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NCMSTFAN
12-02-2022, 04:22 AM
Mstate7dawg mentioned it in another thread but I wanted to start it's own thread, Utah just beat #4 Arizona 81-66 and led the game from start to finish with big leads the entire game.

Two nights before Marquette destroyed #6 Baylor 96-70.. Marquette and Utah are both top 15-20 teams. We beat both and held them to under 55 points. When are we genuinely going to start supporting our basketball program? I'm sure Saturdays game will still look the way it always has as far as attendance. Most games I watch on the ESPN, the crowd is rocking giving that college basketball atmosphere at other schools no matter the opponent.. we have to create that and really get behind this team!! Im sure there will be some bad games and losses but that doesn't mean we give up on them. I'm just tired of seeing so much talk about other topics that dont pertain to our program when we have an undefeated team playing their butts off with good potential right on campus but people prefer to discuss other irrelevant topics more. The players and coaches notice, trust me. Tolu Smith even urged more fan support on his Twitter account a few times.

Santiago
12-02-2022, 07:07 AM
Great post. Did not realize Utah upset Arizona.
It is something to see these other games on TV and see their fan support.
Our team is fun to watch on defense!

Eric Nies Grind Time
12-02-2022, 07:31 AM
Mstate7dawg mentioned it in another thread but I wanted to start it's own thread, Utah just beat #4 Arizona 81-66 and led the game from start to finish with big leads the entire game.

Two nights before Marquette destroyed #6 Baylor 96-70.. Marquette and Utah are both top 15-20 teams. We beat both and held them to under 55 points. When are we genuinely going to start supporting our basketball program? I'm sure Saturdays game will still look the way it always has as far as attendance. Most games I watch on the ESPN, the crowd is rocking giving that college basketball atmosphere at other schools no matter the opponent.. we have to create that and really get behind this team!! Im sure there will be some bad games and losses but that doesn't mean we give up on them. I'm just tired of seeing so much talk about other topics that dont pertain to our program when we have an undefeated team playing their butts off with good potential right on campus but people prefer to discuss other irrelevant topics more. The players and coaches notice, trust me. Tolu Smith even urged more fan support on his Twitter account a few times.

Our fans are patiently awaiting our first loss so they can post "I gave it a shot but they are the same old Bulldogs"

In all seriousness though the AD needs to address this if we want to keep Jans. Guessing a change in seating is in order.

RocketDawg
12-02-2022, 07:51 AM
Our fans are patiently awaiting our first loss so they can post "I gave it a shot but they are the same old Bulldogs"

In all seriousness though the AD needs to address this if we want to keep Jans. Guessing a change in seating is in order.

Did you see where the students were located at the Duke and Indiana games? The both surrounded the lower level. And their sections were full as well. We need to do that.

Maroonthirteen
12-02-2022, 07:51 AM
I'm not sure what is up with the MSU fans. I wonder if States hardcore fans are getting older and there just isn't that many younger hardcore fans to replace them. Or maybe more younger and older fans just chose to watch on all things MSU on TV. I draw these conclusions based on both football and basketball attendance.

With that said, football is concerning more than basketball. December there is fatigue from football, hunting season, Christmas shopping and quite frankly basketball is STates 3rd sport in order of importance. Mix in this season, an odd under construction Hump. Not good. Btw, Cohen and whomever really screwed up renovating the hump. You want to generate excitement build a new place.

However you are right. This team deserves some support.

BiscuitEater
12-02-2022, 09:03 AM
Did you see where the students were located at the Duke and Indiana games? The both surrounded the lower level. And their sections were full as well. We need to do that.

Ever even been to Cameron Indoor? Every seat is 'lower level!'

Cameron Indoor Stadium is an indoor arena located on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The 9,314-seat facility is the primary indoor athletic venue for the Duke Blue Devils and serves as the home court for Duke men's and women's basketball and women's volleyball.

NCMSTFAN
12-02-2022, 09:19 AM
Our fans are patiently awaiting our first loss so they can post "I gave it a shot but they are the same old Bulldogs"

In all seriousness though the AD needs to address this if we want to keep Jans. Guessing a change in seating is in order.

Exactly! and alot of them used to say. 'If they start winning again fans will show up'. We have a good coach and program, teams will be coming after Jans soon if he continues this level of winning. We need to get out and support as much as we can while we have him or he may be gone.

