Hammy cant be serious
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Knows damn well that stands well be mostly empty all season. This way he can later say "look at what I did. Look at the efforts I made."
We absolutely have an attendance problem but the Pitt and Boise games both would have had 30K plus inside the Joan.
I think a 30k crowd for Boise would depend partially on what we do in the first 3 games. Heck the Pitt crowd could depend on what happens in Greenville
Fair points although I think the crowd for Pitt would be good regardless of how we played against ECU.
If we were 0-3 heading into Boise we may have a tough time cracking 30K. I suspect enough people would come just because it was Boise that we would, though.
Anybody think that whatever decision "Hammy" makes, the exact same people would criticize it?
Boise on a Friday night will be lucky to draw 28000. They won’t bring any fans and we killed our out of town attendance by moving the game to Friday
I don't think so. Many have pointed to this game for some time; and even early on, there were rumblings of moving the date. Many coming likely made plans accordingly.
Thankfully both Midland and SV play out of town that Friday, so that will help as well. jmo
Weeknight games ALWAYS hurt attendance sans wvu/cincy. A team 2000 miles away isn’t going to bring fans.
you are correct. and I think Thursday and Friday night games are a little different than other weeknight games. silly to lump them all in a statement "weeknight games" .
Agree. We don’t have a game on our schedule in recent history that comps well with Boise on a Friday night.
Stop bitching Karen, you have several months to prepare for the game.
Really, so many questions about this HERD team going into the season, that its hard to be too confident about the team's chances in any of the first four (non conference) games.
Opener at ECU. Pirates improved greatly as the season drew to a close. They return a gunslinger QB who threw for over 3,000 yds. last year along with 3 top receivers and 3 experienced running backs. If the game turns into a shoot out, can HERD O led by an erratic and inconsistent QB score enough?
Home opener with Pitt. Panthers will always have enough talent and Beef in both lines. That's 2 positions where the Herd has some serious questions and looks in 2020 to be undersized, especially versus a Power foe.
Away game at Ohio U. Although the Bob Kitties lost their long time and prolific leader at QB, the HERD under Doc always seem to struggle versus OU, particularly at Peden. Frank Solich always seems to take Doc to the Coaching Woodshed!
Home against Boise. Broncos always seem to have plenty of high Quality talent. Won't be fazed by the JOAN. Boise has a history of going on the road, or to neutral sites, and whipping :"bigger fish", BCS and/or Power foes, both in the regular season or in Major Bowl games.
HERD starts 0-4 and with two of our better CUSA games, WKU and LA Tech, being on the road, and the least of Hammy's problems for the remaining home games will be that of maintaining proper social distancing in the JOAN!!
Opener at ECU. Pirates improved greatly as the season drew to a close. They return a gunslinger QB who threw for over 3,000 yds. last year along with 3 top receivers and 3 experienced running backs. If the game turns into a shoot out, can HERD O led by an erratic and inconsistent QB score enough?
Home opener with Pitt. Panthers will always have enough talent and Beef in both lines. That's 2 positions where the Herd has some serious questions and looks in 2020 to be undersized, especially versus a Power foe.
Away game at Ohio U. Although the Bob Kitties lost their long time and prolific leader at QB, the HERD under Doc always seem to struggle versus OU, particularly at Peden. Frank Solich always seems to take Doc to the Coaching Woodshed!
Home against Boise. Broncos always seem to have plenty of high Quality talent. Won't be fazed by the JOAN. Boise has a history of going on the road, or to neutral sites, and whipping :"bigger fish", BCS and/or Power foes, both in the regular season or in Major Bowl games.
HERD starts 0-4 and with two of our better CUSA games, WKU and LA Tech, being on the road, and the least of Hammy's problems for the remaining home games will be that of maintaining proper social distancing in the JOAN!!
I can’t make it either way but to think that boise will be a sellout is misguided.
Who claimed it would be a sellout?
The 30k number was brought up if we were 0-3. We would be lucky to get that if we were 3-0
Probably more than 30k. Our fans are event fans. We'll pack out for P5 teams.
We sold out Louisville and even stripped the stadium. That was for a terrible team that just lost to Akron and our starting QB was out.
I have heard from someone with knowledge in the athletic department that the possible maximum that will be admitted is 12-16k. Under the same scale I was told that Tennessee with the over 100k stadium will be allowed to admit 38k
Potential fan attendance for the Boise game are all rumors until football comes around. I do agree that playing a marquee game for us on a Friday night is an attendance killer.
Can only speak for myself but I'll drive 2 hours + for the Pitt game but will sit at home and watch the Boise tilt.
I tend to agree with you, we packed the joint for a Sunday afternoon game that was on national TV via BTN with Purdue a few years back.I want to say we had 30,000 for the NCSU game two years ago for a contest we all knew we were going to lose.
We sold out that Louisville game before it was announced that our QB was out and we had no prayer (they held that announcement until a few hours before kickoff). And it was really their fans that pushed it to a sellout (Beyond our usual 32-33k), they had thousands there beyond their allotment. We were surrounded by red at midfield.
I had season tix 28 rows up on the 50 yard line on the east side. We had U of L fans all around us. I asked a few how they got those seats and most simply went on Herdzone and bought them. They were left unsold to Herd fans.... I gave those seats up before last season. I was at game last year with a ticket someone had given me. It was a chairback. I hate those seats so I went over and sat in my old seat. I can't believe that 50 yard line seats that I gave up had not been taken by someone. In fact. I noticed that the 4 seats behind me and 2 seats next to me were vacant as well. Those too had been occupied by relatively longtime Herd season ticket holders the previous year
OMG, I am so shocked too! Lets blame Doc and Hamrick!!
Your observations and experience, Herdmeister, and no doubt many, many more similar ones of other Herd fans no doubt help explain why Hamrick and the Athletic Department have been totally MUM on season ticket sales the last couple seasons or so.
