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And they'll be checking right back in when we starting winning again. The hire could've been worse. I trust Jeremy. Hell, shouldn't take much to win this shithole of a conference we're in.
The big thing is we've been losing too many "local" kids to La Tech, ULL, Tulane, USA, Troy, UAB...I think Will Hall w/ his strong MS HS connections, will start signing a lot of kids who in years past have signed w/ our peers. I'm curious to know how much we're gonna pay him and who he'll fill his staff with.
"The Birmingham Bowl announced 27,193 while actual attendance was 9,679. The New Mexico Bowl announced a crowd of 18,823; a San Diego Union-Tribune reporter at the game estimated actual attendance at 6,000."
Regional matchups might be better attended games but it doesn't completely solve the issue. Game experience in a empty 70K stadium built in the 1940's isn't appealing. I've always thought that the MLS is missing the boat with the bowl season. You have these fairly new, state of the art stadiums covering everywhere from Florida to California that average around 20K in size that just sit empty with the exception of Toyota Stadium in Frisco. If the NCAA gets real about bowl attendance they should start partnering with the MLS and start using better stadiums that have a smaller footprint. It won't work every single time but if Tulane v USM ended up in Frisco instead of Fort Worth last week it would have been actually soldout with standing room only areas filled. Put a mileage cap on how far a venue can be from a school as well. Sending Kent St and Utah St(each around 1200 miles from Frisco, TX) instead of Tulane and USM (each around 500 miles from Frisco, TX) doesn't make sense.
Reminds me of USM's attendance figures. They "announced" around 20-25k for the UTEP/WKU/UAB games this year but anyone with eyeballs know there wasn't more than 10k actual ass cheeks in the stands. Worst attended games this year since 2012.
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