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yah i agree sort-a
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I was really disappointed in the amount of student support last night (WKU). Here was the toughest home game of the year, on TV, and the students stayed away in droves. The local support (chairback side) wasn't bad, especially thanks to all the WKU fans there.

So what if it was spring break. True, proud students would have driven back to campus.

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This just in from the news desk:

We will have a good crowd Wednesday.
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Florida_Owl said

This just in from the news desk:

We will have a good crowd Wednesday.

?

Is that just an optimistic statement or is there something we don't know? I know that you have some inside connections to FAU Athletics…

In all seriousness, I think FAU should make some special arrangements with some of the children's hospitals and orphan centers, etc to let those people in for free (at least for a game like BURY THE BURROW). It will boost attendance and the financial result will be the same as if we hadn't invited them.
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BMarkey said

I was really disappointed in the amount of student support last night (WKU). Here was the toughest home game of the year, on TV, and the students stayed away in droves. The local support (chairback side) wasn't bad, especially thanks to ll the WKU fans there.

So what if it was spring break. True, proud students would have driven back to campus.


I honestly think it was just bad timing.

I agree with what you're saying – that true, proud students should have come to the game – but the realist in me says that by and large, the students could care less.

I know students who book their plane tickets home over break on the first week of classes. On Thursday I called my friend for lunch and he was getting on a plane to go to London.

At this stage in our history, students just have other things they find more pertinent… a small subsection of people go to the games because they're fans (the people on this board and probably 100 more), then you have a wide swath of people who go because they're bored on that particular night and an equally wide portion of students who will only go to a basketball game if everyone else is making it into a big deal (i.e. Bury the Burrow in Red). Most of my premed/predental friends could give a s*** less because they would rather study (yet they wear UF "National Champions" shirts… ahem)

Also, FAU has a lot of older students too (40-year-old career changer with two kids going to school at night; these people don't care about school spirit and the traditional college experience) and FAU's alumni outreach is not as strong as older schools because we have limited resources (specifically, people and money).

Here's what I see happening, essentially. This year FAU has an opportunity to cut out some of the people with the lower GPA and thus sift through more applications. The school will earn a reputation as being more selective; students denied to UF/FSU fallback on FAU and realize, hey, this place isn't as bad as we thought. Some of them will actually like it enough to stay (as some of the band people have related on here already). Wins over Texas and Michigan State, as well as ramped-up SG promotion of athletics, will boost pride in our football team and attendance for home games will go up (although opinion of Lockkart will stay the same). Hopefully our basketball team, boosted by the talent of incoming players like Sutton/Pena/Riley, will finally make a name for itself… 2009 may be the year we win SBC titles in both football and basketball.

People applying to be freshman in 2010 will be thrilled about that as well as be thrilled about the fact that this rising star football team finally has a stadium of its own in Boca Raton. Our opening game against Michigan State will hopefully be very memorable but it will only sell-out if Athletics undergoes some very laborious, expensive tricks (that they should start saving for now) like I-95 billboards, advertising on the side of Palm Trans, running an ad in the paper, some late night TV time, offering free tickets to high schools and especially cheerleaders/bands of those schools, the whole shebang. When and if that place is sold out in 2010, and during the game a plane skywrites "GO OWLS" over the field (perhaps during halftime), and we win, we will finally be validated there and that stadium should consistently seat at least 20k people.

At that point, we'll have at least 4000 residential students and will start shaking off the coils of the term "commuter school". Our invigorated (and less apathetic) student body will then focus on the last thing it needs, Greek Housing, which will hopefully come online about the same time as the hospital.

I see this being a full-fledged, traditional school by 2012. As a result, we'll attract more applicants
, including more out-of-state applicants, and we can become more selective. More selective means better students means students graduate on time and pass their classes. This should result in a higher U.S. News Ranking (Tier 3) and the whole thing should continue incrementally from there.

With all of that comes less apathy and better attendance… at least in theory.
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ehh i agree but then again we all said that a win in a bowl game will spark more interest.........i dunno
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owlcountry said

?

Is that just an optimistic statement or is there something we don't know? I know that you have some inside connections to FAU Athletics…

No, ust my opinion…

been at this for a while…think we will see 1k…

not as many as last FIU game due to the students being gone, but still a decent showing…
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