(04-13-2022 11:08 PM)Ourland Wrote:  

(04-13-2022 05:51 PM)Texasowl Wrote:  I agree. Why the hell would you force the students to sit in the hot sun during day games.

Several years ago I emailed an athletics department official concerning this very same topic. He responded by saying that the students prefer the visitor side because they can heckle the opponent more easily from behind its bench.

None of it makes sense to me. No students attend games. Back in the SWC days, there were always at least two hundred. I don't think any of the students care much about our opponents, and our team is pitiful. Not even I want to watch, and I've been a die-hard supporter for over 35 years.

This is true for most schools where the student section can cover multiple sections and span the entirety of the opposing bench. But our student section is far to the side and barely in shouting range of the practicing kickers. More importantly, from what I can tell the students want to be on the home side. At the UH game this year the whole section was on the home side before being told to move