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No butts in the seats and tailgate lot was just as bad!

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JP21:
Bob I agree with you too an extent.  The point is however that when YSU the past two years has needed a nice crowd for that home field advantage, they haven't got it.  Both those games were huge with major playoff implications.  How would that affect your morale as a player busting your butt week in and week out and have very little support from alumni and current students, it's embarrassing.  Bottom line come out and watch the team, anyone can support a winner, true fans support there team winning or losing.

IAA Fan:
Here on this board lies your key:

Let's not cry over it. Worse, let's not attack people over attendance. Neither of these are the same as mentioning attendance.

If you attack someone over some issue (for example attending a ysu game), you have lost them for good. If someone tries to guilt me into coming to a YSU game, I am not going to do it for fear of being embarrassed by some people that I know that may be "regulars" (such as the person that made me feel guilty). Instead, if you tell people how good the team is this year, or maybe mention a couple of awesome players or plays, then you spark interest and they will want to come. In short, it becomes something that people want to attend, rather than feel a sense of obligation to do so.

We had the same conversation at the preseason Penguin Club meeting before the spring game. I feel that the "Will-Call" booth needs to be opened even if we only have 5k to 10k in sales. It should be open if we sell 2 tickets. When fans win the 50/50, the announcement should tell them to go to the will-call booth. It generates a feeling of excitement and desire to attend' also a sense of urgency to do so. The same thing happens here on this board. This is fans website, why would anyone attack anyone else on this board? Obviously it is full of people that care ...try being more of a preacher, and less of a theologian. Don't "tell" a fiend or family member to attend ...rather "invite" them.

guinpen:

--- Quote from: peteonastick on November 02, 2014, 10:44:26 PM ---Geriatrics my friends, geriatrics!!!  You fail to realize that this town is old and the people are old and the fans that went to the games in the 90's when it was popular are now old.  We do not have a young fan base anymore.  No young people moving into the community.  Forget about Poland, Canfield, Mooney, Ursuline fans coming to a YSU game, they don't get it. Geriatric Crowd...do I need to post the picture of the woman crocheting in the stands again? 

GO GUINS!

--- End quote ---

Just got up from my afternoon nap, darn I missed the buffet special again, anyway I wanted to check the board before I go to bed for the night. Yawn!

ValleyTalk:
I get a kick out of all the local fans that are complaining about attendance. Here's a thought, put your money where your mouth is and actually go to the games!

mvfc penguin:
All it takes for "fans" to be more of a factor at home games according to y'all is for the team to be winning. Do you fail to realize that every year under Wolfs tenure the team has increased its win total from years past (3,6,7,8). And the past 3 years the team has been 1 game away from the playoffs. But in those crucial playoff games where the team needed a 'home field crowd' they got nothing. It is in fact a running joke around the community to guess the attendance for the game (last week the pre-game prediction was 5,000) which is such a shame due to the talent level of the team this year as well as the overall record (should be undefeated).

How can you put this on the players, when the players bring 500+ of the "butts in the seats" due to friends and family coming to support them. If the players could pay to have a sellout every home game and have a home atmosphere like they experience on the road, I would be willing to bet any amount of money that they would do that in a heart beat.

The best home atmosphere those boys have had all year was at the end of the Western game when the true fans stayed after the bandwagoners left and the game was given up to a Hail Mary at the end. The players seemed out of sync because they were not used to playing in a home atmosphere like that on offense. Watch the post game interviews from that game, there were a lot of communication errors because the defense was not used to playing in a loud environment such as that.

Every week all everybody needs to do is bring 1 or 2 people, not get black out drunk at the tailgate, make it to the game and all these problems will solved in no time. Well that and our boys making playoffs this year.

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