Football is a loser, especially in FCS. Nobody cares anymore. The 90's are gone.
Nice Troll,, MBB sucks, always has, and always will. Lost in round 2 to a team that Larry, Moe, Curly, Stevie Wonder and Stephen Hawking (RIP) could have given a better game,, Just sayin
And YSU had a home football playoff game and had 6,000 people. I love football but the interest is gone.
The interest is gone partly because of the team's performance and partly because people have been conditioned to get things for free. Who's been to a game where people openly ask for free tickets in the tailgate lot? When there is zero financial commitment there is zero interest.
There are still enough people to fill the stadium and there have been several years the football team deserved it, but the mental retardation in our area is high when it comes to understanding quality football, so a Mooney Vs Ursuline game will ALWAYS fill the stands because all of the Uncle Rico's have to re-live their glory days.
Most of the people in the area are also uneducated and they don't have any loyalty to the local university. As a matter of fact, I bet you that if you polled people in the Youngstown area, they would think YSU is a community college. I can only come up with 3 reasons why they would send their kids to Can't State or to the Zits: 1.They think YSU's level of sports is lower and they have a better chance of being noticed, which is a bad assumption. 2. Their kid is stupid and has to get a liberal arts degree because they can't handle the rigor of the more technical majors offered at YSU, or 3. Parents are uneducated themselves and support that their kid wants to major in Feminine Literature, which is a degree everyone is looking to hire right out of college.
Maybe the free tickets from the Youngstown Pride games back in the 80's trained the fanbase like a Pavlov experiment, but at the end of the day ZERO financial commitment gets you zero people in the stands. Look at Nebraska, they sell out no matter how bad the team is. Don't even say there is nothing to do in Nebraska, because there is also nothing to do in Youngstown. Bottom line is that there are too many Uncle Rico's and it will be difficult to attract them unless you are winning consistently and then they would still be clueless about the level of football being played.
The older people that filled the stands and understood what all of it was about are either in elderly homes or dead. There are very few left.