MBB VS. ODU

[Turbine]

I really thought all the fans would be back once Marlin was gone. At least that is what I heard somewhere.

My thoughts right out the gate

He went out a last game winner.

Some are saying attendance will increase.

Not this season.

The ones responsible for keeping him 15 years will boycott the rest of the season.

I predict a short boost will overcome the boycott but wont be sustained unless the interim goes on some kind of winning streak.

[zeppelincajun]

I really thought all the fans would be back once Marlin was gone. At least that is what I heard somewhere.

It’s a 4-12 team. The least talented one I’ve seen in my lifetime. They play ugly, unentertaining basketball (outside of spurts of relentless defense). They've got an interim coach finishing out a season that was over before it started. I never gave up my ticket, so I still go when I can. Made it for the 2nd half yesterday and half of that product was already too much. Do I wish more people would go out and support an atrocious product out of the goodness of their hearts? Sure. That’s just not reality. A lot of people did say they would be back when Marlin was gone. On the other hand, I don’t think anyone on God’s green earth thought that time would come in the middle of a season. Why would they? This is unprecedented territory at our university. If people don’t back up their talk next year and get season tickets when the new staff is in place, I have no problems having this discussion. Not that we can’t have this discussion after every game this year. I’ll participate. Just don’t delude yourself into believing we are providing a worthwhile product. We aren’t.

It’s also time that we have honest, reasonable discussions about what we should consider successful attendance at our sporting events. I’d be interested to hear what others think on that.

[duggie85]

I really thought all the fans would be back once Marlin was gone. At least that is what I heard somewhere.

Myself + 2 attended our first game in 2 years last night.

We will be back remainder of the season.

[Turbine]

They start off so well so often, how much of this failing at the end is conditioning?

[Big Tyme]

Oh I get it. More tongue in cheek than anything. It did seem like some were saying firing Marlin was the magic key to open up MBB fandom again though.
We cannot score but at least we are running a semblance of an offense now. We have some guys who can play but it does not look like we have meshed. Defense looks good most of the time. Evans needs more minutes. Dude played 17 minutes and scored 19.

[duggie85]

Oh I get it. More tongue in cheek than anything. It did seem like some were saying firing Marlin was the magic key to open up MBB fandom again though.
We cannot score but at least we are running a semblance of an offense now. We have some guys who can play but it does not look like we have meshed. Defense looks good most of the time. Evans needs more minutes. Dude played 17 minutes and scored 19.

I thought Evans looked gassed a few times, not sure how many more minutes he couldve given. Especially in the first half, he was slow running down the court a couple of possessions.

[UL_Cajuns]

It’s also time that we have honest, reasonable discussions about what we should consider successful attendance at our sporting events. I’d be interested to hear what others think on that.

Fine I will go:
With all the games now streamed on ESPN + everywhere, the debacle what we now call so called "College Athletics", and so much other things to entertain us in this world via devices:
I think reasonable expectations on attendance should be
20,000 per football game.
3500 per basketball game
4000 per baseball game
2000 per softball game

Notice I said reasonable expectations which your expectations should always be higher than what reality will be so I am sure we will be under those numbers on some sports.

alright yall go now!

[ZoomZoom]

It’s also time that we have honest, reasonable discussions about what we should consider successful attendance at our sporting events. I’d be interested to hear what others think on that.

You are correct, attendance has been on an overall steady decline since the dome opened. All the HCs that coached in the dome had peaks and valleys.

But this has been grossly ignored. CBM just happen to here too long, needed to go (which I 100% agree with), which made him the fall guy. But this has been coming for years and nobody worked on all the other things that make for an inviting experience.

Overhauling the dome with Katrina money and touting “look what we’ve done” and expecting people to attend just on that doesn’t work. Hope the same approach isn’t used for Cajun Field.

Just attaching this since some people tend to “misremember”.

[Turbine]

It did seem like some were saying firing Marlin was the magic key to open up MBB fandom again though.

You are not wrong.

That is exactly what I was hearing on the street and what promted my early on post.

[Esqueleto]

Fine I will go:
With all the games now streamed on ESPN + everywhere, the debacle what we now call so called "College Athletics", and so much other things to entertain us in this world via devices:
I think reasonable expectations on attendance should be
20,000 per football game.
3500 per basketball game
4000 per baseball game
2000 per softball game

Notice I said reasonable expectations which your expectations should always be higher than what reality will be so I am sure we will be under those numbers on some sports.

alright yall go now!

I think 6k for basketball is reasonable with an entertaining product