(12-22-2019 06:06 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  Lack of fans at Georgia Southern games and bad weather excuses; name a better duo

Lack of fans?

What excuses? We showed up.. I could care less about whether locals or Liberty not showing up.

I'm confused.. what game are y'all talking about?

(12-22-2019 10:22 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 12:27 AM)SumItUp Wrote:  Georgia Southern - in game photo
Liberty - pregame photo

I was at the game also. There may have been more GS fans, but those pictures are a misrepresentation.

No, its accurate.

Both these were pregame and it shows more than the photos your fan posted. Not to mention there were quite a few in red in the end zone and some of our fans wore Liberty blue which is Navy. Did y’all have more yes! Should you have, yes. You are only 4 hours from Orlando. At the end of the day it was a great crowd and game. Glad we were able to play y’all. Good luck next year.


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(12-22-2019 10:12 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 01:24 PM)StanMolsonMan Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 11:03 AM)rknj8993 Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 11:01 AM)panama Wrote:  GS would have had us tar and feathered if it was us or App.

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Lose to Liberty and least attended Cure Bowl ever.... yeah. There'd be 20 pages by now.

The only team to beat us in ticket sales was UCF...

I'm sorry, but why is a team that will likely only sell 100 tickets talking smack about Bowl attendance?

Any G5 would be happy with the crowd we brought.

You should.. Shhhh...

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Still accurate. Folks did not linger outside that stadium once gates opened. Its is not an area you want to hang around in...not family friendly at all.

Pregame = actual game.

(12-22-2019 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:12 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 01:24 PM)StanMolsonMan Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 11:03 AM)rknj8993 Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 11:01 AM)panama Wrote:  GS would have had us tar and feathered if it was us or App.

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Lose to Liberty and least attended Cure Bowl ever.... yeah. There'd be 20 pages by now.

The only team to beat us in ticket sales was UCF...

I'm sorry, but why is a team that will likely only sell 100 tickets talking smack about Bowl attendance?

Any G5 would be happy with the crowd we brought.

You should.. Shhhh...

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I get it.. you don't like the subject. Stings not selling many tickets.. I get it.

Troll/dog us all you want about the play on the field.. we deserve it.

But this? We showed up... stay in your lane.

(12-22-2019 10:23 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 06:06 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  Lack of fans at Georgia Southern games and bad weather excuses; name a better duo

Lack of fans?

What excuses? We showed up.. I could care less about whether locals or Liberty not showing up.

I'm confused.. what game are y'all talking about?

Literally talking about the guy that I had responded to, which was in the thread attached to the post that you posted on, which you edited out of your post so that you could act like you don’t know what I’m talking. You literally saw it, cut it off, and then said “what?! I have no idea what you’re talking about!”

(12-22-2019 12:27 AM)SumItUp Wrote:  Georgia Southern - in game photo
Liberty - pregame photo

I was at the game also. There may have been more GS fans, but those pictures are a misrepresentation.

I can agree with this. The right side filled in a bit more than you see in the pregame pic. I'm guessing that was students from the looks I saw on the scoreboard.

However there were definitely more Georgia Southern fans there, by a large amount. And that makes sense with it being a reasonable car ride for us.

Liberty did bring more than the two MAC teams we've faced in bowls though.

And yes, I saw the reports as well that we sold the most tickets since UCF did. There's a reason the Cure Bowl has wanted our attendance since their inception.

(12-22-2019 10:34 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:12 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 01:24 PM)StanMolsonMan Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 11:03 AM)rknj8993 Wrote:  

Lose to Liberty and least attended Cure Bowl ever.... yeah. There'd be 20 pages by now.

The only team to beat us in ticket sales was UCF...

I'm sorry, but why is a team that will likely only sell 100 tickets talking smack about Bowl attendance?

Any G5 would be happy with the crowd we brought.

You should.. Shhhh...

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I get it.. you don't like the subject. Stings not selling many tickets.. I get it.

Troll/dog us all you want about the play on the field.. we deserve it.

But this? We showed up... stay in your lane.

