CMU Attendance only 11,200

San Diego Falcon · Post by **San Diego Falcon** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:10 am

A big game on national TV (sort of) with their team in 1st place? That sucks.

jpfalcon09 · Post by **jpfalcon09** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:56 am

The weather was terrible and I bet 60% of the students don't care about the team. Nothing new for the MAC.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:03 am

I'd give a million dollars to anyone that can prove there were actually 11K there.

svillefalcon · Post by **svillefalcon** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:42 am

jpfalcon09 wrote:The weather was terrible and I bet 60% of the students don't care about the team. Nothing new for the MAC.

I was at the game and actually about 80% of the attendance was their students. I gotta give it to them, they have the best student section in the MAC, hands down.

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:54 am

I remeber in 2002, we played Eastern for our last home game. The weather was horrendous and the crowd was sparce. A couple weeks later Urbie was in Utah.

This embarassing turnout for such a huge game could prompt CMU Coach Brian Kelly to make a similar move. Rumor has it MSU is interested in him along with Mariucci if John L. Smith gets the boot.

BGSUFootballFan · Post by **BGSUFootballFan** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:07 am

TG1996 wrote:I'd give a million dollars to anyone that can prove there were actually 11K there.

Yeah no doubt, I was wondering if thats how many tickets they sold, because it looked like 5 or 6,000 tops on my TV!

jerzyboy247 · Post by **jerzyboy247** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:55 am

Actually that number figure seemed about right yesturday. As svillefalcon said most of their fans were student, but a real good portion left after halftime. I was disappointed with the crowd turnout in Mt. Pleasant especially when the announcer said that the average turnout for CMU students for home football games is 10,000.

San Diego Falcon · Post by **San Diego Falcon** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:01 pm

I guess BGSU and CMU can battle it out for the Division I-AA championship in a few years

It's the Journey... · Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:25 pm

I hope the MAC commmissioner is looking at attendance figures when he is working out the league schedule next year. This should be a clear kick in the head before he bends over and takes it from the TV networks. Weeknight games will KILL the MAC in division 1-A football.

UK Peregrine · Post by **UK Peregrine** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:59 pm

San Diego Falcon wrote:I guess BGSU and CMU can battle it out for the Division I-AA championship in a few years

along with Akron....and EMU....and Kent.....and Ball State......and Miami.....and Buffalo....

No one is moving!

BGSUVA · Post by **BGSUVA** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:12 am

this is why weeknight games blow (and also have a game 7 of the NLCS probably didn't help things). How do they expect to have good fan turnouts when every game is in the middle of the week? I agree, the league commish is at fault here. UVA had their lowest turnout in years as well last night.

BGSUVA · Post by **BGSUVA** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:23 am

the only good things about Thursday night games are

Erin Andrews...

Falcon Fanatic · Post by **Falcon Fanatic** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:54 am

TG1996 wrote:I'd give a million dollars to anyone that can prove there were actually 11K there.

Wow...you have a million dollars to give? You must have given a real chunk of change to the Sebo!!

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:49 am

Falcon Fanatic wrote:
TG1996 wrote:I'd give a million dollars to anyone that can prove there were actually 11K there.
Wow...you have a million dollars to give? You must have given a real chunk of change to the Sebo!!

I bought 50 door handles, half a hallway worth of tile floor, and three urinals.

Then I found this bridge in New York City.....

jacojdm · Post by **jacojdm** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:24 pm

BGSUVA wrote:the only good things about Thursday night games are
Erin Andrews...