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Full Flight
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Wise Owl
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Five teams out of 117 Division I-A schools, not counting FAU or FIU, currently average less than 15,000 per game, including Middle Tennessee State, which averaged 13,388 fans this season.
Do you really think the MTSU president will vote in favor of a rule that would drop his school out of Division I-A? Not a chance.
I would love to see FAU hit the 15,000 mark, and I still think we have a shot to reach it, but I don;t think you can say without the Ying Yang twins we have no chance of drawing the minumum.
Plus do you realy want to hang our I-A future on the Ying Yang twins? Now that's scary!
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Wise Owl
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Middle Tennessee State president Sidney McPhee is a member of the NCAA Board of Directors, which is scheduled to review the rule for minumum attendance at its Board of Directors meetings.
Five teams out of 117 Division I-A schools, not counting FAU or FIU, currently average less than 15,000 per game, including Middle Tennessee State, which averaged 13,388 fans this season.
Do you really think the MTSU president will vote in favor of a rule that would drop his school out of Division I-A? Not a chance.
I would love to see FAU hit the 15,000 mark, and I still think we have a shot to reach it, but I don;t think you can say without the Ying Yang twins we have no chance of drawing the minumum.
Plus do you realy want to hang our I-A future on the Ying Yang twins? Now that's scary!
This is exactly why the 15,000 rule likely will not stand much longer. It's an arbitrary number that many believe will not hold up to a court challenge. Besides, if we don't hit the number this year, we will next year with a mostly I-A schedule featuring Oklahoma State and FAMU.
And I agree that while the concert would have boosted attendance somewhat, this same stunt has been tried before with underwhelming success. I know that both FIU and MTSU both held concerts at one of their games this year, and I don't think either time did they hit 15,000.
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Bytor
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I for one was hoping that we have that perfect season, for the sole reason that we needed it to acheive that 15,000 avg. mark. All is not lost if we don't make it this year, if we start thinking like that, then what this program has been able to achieve is all but lost.
I say let us focus on the two games we have left and enjoy this team and group for what they have brough us. Lets enjoy the moment and embrace the final moments we have with this team and let us not tarnish the success this program has been able to achieve becuase of the attendance issue - it is out of the players control at this point - they did their part, now is the time to express our appreciation for what they brought us.
Go Owls & thank you!!
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