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goodnews:
We all know why Love has this position.  Can you imagine back in 1997 thinking he was the "Best" candidate?  Do you think it was the time at CSU that set him apart from the other candidates?  He is just another OVERCHAIRED employee that roams the halls of Stambaugh....

petepossy:

--- Quote from: kforbs126 on September 21, 2014, 03:11:13 PM ---I think a lot of the attendance issues goes along with the fact alumni leave the area after graduation.  I know I did.  If there was a large amount of alumni locally I bet it would help attendance.

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Alumni moving has nothing to do with it. YSU is a commuter school with very little sense of school pride by students or alumni. All goes back to marketing.

guinpen:

--- Quote from: goodnews on September 21, 2014, 03:48:22 PM ---We all know why Love has this position.

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I must be the only one who does not - Why?

DavedS:

--- Quote from: seanbryan3 on September 21, 2014, 02:58:32 PM ---That's not too bad I guess for a non conference game against a lower tier team. I did expect more though for a night game!

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Stadium looked more than half-full to me-which is 10.315 so 12k in the seats is believable to me.

guinpen:
No butts in the seats is not a simple problem.

I have been going to YSU fb games since 1971, memory is not what it once was but I do not recall that there was ever a time where the crowds were overflowing. had some nice crowds at Fitch in that late 70's run. Even during the run in the 90's I was shocked at how long it took for the really big crowds to show up and that was only because YSU football was the place to be for the beautiful people (casual fans). Once the winning backed off all those frontrunners started finding excuses for not going. Most of these folks were never true YSU fans.

I was never a tailgater but I seem to recall that over the years restrictions have been put in place that some feel have hampered the experience.

This area has lost a lot of population, certainly this is part of the problem.

This is still a depressed area, lots of folks just cannot justify spending the cost of tickets/parking/concessions when the game is free on TV the same night and the next morning.

Being a commuter school ( yes there are some on campus students ) does play into it. We do not have 13,000 bored kids sitting in their dorms wondering what to do on a Saturday night. They drive in to school each day, a lot then go home and drive to their place of work to pay for school. No shock that they do not want to drive back for a game.

We are in a great football league but I do not think that most people in the area relate or care about these schools. Heck I do not get excited about schools from the dakotas, iowa or missouri.

Not sure how much I put into this osu thing, I live in OH but could not care less for that school. But it seems that for whatever reason lots of people think that being an osu fan is the cool or beautiful thing to do.

Youngstown itself has an image problem and that spills over to YSU

No simple solution either.

Win more games

Some home playoff game would help.

Playing some of those Ohio schools would spark some interest, but as we all know there are some rather large issues there, that I doubt will ever be resolved.

I agree that the athletic department does do a very poor job of drumming up interest. Replace these folks with people that know what they are doing or just fire them and outsource the job as someone suggested.

You need the best players you can get but more local players would help.

I think that JT will be a help because I feel that he will be able to change the perception of YSU that many people have. We are not third rate or even second rate, we are a first rate university with a lot of goods things going on.

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