Watching college Game Day this morning, and saw an interview of the PSU coach at Northwestern. The stands behind him were literally and totally empty. 25 minutes before kick off.

(10-07-2017 12:44 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Watching college Game Day this morning, and saw an interview of the PSU coach at Northwestern. The stands behind him were literally and totally empty. 25 minutes before kick off.

Was that in front of the band section, perhaps, and they had gone to the field for pregame?

Your post prompted me to turn to that game. It's 31-0 in 4th quarter, so I'm guessing a lot of people have left. We'd be happy to get what's left.

Tulane eviscerates Tulsa 62-28 (was up 48-7 at the half) to move to 3-2. I mention this because Tulane's coach, Willie Fritz, is a guy whose name was mentioned as a potential Bailiff replacement a few years ago (before Tulane, he was successful at Georgia Southern and Sam houston). Tulane beat Army by 4 at home, so today's game will provide a useful data point to compare the two programs.

In other news:

OU is down late to Iowa State in Norman. I didn't like the Riley hire. He's too green to be running OU's program and too much of a Stoops disciple. OU will likely remain Choke-lahoma for the foreseeable future.

I thought that OU would get found out against Herman and UT. But it appears that Baylor and Iowa State have already taken care of that.

(Iowa State has a guy that is playing both QB and MLB, and he is definitely the MVP of the game. What a performance.)

Edit: Iowa State wins 38-31.

Syracuse is up on Pitt 27-16 in the 4th.

Syracuse lost to MTSU a few weeks back.

(10-07-2017 02:06 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 12:44 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Watching college Game Day this morning, and saw an interview of the PSU coach at Northwestern. The stands behind him were literally and totally empty. 25 minutes before kick off.

Was that in front of the band section, perhaps, and they had gone to the field for pregame?

Your post prompted me to turn to that game. It's 31-0 in 4th quarter, so I'm guessing a lot of people have left. We'd be happy to get what's left.

For NW's sake, I hope so. There was not one single person in the stands, and you could see quite a bit of them. Even at Rice, even in the upper tier or the visitor side, you see a few people. It might as well have been the Atacama desert.

Yikes!
Maryland with a 100 yard KO return against Ohio State.
OSU leads 14-7

Syracuse beat Pitt 27 - 24.

News flash: Pitt is really lousy.

(10-07-2017 02:19 PM)Wiessman Wrote:  In other news:

OU is down late to Iowa State in Norman. I didn't like the Riley hire. He's too green to be running OU's program and too much of a Stoops disciple. OU will likely remain Choke-lahoma for the foreseeable future.

I thought that OU would get found out against Herman and UT. But it appears that Baylor and Iowa State have already taken care of that.

(Iowa State has a guy that is playing both QB and MLB, and he is definitely the MVP of the game. What a performance.)

Edit: Iowa State wins 38-31.

Completely agree. Oklahoma will always manage to choke one game a year that eliminates them from a national championship. The way people talk about Stoops and his assistants, you would have thought they actually won multiple national championships, not one 17 years ago.

(10-07-2017 02:37 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 02:06 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 12:44 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Watching college Game Day this morning, and saw an interview of the PSU coach at Northwestern. The stands behind him were literally and totally empty. 25 minutes before kick off.

Was that in front of the band section, perhaps, and they had gone to the field for pregame?

Your post prompted me to turn to that game. It's 31-0 in 4th quarter, so I'm guessing a lot of people have left. We'd be happy to get what's left.

For NW's sake, I hope so. There was not one single person in the stands, and you could see quite a bit of them. Even at Rice, even in the upper tier or the visitor side, you see a few people. It might as well have been the Atacama desert.

I know someone who went to the game. It was double our biggest crowd of the last 5 years...

(10-07-2017 06:11 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 02:37 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 02:06 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 12:44 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Watching college Game Day this morning, and saw an interview of the PSU coach at Northwestern. The stands behind him were literally and totally empty. 25 minutes before kick off.

