Many of you know that my comments on this forum are mostly basketball related. However, I am also passionate about college football especially EMU football.

I believe this year's team will be very competitive in football and now is our time to capitalize on the success. One of our stadium's shortcomings is the track around the field. We have discussed ad nauseum ways to improve our atmosphere. Since we all know that funding is not available for a new stadium, I believe we could greatly improve the football atmosphere by adding bleachers in the endzone. I am thinking something inexpensive that could be moved out of the way after games. If we had bleachers that could seat 500-1000 people at each endzone, I believe the atmosphere would improve exponentially for everyone including the players. We could put the band at one end and the passionate fans at the other one.

We could move the bleachers as safely close to the playing field and perhaps up to the 30 yard sidelines. Instead of being the football venue the furthest away from the playing field, we could promote the factory as the "Closest Seating in Division 1 Football" and make it an exciting place to watch and play football.

So many wide open great seats between the 30 yard lines on the home side, moving a bunch of people to each end zone would only dilute the existing home fans behind the home bench, in my opinion.

Really don't even want to start an attendance thread, honestly. Overall, assume attendance is going to be poor, it is what it is. Get off to a good start and it'll help a little. Get to the last game against CMU, at home, with a chance for a 6th win and a bowl game, maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised by one of the larger crowds in recent memory. (maybe not)

Could care less about attendance. Just care about a better product on the field, which is really the only hope for better attendance.

(07-03-2016 07:56 PM)EagleTough Wrote:  So many wide open great seats between the 30 yard lines on the home side, moving a bunch of people to each end zone would only dilute the existing home fans behind the home bench, in my opinion.

Really don't even want to start an attendance thread, honestly. Overall, assume attendance is going to be poor, it is what it is. Get off to a good start and it'll help a little. Get to the last game against CMU, at home, with a chance for a 6th win and a bowl game, maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised by one of the larger crowds in recent memory. (maybe not)

Could care less about attendance. Just care about a better product on the field, which is really the only hope for better attendance.

I agree 100%. You can virtually sit anywhere you want...move during the game for a better vantage point...etc. A better product will put more rear ends in the stands. First things first.