(09-20-2015 10:10 AM)soloj Wrote:  

(09-20-2015 09:53 AM)Bob Wickersham Wrote:  If the student attendance was down by half for the FIRST conference game, coming off of an impressive win over Wyoming, then what can you say? The students SUCK as fans. Horrendous, they have ONE job to do and that is support their peers and school, they haven't sat through 20 years of losing, they have a clean slate! Pathetic, my generation of the late 80's and early 90's were much better fans.

I'm a student at Eastern, the only reason the student section was so big the first game was because going to the game against Old Dominion was part of Eastern's freshman orientation. If Eastern decides to win games the students will come, a lot of students are commuters and I don't really blame them for not wanting to make the commute over to Eastern to watch the football team lose. That being said I'll continue to support my school and go the games and if Eastern starts to win more consistently other students will too.

Good for you soloj...win or lose, students if they aren't working, should absolutely cherish going to their school's games, you're only in your 20's once. You guys are the #1 fans, us alumni and locals just supplement the student fan base.