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Why was the RAC so quiet?

Zak57

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Seemed like an awfully quiet crowd. Ace debut, a Friday night, and hopefully the best team we've had in the Pike era. Seemed like a funeral last night and game wasn't really close at any point.
 
Building got loud when it had to. Pikes priming of the crowd usually works. As for why.. game was never really in doubt. As you’ve read, defense was not good. I think the crowd is at its best when the d is hair on fire for possessions at a time. The loudness after a bucket is short lived
 
PSU is good and games have been dogfights last five years. Will be a blast. SHU always is
Now will RU actually sell tix or let Seatgeek or others manipulate crowd?
 
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I agree it was pretty quiet especially in the 2nd half. I attributed it to the comfortable margin of victory and RU’s lack of intensity on defense, The RAC crowd usually responds to great defense and there was very little on display in the second half!
 
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St. Peters game, crowd needed to be louder; this one was pretty much done - until it wasn't; and with a little over 4 minutes left everyone woke up (including the D) for a few minutes. So will see on Wed with the later start time if fans can get in sooner; place fills up (kind of) by start time, but not so much - including student section - when team comes out. Thought Friday's game (with Ace) might get more fans in earlier; but that didn't happen; maybe, hopefully will be better by 1st conference game.
 
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PSU is good and games have been dogfights last five years. Will be a blast. SHU always is
Now will RU actually sell tix or let Seatgeek or others manipulate crowd?
There are zero tickets for sale through Rutgers for any game this season.
 
Don't be naive. There's ample evidence that Rutgers dumps tickets to "secondary ticket providers" to try to sell for premium prices.
Nothing to do with being naive. . Will Rutgers put any tickets on sale this year? The answer is no and that is what I wrote.
 
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BTW - NOT every BTN broadcast is the same. Sometimes you can clearly hear the crowd, even early in the season AND sometimes it doesn't sound loud during B1G play. I think it all depends where they send what equipment, or something like that, and it drives me nuts. You'll even hear the announcers going gaga over the crowd, while watching on TV, and be thinking "huh?" sometimes.
 
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Now you can ask this same question after this one; not sure why the students are just not into it yet; granted not an overly exciting game - but when the loudest it got was when the young man was dancing - and toward the end when things got a little closer - just a pretty low key building right now. Expect it to get back to normal in December.
 
Now you can ask this same question after this one; not sure why the students are just not into it yet; granted not an overly exciting game - but when the loudest it got was when the young man was dancing - and toward the end when things got a little closer - just a pretty low key building right now. Expect it to get back to normal in December.

I dont think the RAC recovered from Covid. The 2019-2020 season was so special. No games in 20-21. 21-22 we suffered thru ridiculous mask and vax mandates. 22-23 we beat Purdue but crapped out by seasons end with a bad offense. 23-24 was a giant misstep.

But mostly the games are against nobodies with an uneven performances
 
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