This is it. Beating directional schools doesn’t move the needle. OOC games matter in building program support and overall momentum.
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Great game. Sorry team has such lazy students and local alumni. Sad
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Losing to UC pretty much assured weak student attendance the rest of the year in my opinion.
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I think the students are more indifferent than lazy - with other social priorities. And I think it has somehow become en vogue to not support our teams. That’s a bad combination.
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Students come out for big games as evidence by the Cincy game. Sorry, but when you start out 0-3 you lose any little interest students may have had. A 3-4 Miami team playing a directional Michigan team is not going to draw a big crowd when there are other things to do.
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This is not just a Miami problem. It is true accross the college landscape.
While it is probably a relatively small problem in the grand scheme a factor in the decline is the relatively few Miami students who will have played football. Many of the most dedicated fans from my era(the late 80s) are those who played high school football. The demographic that Miami draws most of it’s students from just doesn’t play football in apreciable numbers anymore.
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You’re not wrong, but by this logic, why should hockey attendance be good? By and large, most kids don’t play hockey. Yet they show up for MU hockey. IMO, the bigger issue is distractions. Generationally, there are simply more ways for students to have no need to show up. Also, it’s not an event like it is in the south. A place to see and be seen. To some degree UC was an event as that’s part of the culture of many students. They grew up in the surrounding area. It matters. They have been to Cincinnati. In the MAC, with the exception of like two schools, I’d venture most of our students have never been remotely close to those towns. Why should they matter when they show up unless they are ranked…
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Wa,Wa,…Waaa!
There’s plenty of room to debate why our current students are disinterested in Miami athletics, but if you get the opportunity to meet and interact with them, you’ll know that “lazy” is about the least-appropriate word one could choose to describe them.
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Did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?
Just win. That’s the only thing that will grab students/locals attention and make the games a social event. Somebody mentioned hockey, but is that really drawing anymore after almost a decade of trash play? Averaged 70% capacity last year, and this year with the excitement of a new coaching staff, it’s 1912 a game or 60% capacity.
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This is one side of the coin, imo. I think there should be anger at ICA for not drawing people to the game.
It’s not on students and alumni to attend out of the goodness of their heart. What is Miami doing to get butts in seats?
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Start with the fuckin frat boys. Don’t get too ugly with them bringing beer. LOTS of beer if they want. We al bring it and nobody enforces anything. If any single group should lead the charge in showing up and showing off it should be them. They’ve showed up in mass before.
Winning OOC games builds a fan base….
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2 to 1, that is twice as many.
I went Friday night and I would say maybe 400 students at hockey, and hockey has the advantage of being a very short walk from many dorms. It has been around a decade since we went to the NCAA tourney, so there is no longer a carry over of interest for today’s students.
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lol
Let’s just say I have first hand (shoulder) experience