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YSUFANSINCE1990:
 There seems to be a lot of conversation about Saturday's lack of attendance Saturday, I heard Dan Rivers on WKBN talking about it this morning.  First, we haven't made the playoffs and won, thats the biggest reason.

But I think the other problem is the weak non-conference schedule.  I have no issue with playing Duquesne, it balances out playing an FBS school.  But we should not be playing Butler and St Francis, it does nothing for us.  Butler struggled to beat D-3 Wittenberg, fans are too smart to buy into coming to these games.   I see where Southern Illinois beat Eastern Illinois Saturday, and North Dakota State played at a solid Weber State.  Why don't we schedule home and home with the likes of Delaware, Villanova, James Madison and so on.

Our home schedule this year is so bad, especially since North Dakota State and South Dakota State are on the road.   I know some get tired of hearing about the Tressel era, but he would play one D-2, then schedule some good teams.  I remember playing Stephen F Austin home and away, Towson State home and away as well.   

My sense is YSU may be afraid to lose, but going to Missouri State at 3-1, will we really know anything about this team?

HappyPenguin:
I'm with you I'd rather see a good game. I've heard from a couple people the AD schedules in this way to get 3 "gimme" D1 wins, thinking there's a magic number of those needed to get a playoff berth.

Actual attendance be damned, the big-money tickets are already sold for the most part. Why would they care about walk-ups they practically give those away with BOGO's and Giant Eagle days lol

Look how much advertising is around the stadium and in the program. Thats the focus.

guinpen:
People complained when we played a D2 game, that was why we did not make the playoffs, so they said. So we scheduled 1-AA schools albeit not upper tier, and guess what, people still complain about the schedule. Seems people just like to complain. Say what you want but I believe that Butler made the playoffs last year and we did not. The Dukes gave 1A Buffalo all they could handle.

Maybe I am preaching to the choir on this board but I do not go to YSU games to see Butler, WIU SIU or anyone else on the schedule. I GO TO WATCH THE PENGUINS! I do not know if people out there are lazy, spoiled or what, but this lack of attendance is ridicules. Those players bust their butts and to come out and see that many fans in the stands is sad very sad.

Wolf will not be here forever, do you really think we will attract  a top notch coach when they look at butts in the seats. Same thing with the top notch players.

spend less time looking for excuses and get to the games people.

Wick250:
If you have been around long enough, you remember that YSU was a basketball school thirty years ago.  Unless there was real bad weather, we drew around 3,000 on weekdays and 5,000 on weekends.  YSU basketball was an important community event.  What happened?  We starting to stink and stink and stink some more.  Whole generations lost interest.  Basketball is now so irrelevant that even the two center sections in the gym, reserved for high paying Penguin club members, are often over half empty.  If we draw over 2,000 to a game several times a year, some people get excited.

I have been afraid that the same process would happen to football, and it has.  A decade and a half of losing and bad football has created massive indifference among casual fans.  The failures of Heacock and Wofford over fourteen years have cultivated that apathy.  That is compounded by every major power being on tv each week.  Of course those who read and post here are not impacted by any of this, but we are too few to fill up that stadium.  Would an attractive home schedule help?  I really don't know, but playing three junk games will not poke a hole in the climate of apathy that now surrounds this program.  (One such game is fine to balance off the money game.)

guinpen:
Wick, I have been going to both BB and FB for 40 or so years now and you may be right.

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