NCMSTFAN
12-02-2022, 09:22 AM
I'm not sure what is up with the MSU fans. I wonder if States hardcore fans are getting older and there just isn't that many younger hardcore fans to replace them. Or maybe more younger and older fans just chose to watch on all things MSU on TV. I draw these conclusions based on both football and basketball attendance.

With that said, football is concerning more than basketball. December there is fatigue from football, hunting season, Christmas shopping and quite frankly basketball is STates 3rd sport in order of importance. Mix in this season, an odd under construction Hump. Not good. Btw, Cohen and whomever really screwed up renovating the hump. You want to generate excitement build a new place.

However you are right. This team deserves some support.

True, but how hard is it to pack a basketball stadium? There is no reason the Hump shouldn't be mostly full for most games, especially with a soon to be ranked team. There was a time the Hump was one of the loudest arenas in the SEC, Joahkim Noah of Florida talked about it before.

Coach34
12-02-2022, 09:27 AM
Our campus is located in a low population area of Mississippi and now games are all on TV. People no longer have to drive 2 hours to watch us play. Attendance wont ever be again what it used to be

msugolf
12-02-2022, 09:31 AM
True, but how hard is it to pack a basketball stadium? There is no reason the Hump shouldn't be mostly full for most games, especially with a soon to be ranked team. There was a time the Hump was one of the loudest arenas in the SEC, Joahkim Noah of Florida talked about it before.

As it has been stated many times before, the problem is we have many many ticket holders in lower section who have no interest in attending and won't attend regardless of how good the team gets. They only have tickets to improve their BC ranking. They also won't make any effort in giving those tickets away when the conference matchups start. Hell, half of them probably forget they have season tickets.

We kicked out the people who wanted to show up and gave their seats to the ones who don't care, all for the sake of a few dollars. Which doesn't really matter these days with all the SEC money we collect. So if it were me, I'd just go ahead and risk pissing off the donors who never show up and go back to first come/first serve. Open the whole thing back up.

msstate7
12-02-2022, 09:42 AM
As it has been stated many times before, the problem is we have many many ticket holders in lower section who have no interest in attending and won't attend regardless of how good the team gets. They only have tickets to improve their BC ranking. They also won't make any effort in giving those tickets away when the conference matchups start. Hell, half of them probably forget they have season tickets.

We kicked out the people who wanted to show up and gave their seats to the ones who don't care, all for the sake of a few dollars. Which doesn't really matter these days with all the SEC money we collect. So if it were me, I'd just go ahead and risk pissing off the donors who never show up and go back to first come/first serve. Open the whole thing back up.

Then make it worth more points when your tickets are scanned for 75% of games.

ETA... if your tix aren't punched at least 50% of time, make it to where someone else can buy them. This would be tricky though... you don't wanna piss off the ones that invest in the program.

msugolf
12-02-2022, 09:44 AM
Then make it worth more points when your tickets are scanned for 75% of games

Yeah something like that too. Definitely needs to be some sort of accountability or rewards program though

msstate7
12-02-2022, 09:48 AM
Maybe send emails to 1 week prior to games and ask holder if they will attend. If not, allow ticket office to resell... ticket holder would get a percentage of their money back for each ticket resold applied to the next renewal

Liverpooldawg
12-02-2022, 10:04 AM
Attendance will pick up after Christmas.

If you want to know what destroyed the hardcore support that was there through thick and thin, even this time of year, a lot of those LOCAL people were kicked out of their seats when Byrne decided to reseat the Hump. A lot of them never came back, and what's more, it broke the chain in the LOCAL families that had always gone to basketball games.

BulldogDX55
12-02-2022, 10:09 AM
Even when we were competent at Basketball prior to the Renardo Stansbury collapse, pre conference games were never closed to sold out. I know this because that's when I was as student. Howland had us on the edge of relevance a few times during his tenure but the moment there were expectations the team lost a critical game, killing all momentum.

We will have a massive attendance increase for Bama, and if we pull that one out OR just play very well and keep it close, the January conference games are gonna pop off.