There was literally a game in the same bowl that we were in that sold more tickets than the one you just played in, with the other team being from California. I’m gonna go ahead and say, after you’ve lost a bowl game to an FCS move up at the lowest attended Cure Bowl ever, it’s time to accept the L, and quit telling people on a message board to “stay in your lane” on a damn online message board, especially when you’re a damn mod.

(12-22-2019 10:54 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:23 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 06:06 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  Lack of fans at Georgia Southern games and bad weather excuses; name a better duo

Lack of fans?

What excuses? We showed up.. I could care less about whether locals or Liberty not showing up.

I'm confused.. what game are y'all talking about?

Literally talking about the guy that I had responded to, which was in the thread attached to the post that you posted on, which you edited out of your post so that you could act like you don’t know what I’m talking. You literally saw it, cut it off, and then said “what?! I have no idea what you’re talking about!”

(12-22-2019 10:59 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:34 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:12 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 01:24 PM)StanMolsonMan Wrote:  Lose to Liberty and least attended Cure Bowl ever.... yeah. There'd be 20 pages by now.

The only team to beat us in ticket sales was UCF...

I'm sorry, but why is a team that will likely only sell 100 tickets talking smack about Bowl attendance?

Any G5 would be happy with the crowd we brought.

You should.. Shhhh...

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I get it.. you don't like the subject. Stings not selling many tickets.. I get it.

Troll/dog us all you want about the play on the field.. we deserve it.

But this? We showed up... stay in your lane.

There was literally a game in the same bowl that we were in that sold more tickets than the one you just played in, with the other team being from California. I’m gonna go ahead and say, after you’ve lost a bowl game to an FCS move up at the lowest attended Cure Bowl ever, it’s time to accept the L, and quit telling people on a message board to “stay in your lane” on a damn online message board, especially when you’re a damn mod.

I fully accept the L.. that is an entirety different topic when it comes to the actual game.. which you are not even talking about.

Again.. stay in your lane when it comes to Bowl Attendance smack. You have zero credibility in that realm, hence the comment. Me being a mod has zero to do with it and you can talk all you like about it.

(12-22-2019 11:03 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:59 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:34 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:12 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  The only team to beat us in ticket sales was UCF...

I'm sorry, but why is a team that will likely only sell 100 tickets talking smack about Bowl attendance?

Any G5 would be happy with the crowd we brought.

You should.. Shhhh...

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I get it.. you don't like the subject. Stings not selling many tickets.. I get it.

Troll/dog us all you want about the play on the field.. we deserve it.

But this? We showed up... stay in your lane.

There was literally a game in the same bowl that we were in that sold more tickets than the one you just played in, with the other team being from California. I’m gonna go ahead and say, after you’ve lost a bowl game to an FCS move up at the lowest attended Cure Bowl ever, it’s time to accept the L, and quit telling people on a message board to “stay in your lane” on a damn online message board, especially when you’re a damn mod.

I fully accept the L.. that is an entirety different topic when it comes to the actual game.. which you are not even talking about.

Again.. stay in your lane when it comes to Bowl Attendance smack. You have zero credibility in that realm, hence the comment. Me being a mod has zero to do with it.

You know what’s sad? Having the worst in conference attendance, the worst bowl game attendance, and then telling other schools to “stay in their lane” when it comes to attendance. You guys aren’t even on the road, let alone in the wrong lane.

You know what's funny? We still get the better bowl placement after Cure Reps go to see the truth in those figures in person. Enjoy Arizona!

(12-22-2019 11:10 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  You know what's funny? We still get the better bowl placement after Cure Reps go to see the truth in those figures in person. Enjoy Arizona!

You know, I was concerned that it was the worst bowl placement, all the way until I saw who you were playing. Then I decided I would prefer be in our bowl than yours.

I’ll take playing Wyoming any day over losing to Liberty. You know what the cool thing will be even if we lose to Wyoming? At least we didn’t lose to Liberty.

(12-22-2019 12:50 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  A question to fans at the game. Was it a pretty good place to watch a football game? To be honest I don't know the dimensions of a soccer field so I don't know if a football field is further from the stands. It was kind of hard to tell on TV. It did look like a nice small stadium.

