Spring game attendance nationally

[Jax Husky]

Spring game attendance is clearly NOT a priority for UConn. The game is barely publicized and there are many easy things to do to increase the size of the crowd --if they were interested. It remains a event for the hard core.

And even in most of the hardcover places, spring football isn't a big deal. I mean, LSU and Texas A&M didnt fill a quarter of their stadiums either.

Only lunatics like Alabama and Ohio State care that much about a scrimmage.

 

[sdhusky]

Why doesn't anyone at UConn ever think like that?

 

[sdhusky]

Arizona State Pac-12 2,100

To be fair, there are other things to do at ASU so we can give their fans a pass:

 

[sdhusky]

 

[JMick]

Arizona State Pac-12 2,100

To be fair, there are other things to do at ASU so we can give their fans a pass:

I knew some very innocent girls in high school who went to ASU. Let's just say they weren't so innocent after they came back for thanksgiving break their freshman year. If it wasn't a trash school I'd have considered going there when I was a teenager. The girls are unreal.

 

[sdhusky]

I knew some very innocent girls in high school who went to ASU. Let's just say they weren't so innocent after they came back for thanksgiving break their freshman year. If it wasn't a trash school I'd have considered going there when I was a teenager. The girls are unreal.

The business school doesn't suck.

At Least that's what my son tells me.

 

[JMick]

The business school doesn't suck.

At Least that's what my son tells me.

The business school is actually pretty good, and their online curriculum is good as well. Honestly, if I was going back to school today I'd consider ASU just because of all the online classes and how well they're conducted. You can take a lot of your major courses online and actually learn things. When I took online classes at UConn they were mostly essays and instruction manuals. I am more surprised UConn hasn't pushed the online format harder. I have always learned better on my own with the ability to repeat instruction than in a classroom environment.

 

[Waquoit]

I remember Playboy saying that if Disney had College Land it would be ASU.

 

[thatguyed]

There are a few surprises re high numbers for UCF and Kentucky but a lot of supposedly stronger programs make our numbers look pretty good IMHO.

 

[IMind]

There are a few surprises re high numbers for UCF and Kentucky but a lot of supposedly stronger programs make our numbers look pretty good IMHO.

If that UCF number is right, then 17 people (me and my dog) watched the Red Sox from my living room yesterday.

 

[thatguyed]

If that UCF number is right, then 17 people (me and my dog) watched the Red Sox from my living room yesterday.

My bad, I hadn't read the entire string and didn't see the UCF commentary.

 

[IMind]

My bad, I hadn't read the entire string and didn't see the UCF commentary.

No problem... I really just wanted to incude my dog in a post.

 

[DoctorWho85]

I'd love to see something like a spring fair before hand. Bring in some carnival games, local vendors and food trucks. Open the parking lot earlier, say 8 or 9am, so people can mosey around like they do at fairs. I know at least 10 people that would come with me if they did something like that. When it's just the game they don't see the point, but I've ask if it was more of an all day thing instead of showing up watching a scrimmage and go home would they be more likely to go and they all said yes.

 

[Jax Husky]

I mean, how do you compete with this? And do you even want to?

 

[whaler11]

I'd love to see something like a spring fair before hand. Bring in some carnival games, local vendors and food trucks. Open the parking lot earlier, say 8 or 9am, so people can mosey around like they do at fairs. I know at least 10 people that would come with me if they did something like that. When it's just the game they don't see the point, but I've ask if it was more of an all day thing instead of showing up watching a scrimmage and go home would they be more likely to go and they all said yes.

This stuff slays me. So open the lots 7 hours before the games.... so people can go to a fair.... and then after 7 hours of fair they will go to the same scrimmage they don't want to go to.

You know like the people who come for women's basketball players autographs and then get in their cars and go home after they get them.

I'll crack the code for spring 'game' attendance. Play an actual game with actual football energy and more people would come. You'll never invent a formula where attendance increases on anything but football - trust me recreating the Portland Fair outside isn't going to get anyone to watch a practice.