The circus returns home to play Tennessee

[Fighting Irish.sixpack]

Very few students. Maybe 3,000 people here under the big top. Pathetic

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Currently we have the lead.

 

[wtw2400]

Cause our basketball culture is dead and no one wants to discuss it. Just complain about it. Pathetic! New HC isn't going to magically solve everything. And the athletic department is content with this. Vanderbilt has more of a basketball culture than us. Sad that we're here but this shouldn't be a surprise that no one show up when everyone complains and no one supports.

They won't even move the students to fill up the empty seats. Cheap Cohen gotta get those donor pennies who never show up and sit in their court side seats.

 

[dog12]

Very few students. Maybe 3,000 people here under the big top. Pathetic

Were you there?

If not, then why not?

 

[paindonthurt]

Cohen didn’t create the current seating arrangements

 

[dawgstudent]

But he can certainly change them.

 

[Mr. Cook]

Looked pathetic on TV. Disappointing turnout. Enrollment at MSU and popoulation in the GTR must be dropping like a brick

 

[paindonthurt]

I mean what’s he gonna change?
Other than moving the students to a “better” spot.

Plenty of season tickets available.

 

[grimedawg1]

This is the answer. He is paid to figure it out.

It is short sighted to let some of the best seats in the arena sit unoccupied when we have trouble creating any kind of atmosphere. Atmosphere creates a competitive advantage. And, let's face it, we need any advantage we can get. Plus, it makes attending the game fun. Attendance, and also money, follow winning. Whatever MSU is making on selling tickets to folks that don't attend would be better forgone in the short run to win and create a return in the long run. Do something about it.

This is also why the next coach needs to have some sort of ability to sell the program by connecting with the fans. Obviously, winning is the most important step in that. But, there are other things a coach can do - be visible, go to other events, be seen or seek out TV air time, etc. etc.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Make it the way it was in the early/mid '90's, or find another arrangement that gets students near the floor. That place used to rock.

 

[FlotownDawg]

This is what Bruce Pearl and Eric Mussleman are great at. Selling the **** out of the program. Mussleman was in the stands with his damn shirt off after they beat Auburn the other day. Pearl has painted his chest and sat in the stands with the students at football games. I’m not saying our coach has to do that, but do something that sells the program and makes people think basketball is cool and fun. Howland is the polar opposite of cool and fun.

 

[paindonthurt]

Where were you?