Charlie is 1,000% right!

[El_Toro_86]

He’s calling out the media for the piss poor coverage in the local hometown market. About time it gets said.

[BDYZR]

5 minutes ago, El_Toro_86 said:

He’s calling out the media for the piss poor coverage in the local hometown market. About time it gets said.

How many TV stations are showing the Illini game this week?

[puc86]

2 minutes ago, El_Toro_86 said:

He’s calling out the media for the piss poor coverage in the local hometown market. About time it gets said.

As much as I hate being the only school that continues to have its actual attendance published having 25k at the game this Saturday is just unacceptable. If we want people to cover a subject we have to show there is some kind of interest. I typically blame the AAC for no one coming but this was a decent P5 team that brought a fair share of their fans to the game. This was sad, we have dangerously close to zero fans.

[El_Toro_86]

8 minutes ago, puc86 said:

As much as I hate being the only school that continues to have its actual attendance published having 25k at the game this Saturday is just unacceptable. If we want people to cover a subject we have to show there is some kind of interest. I typically blame the AAC for no one coming but this was a decent P5 team that brought a fair share of their fans to the game. This was sad, we have dangerously close to zero fans.

Agreed.  We have a ton of alumni in the Bay Area that barely know we have a football team or root for other teams.  That has got to change.  The AAC and the schedule is definitely hurting us, but somehow we need to get these people to show up if for no other reason than the Bulls are a fun team to watch.

Right now there are dumpsters fires in Gainesville and Tallahassee and we’re rolling.  Watching FSU and UF play is downright painful and who knows when or if they ever come back.  This is not the 80s 90s or 00s.  We need to reach the casual fan that’s looking for entertainment.  The time is now to win over some of these fans and start to grow our fanbase.  CCS was absolutely right in calling out the media.

Edited September 10, 2018 by El_Toro_86

[Bausfkid]

This is not a new topic.  It's been well documented the apathy of the Tampa area to embrace USF.  There are 3M people in the entire market and we can't get 30K (.001% of the population) to consistently attend a game.  The big excuse is consistently the opponent.  We should be way past that excuse in our life cycle.

Go Bulls!

[Bulls On Parade]

 

What were crowds like just before the dark ages of Usf football..last few years holtz and first two years of Willie?

 

 

 

[Gismo]

12:00 games have lower attendance. Students aren't even awake yet after Friday night partying.

[Bulls On Parade]

Looked myself it was around 40k or so...Im afraid it will take a big win to get people back on band wagon and it starts next year beating Wisconsin at home.

[Gismo]

Just now, Bulls On Parade said:

Looked myself it was around 40k or so...Im afraid it will take a big win to get people back on band wagon and it starts next year beating Wisconsin at home.

I think those were announced numbers back then. 

[Skingraft]

2 hours ago, Hueyhog20 said:

Yep! Couldn’t even sell out a playoff game with the Dolphins when they played the Ravens a decade ago. 

That was a hot ass game too... drove down from Tampa for that