I was in Section 134 which had a great view of the field. You don't want to be in the lower section as you will have a lot of difficulty seeing the action on the field. Soccer sightlines down low are not good for football games. The bowl also flipped the seating arrangements from what they initially told our ticket office and caused some issues with our seating allocations, so that turned some people off of buying from the school. The bowl also issued some tickets to people for rows that didn't exist, which is not a good look. Some people blamed the school but all tickets were issued from the Cure Bowl Ticketmaster, so that shouldn't have been possible. I have a feeling the attendance numbers may have been affected by some of these issues but we'll never know.

I didn't really like how events were spread out. With the team hotel being on a Universal property, it made it difficult for people not willing to spend $350 a night to stay in the team hotel have a bit more difficulty to attend the events prior to game day. Then yesterday, there was an event at Camping World Stadium with a walk over to Exploria which spread out tailgating/pregaming. Luckily the lots near Exploria were not too bad to get in and out of.

They have some kinks to work out with the game itself. Their normal stadium policy is to only open an hour before game time. That led to a logjam at the gates and no real ordered lines for entry on the side of the stadium with the Fan Fest right outside the gates. Hopefully in the future they open the gates earlier.

To add to the crowd issue, ingress was pretty disjointed as we had to walk through a metal detector and get wanded afterward...and only one person at a time was let through. The clear bags were overly inspected defeating the purpose of a clear bag. Also there seemed to be issues with the e-ticket scanners. Some people weren't even scanning their tickets as machines appeared to be broken and staff at some spots seemed to struggle with how they were supposed to work.

Merchandise...all they had was hats and shirts. No commemorative items (coins/patches/footballs/etc) for purchase for the bowl. You don't even get a ticket to keep as a souvenir since the facility is e-ticket only. They were handing out these cool soccer style scarfs (nice touch since we were playing in a soccer stadium) but they were only giving them out at one gate that I could see. I let everyone know to rush over there to get one before they ran out. This is the first bowl I've come home from with only one souvenir type item. That made me kind of sad.

From all indications so far, the premium seating wasn't worth it. They ran out of beer in the first quarter and the food was cold. Also heard reports of staff not using gloves while handling food (unsure of this so take it with a grain of salt). Overall they didn't seem prepared for the volume of people. Also concessions were kind of ridiculous....$5 for a 20 oz bottle of Coke. Paying pro sports dollars for concessions apparently.

Orlando downtown area was cool and we took over the Wall Street Plaza area Friday night. That part of it was cool, but it'll be much better when all the road construction in that area is done. Rough area to the south and west, but staying to the stadium and downtown areas it wasn't bad at all.

It has potential but there needs to be some reworking of some things. Hopefully things improve for next year and it's even better.

eaglewraith nailed it.

Something else I noticed.. all the bars/restaurants within a mile of the stadium were confused as to why everyone was showing up in all this GS/Liberty gear. I got asked a few times during the weekend. Shows the Bowl is not doing a good job of integrating itself into the local community.

Also, thankfully the Cure Bowl leaves CBS Sports Network next year. The game took WAY too long due to the excessive media breaks. It really sucked a lot of the energy out of the stadium at times. ESPN is good at keeping games moving, especially when they only plan 3 hour time slots for games. I much prefer that.

(12-22-2019 11:18 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  eaglewraith nailed it.

Something else I noticed.. all the bars/restaurants within a mile of the stadium were confused as to why everyone was showing up in all this GS/Liberty gear. I got asked a few times during the weekend. Shows the Bowl is not doing a good job of integrating itself into the local community.

While we were out Friday night we mentioned several times we were in town for the bowl game yesterday and servers/bartenders were like "Oh ok."

That's the good and bad of a big city....the good is there's lots of places to eat/drink and potentially other things to do, however you also get swallowed up by the other stuff that's going on.

Plus there's like two other bowls and this is the least prestigious one in the lineup. There's something to be said about the town making you the showcase of the week like we've seen in Mobile and Montgomery.

(12-22-2019 11:09 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 11:03 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:59 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:34 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  You should.. Shhhh...

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I get it.. you don't like the subject. Stings not selling many tickets.. I get it.

Troll/dog us all you want about the play on the field.. we deserve it.

