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Butch Jones calls out fans after Arkansas State's win against Louisiana

Butch Jones calls out fans after Arkansas State's win against Louisiana

Arkansas State head coach Butch Jones wasn't too happy with fans after his team's 37-17 win against Louisiana on Saturday.

Jones called out fans for not showing up to the game on Saturday.

The official attendance for Arkansas State's win against Louisiana was 15,881. Centennial Bank Stadium has a capacity of 30,382.

"Thank the fans that did show up today with beautiful weather, I'd like to thank them for coming," said Jones. "We need to do something. I'm going to challenge our student body. You know, we got a team that's won five out of seven.

We represent Arkansas State. We need to start making Centennial Bank Stadium a home field advantage."

"I'm very grateful for the people that came out today," added Jones. "Grateful for everything that they do for our program, but we need to get more people in the stands.

This is a community team. It starts with our student body. So I don't know if I have to walk across campus and continue to meet, but that's why you go to college. It's part of the collegiate experience to be a part of it and it was unacceptable today."

Sometimes we think with our bellies, instead of our heads. For me the question is, Will it work? Will it bring more students to the stadium?

Or will they flip him off and refuse to come?

Things that seem obvious often don't work. I guess that's why you do serious research... what works? What doesn't?

One of my favorite quotes, supposedly from a Navy ops manual:

"If an idea is stupid, but it works, it's not stupid."

[Turbine]

Yep. If you go independent at our level you wouldn’t have to worry about TV timeouts because you’d have 0 tv deal.

The SBC TV deal is irrelevant and unneeded.

It is too late for the independant gravy train though. The super conferences going to 9 games makes going independant almost impossible.

It was just going to be a pitt stop any way.

[Big Poppa]

The SBC TV deal is irrelevant and unneeded.

Depends if you ever want to be on TV again. With no ESPN or other major network deal you got no platform to air your games. Sure we could stream on YouTube like D2 does but that will be seen by no one. We would never be on espn2 espnU or espn+ again unless we are the visitors of a school with a TV deal.

Plus I am sure that there are by laws in the conference that says all members have to follow the conference plan on TV deals and you can’t have everyone going in different directions.

[cajun4life]

. . . don’t fool yourself, about 75% of the complaints here are because the part of our fan base that posts here is a generally a negative fan base to start with . . .

If the admin were knocking it out of the park there would be a lot less complaints. The fact is they aren’t.

If I were Keith Gill I would ask ESPN to move towards in game commercials that are Picture in Picture. Just like soccer uses. That would speed up the game and would create a better in person experience.

The university could improve in many areas as well.

[Louisiana84]

It must depend where you sit because I have no internet access in my seat on AT&T.

AT&T sucks, apparently. My kids complain when they're at the stadium, and have for years. I use T-Mobile's network. Don't have that problem. Their network is better everywhere except in the basin and the marsh. It's newer, it's faster, it's more powerful. The legacy carriers have backhaul issues. Or so I am told. Too many subscribers, not enough capacity.

[Turbine]

Depends if you ever want to be on TV again. With no ESPN or other major network deal you got no platform to air your games. Sure we could stream on YouTube like D2 does but that will be seen by no one. We would never be on espn2 espnU or espn+ again unless we are the visitors of a school with a TV deal.

Plus I am sure that there are by laws in the conference that says all members have to follow the conference plan on TV deals and you can’t have everyone going in different directions.

The boat of opportunity has sailed but hypothetically speaking if you schedule tough enough, most of the road games will be televised

[R1Letterman]

All teams and games should have the same timing rules and time out rules regardless of broadcast medium, and regardless of fan preference.

[R1Letterman]

Does anyone remember the super regional in softball at Arizona state. It seemed as if every half inning there was some commotion about when the inning would start problems with war up pitches, etc. For whatever reason We were not "in tune" to the process and "new" timing rules set by espn and the opponent (home team) was, and it gave them a huge advantage

[R1Letterman]

If the admin were knocking it out of the park there would be a lot less complaints. The fact is they aren’t.

If I were Keith Gill I would ask ESPN to move towards in game commercials that are Picture in Picture. Just like soccer uses. That would speed up the game and would create a better in person experience.

The university could improve in many areas as well.

Or would Keith gill need to find a way to get someone else to ask espn on his behalf

[cajun4life]

Or would Keith gill need to find a way to get someone else to ask espn on his behalf

Either way, knocking off one hour of run time would be huge in pace of play.

[R1Letterman]

The SBC TV deal is irrelevant and unneeded.

It is too late for the independant gravy train though. The super conferences going to 9 games makes going independant almost impossible.

It was just going to be a pitt stop any way.

Lol. A lot chang3d in a month or so? Lmao

So what is the over under on future indy takes?

[Big Poppa]

The boat of opportunity has sailed but hypothetically speaking if you schedule tough enough, most of the road games will be televised

Does not matter how tough. All conferences have some kind of TV deal. More than likely your road opponents will be in one of them.