Disagree, times have changed, Msy students as a whole could care less about basketball. They don't pack the Hump for the women's games either.
I'm starting to think the only way fans would return to men's hoops games is if we sucked in everything else.
Student Attendance Dropping for Duke Men?s Basketball Games
Chris Brown/FanSided Jun 30, 2017
https://www.foxsports.com/college-ba...l-games-011917
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Gonzaga Has a Student Attendance Issue
You can hear a pin drop in The Kennel.
By Peter Woodburn on December 5, 2019
https://www.slipperstillfits.com/201...tudent-section
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Why Colleges Are Worried About Declining Student Sports Attendance
https://www.samford.edu/sports-analy...-alumni-giving
Jesus you have such a complex. You get mad at people telling you the truth. It's not an entertaining product for a lot of MSU people. It's not arguable at this point. The attendance and general apathy speaks to it. People tell you why. Perceived effort. Lack of Offensive game plan. Too much me-ball not enough we-ball.
This is what people see and why they generally don't care to watch us. We don't win enough or pull enough upsets to make this entertaining for people. The only draw is that it's Men's Basketball and we "should care."
That's reality. Hate it all you want. Keep getting mad. It doesn't change it. I support because I love basketball and my school. Team is tough to be a fan of though. But your logic that people are bad fans if they don't support means your a bad fan if you don't go to every sporting event. Why aren't you at every Volleyball game? Every Tennis Match? Every Soccer Match?
You are right, Girl's Soccer doesn't draw a lot of fans, and people are not terrible MSU fans if they don't attend. I don't have an interest in girl's soccer. It doesn't make me a bad MSU fan to admit that. Also, when the soccer team loses a games, or even doesn't win in a pretty way, this entire message board doesn't log on as quickly as possible to bitch about it. THAT's the difference. Our fans claim not to care, and then try to tear down the program at the first sign of adversity.
When comparing the last 2 seasons with the "Glory Days" the 2 eras are very comparable, but people continue to make BS excuses why they can't attend games. If you don't care, that's one thing. If that's the case don't attend and don't chime in on basketball threads. However, the constant amount of complaining on this board proves to me that people do care, but choose not to show up anyways. Big upsets are a hell of a lot easier to achieve when there is a intimidating home court advantage...
I think the argument was that it made it harder for West teams to have good RPI's and didn't really accomplish anything since there wasn't a one game championship like in Football.
I think the other coaches had the right idea in that it probably does make scheduling easier for both east and west (east by giving them flexibility to play more good teams OOC, which they could do easily at the time with their geographic overlap/proximity to ACC teams; west by not saddling them with relatively weak RPI games in conference when it is harder for them to get good OOC matchups).
I think Stansbury actually had the right idea though as far as fans like banners and ADs shouldn't be in the habit of reducing opportunities to make fans happy.