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[Jetskies]

UAB kickoff. I do not believe it was raining yet.

would not surprise me if a lot of the crowd has a direct connection to a player or coach.
The casual birmingham fan is too busy watching Bama or other SEC games on tv, to bother showing up here.

So - don't complain about the Rent attendance.
IMO we're lucky to get, what we've gotten.

G5 for the vast majority (except maybe Wazzu or boise state or similar), is just not a draw.
Not our fault, just the way it works.

 

[UConnDan97]

View attachment 104780 UAB kickoff. I do not believe it was raining yet.

would not surprise me if a lot of the crowd has a direct connection to a player or coach.
The casual birmingham fan is too busy watching Bama or other SEC games on tv, to bother showing up here.

So - don't complain about the Rent attendance.
IMO we're lucky to get, what we've gotten.

G5 for the vast majority (except maybe Wazzu or boise state or similar), is just not a draw.
Not our fault, just the way it works.

Their poor attendance and our ability to expect better from our crowd are not linked.

You've already alluded to the fact that UAB is, at best, the 3rd collegiate option in Alabama (Troy would try to argue that UAB is the 4th best). On the other hand, UConn is our only FBS team. Furthermore, we know what we looked like when we were winning consistently.

If we want to be with the big boys, we have to act like it. If we want to be marginally better than the 4th best team in Alabama, we should try to dream bigger...

 

[Jetskies]

Their poor attendance and our ability to expect better from our crowd are not linked.

You've already alluded to the fact that UAB is, at best, the 3rd collegiate option in Alabama (Troy would try to argue that UAB is the 4th best). On the other hand, UConn is our only FBS team. Furthermore, we know what we looked like when we were winning consistently.

If we want to be with the big boys, we have to act like it. If we want to be marginally better than the 4th best team in Alabama, we should try to dream bigger...

agree with most of this.
It's kind of a chicken/egg situation.

win and they'll come, and then we'll be back to playing pitt/cuse/rutgers?
or, they come first, then we win, then we get to the party and start playing pitt/cuse/rutgers again?

either way, my point was that the G5 in general is not a draw. save for the few quality programs still in the G5, we've reached saturation.

I guess i'm just trying to see the glass as half-full.
I think we will get 40K+ fans again once we're playing a P4 conference schedule, but until then I do not think anything UConn does is going to get the crowd season average above that 25K-ish mark.

 

[ZooCougar]

View attachment 104780 UAB kickoff. I do not believe it was raining yet.

would not surprise me if a lot of the crowd has a direct connection to a player or coach.
The casual birmingham fan is too busy watching Bama or other SEC games on tv, to bother showing up here.

So - don't complain about the Rent attendance.
IMO we're lucky to get, what we've gotten.

G5 for the vast majority (except maybe Wazzu or boise state or similar), is just not a draw.
Not our fault, just the way it works.

Sort of a similar situation. UAB killed their program and then revived it. UConn unintentionally did that. And that's what it looked like in the bad years.