That said, sell outs will still be hard to come by because of the location of our school and because of everything being televised.

shoeless joe
12-02-2022, 10:32 AM
Nothing was more fun than a packed house at the hump. From the bowers/Robert’s era thru Rhodes/gordon. It was absolute fun and excitement. Of course that was when football was terrible and the students all sat together with half of the section having good seats.

Plus the chicken toss…

DawgFromOxford
12-02-2022, 11:22 AM
Winning = Fan support. Keep winning and people will show up. No the Hump won't immediately be packed, but it will happen if a good product is continuously put on the court. The past decade of men's basketball in the hump has created an apathetic appetite for attendance. Fans want to see that their time and money is well spent if they are going to commit to being at the game. Every time Howland started to have buy in he would have losses that killed any fan support. The same will be true for Jans, he's going to have to continue to win games and not have head scratching losses time and time again (no this doesn't mean he has to go undefeated).

Secondly, look at our home schedule so far. All of our exciting match ups have been away games. Your average fan isn't going to drive more than 10 minutes to watch us play Texas A&M Corpus Christi or Mississippi Valley State. Attendance will pick up come SEC play, especially if we are winning and especially if there is something to play for such as a tournament birth. Both of those things add excitement which draws fans.

As for the hump needing a seating reassignment, I can get on board with that, but even that doesn't matter if you don't put a winning team on the floor. Keep winning and the rest of the problems will start to solve themselves.

Extendedcab
12-02-2022, 11:42 AM
Even when we were competent at Basketball prior to the Renardo Stansbury collapse, pre conference games were never closed to sold out. I know this because that's when I was as student. Howland had us on the edge of relevance a few times during his tenure but the moment there were expectations the team lost a critical game, killing all momentum.

We will have a massive attendance increase for Bama, and if we pull that one out OR just play very well and keep it close, the January conference games are gonna pop off.

That said, sell outs will still be hard to come by because of the location of our school and because of everything being televised.

For me, the combination of WOKE, not really being Student-Athletes and NIL, I have lost a fair amount of interest. College sports used to be fun because they were amateurs and they played, for the most part, for the fun of it and to get an education. They were paid with scholarships for a free education. Not so much anymore. Players are there for the NIL money and for the most part they are not students and because they are gunning for a shot at going pro. They shop for the coach that will get them there and not for the school and the education they are getting. To me the atmosphere is different and not in a good way! I never though I would Wayne on my love for college sports but here I am - an old grumpy man!:confused:

Another reason is like someone else said win a previous post, I'm in my mid 60s and unfortunately slowing down. A 2+ hour drive to Starkville, 2/3 hour game and then a 2+ hour drive back home is tough. I need a nap in there somewhere?

Maybe the university can build a nap room for us older folks and/or maybe offer a geriatrics bus ride to and from the game!!

PGHBulldogBG
12-02-2022, 11:44 AM
I know I’m not a southerner, but I hate how a lot of our fan base puts hunting before sports. I know hunting is big in the South, but I feel like our alum/students love to make it more a priority. Rant over LOL

Goldendawg
12-02-2022, 12:18 PM
I know I?m not a southerner, but I hate how a lot of our fan base puts hunting before sports. I know hunting is big in the South, but I feel like our alum/students love to make it more a priority. Rant over LOL

I grew up in a hunting family, (quail), but hated it (cold, get up too early, too much walking, get hungry, bad shot). Don't know if season overlapped but we never missed a FB game for it and have had season tickets since the 60's. Deer hunters I know are hardcore. My son and I have been to every home basketball game to date, but the home schedule leaves a lot to be desired. I can see why many people would have many different entertainment choices for their time and $ than go watch us play a SWAC team or someone that they have never heard of. I think things and attendance will pick up with SEC play and winning our share. This team plays hard, is fun to watch, and I think they will continue to improve. They have a good shot to enter SEC play 12-0, but some of the OOC home games are unknown cupcakes that will in fact hurt the RPI. I do think we will make the tourney. Be there and support this team as you can. Hail State!