Was that in front of the band section, perhaps, and they had gone to the field for pregame?
Your post prompted me to turn to that game. It's 31-0 in 4th quarter, so I'm guessing a lot of people have left. We'd be happy to get what's left.

For NW's sake, I hope so. There was not one single person in the stands, and you could see quite a bit of them. Even at Rice, even in the upper tier or the visitor side, you see a few people. It might as well have been the Atacama desert.

I know someone who went to the game. It was double our biggest crowd of the last 5 years...

And our crowds are not going to be getting bigger.

(10-07-2017 02:37 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 02:06 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 12:44 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Watching college Game Day this morning, and saw an interview of the PSU coach at Northwestern. The stands behind him were literally and totally empty. 25 minutes before kick off.

Was that in front of the band section, perhaps, and they had gone to the field for pregame?

Your post prompted me to turn to that game. It's 31-0 in 4th quarter, so I'm guessing a lot of people have left. We'd be happy to get what's left.

For NW's sake, I hope so. There was not one single person in the stands, and you could see quite a bit of them. Even at Rice, even in the upper tier or the visitor side, you see a few people. It might as well have been the Atacama desert.

I'm going to guess that interview was not live. Coaches have more important things to do 25 minutes before a game kicks off. Many interviews like that are not live, in part to give them time to figure out how long the actual package will be.

UTEP changes coaches, 0-0 with WKU. 1 min left in 1st.

(10-07-2017 07:34 PM)WIowl Wrote:  UTEP changes coaches, 0-0 with WKU. 1 min left in 1st.

Really was 0-0 with Army until the 3:01 mark in the 1st.

Army then scored 28 points in the next 3:04.

(10-07-2017 07:50 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 07:34 PM)WIowl Wrote:  UTEP changes coaches, 0-0 with WKU. 1 min left in 1st.

Really was 0-0 with Army until the 3:01 mark in the 1st.

Army then scored 28 points in the next 3:04.

Exactly. It's in the second now and UTEP hasn't had these issues.

And forget beating UAB at UAB.

(10-07-2017 06:11 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 02:37 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 02:06 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 12:44 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Watching college Game Day this morning, and saw an interview of the PSU coach at Northwestern. The stands behind him were literally and totally empty. 25 minutes before kick off.

Was that in front of the band section, perhaps, and they had gone to the field for pregame?

Your post prompted me to turn to that game. It's 31-0 in 4th quarter, so I'm guessing a lot of people have left. We'd be happy to get what's left.

For NW's sake, I hope so. There was not one single person in the stands, and you could see quite a bit of them. Even at Rice, even in the upper tier or the visitor side, you see a few people. It might as well have been the Atacama desert.

I know someone who went to the game. It was double our biggest crowd of the last 5 years...

no way on 2x and I have been to all of those but one last year when I went to renfest instead of the sh_ _ show that rice FB has become

Well, the Apache helicoptor flyover was fun.

Steeply downhill after that.

(10-07-2017 09:48 PM)texowl2 Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 06:11 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 02:37 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 02:06 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(10-07-2017 12:44 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Watching college Game Day this morning, and saw an interview of the PSU coach at Northwestern. The stands behind him were literally and totally empty. 25 minutes before kick off.

Was that in front of the band section, perhaps, and they had gone to the field for pregame?

Your post prompted me to turn to that game. It's 31-0 in 4th quarter, so I'm guessing a lot of people have left. We'd be happy to get what's left.

For NW's sake, I hope so. There was not one single person in the stands, and you could see quite a bit of them. Even at Rice, even in the upper tier or the visitor side, you see a few people. It might as well have been the Atacama desert.

I know someone who went to the game. It was double our biggest crowd of the last 5 years...

no way on 2x and I have been to all of those but one last year when I went to renfest instead of the sh_ _ show that rice FB has become

Well I have a picture of a 95% full lower bowl from NW today. When's the last time Rice has actually had 30k in the stadium? Maybe Baylor? Smu in 08 probably.