Anyone else watching this? This place is packed and they are explosive. Remember when they used to be a bottom feeder.
We really did get left behind.
We really did get left behind.
Memphis is blowing my mind
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They offered discounted tickets and Fed Ex bought thousands and gave them away.
$9 tickets.
if we played any conference team in a meaningful top 25 matchup it’d be packed to the brim too.
if we played any conference team in a meaningful top 25 matchup it’d be packed to the brim too.
Given the Huntington economy, and games against teams that might as well be listed as FROM PARTS UNKNOWN, $9 tickets might be a decent idea.
It's THE AMERICAN. Say what you want, but the American conference is on the rise. Very good football teams and the fans are starting to realize it.
It's hard to argue. Who would have ever thought SMU@Memphis would be the Saturday night primetime ABC game.
They've been relatively good to very good over the last several years. Not sure what you getting at.
At first when half our conference went to the AAC I didn't think it was any better and for a time that case could be made. It really can't anymore. The AAC overall plays a better more exciting brand of football. They have or have had multiple teams ranked at the same time over the last two seasons. UCF I think started off this year ranked. I believe UC is currently ranked and going into tonight SMU was 15th and Memphis 22nd.
Our brand is boring with a bunch of teams your average Saturday couch fans could care less about. We were one of the only teams people would stop and watch in tv and now we're on FB.
they also have a TV home with.......drum roll....ESPN
I’m sure the AAC powers that be know that was a mistake and wish they had Stadium and Facebook as their primary outlets. Lol!
While I do like the ease of access to watch Marshall anywhere at any time on any device I have. Not having a network that is pushing you is killing us.
The feel of watching our games now is if you were watching IVY League or low level FCS. Sometimes D-II.
From camera angles, signal strength, and the high school crowds we play in front of on the road.
Marshall Football right now is the "tree in the woods".
Need a "brace yourselves" meme, with the 2nd line saying "Supa Fan A-A-Ron just read that post"
That's all well and good. Some fans are just happy to be fans and honestly wouldn't care if we were in the NAIA or were a club team. They are just happy to be fans. I can understand that and whatever. They view everything in a vacuum. However they should also see where the rest of us are coming from. We are interested in seeing Marshall climb and be among the best not only in the G5, but in college football.
We win ugly games against bad teams, but lately when we play the better part FBS teams we get exposed and looked overmatched. That never used to be the case. Beating Rice and ODU dosn't mean you're a good team. It just means where better than the bottom.
That's where Marshall football is right now. We're better than the bottom, but we're not close to the top and I am just speaking of the G5. As we currently sit now. If Marshall played in the AAC we would be in the bottom 3rd of that conference. I hate saying it that and I have been arguing the contrary since they left. Mostly because that conference has been real top heavy, but that isn't the case anymore.
We have played in a crap conference for so long it has dragged us down with it. There isn't any team(s) that push our coaching staff and administration. We're like a starting QB that has no backup. No matter what happens there's no real threat of being benched. Doc can go out there and play clock ball for 2.5 quarters and it doesn't matter at the end of the day. There is no one in that front office waiting for him to get back to ask him why or demand he gets more aggressive out there. The aggression we played with in 2013 and 2014 has completely disappeared from this program. Bowl games are the the goal. Not championships. I remember a time when were were building a program to keep moving up and compete with the big boys. Now if we can just be better than the F_Us we're cool. Call me what you want, but there should never be a scenario where ODU and Charlotte belong on the same field as Marshall from a talent and skill perspective. We have got to be better than programs less than or right around 10 years old.
Usually both are indicators of a good team.
I remember Tressell's ohio state teams being about as boring as you can be...often ranked.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve read on this board in a long time.
That's part of the issue with the program right now. There is no other expectation to be more than a bow team in perhaps the worst and most unexciting conference in the FBS.
We are in a rut and settling for what you typed.
Clearly, you never read what you post.
Cut Coach some slack. He's getting all emotional over the fact that fans aren't calling for an extension on John's contract over the epic win against Div I powerhouse, 0-9 Rice.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxo2dt6xudgfv9v/Photo Nov 03, 21 22 42.jpg?dl=0
Von Frankenshtien : Whose brain? What name?