NCMSTFAN
12-02-2022, 12:39 PM
For me, the combination of WOKE, not really being Student-Athletes and NIL, I have lost a fair amount of interest. College sports used to be fun because they were amateurs and they played, for the most part, for the fun of it and to get an education. They were paid with scholarships for a free education. Not so much anymore. Players are there for the NIL money and for the most part they are not students and because they are gunning for a shot at going pro. They shop for the coach that will get them there and not for the school and the education they are getting. To me the atmosphere is different and not in a good way! I never though I would Wayne on my love for college sports but here I am - an old grumpy man!:confused:

Another reason is like someone else said win a previous post, I'm in my mid 60s and unfortunately slowing down. A 2+ hour drive to Starkville, 2/3 hour game and then a 2+ hour drive back home is tough. I need a nap in there somewhere?

Maybe the university can build a nap room for us older folks and/or maybe offer a geriatrics bus ride to and from the game!!

With all due respect can you please leave the woke conversation out, all it does is starts unnecessary arguments. As far as student athletes and the NIL situation, as much as we hate it, its not going anywhere.. I'm sure there will be a cap on it eventually and the rules will adjust but its here to stay in College Sports.

I understand all the points everyone is making, yes seating arrangements suck, yes mostly every game is televised, yes NIL is here but I remember the Lawrence Roberts/Timmy Bowers days, Gordon/Rhodes days even the Dee Bost/Moultrie era.. we had amazing fan support. Living here in North Carolina it doesn't matter if Duke, UNC, NC State etc. are playing Idaho school of the deaf and blind, there will be butts in the seats supporting them. I get we aren't those programs, but there was a time the Hump rocked just like the schools here do and I want to see it again, especially for this coach and team.

MSUDAWGFAN
12-02-2022, 12:40 PM
Nothing was more fun than a packed house at the hump. From the bowers/Robert?s era thru Rhodes/gordon. It was absolute fun and excitement. Of course that was when football was terrible and the students all sat together with half of the section having good seats.

Plus the chicken toss?

I'll never forget Charles Rhodes last time he checked out of the game. Dude loved him some MSU.

Coach34
12-02-2022, 12:44 PM
Something that has also changed is the student participation. We used to always have 3-4K students at home games when it wasnt Christmas break. Now we dont get close to that.

Extendedcab
12-02-2022, 12:53 PM
With all due respect can you please leave the woke conversation out, all it does is starts unnecessary arguments. As far as student athletes and the NIL situation, as much as we hate it, its not going anywhere.. I'm sure there will be a cap on it eventually and the rules will adjust but its here to stay in College Sports.

I understand all the points everyone is making, yes seating arrangements suck, yes mostly every game is televised, yes NIL is here but I remember the Lawrence Roberts/Timmy Bowers days, Gordon/Rhodes days even the Dee Bost/Moultrie era.. we had amazing fan support. Living here in North Carolina it doesn't matter if Duke, UNC, NC State etc. are playing Idaho school of the deaf and blind, there will be butts in the seats supporting them. I get we aren't those programs, but there was a time the Hump rocked just like the schools here do and I want to see it again, especially for this coach and team.


WOKE is part of it, I am not the one pushing it, it is some athletes and most all of the media! You can not get away from it! You may chose to ignore it, but it is still there! NIL may not be going anywhere but it has changed college (so called amateur sports) to where I , and a lot of other people as well, do not care to watch it anymore. Amateur sports is dead and that is what college sports used to be! They played for a different reason than "student" athletes do today. Just look at other threads in ED and you will see "star" athletes or hopeful 1st round picks sitting out year end games. How far will they take that in the future, sit out there entire senior year? That was unheard of years ago! I do not care to watch professional sports, a bunch of spoiled, entitled, rich babies and thugs, I gave up on that several years ago. Sadly, that is where college sports is heading at an alarming rate!

Big4Dawg
12-02-2022, 01:05 PM
Wtf are you talking? What about our mens basketball team is ?woke?? Give one example

Goldendawg
12-02-2022, 01:06 PM
I chose to stop watching Pro Ba$eball, Pro Ba$ketball, and now only watch Pro Football when Dak is playing. $ports used to be a somewhat escape from the everyday problems of the world, not so much now. With NIL/Portal, can see another choice for my $ and time, if some regulation to the college game doesn't come. Hail State!

