Maybe the marching band should announce an encore for the end of the game.
My comment is humor and your response to it is ridiculous.
This has been talked about ad nauseam on this board, and I'm just honestly not sure what else the university and athletic department can do without men's hoops becoming a Butler or Gonzaga or the football team becoming a North Dakota State. It's a sad reality, but I would bet that a majority of students - especially the ones from out of state - had never heard of Furman until they started looking at colleges and chose the university purely for the academics. I bet there's less than a dozen students on campus that grew up going to games at Paladin Stadium and that certainly makes a big difference. Why more don't embrace school spirit once they arrive, I'll never know, but I've stopped banging my head against the wall thinking about it.
Your observations are spot on. When the team builds a tradition of winning, more students will invest in the program. Let’s also keep in mind that non student attendance has dropped by 50%. We can’t expect the students to produce their own excitement at a football game attended by few thousand fans. Winning will help with both problems.fufanatic wrote: ↑Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:44 amThis has been talked about ad nauseam on this board, and I'm just honestly not sure what else the university and athletic department can do without men's hoops becoming a Butler or Gonzaga or the football team becoming a North Dakota State. It's a sad reality, but I would bet that a majority of students - especially the ones from out of state - had never heard of Furman until they started looking at colleges and chose the university purely for the academics. I bet there's less than a dozen students on campus that grew up going to games at Paladin Stadium and that certainly makes a big difference. Why more don't embrace school spirit once they arrive, I'll never know, but I've stopped banging my head against the wall thinking about it.
