YSU Penguin Athletics > YSU Penguin Athletics
No butts in the seats and tailgate lot was just as bad!
pen4life:
Of course you dont care about the Dakotas they are not our team, YSU is our team THAT's who we care about THAT's why we go to the games because its our team playing. And it doesnt matter if they are playing Notre Dame or Notre Dame on Lake Erie ( look it up). The problem is we dont have real football fans here, they are sheep dazzled by"big time football" but they really dont love football or their local teams . They are motivated by a need to be part of something bigger and larger (ie the Columbus State buckeyes ) and sadly most never set foot on that campus as a student. Fans , real fans dont need to be sold a "product" the love of a team is either there or it isnt. Todays turnout was pathetic and embarrassing. This team deserves better than this. Ive been following YSU since 1966 and missed about a half dozen home games during that time. There will always be a core of true fans who really do love the game and their team and who will show up win or lose no matter who we are playing.
guinpen:
--- Quote from: pen4life on November 01, 2014, 10:39:48 PM ---Of course you dont care about the Dakotas they are not our team, YSU is our team THAT's who we care about THAT's why we go to the games because its our team playing. And it doesnt matter if they are playing Notre Dame or Notre Dame on Lake Erie ( look it up). The problem is we dont have real football fans here, they are sheep dazzled by"big time football" but they really dont love football or their local teams . They are motivated by a need to be part of something bigger and larger (ie the Columbus State buckeyes ) and sadly most never set foot on that campus as a student. Fans , real fans dont need to be sold a "product" the love of a team is either there or it isnt. Todays turnout was pathetic and embarrassing. This team deserves better than this. Ive been following YSU since 1966 and missed about a half dozen home games during that time. There will always be a core of true fans who really do love the game and their team and who will show up win or lose no matter who we are playing.
--- End quote ---
well said
ysufan0505:
--- Quote from: pioneer9 on November 01, 2014, 10:34:19 PM ---First off, the reason high school games are well attended (for the most part) is because they double as junior high and high school social events. The kids got nothing else to do on a friday night but go out to their school's game, do the whole look-how-many-friends-I'm-sitting-with-cus-I'm-cool thing, and oh btw mommy and daddy come along cus I can't drive yet. A majority of them don't even watch the game and typically end up wandering from one side of the stadium to the other... AKA there is no real correlation between YSU football and HS football when it come to the quality of the product. It's just the nature of the beast.
As for the reasons the attendance sucks, there's just a general sense of I DO NOT CARE. The university doesn't care because I've seen marginal D3 schools with better publicizing and marketing. I've dealt with YSU's marketing department in the past (and I've done a fair share of marketing myself) and I have no idea what those guys do all day outside of sit in a chair, walk across the street to McD's for lunch break and then come back only to sit in that same chair until its time to make the commute home. OUR... MARKETING... SUCKS. Period. I mean, we can barely fill the student section?! Really?! A school of 15,000 and you can't even fill a section that probably holds 200? I don't care if it's a "commuter school"... I'm sorry but at that point you don't deserve your job.
Why don't they reach out to youth programs, church groups, sports programs, and school teams? The only time I was part of a YSU football event where a youth team was involved was when WE initiated. Had to call them up and request and they were like, "oh... yeah... that's a good idea. Let's do it." Heck, I should have asked for commission on that sale. Also, what do they do on campus to promote the team? From everything I've heard, absolutely nothing.
Either way, RESULTS are RESULTS. You suck, you get fired. End of story. So YSU better figure out what the heck's going on or start creating a new position for marketing or something because today was EMBARRASSING.
Finally, while I do think that winning/postseason appearances are certainly big when it comes to attendance, I don't think it's the cause of just how BAD it's gotten here. Look at teams like Liberty University (AKA 1st Prize for Being Consistently Mediocre) has the 11th highest average attendance in FCS. Add teams like Tennessee State (another frequent bubble team) who is #10 on that list and I think it's hard to blame all the attendance woes on the lack of postseason success.
I just hope they figure this crap out soon because I hate feeling like a lunatic yelling in an empty stadium every Saturday.
--- End quote ---
Great point
ysufan0505:
Speaking of students. I wish the student section wasn't on the east side. It's stupid. Give them a small section on the west side, preferably by the tunnel where the team comes out. Marketing department sucks and we all know it. They all need fired. I can find a man off the street that does the same job as they do! It's embarrassing...... The team deserves better than this. Unreal, 7-2 and on the verge of the playoffs and we draw 1,000 people.
ysufan0505:
Announced attendance today...... 8,274 LOL
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version