First Half Reactions from IPFW game

[david aka the TYZ]

Anthony Buford made numerous comments on the attendance and the lack of energy in the crowd, especially after half time. He said when the Bearcats came out for the start of the second, it felt dead in the building. I hear people say all the time that the team needs to give something for the fans to cheer about not the other way around. In my opinion, it works both ways. The team was up double digits in the second half and the crowd should have been pumped up and making it as hard as possible on IPFW. Right now this team is not getting any help from the crowd and that is a shame. This team plays hard and plays together. It is easy to support them.

I am going to the game tomorrow and sitting in the student section with my brother. He got us tickets Wednesday or Thursday and we are sitting in the fourth row of section 129 (middle section of student section). When I was a student (1999-2004), I wouldn't have been able to even think about sitting in 129 or 113 if I didn't get tickets the day they were available and my freshman year, you didn't get tickets unless you camped out. It is sad that there isn't more support from the students. What else are you going to do on a Monday night?

Cincinnati (the city) fans suck plain and simple. Our fans don't make noise unless there's a highlight or a chance to boo. I sit in the north end zone and after one of the touchdowns I turned around and there were a good number of people not standing and cheering. I was a the BBall game as well and yeah there was no energy. I was in the upper deck and it was dead silent (until I yelled out about a moving screen to no avail). The students aren't turning out, the sweaters don't cheer and the casual fans seem content to sit and complain about how we're not the same team as when Huggins was here. We did a pretty good crowd response after a stoppage in play in the first half after a good run of hustle from the team. This city respects that and that is what will bring fans back to this team, but it won't happen overnight. I hate to say but until we have a 12-1 type record the average "fan" isn't paying attention. Look at the crowd last night at the football game. Lots of empty seats that were sold. Its one thing not to buy a ticket to watch a bad team, but it's another not to use a ticket you've already bought. And I don't buy weather as an excuse. It wasn't that cold and I've been to events much colder that got good crowds.

 

[JasonS]

I sit in the north endzone as well and unfortunately for us, our group of 10, was only 6 last night. Everyone in my group that couldn't come had really good reasons, but how many of those who didn't show up did? My guess is not many.

 

[psax889906]

Cincinnati (the city) fans suck plain and simple. Our fans don't make noise unless there's a highlight or a chance to boo. I sit in the north end zone and after one of the touchdowns I turned around and there were a good number of people not standing and cheering. I was a the BBall game as well and yeah there was no energy. I was in the upper deck and it was dead silent (until I yelled out about a moving screen to no avail). The students aren't turning out, the sweaters don't cheer and the casual fans seem content to sit and complain about how we're not the same team as when Huggins was here. We did a pretty good crowd response after a stoppage in play in the first half after a good run of hustle from the team. This city respects that and that is what will bring fans back to this team, but it won't happen overnight. I hate to say but until we have a 12-1 type record the average "fan" isn't paying attention. Look at the crowd last night at the football game. Lots of empty seats that were sold. Its one thing not to buy a ticket to watch a bad team, but it's another not to use a ticket you've already bought. And I don't buy weather as an excuse. It wasn't that cold and I've been to events much colder that got good crowds.

I was actually okay (not necessarily happy) with the student turn out at yesterdays game. Considering it was an afternoon game with a football game later that evening, I thought the turnout wasn't too bad.

Agree with your overall point, though. I was also in the upper deck (Sec 221) and tried getting involved in some of the chants and cheers that the student section and cheerleaders were attempting to start but nobody would participate up there.

 

[david aka the TYZ]

I have six seats total and I've had trouble giving away the tickets when someone backs out. The Syracuse game I had a seat go unused. My friends have four seats and three of the six games two of them have gone unused. It will be very interesting, unfortunately, to see how many season tickets we sell next year. As far as I understand it, the bowl credit that we pay for in advance gets credited towards next year's season tickets or forfeited if the team doesn't make a bowl game. That $50 loss per ticket might entice a few people to go ahead and repurchase tickets. But I got to think of the roughly 20,000 season tickets we sold, we'd be lucky to get 15,000 to repurchase. I hope I'm wrong, but I've heard plenty of people ready to bail on their season tickets.

 

[david aka the TYZ]

I was actually okay (not necessarily happy) with the student turn out at yesterdays game. Considering it was an afternoon game with a football game later that evening, I thought the turnout wasn't too bad.

Agree with your overall point, though. I was also in the upper deck (Sec 221) and tried getting involved in some of the chants and cheers that the student section and cheerleaders were attempting to start but nobody would participate up there.

I was in 220 and yeah you feel like an idiot being the only one yelling.

 

[JasonS]

I have six seats total and I've had trouble giving away the tickets when someone backs out. The Syracuse game I had a seat go unused. My friends have four seats and three of the six games two of them have gone unused. It will be very interesting, unfortunately, to see how many season tickets we sell next year. As far as I understand it, the bowl credit that we pay for in advance gets credited towards next year's season tickets or forfeited if the team doesn't make a bowl game. That $50 loss per ticket might entice a few people to go ahead and repurchase tickets. But I got to think of the roughly 20,000 season tickets we sold, we'd be lucky to get 15,000 to repurchase. I hope I'm wrong, but I've heard plenty of people ready to bail on their season tickets.

This is why the University really had no plans to expand the stadium any time soon. This is their biggest fear. Cincinnati area fans are way too fickle to bet on. There is a guy that sits in front of me that bitches about every play. He did it last year. He did it the year before. I guess when he played football, he was the best ever. It is so freaking annoying.