(03-18-2014 09:54 PM)realistEagle Wrote: (03-18-2014 09:36 PM)EagleSam Wrote: He should be mad. The entire team should be mad. Murphy should be mad. A team that has 22 wins does not deserve this. People on here gripe about this team and Murphy potentially leaving and why he can't recruit high schoolers...maybe it starts with coaching home games in an empty library.
One thing I've always loved about Glenn Bryant is that he clearly cares. I'll miss that. Wish the students cared about their team as much as Glenn does.
I have no clue what can change the attendance problems. I wouldn't be surprise if a NCAA tournament trip didn't get us to avg. 1000 the following year.. Things are bad, very bad.
You know if UB had hosted a game (please don't give me grief about it) here is what they would have done..
1 - They would have sent out email to every alumni in their database
2 - They would have plastered the campus for two days with info about the games
3 - They would have went around to local businesses giving tickets to them for office prizes
I'm not saying during spring break UB would have been drawing 3-5,000 people but they would have brought in 1,500 to 2,000...
You cant "fix" the attendance problem in one fell swoop. You have to take things like the CIT and pump it up as if it were the NCAA's. I've heard your AD was quiet on the whole thing, not a lot of publicity..
It does not costs an AD a lot of money to spend a day on the phone with every office withing 50 miles of YPSI asking if they would like 5-10 tickets to give to their employees.
Also I heard that students were being charged? That is total armature hour. Your team and fans deserve better than that.