Coach Brandon Quotes: Omar Praise, Jordan Injury, D Concerns

[Schadenfreude]

that cant be can it? you telling me that we have less than 10,000 people that live in BG? I dunno if I buy that......

Remember that we have students that commute daily from Findlay, Fostoria, Tiffin, Fremont, Toledo, Sylvania, Walbridge, Northwood, Elmore, and other small towns in Northwest Ohio. Not every student at main campus lives on-campus or in the numbered streets.

Bingo.

[orangeandbrown]

Let me straighten this out.

The 29,636 figure is for the City of Bowling Green. The census counts where you live on a date certain--its in April, I believe. Point is, its when classes are in session. So, within the 29,636, you include any student who lives on campus or in an off-campus apartment. You DO NOT include any student who commutes to BG from a nearby community.

The basic notion is that the city is split evenly between students and non-students. Exact figures are harder to figure out. Of the 20,000 students, about 14,000 would be in the BG Census.

For the purposes of this discussion, however, SCHAD is right, you don't add 20,000 to 29,000. There is a great deal of overlap.

[UK Peregrine]

All those commuters need to be subtracted from whatever the enrollment figure was in 2000 to get at how many of the 29,000-plus city residents were students.

That's right, I forgot that BG has a lot of commuters. So, what I get from all of this is that the University students make up about half of the BG city population and that OSU has a much bigger population base to draw upon.

[BGSUfanatUT]

Yes yes, it all makes much sense now. You will have to forgive me, I'm at work, adn therefor, my brain doesnt function right. But I'm glad you all see the point I was trying to make. Yes it is bad that we must beg, but really, its not THAT bad. And as hammb said, there are ppl that attend games at bigger schools from much further away, and in much larger quantities from these distances. My post was just that of local peaople, that doesnt even add the commuters to the games, which makes the numbers even more distinctive. We need a larger fan base, but we are doing pretty good despite the size of our community. Plus, places liek osu that have so many more students, have more alumni as a result, and when they move away from columbus for the real world jobs and such, thier fanbase spreads, and they now have more ambassadors (aka brainwashers in osu's case) to further increase their fanbase. The best way to do this is to get the curent students more involved so that when they leave here they think, "wow, i miss falcon football, I need to go back for soem games." which will lead them to bringing soem friends with them that are not familiar with BG, and that will spark their interest, b/c no one can come to a game here and not love the Falcons, then the whoel thing snowballs, and we sellout everygame.


wow, that looks good on paper, now gettign it to happen is the hard part.

~Shu