</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by CollegeFight:
Well, as far as basketball goes, we need to just get butts in the seats. If every game could be like the Maryland game last year, then we'd be in great shape. I thought student involvement in basketball was pretty poor throughout the year, so I'd really try to promote basketball to the students(football as well).
As far as football goes, I'll have to think on it.
Great topic, though!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I wish every game could be like last December's game against Maryland too. Unfortunately, it was kind of an anomaly. The Texas Tech game was pretty hype too.
But then again, these games sort of had something in common, mainly the notoriety and/or profile of the visitor. Maryland was coming off its first Final Four appearance ever and boasted a lineup that included the likes of Juan Dixon. Texas Tech? Well, two words: Bob Knight. I attended both games, and out of the games I was able to attend (six), those two were the most "alive" of the bunch.
I would expect a game against an opponent like High Point (last December a week before the Terps came to town) to not be a tremendous draw. But I would have expected a little better in games against conference opponents (Texas A&M, Missouri -- also a nationally televised game). Even traditional, deeply bitter rival Texas, although well attended, that game wasn't nearly as rowdy as I would have expected (I was also sitting surrounded by a bunch of 65 + types that looked like they'd hit me with a steel ruler if I so much as moved).
I've never really figured out where the student section at Lloyd Noble is actually situated. I think there are some schools (among them OSU maybe) that have like the first few rows of seats all the way around the perimeter of the court -- or at least a section of REALLY GOOD SEATS -- as student seating (someone might want to clear me up on this).
And then again, I am wont to wonder if basketball -- no matter how awesome a team is in a given year -- will always be second fiddle to football. It seems like the "football culture" was the topic of a recent column in The Worst Newspaper In America, but since I won't even use it for cat box liner, let alone read it, I'm not sure. I know it was the topic of discussion for a day or two.
--soonerterp.
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