Big4Dawg
12-02-2022, 01:08 PM
Nothing better than a bunch of 50 year old white men complaining that 18-21 year old black kids are getting a tiny share of a multi million dollar business. Smh

Extendedcab
12-02-2022, 01:15 PM
Nothing better than a bunch of 50 year old white men complaining that 18-21 year old black kids are getting a tiny share of a multi million dollar business. Smh

Skin color has nothing to do with it! There were students of all color playing sports when I was in college and even before. That is not the issue and you know it! We are not the ones bringing race into the problem with college sports.

Coach34
12-02-2022, 01:22 PM
Skin color has nothing to do with it! There were students of all color playing sports when I was in college and even before. That is not the issue and you know it! We are not the ones bringing race into the problem with college sports.

Well it has some to do with it. The crazy white Libs insisting a young man can swim in girl's meets because he says he is a girl is a huge part of the problem. Normalizing insanity should never be tolerated.

Big4Dawg
12-02-2022, 01:26 PM
Not sure how that?s affecting attendance at State?s basketball game

NCMSTFAN
12-02-2022, 01:27 PM
WOKE is part of it, I am not the one pushing it, it is some athletes and most all of the media! You can not get away from it! You may chose to ignore it, but it is still there! NIL may not be going anywhere but it has changed college (so called amateur sports) to where I , and a lot of other people as well, do not care to watch it anymore. Amateur sports is dead and that is what college sports used to be! They played for a different reason than "student" athletes do today. Just look at other threads in ED and you will see "star" athletes or hopeful 1st round picks sitting out year end games. How far will they take that in the future, sit out there entire senior year? That was unheard of years ago! I do not care to watch professional sports, a bunch of spoiled, entitled, rich babies and thugs, I gave up on that several years ago. Sadly, that is where college sports is heading at an alarming rate!

The term "Woke" by definition refers to racism and or social injustices. Why even go down that path? Leave it alone! Like I initially said all it does is starts arguments.If you don't want to watch spoiled entitled rich thug athletes, turn the channel dont go to games and stay off any sports related message boards! It's not hard

NCMSTFAN
12-02-2022, 01:30 PM
Wtf are you talking? What about our mens basketball team is ?woke?? Give one example

Exactly!!

Big4Dawg
12-02-2022, 01:44 PM
I chose to stop watching Pro Ba$eball, Pro Ba$ketball, and now only watch Pro Football when Dak is playing. $ports used to be a somewhat escape from the everyday problems of the world, not so much now. With NIL/Portal, can see another choice for my $ and time, if some regulation to the college game doesn't come. Hail State!

Yet here are you posting on a college sports message board - see ya!

Goldendawg
12-02-2022, 01:55 PM
Yet here are you posting on a college sports message board - see ya!

Still enjoy college game and will support State. Just like to see some fair regulation if possible to not become $ based like Pro leagues.

Big4Dawg
12-02-2022, 02:02 PM
It's always been about money to everyone else but the players, now they are getting their share. 20 years ago, there weren't million dollar salaries and billion dollar tv deals.

Maroonthirteen
12-02-2022, 02:38 PM
Comparing us to the NC schools.... if MSU was located in those population centers AND had their history of winning.... we would draw like they do.

SpaceBully
12-02-2022, 02:54 PM
Howland was disappointed with fan support. I feel part was on him for not winning consistently and part was on the fans for not supporting MSU basketball. Well, Jans has now taken his part out of the equation. I don't know how this team will fare when SEC play starts, but willing to bet there will be improvement from last year. Jans so far, has done his part. It's now up to the fans. Somebody in the AD better find a creative way to get significant butts in the seats. We should have 4-6K for OOC games and 6-8K for SEC games. No excuses. There's enough population in the GTR area to get those numbers into the Hump. Gotta promote better within an hour radius of Starkvegas. If we don't get the HUMP at least back to somewhat intimidating.....then don't complain when Jans moves on in a few years for a really big job like KY, Kansas, Duke, or a wealthy school with great support looking to improve their basketball program. NMSU was a stepping stone for Jans to get the MSU. MSU could easily be a stepping stone for his really big final job. It's up to the AD and fans to now do something to make him want to stay at MSU forever.

NCMSTFAN
12-02-2022, 03:07 PM
Comparing us to the NC schools.... if MSU was located in those population centers AND had their history of winning.... we would draw like they do.

I literally stated right after I made that comment "I know we aren't those schools"... I referenced NC schools because I live in NC. That being said there was a time not that long ago, the HUMP was rocking! Can we stop making excuses and be good fans and show support?

