(02-10-2020 12:26 PM)HuskieManiac Wrote: Big red hit the nail on the head. The way some on here over react to certain things is just comical, 75% of this board isn’t at any of the games anyways. Glad the kid that got hurt is fine and returned home with his team that night.
Break out those old man emojis, but to set the record straight "HuskieManiac" it shows you joined in 2019 --- however, it's likely you've been a fan before that.
I know several posters on here -- myself included -- who now fall into your "75%" that don't attend games. BUT we used to. My first season tickets for football and men's basketball were from 1979-80. When the chairback seats were first introduced in Huskie Stadium, I upped my investment and bought four of those simply hoping to re-live the thrill of the Cal Bowl season; I'm confident in saying the number of Huskie events I've attended are 50 times the number you've seen. It says I joined this board in 2010 but I promise you my being a Huskie fan goes way back.
That being said, I also don't disagree with you that "some on here over react" to posts, however, frustration times longevity often lead to over reacting when you see coaches or administrators who have no knowledge of NIU's past and don't seem to care.
Respectfully, my point is don't assume lack of attendance today with a lack of support. Because you can't yet identify with those of us who relished McDougal's team going to the NCAA in Dallas followed by the drought until Molinari used Rosborugh's recruits to get us back; and that was also followed by another gap until Hammel did that. On the women's side, we saw Albright produce a program that made "watch the bracket reveal" parties an annual affair. The success of Waite's volleyball program, the elimination of a men's gymnastics program that produced All-America performers with regularity, a women's national championship in another eliminated program in badminton; the dropping of baseball and the revival with one NCAA prelim round appearance under Spanky McFarland.
There are too many of us whose past contributions suddenly had no value as new rules were implemented for season tickets, parking, etc. We've endured not just losing streaks but consecutive losing seasons, changes of administration that have made us feel less valued. Don't think for a minute that the decision to stop buying season tickets or even attending games didn't come without some painful internal debates. We're still Huskies, but frustrated Huskies.
Don't know enough about costs and logistics when it comes to the ambulance debate, but it did seem like a very long response time considering there is a fire station just off Annie Glidden on Dresser (a mile-plus at best?). Simply glad the Kent State player was doing well enough to return with his teammates.