EKU Tonight
This board has been dead for sometime now. Like many of you, I am not a fan of CSNBBS and wish the Byrd Cage would put a forum on their site, but we do need more engagement from our fans. Murray fans have always trashed our boards and attendance numbers. Now EKU is jumping on board.
Here are 2 comments from their forum
"If any Belmont fans read this - what happened to your fan forum? The last post was 11-16-2014. And the last entry on The Byrd Cage was November 21, 2014. Up until mid-November TTU was the only East team without a fan forum. Only half the teams in the West have fan forums. You Belmont fans are starting to make the East look as pathetic as the West."
"Belmont home games-Avg/Game is 1819. Here are their Belmont OVC home games;
TTU Attendance: 2194
JSU Attendance: 1562
UTM Attendance: 2426
SIUE Attendance: 1696
SEMO Attendance: 1597
For a comparison this year EKU home games-Avg/Game is 2331"
I agree our board is weak. However, we have a very young fan base. As for their attendance figures....lets take a look at the last two years (below). We ranked 2nd in attendance in 2013 and 3rd in 2014. As a percent of our arena's capacity, we ranked 2nd in 2013 and 1st in 2014. These numbers are more impressive considering Belmont only recently joined Division 1 in 1997. Since joining division 1, Belmont has won 6 conference tournaments, thus receiving 6 NCAA tournament bids. This compares to EKU who has played in 8 tournament, since 1953. Murray has also had a much lengthier history in Division 1. I will take Belmont's current pace of growth and recent success over any other school in our conference. Lastly, in Belmont's first two seasons in the OVC, we won two regular season championships and one conference tournament, more combined titles than any other team in the conference. So to me it looks like the OVC runs through Belmont.
School Capacity 2014 % of Capacity 2013 % of Capacity
APSU 7,257 2,711 37% 2,532 35%
Belmont 5,085 2,719 53% 2,734 54%
EIU 5,300 926 17% 1,039 20%
EKU 6,500 2,986 46% 2,266 35%
JSU 5,300 1,016 19% 1,859 35%
Morehead 6,500 2,376 37% 2,363 36%
Murray 8,600 3,428 40% 5,436 63%
SEMO 6,972 1,983 28% 2,339 34%
SIUE 4,200 1,755 42% 1,850 44%
TSU 10,500 1,568 15% 1,511 14%
TTU 9,280 1,605 17% 1,919 21%
UTM 4,800 1,720 36% 1,694 35%
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