EdwardDrayton
12-02-2022, 03:34 PM
I know I?m not a southerner, but I hate how a lot of our fan base puts hunting before sports. I know hunting is big in the South, but I feel like our alum/students love to make it more a priority. Rant over LOL

Ha! My Pennsylvania customers would shut down their operations the first week of deer season cuz nobody would show up for work!!

Lord McBuckethead
12-02-2022, 03:44 PM
As it has been stated many times before, the problem is we have many many ticket holders in lower section who have no interest in attending and won't attend regardless of how good the team gets. They only have tickets to improve their BC ranking. They also won't make any effort in giving those tickets away when the conference matchups start. Hell, half of them probably forget they have season tickets.

We kicked out the people who wanted to show up and gave their seats to the ones who don't care, all for the sake of a few dollars. Which doesn't really matter these days with all the SEC money we collect. So if it were me, I'd just go ahead and risk pissing off the donors who never show up and go back to first come/first serve. Open the whole thing back up.

The entire hump should be general admission. You want to come to the game, buy a ticket and sit whereever you can find a seat. Get there early.
Also, one entire sideline, first 10 rows opposite the cameras needs to be the student section. If they can't due that due to students sitting at the bench location, then switch the bench side to the other side. I want to see craziness on TV when I tune in. Not 80 year old boomers that would shit themselves if they stand up too quickly.

Goldendawg
12-02-2022, 04:12 PM
I literally stated right after I made that comment "I know we aren't those schools"... I referenced NC schools because I live in NC. That being said there was a time not that long ago, the HUMP was rocking! Can we stop making excuses and be good fans and show support?

If you go online to HailState Basketball to buy tickets, the lower bowl and a couple of upper sections maybe, show no tickets available. Unless those season ticket holders go to the games or let someone else have the tickets, the Hump will continue to be and look somewhat poorly filled.

99jc
12-02-2022, 04:59 PM
The term "Woke" by definition refers to racism and or social injustices. Why even go down that path? Leave it alone! Like I initially said all it does is starts arguments.If you don't want to watch spoiled entitled rich thug athletes, turn the channel dont go to games and stay off any sports related message boards! It's not hard

now now that is not nice

PGHBulldogBG
12-02-2022, 05:35 PM
Ha! My Pennsylvania customers would shut down their operations the first week of deer season cuz nobody would show up for work!!

It?s big in rural PA for sure especially this time of year. Just not so much in the city areas. Here it?s all Steelers and Pens. Pitt comes in third. Steelers fans are insane with football. I am a Steelers fan and season ticket holder, but I will always put State first and Dak has turned me into a Cowboys fan too

NCMSTFAN
12-02-2022, 06:45 PM
now now that is not nice

Lol thats what he called them. Definitely not how I feel

Maroonthirteen
12-02-2022, 07:18 PM
Ha! My Pennsylvania customers would shut down their operations the first week of deer season cuz nobody would show up for work!!

It's going to be interesting next football season. Our home game vs USM is on Nov 18. That's probably the opening day of gun deer season in Mississippi. That is an interesting game and should have a good crowd..... should have!

tcdog70
12-03-2022, 12:02 PM
Use the same ticket plan that was used for Vic’s women teams. They won and the Hump was.full and jumping.

BeardoMSU
12-03-2022, 12:12 PM
Something that has also changed is the student participation. We used to always have 3-4K students at home games when it wasnt Christmas break. Now we dont get close to that.

splitting the sections into quarters of both baselines was what killed the student section (Stans last year, I think?). Prior to that, it rocked pretty consistently.

HoopsDawg
12-03-2022, 12:41 PM
splitting the sections into quarters of both baselines was what killed the student section (Stans last year, I think?). Prior to that, it rocked pretty consistently.

Byrne + Rick Ray + women's success + overall product + TV + season ticket holders who never go....it's all of these things and more. It's not 1 thing.

BeardoMSU
12-03-2022, 01:38 PM
Byrne + Rick Ray + women's success + overall product + TV + season ticket holders who never go....it's all of these things and more. It's not 1 thing.

Obviously that's all played a factor since, but that decision was literally the first major cause of it.

