]

Nobody believes your spin. Just stop embarrassing the RU fanbase more than it already has been by this pathetic turnout.

There's no spin and you've lost whatever minute degree of credibility you had. Yeah, the students and non-student fans arrived in the first quarter instead of before the game. That's nothing new for us and is not atypical across the nation.

And by midway through the first quarter, there were plenty of fans in the stadium and the fans were loud on third downs.

I'm starting to think you're a PSU plant or something. Your posts are constantly negative. You must be fun as hell at parties.

 

[mildone]

Game, set, match. I predicted announced attendance of 44,000, actual of 34,000. Hope you'll man up and admit you were wrong.

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PSU troll.

 

[mildone]

Why are you cursing at me, dude? I know the game and its poor attendance is frustrating, but there's no need for that.

Mike Hlas is a longtime Iowa football reporter for the Cedar Rapids Journal. He has no motivation to do anything other than relay what he saw at the game, and according to his reporting, there weren't 44,000 people in the stadium. I believe him.

And what's your motivation for being 100% negative 100% of the time? PSU troll.

 

[mildone]

Because he's a reporter who attends games all over the country? Amazing how angry you, Mr. Nuts and others are getting about the attendance figures. Nobody is saying you didn't do your part.

Look, you were and are wrong. It happens to all of us. But the rest of us don't try to make a career out of it. Go "root" for some other team.

 

[mildone]

No thanks, you can move along since you're the one that's been PROVEN wrong. A reporter who was at the game has a lot more credibility than you or any other poster on this board. Sorry, but I believe him and most others do, too.

You need to put down the crack pipe. Seriously.

 

[jtung230]

It was not good for a B1G home opener. But it's Saturday at noon and we have CL at QB.

 

[OriginalKnight]

Student section packed now. And loud

Packed? Are you on crack?

 

[OriginalKnight]

By mid 2nd quarter the student section was 3/4 full, good job students. Overall I'd guess about 45k.

3/4 full? Do you realize how big the student section is? It wasn't even half full.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

3/4 full? Do you realize how big the student section is? It wasn't even half full.

I'm thinking at one point it was definitely more than half full. Maybe like 5/8th's lol...

 

[CERU00]

It really cracks me to think how many people think they can accurately count fans in the stadium. Your margin of error is likely much more than you believe.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

It really cracks me to think how many people think they can accurately count fans in the stadium. Your margin of error is likely much more than you believe.

If you can figure out how many seats there are in each section you can get a pretty good idea of how many people are in each. Not too difficult.

 

[CERU00]

If you can figure out how many seats there are in each section you can get a pretty good idea of how many people are in each. Not too difficult.

Sure it's sounds simple.... how close are you to each section your viewing? When are you counting because there is lots of traffic in both directions at various times. Are people walking the stadium to get views or are they looking at a TV image? Can you make out. 4-5 scattered missing people in a row? All I'm saying is that these are all wild guesstimates and there will be significant error. Show me a guage r&r on this visual measurement before I believe any of these estimates.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Sure it's sounds simple.... how close are you to each section your viewing? When are you counting because there is lots of traffic in both directions at various times. Are people walking the stadium to get views or are they looking at a TV image? Can you make out. 4-5 scattered missing people in a row? All I'm saying is that these are all wild guesstimates and there will be significant error. Show me a guage r&r on this visual measurement before I believe any of these estimates.

Uhm....nobody is saying they're "spot-on" here lol...it's an estimate, that's all.

 

[KingHigh]

It's tough to estimate and people tend to under estimate the number. When I was looking at the student section at kickoff it looked like there were 200 people there but when I really started counting them up, I concluded there were at least 300.

 

[NotInRHouse]

The student section was great for a noon start given our team and the opponent. Great RU cheer started over there as well.

With today being a close one and Michigan being a name and at night as the next game we will likely see it totally full around kickoff.

 

[motorb54]

3/4 full? Do you realize how big the student section is? It wasn't even half full.

It is you who doesn't know the size of the student section.

 

[OriginalKnight]

It is you who doesn't know the size of the student section.

I do and it was a pathetic showing.

 

[CERU00]

Uhm....nobody is saying they're "spot-on" here lol...it's an estimate, that's all.

Ummm.. most claim these counts with more more precision than they're good for. If it is so easy to make an accurate estimate than people wouldn't be arguing would they???

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Ummm.. most claim these counts with more more precision than they're good for. If it is so easy to make an accurate estimate than people wouldn't be arguing would they???

I was just responding to your post. There's a big difference between "counting" and estimating. If I say "maybe 60% capacity" it's an estimate. If I say "there was 5,324 students there today," without knowing the actual # scanned in at the gate, I'd sound foolish, no argument there!

 

[Abro1975]

 

[RUJohnny99]

The student section was great for a noon start given our team and the opponent. Great RU cheer started over there as well.

With today being a close one and Michigan being a name and at night as the next game we will likely see it totally full around kickoff.

Yeah but reread the OP. Being full at kickoff isn't good enough anymore. Now they have to be full an hour before kickoff to be real fans.

 

[Jonb127]

The student turn out was fine. It doesn't appear there was any real protest. They turned out as much as has come to be expected for this type of game. Big opponent, but not UM, OSU or PSU. Plus noon start. They were in it all game. Not sure why people would expect more for a stuggeling team with little history of winning. Hopefully that changes soon, but until then yesterday's turn out seems perfectly acceptable if not impressive considering many historically great teams struggle worse than us.

 

[Terry_2426]

Not quite sure why people act like stadiums are full nationwide every week...

Bama student section in the 3rd quarter:

Ole Miss student section:

Indiana game:

Stanford/UCLA:

 

[CERU00]

I was just responding to your post. There's a big difference between "counting" and estimating. If I say "maybe 60% capacity" it's an estimate. If I say "there was 5,324 students there today," without knowing the actual # scanned in at the gate, I'd sound foolish, no argument there!

Call it whatever you like any visual estimate is probably +/- 2500 at best.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Call it whatever you like any visual estimate is probably +/- 2500 at best.

Respectfully disagree. That's a HUGE variation right there for a sample that size of about 10K which is located in a defined area. 1000? Sure, I'll give you that, but not 2500.