Made my first IU football game today in 13 years with a buddy. I stayed until 2:30 left in the 4th quarter. Only two more, but a start.
My wife and I have season ticket seats (first year ever) on the south 40-yd line in row 45, east side. No one has showed up besides us on our bleacher segment (piece of aluminum, if you know what I mean). There are multiple reserved cushioned seatbacks that have had no asses in them yet this year. I hope these other season ticket holders show up for Maryland. That's going to be our first true challenge. I also hope the students stick around for the second half for once.
UCLA was a true challenge. Unless you’re meaning first true challenge at home.
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My seats are very close to yours (we have seatbacks). We've been to every game and stayed to the end for two of the three games.
Nice. Tough to walk campus and not want to go to IU.
Having gladiators and lions as the halftime show would definitely keep the kids from leaving at halftime.
Why not just have night games in the early fall?
Yep. We sold our soul to TV a long time ago. All for the love of money. Now they're in control. Bring back channel 4!
Guess you missed the Oregon and Missouri games.
Can you point to me the exact date that we played Mizzou and Oregon AT HOME, as I said in my post? Home or neutral.
I agree and disagree. The casual fans do not know how good we have it. But the true die hard fans (at least the intelligent ones) know exactly how good we have it. However.....and this is a big however.....we have been burned before by being excited just to be let down. I 100% think this is different, but we still haven't played a good team yet. I think this week will make a big difference in the attendance from here on out. We win, and look really good doing it, then we will will have great crowds the rest of the year. We lay an egg, then forget it.....we will continue to see a disappointing number of fans.
There is a difference with this staff, WR are blocking well, our RB are dynamic, QB is around 75% completion rate, a defense keeping opponents under 10 points a game. Waiting for more evidence of change is shortsighted that cheats this team of support.
I'm 100000000% prefer the current situation. Pretty frequently, you couldn't see an IU football game on TV anywhere. Now, they're 99.9% on TV and the other .01% can be streamed.
played Mizz. during the Wilson years at home.
WOW, I do NOT remember that. But add it to the list of P5 home games we've lost. UVA is still the only one in the past 15 years that we've won, yes?
We beat Missouri in 2014 at Mizzoo iirc. Then we lost to Bowling Green and the injuries to our QBs made the season a flop.
Yes, but the topic was home attendance and our fans preferring to see competitive opponents to show up...so a road game/win doesn't really matter, because we lose all of those games.
Like I said, I really think it is different this time. I mean, I know it is. But you can't complain about the lack of fans for FIU, Western Illinois and Charlotte with our history. Shortsighted or just waiting for better teams. We are not talking about the die hard fans, those have been there. As I have this year and past disappointing years. Problem is, we just need more die hard fans.
Sorry i was thinking of Power 5 wins!! I was at the 2013 Mizzoo game. Was very well attended but we were overpowered in that matchup. It has always been a Catch 22 in regards to scheduling. I remember the Corso days when IU played some really tough opponents. It probably cost him a longer tenure in Bloomington. The games were exciting but you knew we had no chance against Nebraska, USC and some others. We did beat LSU in 1977 at home and I was there that day as well. If the Coach can't win he won't be around long. So unfortunately we fans have to put up with some lower hanging fruit until CCC gets us back to where we need to be.
Kudos to the family for coming to two of three of those games. I don't understand; that's a lot of expense and effort not to watch to near the end. But they must have reasons.