Student section Courtside was consistently good; the very next year it was split into 2 corners of the baseline and it sucked. I was at every home game from 2004 to 2012, so yeah, I remember.

HoopsDawg
12-03-2022, 02:02 PM
Obviously that's all played a factor since, but that decision was literally the first major cause of it.

Student section Courtside was consistently good; the very next year it was split into 2 corners of the baseline and it sucked. I was at every home game from 2004 to 2012, so yeah, I remember.

It was probably Byrne's dumbest move as AD at MSU. Of course Stricklin or Cohen could have reversed it.

BeardoMSU
12-03-2022, 02:09 PM
It was probably Byrne's dumbest move as AD at MSU. Of course Stricklin or Cohen could have reversed it.

Yeah, it totally killed the vibe. I understand putting the students on the baseline, but you've got to use the entire baseline. Instead, we used 1 section that tapered from to the top seats to the floor, putting the least amount of students in proximity to the floor. It still baffles me how someone/multiple people thought that was a good idea.

EdwardDrayton
12-03-2022, 02:20 PM
It?s big in rural PA for sure especially this time of year. Just not so much in the city areas. Here it?s all Steelers and Pens. Pitt comes in third. Steelers fans are insane with football. I am a Steelers fan and season ticket holder, but I will always put State first and Dak has turned me into a Cowboys fan too

Yeah not in Pitt or Philly. I was based in the Burgh for one of my corporate stints; got HOOKED on Pens hockey. One of my largest PA customers was Alpo Allentown and they would shut down their operation.

msu15
12-03-2022, 02:35 PM
Today's attendance sucks

trob115
12-03-2022, 02:55 PM
Our 10 seats are full. We couldn't make the game so we gave ours away. Wish more people would be willing to do the same. Transferring takes about 30 seconds to do.

RocketDawg
12-03-2022, 02:57 PM
How's today's game going?

Liverpooldawg
12-03-2022, 03:17 PM
How's today's game going?up 46-27 15:49 2nd half.

Homedawg
12-03-2022, 03:24 PM
The entire hump should be general admission. You want to come to the game, buy a ticket and sit whereever you can find a seat. Get there early.
Also, one entire sideline, first 10 rows opposite the cameras needs to be the student section. If they can't due that due to students sitting at the bench location, then switch the bench side to the other side. I want to see craziness on TV when I tune in. Not 80 year old boomers that would shit themselves if they stand up too quickly.

That's making men's basketball a money loser. Big money. That ain't happening. Those seat license fees and season ticket money would be gone.

Homedawg
12-03-2022, 03:26 PM
Use the same ticket plan that was used for Vic’s women teams. They won and the Hump was.full and jumping.

They were a top 5 program. If the men's team becomes a top 5 team it will be full and hopping as well

HoopsDawg
12-03-2022, 03:52 PM
Our 10 seats are full. We couldn't make the game so we gave ours away. Wish more people would be willing to do the same. Transferring takes about 30 seconds to do.

how do you transfer?

trob115
12-03-2022, 05:03 PM
how do you transfer?
Go to your dog tag>my tickets>select game you want to transfer tickets to> click transfer>enter recipient's email or phone number.

HoopsDawg
12-03-2022, 05:15 PM
Go to your dog tag>my tickets>select game you want to transfer tickets to> click transfer>enter recipient's email or phone number.

thanks

Goldendawg
12-03-2022, 06:30 PM
Our 10 seats are full. We couldn't make the game so we gave ours away. Wish more people would be willing to do the same. Transferring takes about 30 seconds to do.

My friend, my son, and I were there. Murphy plays hard and made some great passes/assists. Tolu needs to improve FT or it will cost us in SEC play. Am amazed how much Cam and Jeffries outside shot has improved this year. Jeffries also looks comfortable and good at the point. He no longer plays out or control going to the basket also. Lot of depth on the team. Hope we enter SEC play 12-0. Go to the Hump! Hail State!

DawgFromOxford
12-03-2022, 07:06 PM
Go to your dog tag>my tickets>select game you want to transfer tickets to> click transfer>enter recipient's email or phone number.

The Athletic Department needs to put out a PSA with a video and blast this all over social media channels showing people how easy it is

boot
12-04-2022, 12:24 AM
NM State had really good attendance while Jans was there. We need to step it up