The crowds cannot be blamed on students. They were there and loud?Fans

[IMissJack]

need to get behind this team. The defense was on point all night. Marks and Johnson were hitting that line and punishing tacklers. I have wondered about this team and it?s ceiling, but last night was fun and tough. I hope we have turned the corner.

[R2Dawg]

Agree. Students have showed up.

If fans had confidence that team is who we are, guess what the stands would have been full last night.

[MaroonFlounder]

Agree. Students have showed up.

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Half left early. Way early

[Cooterpoot]

Why so much bitching about fans? This is happening at every school. It's not a State thing. Having a great team helps but people just aren't going to games anywhere. I think some are tired of the same four teams winning every year & generally doing it easily. Then you've got the Covid hang over, higher ticket prices, and $3.50 a gallon gas prices.
Losing to Memphis and LSU and getting killed by AL didn't help. It'll get better if we win but it's not going back to what it was. Stadiums are going to shrink with chairbacks and premium suites etc.

[BrunswickDawg]

Why so much bitching about fans? This is happening at every school. It's not a State thing. Having a great team helps but people just aren't going to games anywhere. I think some are tired of the same four teams winning every year & generally doing it easily. Then you've got the Covid hang over, higher ticket prices, and $3.50 a gallon gas prices.
Losing to Memphis and LSU and getting killed by AL didn't help. It'll get better if we win but it's not going back to what it was. Stadiums are going to shrink with chairbacks and premium suites etc.

To your point about not just MSU - UF section was maybe 85% full in Jacksonville yesterday. After half time it was 50%, and by the muddle if the 4th it was 30%. Made traffic so easy post game we did it even have to wait to pull out of the parking lot.

[Bothrops]

Crowd sucked for a top 15 opponent. I'm sure there are more runt ass excuses over it. Crowds have gone back to pre expansion levels.

[memsu06]

Half left early. Way early

Halloween parties to get to.

[Tater]

The real change to help students stay all game at night games would be to extend Saturday night alcohol sales to be to 3. Then the culture would shift from having to rush to the bar to beat the crowd or not getting in. Extend nightlife in the town past 1 (so they don't feel like 2 hours or less at the bar is all they get if they stay the whole game and then walk there.)

Unpopular opinion and will never happen, but that's the actual problem and solution to it.

[IMissJack]

I think if we had today’s weather on Sat we would have had more people. But not a sellout.

[Jarius]

Why so much bitching about fans? This is happening at every school. It's not a State thing. Having a great team helps but people just aren't going to games anywhere. I think some are tired of the same four teams winning every year & generally doing it easily. Then you've got the Covid hang over, higher ticket prices, and $3.50 a gallon gas prices.
Losing to Memphis and LSU and getting killed by AL didn't help. It'll get better if we win but it's not going back to what it was. Stadiums are going to shrink with chairbacks and premium suites etc.

This is so much BS. Our fans suck. Our fans drove 10 million miles to go to Omaha and packed that place out. We have now beaten 3 top 25 opponents this year and we had a USM level crowd to see us beat the 12th ranked team in the country and basically ensure bowl eligibility. Us having to be elite to give our football team a home field advantage against top 15 teams at home is garbage. We have plenty of bitchers in our fanbase but very little doers.

[BuckyIsAB****]

To be fair It wasnt a USM level crowd

[BuckyIsAB****]

It was a great atmosphere

[Cooterpoot]

This is so much BS. Our fans suck. Our fans drove 10 million miles to go to Omaha and packed that place out. We have now beaten 3 top 25 opponents this year and we had a USM level crowd to see us beat the 12th ranked team in the country and basically ensure bowl eligibility. Us having to be elite to give our football team a home field advantage against top 15 teams at home is garbage. We have plenty of bitchers in our fanbase but very little doers.

That was a 17ing national championship. Holy shit you've lost your mind comparing the two. College football is bleeding fan attendance even at UGA. Take that shit somewhere else.

[Lord McBuckethead]

Yeah, and our baseball team at that point, time and time again to be consistently good.

[Tater]

The other key factor is espn causing run time to be 3.5 - 4 hours. The game becomes a slog to get through at times with the 3 minute commercials at every chance. Compre that to the NFL who cracked down on this recently and began trying to finish games under 3 hours.

[MaroonFlounder]

This is so much BS. Our fans suck. Our fans drove 10 million miles to go to Omaha and packed that place out. We have now beaten 3 top 25 opponents this year and we had a USM level crowd to see us beat the 12th ranked team in the country and basically ensure bowl eligibility. Us having to be elite to give our football team a home field advantage against top 15 teams at home is garbage. We have plenty of bitchers in our fanbase but very little doers.

It's deer season****

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Other SEC schools are at or above 2019 attendance except MSU, USCe and Vandy according to NCAA Attendance records. MSU has the largest drop in SEC as a percentage.

[NWADAWG]

The real change to help students stay all game at night games would be to extend Saturday night alcohol sales to be to 3. Then the culture would shift from having to rush to the bar to beat the crowd or not getting in. Extend nightlife in the town past 1 (so they don't feel like 2 hours or less at the bar is all they get if they stay the whole game and then walk there.)

Unpopular opinion and will never happen, but that's the actual problem and solution to it.

Do they still have to take drinks away at midnight? I was there when that was put in place and it was not fun being the guy taking full pitchers and drinks from people. The real issue with it though was people guzzling drinks and trying to guzzle whole pitchers that they bought at last call, then going straight to the car to drive somewhere. It was completely counter productive to the goal.

[Jarius]

That was a 17ing national championship. Holy shit you've lost your mind comparing the two. College football is bleeding fan attendance even at UGA. Take that shit somewhere else.

No I won’t take that shit somewhere else. Our fanbase is not good unless we are elite. I don’t expect sellout crowds for bad games but when we play good teams at home we shouldn’t have 7 thousand empty seats. No, it’s not happening at UGA or any other SEC school when they have big time games. Look at the OM/ LSU game last week. Absolutely packed. I guess they don’t have COVID or deer season or whatever else our fans decide to go shoot at on Saturday. Our team deserves better but we have all these excuses. Covid. Deer season. My mom’s uncle’s cousin’s daughter got married. My grandma had hip surgery. Yada yada yada. We can’t find an excuse to go to support a good football team but we can send 25 thousand people to Omaha.

[BulldogBear]

Half left early. Way early

At least it wasn't halftime. They started bleeding out a little after 3Q with 31-10 lead. I wouldn't say way early, but they were half gone and the game still wasn't decided (leading 31-17 with half a quarter left).

And yes, they were loud and into it.