But this? We showed up... stay in your lane.

There was literally a game in the same bowl that we were in that sold more tickets than the one you just played in, with the other team being from California. I’m gonna go ahead and say, after you’ve lost a bowl game to an FCS move up at the lowest attended Cure Bowl ever, it’s time to accept the L, and quit telling people on a message board to “stay in your lane” on a damn online message board, especially when you’re a damn mod.

I fully accept the L.. that is an entirety different topic when it comes to the actual game.. which you are not even talking about.

Again.. stay in your lane when it comes to Bowl Attendance smack. You have zero credibility in that realm, hence the comment. Me being a mod has zero to do with it.

You know what’s sad? Having the worst in conference attendance, the worst bowl game attendance, and then telling other schools to “stay in their lane” when it comes to attendance. You guys aren’t even on the road, let alone in the wrong lane.

So we had the “worst” conference attendance and we’re still picked before a Georgia State program that apparently has excellent attendance according to their reports? Dang, now I understand why you’re so mad. See, the truth is that y’all were sent to the last place bowl because Georgia State has a reputation for being poorly supported at home and never traveling on the road. In fact, the Arizona Bowl was forced to pick y’all. They wouldn’t have if they had literally any other option. No one at ESPN, none of the bowl committees, and no one in the Sun Belt head office believes your reported attendance numbers for a second. It’s a sham. Your whole program is.

It really comes down to this: either show us your plane ticket to Tucson or stop posting because when it comes to showing up to support your school and your team, Georgia State fans don’t have an inch of room to talk.

(12-22-2019 11:20 PM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 11:09 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 11:03 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:59 PM)itsmeagain Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:34 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  I get it.. you don't like the subject. Stings not selling many tickets.. I get it.

Troll/dog us all you want about the play on the field.. we deserve it.

But this? We showed up... stay in your lane.

There was literally a game in the same bowl that we were in that sold more tickets than the one you just played in, with the other team being from California. I’m gonna go ahead and say, after you’ve lost a bowl game to an FCS move up at the lowest attended Cure Bowl ever, it’s time to accept the L, and quit telling people on a message board to “stay in your lane” on a damn online message board, especially when you’re a damn mod.

I fully accept the L.. that is an entirety different topic when it comes to the actual game.. which you are not even talking about.

Again.. stay in your lane when it comes to Bowl Attendance smack. You have zero credibility in that realm, hence the comment. Me being a mod has zero to do with it.

You know what’s sad? Having the worst in conference attendance, the worst bowl game attendance, and then telling other schools to “stay in their lane” when it comes to attendance. You guys aren’t even on the road, let alone in the wrong lane.

So we had the “worst” conference attendance and we’re still picked before a Georgia State program that apparently has excellent attendance according to their reports? Dang, now I understand why you’re so mad. See, the truth is that y’all were sent to the last place bowl because Georgia State has a reputation for being poorly supported at home and never traveling on the road. In fact, the Arizona Bowl was forced to pick y’all. They wouldn’t have if they had literally any other option. No one at ESPN, none of the bowl committees, and no one in the Sun Belt head office believes your reported attendance numbers for a second. It’s a sham. Your whole program is.

It really comes down to this: either show us your plane ticket to Tucson or stop posting because when it comes to showing up to support your school and your team, Georgia State fans don’t have an inch of room to talk.

As usual, you just made all of that up. Well done.

(12-22-2019 10:34 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:31 PM)panama Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 10:12 PM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 01:24 PM)StanMolsonMan Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 11:03 AM)rknj8993 Wrote:  

Lose to Liberty and least attended Cure Bowl ever.... yeah. There'd be 20 pages by now.

The only team to beat us in ticket sales was UCF...

I'm sorry, but why is a team that will likely only sell 100 tickets talking smack about Bowl attendance?

Any G5 would be happy with the crowd we brought.

You should.. Shhhh...

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I get it.. you don't like the subject. Stings not selling many tickets.. I get it.

Troll/dog us all you want about the play on the field.. we deserve it.

But this? We showed up... stay in your lane.

It's Tucson ...which we are no longer having a tie in with... BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO GO TO TUSCON.

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