Why is no one trying to take Amstutz?

[BGBreeze]

Why aren't bigger schools trying to lure Amstutz away from the Univeristy of Little Detroit? He's been successful a lot longer than Brandon, and he's had at least one offer made (or at least alluded to). It doesn't make any sense to me. Does he have some sort of fungal condition that only other AD's know about or somethign?

That's a good question? I heard he gets paid in donuts anyways??

[Flipper]

Top stadium? Peden Stadium in Athens is the nicest MAC stadium I've seen. The Glass Bowl, like its surroundings, is ghetto

Re attendance, I haven't looked at this year's numbers yet, but last year Miami, NIU and Marshall all outdrew UT and BG was within a few hundred of averaging more as well.

[NWLB]

Top stadium? Peden Stadium in Athens is the nicest MAC stadium I've seen. The Glass Bowl, like its surroundings, is ghetto

Re attendance, I haven't looked at this year's numbers yet, but last year Miami, NIU and Marshall all outdrew UT and BG was within a few hundred of averaging more as well.

Valid points. Take them also with the fact that school sits in the middle of a metro area of over 450,000 and the majority of its own alumni, and that they don't fill a 50,000 seat stadium is statement.

[Casualobserver]

The Glass Bowl is widely regarded as the top stadium and atmosphere in the MAC for football. Yes, Miami and Northern outdrew Toledo in 2003 but I am talking about consistently drawing big crowds. Anyone can do well in one good season. I am talking about consistently doing well.

Also, the Glass Bowl only seats 26,000 people. So, I am not sure where this 50,000 seat stuff comes from.

This year it is NIU 27,000 and Marshall 26,000 and Toledo 24,000. Next best is BG with 17,400. In addition, we are at 91% of capacity while the other schools are all less than 80% and in some cases under 60% capacity.

[Dayons_Den]

I would say the Glass Bowl is Half of the best stadium in the MAC.

The press box side is very nice, but on the visitor's side the concessions people are caged in behind fences and the walkways are very narrow.

You may have only been exposed to the home side, venture over sometime and check out the shoddy side that is accross from you.

[Flipper]

I love it when people use terms like "widely regarded". Widely regarded by whom, UT fans? I'm consistently regarded as the best looking man in America by 100% of the people presently sitting in my chair. Now THAT'S an accomplishment!

[NWLB]

The Glass Bowl is widely regarded as the top stadium and atmosphere in the MAC for football. Yes, Miami and Northern outdrew Toledo in 2003 but I am talking about consistently drawing big crowds. Anyone can do well in one good season. I am talking about consistently doing well.

Also, the Glass Bowl only seats 26,000 people. So, I am not sure where this 50,000 seat stuff comes from.

This year it is NIU 27,000 and Marshall 26,000 and Toledo 24,000. Next best is BG with 17,400. In addition, we are at 91% of capacity while the other schools are all less than 80% and in some cases under 60% capacity.

I was saying that you do well compared to the capacity of the stadium you have. However you are in the middle of nearly 65% of your own alumni, in city of 320,000, in a metro area of nearly twice that. If you were really a deep draw in that city, I would think you would fill 50,000 seats. I'm not actually knocking your school as such, more I am pointing out a problem that exists in the entire conference.

I wasn't making fun of your game-day experience either. I've long pointed out that your school started spending real money, and did so consistently long enough, to develop a sound fan base. Your school was winning football games long before it managed to stablize and grow its current fan base. It took adding a lot of the trappings around it to retain those fans.

As I tend to see it, the problem your school has in getting more thans than it does, is the same problem we have down here. We both should be packing people in better than we do, however happy or unhappy with the current numbers we may be.

[BGDrew]

And the problem is definitely not student support. When students alone are able to fill 3/4 of the West side, that speaks volumes for the campus support.

[1987alum]

Back to the subject of the thread ... check out this one ...

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[BGDrew]

Amstutz won't leave. He looks as happy as a fat kid eating cake...wait a minute...

[Flipper]

What kind of cake? I envision the big boy eating a big old slab of chocolate cake with his bare hands. I'll bet he just takes the palm of his hand and crams that thing into his toothy maw and then he spends the next 10 minutes cleaning frosting out of his nose.

I could also see him trying to jam a full sheet of white party cake with butter creme frosting lengthwise into his face. This time the frosting gets in his eyes so he trips over a place kicker and breaks his foot.

[BGDrew]

Or breaks his chair and gets put on the IR.

[Falcon Fanatic]

I love it when people use terms like "widely regarded". Widely regarded by whom, UT fans? I'm consistently regarded as the best looking man in America by 100% of the people presently sitting in my chair. Now THAT'S an accomplishment!

You are 100% hilarious, 100% of the time.

[hammb]

What kind of cake? I envision the big boy eating a big old slab of chocolate cake with his bare hands. I'll bet he just takes the palm of his hand and crams that thing into his toothy maw and then he spends the next 10 minutes cleaning frosting out of his nose.

I could also see him trying to jam a full sheet of white party cake with butter creme frosting lengthwise into his face. This time the frosting gets in his eyes so he trips over a place kicker and breaks his foot.

I like Ice Cream Cake.

[Falconboy]

I actually envy UT in as it relates to him staying at UT no matter what. UT's lucky to have a guy that has no desire to go anywhere else. Wish we had that, but we don't , not yet anyway.