The drop in fan support for MSU Basketball is a major crisis

[drunkernhelldawg]

The change is stunning. Other teams, such as Indiana, have gone from winning to losing without being abandoned by the fans. I've been watching sports all my life and I can't remember seeing a change this dramatic affect any other team in any sport.

[MarketingBully01]

The change is stunning. Other teams, such as Indiana, have gone from winning to losing without being abandoned by the fans. I've been watching sports all my life and I can't remember seeing a change this dramatic affect any other team in any sport.

That's the way MSU fans are. We always have been like this. If you put a shit product out on the court, field, baseball diamond, or whatever our fans won't fill the stands. The Croom years eroded football support but as soon as Mullen came we started selling it out. Don't worry, as soon as basketball starts winning again the fan support will be back.

[maroonmania]

That's the way MSU fans are. We always have been like this. If you put a shit product out on the court, field, baseball diamond, or whatever our fans won't fill the stands. The Croom years eroded football support but as soon as Mullen came we started selling it out. Don't worry, as soon as basketball starts winning again the fan support will be back.

That's mainly because of the location of MSU. MSU fans probably travel further per fan to see sporting events than any major college out there. When you put a crap product out who wants to spend the hours and dollars traveling to see it? Now if the majority of the fans live within an hour of campus you might still go anyway. That's the way it had been for SC in football. No, they never had a great product until recently but when you are located in the largest city in the state where the bulk of your fans already live you can still get a good crowd to show up.

[BeardoMSU]

It's spring break, guys. The student section has been much more consistent than the rest of the Hump this year.

[HailState39110]

I'm still confused why people keep comparing our program to Indiana ? from the Tom Crean / Rick Ray comparisons to wondering our fans don't hang around when we are losing like Indiana bother me. Look, Indiana is a national basketball powerhouse in a basketball crazy state and has won a few national titles.please quit with these comparisons

[Offshore Dawg]

Bottom line; MSU fans = fair weather fans. It has been that way for the 50 years that I have been a DAWG

[TheDogFather]

Bottom line; MSU fans = fair weather fans. It has been that way for the 50 years that I have been a DAWG

Stansbury had several shitty seasons according to many but fan support never reached the current Junior college levels. Even in his last season debacle we still sold out SEC games.

[drunkernhelldawg]

It looks better than it did at the start of the game. Maybe it's not as bad as it looks. I think the location point in this thread is true. It's good to see the team coming back in this game. We've played well in spurts a lot of times this season. With all those recruits there, we need to finish this with a win today.

[Coach34]

Stansbury had several shitty seasons according to many but fan support never reached the current Junior college levels. Even in his last season debacle we still sold out SEC games.

You and Stands can go suck a monkey dick

[shannondawg]

Getting to you Coach?

[HailState39110]

Getting to you Coach?

We need to buy Coach an all inclusive vacation to Stans Wet n'Wild water park to relieve his stress

[TheDogFather]

You and Stands can go suck a monkey dick

This quote on all time favorite list.

Along with the one where you said Ray was a good coach because others were copying his defense.

[HoopsDawg]

This quote on all time favorite list.

Along with the one where you said Ray was a good coach because others were copying his defense.

I was banned when he posted that. Definitely one of the funniest things I have ever read on the internet.

[preachermatt83]

I will not attend another basketball game at the HUMP as long as Rick Ray is the coach there.

[MetEdDawg]

Problem is that people don't understand what brings good change. People think pulling their money out and not going to games helps. It really doesn't. Actually it gives administration to keep the coach because attendance in basketball doesn't hamstring us as much from an attendance standpoint and sales point as football does. Lose 5,000 in attendance at football and someone notices. Lose 5,000 at a basketball game and it doesn't put nearly as big a dent. If you want to make change, go to the game, let us suck, then it's easier not to give anyone excuses for sucking.

Pull your money out all you want, but in the end all you are doing is giving MSU less money to make change and hurting your university overall. People that use money to make their own change in a sports program that is much bigger than them don't get the big picture and it pisses me off.

[RougeDawg]

Problem is that people don't understand what brings good change. People think pulling their money out and not going to games helps. It really doesn't. Actually it gives administration to keep the coach because attendance in basketball doesn't hamstring us as much from an attendance standpoint and sales point as football does. Lose 5,000 in attendance at football and someone notices. Lose 5,000 at a basketball game and it doesn't put nearly as big a dent. If you want to make change, go to the game, let us suck, then it's easier not to give anyone excuses for sucking.

Pull your money out all you want, but in the end all you are doing is giving MSU less money to make change and hurting your university overall. People that use money to make their own change in a sports program that is much bigger than them don't get the big picture and it pisses me off.

You know what really hurts a program? Having 8 God damn scholarship players on a BCS conference team. A team might I add that's been in the top half of the SEC most of the last decade. There's absolutely no excuse for it with the punt of Transfers and quality JUCO guys out there. Period. End of ****ing story. He's just using this shit as a "woe is me" excuse for his inability to recruit and biting off more than he could chew being a head coach.

[MetEdDawg]

You know what really hurts a program? Having 8 God damn scholarship players on a BCS conference team. A team might I add that's been in the top half of the SEC most of the last decade. There's absolutely no excuse for it with the punt of Transfers and quality JUCO guys out there. Period. End of ****ing story. He's just using this shit as a "woe is me" excuse for his inability to recruit and biting off more than he could chew being a head coach.

No what the problem is is that fans like you that think we should just grab a bunch of JUCOs and we will be magically better. You were probably in the club of people that actually thought we should walk into Sanderson and grab some guys because they would have made us better last year.

The problem we have is that our fan base is dumb and has ZERO ability to look objectively at situations. Is this what we wanted? No. Is it what some logical people expected? Absolutely. You had to know there would be recruiting difficulties because we blew the whole program up, winning difficulties because we had a thin roster, and attrition difficulties because of the culture that was bred during the last years of the Stansbury tenure.

Why should we expect more than what we have right now? What makes anyone think that we should be better? Is this situation like anything you've seen before? Some of you may think we have a great basketball history, but in all honestly we really don't. Couple of SEC Championships in years that we were clearly not the best team in the SEC, never out of the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament under Stansbury, some bad NIT losses very recently, guys being kicked off the team or failing drug tests, no NBA guys worth mentioning.

Geez people, wake up. Sure we did some good things, but Stansbury left us with nothing we could hang our hat on to use in our favor. It was all blown up. But somehow Rick Ray's tenure will ultimately off of whether or not he can get Malik Newman, or whether or not he can get JUCOs because that would help us so much more, or why he doesn't play a guy like D'Runnya Wilson who didn't play basketball for almost a year but we should just stick him in a week after playing football and let him work his magic and be the savior of the team. God our fan base is so stupid.

[mullenite]

Its not just MSU. The state of Mississippi as a whole abandons teams when they aren't winning. Mind boggling.

[Fader21]

Let's be honest. The reason why there is no support is because Ray is a black coach who is losing. If he was white I bet most the fan base would give him atleast 3 years. I don't understand the whole comparing ray to croom either.

[Brad Stevens]

I will not attend another basketball game at the HUMP as long as Rick Ray is the coach there.

That's the way to show grace, preacher!**