(10-09-2017 11:39 AM)JMU Wrote:  

(10-09-2017 11:09 AM)JMURocks Wrote:  

(10-09-2017 11:00 AM)DirtyDukes Wrote:  

(10-09-2017 10:32 AM)Purplehazed Wrote:  Bands at the local High Schools are proud. Many bands meet an JMU for band week.

It would be awesome, and big time add to numbers, if several local bands could come to CGD and along side the MRDs rock the quad so loudly the ground shakes.

First you invite ODU fans, now other bands other than MRDs? WTF.

Actually love the bands idea, ODuh not so much.

Having other bands participate would make this a bigger Harrisonburg/Rockingham event, and draw in more people from the community. Who knows, maybe a few thousand of them become Dukes fans for life.

Beyond the sea of purple, we want this to be the biggest, most massive CGD ESPN has EVER seen. Bring your neighbors, friends, Boy scouts, Girl Scouts, whoever you can. Bribe people with free food and drink at the tailgates. We are hosting a party celebrating JMU, and the bigger the better.

I know we had approximately 12K in 2015. Does anyone know what the top CGD estimated attendances are? Is this something people track? VT looked pretty strong two weeks ago.

It looks like Mizzou likely holds the record at 18k:
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2010/...ce-record/

It would be great if we could turn this into a JMU community fair of sorts, and draw in more people than the stadium holds. That’s a tall order for sure, but it would be epic to have 20k+ show up.

One minor nitpick on the first Gameday ... folks on the peripheral seemed to get a bit bored/restless and wonder off. I think this was due to limited number of viewing screens and activities to engage people. Anything they can do to address that would help maintain the crowd size. It would also be nice if they could invite some vendors along the edges to offer sodas/water and maybe hotdogs or such.