Igor: uhhhhh...Abby.
VF: Last name? (paraphrasing here)
I: .....Normal.
VF: you allowed me to put an abnormal brain into my creation?
If John ends up leaving the HC position at Marshall, will Hamrick's dad also be making the next hire?
I don’t think anyone with the last name Hamrick will be making the next HC hire for the football team.
So you are confirming the buddy retirement pact?
I'm not confirming anything. I'm giving you my opinion of how I think things will play out.
This again?
Memphis papered the house with $9 or free tickets, depending on the source and had, in one of the most light weeks this late in the season, a nice DAY. A nice DAY and a nice PROGRAM are light years different.
Over the last few years they have been drawing an unaudited average in the high 20s. Their previous home game to this one they played before 21K empties.
Fact is the SEC school you went to, or wished you did, rules Memphis. Always has, always will.
Memphis papered the house with $9 or free tickets, depending on the source and had, in one of the most light weeks this late in the season, a nice DAY. A nice DAY and a nice PROGRAM are light years different.
Over the last few years they have been drawing an unaudited average in the high 20s. Their previous home game to this one they played before 21K empties.
Fact is the SEC school you went to, or wished you did, rules Memphis. Always has, always will.
I simply can't understand why you chose to just post outright false data all the time. To be posting here you have to have Internet access. If you have Internet access it is very easy to look up accurate information instead of just making stuff up.
According to the NCAA website, Memphis is averaging over 40,000 this year. In the previous three years they averaged just over 30k last year, over 36k the year before, and over 37k the year before that.
Do you just figure that you can make stuff up and no one will doubt you? News flash, based on your posting history, everyone doubts you.
I used the box scores from the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s website.
Liberty Bowl Stadium capacity: 59,308
Ole Miss 44,107 (and see what I said about who rules Memphis)
Southern 34,487
Navy 33,909
Tulane 30,221 (do the math, genius)
SMU 59,506
Mercer 33, 667
Georgia State 27,678
South Alabama 27,765
UCONN 27, 581
UCF (then #10 and undefeated) 38,831
Tulsa 27,127
Houston 27,790
UL-Monroe 10,263
UCLA 46,291
Southern Ill. 41,584
Navy (ranked) 40,177
Tulane 17,989
SMU 35,329
ECU 41,517
AFAIK, the NCAA does not even publish attendance numbers. And remember, ALL attendance numbers everywhere are unaudited, and as pointed out by another poster, not me, this was a papered house with $9 tickets.
Memphis’ business plan is simple. Play an SEC team with local traction (Tennessee, either Mississippi, Arkansas, even UK) and sell tickets to the away fans. And then hit up the local companies in that regional commercial center to paper the house a couple times, and accept that most of the time you are playing before a sea of empties.
It is what the AAC is all about. In cities. Not significant in those cities.
Liberty Bowl Stadium capacity: 59,308
Ole Miss 44,107 (and see what I said about who rules Memphis)
Southern 34,487
Navy 33,909
Tulane 30,221 (do the math, genius)
SMU 59,506
Mercer 33, 667
Georgia State 27,678
South Alabama 27,765
UCONN 27, 581
UCF (then #10 and undefeated) 38,831
Tulsa 27,127
Houston 27,790
UL-Monroe 10,263
UCLA 46,291
Southern Ill. 41,584
Navy (ranked) 40,177
Tulane 17,989
SMU 35,329
ECU 41,517
AFAIK, the NCAA does not even publish attendance numbers. And remember, ALL attendance numbers everywhere are unaudited, and as pointed out by another poster, not me, this was a papered house with $9 tickets.
Memphis’ business plan is simple. Play an SEC team with local traction (Tennessee, either Mississippi, Arkansas, even UK) and sell tickets to the away fans. And then hit up the local companies in that regional commercial center to paper the house a couple times, and accept that most of the time you are playing before a sea of empties.
It is what the AAC is all about. In cities. Not significant in those cities.
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