Student section....again

[Wise2]

Ok, I get why we don't fill the building with non-students, but has the apathy really reached the student now too. Yes, it was Rutgers on a Sunday afternoon (no partying in Hartford), but that was a sad excuse for a student section today. Maybe a 1/3 full.

Can we stop the complaints about where the student sections sits, because if we put them on the side lines, it really won't be much better than those fans that our paying thousands to sit there.

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

I was there today and it was a disappointing student turnout but this is the type of season that doesn't always lend itself to the fringe fan turning out in full force for the obvious reasons. Ultimately something needs to be done to reward a certain cross section of the UConn fan base.

Great game for Bazz today. He was special and Giff was wonderful.

Boat was terrible today especially on defense. JMHO

 

[upstater]

On TV, it actually seemed loud, and full of students. Oh well.

 

[CTBasketball]

Rutgers on a Sunday afternoon. Yawn.

 

[phillionaire]

i was there and it was empty but we were pretty loud. kinda hard to get the average student motivated to go to a game on a sunday afternoon in hartford against rutgirls.

 

[mauconnfan]

I thought it sounded pretty dead most of the time and very little in the eruption world!!

 

[OkaForPrez]

I sat in the student section in on the corner (prefer the better view to standing 15 rows back). I mentally noted that I could hear the hum if the lights at several points in the game.

 

[champs99and04]

I actually thought the crowd was decent today given the opponent.

 

[Palatine]

Attendance: 12,768

 

[mauconnfan]

Attendance: 12,768

Actual looked more like 8-9K on TV.........

Sounded like a Tulane crowd though

 

[Robertelamin]

Of course, all the students were at the Hartford Home Show today.

 

[Robertelamin]

Also the crowd was bigger than what i expected. It wasn't loud until the last 10 minutes but that is going to happen when the score is 32-32 with less than 10 minutes left in the game. The students were generally a no show but thanks to the ones that did go.

 

[BoatShow]

The sidelines looked pretty full. I'm pretty sure they just didn't sell all of the XL season student tickets this year and kids aren't really trying to go out to Hartford on a Sunday afternoon.

The worst thing about XL student section crowds like that is the only kids standing are the ones on the risers and you can see kids sitting with their legs spread out on the empty seats in front of them. LOOKS LIKE CRAP

 

[whaler11]

I was in 106. It was pretty quiet but pretty well attended. The student sections were flat out empty.

 

[Deepster]

Face it. For a program with three titles, the student section has never been an elite one that matched the programs success. And now? Like everything else in CT sports, they're jumping right off the bandwagon.

 

[NEforceUConn]

I just watched on ESPN 3 and there were a lot of empty seats. With UConn's conference future so up in the air I would think the news media should create a buzz to have all teams better supported. I tend to think UConn will come out all right when all is revealed over the next 12 months regarding CR, but it would help if the the fans would get it together and show up. If our conference future is garbage (only a 15% probability in my mind) then you can throw in the towel. But for now grad a blue and white towel and wave it so its comes across on the tube.

 

[CTBasketball]

Actual looked more like 8-9K on TV.........

Sounded like a Tulane crowd though

Tulane had I believe 2.5k at its last home game...

Signs of things to come we're doomed haha

 

[GemParty]

Perception is everything, see Zach's tweet from the NY Post

 

[jdb50]

The students are back on campus, why isn't this game scheduled for Gampel and the Depaul game during student break put in the XL Center?