Avoid Fan Letdown

[meangreanmick]

We have a lot of comments about not overlooking Incontinent Word, but anyone worried about a big fan letdown and rolling out a attendance of only about 20K people after that record crowd?  Anyone heard what the AD is doing to pump up attendance for this week given the opponent?

[Mean Green Matt]

Chance of rain as well. 

[SteaminWillieBeamin]

I can see a big disinterest in the game. Last year when we played Lamar, a similar unknown team (though definitely MORE known) -- we had ~19k in attendance. 

When it comes to giving away my extra club seats - no one will jump at going to see IWU. I imagine people will get that same response too.

[RiseUNT]

That's any team in the world. 

[EagleMBA]

21 minutes ago, meangreanmick said:

 Anyone heard what the AD is doing to pump up attendance for this week given the opponent?

Putting up a stage at mid-field where the wrestling exhibition was. Promoting it as an "uplifting experience".

[greeneagle1]

1 hour ago, meangreanmick said:

We have a lot of comments about not overlooking Incontinent Word, but anyone worried about a big fan letdown and rolling out a attendance of only about 20K people after that record crowd?  Anyone heard what the AD is doing to pump up attendance for this week given the opponent?

Are you offering to sell your club seats?

[Withers940]

I’d take 20,000 actual fans in the seats for Saturday. I’d love 25+  Though 

[drex]

I'll be there, come hell or high water.  I am not in any way connected to Aand M or Clemson or any other team other than my alma mater.  When people start bitching about how Seth left, owing to poor attendance, just think of the games people did not attend because the opposition did not live up to their standards.  

[GrayEagle]

Good Lord willing, I'll be there.  I'm going to see our entertaining football team.  

I want to see our offense.  I want to see if our first team defense is for real.  I want to see if this team still has a fire in its belly with a lesser known opponent.  

I can barely walk so it would be easy for me to cop out.  But, this team has earned my support so I'll do my dead level best to be there.  I hope that at least 25,000 of my fellow alums, friends and students will be there also.  Especially the students so that we can keep this thing going.

[TheColonyEagle]

1 hour ago, Prettylittleeagle said:

Attendance will be much lower...id guess between like 20-22k. 

I won't be driving up...going to the TAMU vs Clemson game...I know bad me, but hey its UNT  

Edit: this most be the most SMU thing I've ever posted...

You might as well said that. Same thing. 

[emmitt01]

My attendance decisions follow a very complex decision matrix.  

Is North Texas playing in this game? 

If yes, attend game.

If no, are the tickets free?

If yes, attend game.

If no, are the two teams interesting?

If yes, consider attending.

If no, ask wife what she wants to do that day.  

[golfingomez]

i heard there will be an MMA match after the game

[Withers940]

26 minutes ago, golfingomez said:

i heard there will be an MMA match after the game

I thought it was a cock fight?

[trud1966]

Wrestling afterwards..it's  going to be an all out Death Match between

Rick "The Villan" Villarreal VS. Wren "Cookie" Baker. 

[Pavlovs Eagle]

25 minutes ago, Withers940 said:

I thought it was a cock fight?

Dice game between the bleachers

[greenjoe]

Open the gates, turn on the lights. I come to watch North Texas play. The opponent is irrevelant.

GO MEAN GREEN

Edited September 5, 2018 by greenjoe

[southsideguy]

The players are laying it out on the field at least i can find my way into the stadium to support the good guys.  They love playing in front of a crowd and it helps get the recruits  excited about coming here.  That is why SMUT brought some recruits to our game.  I sure they asid this half of the stadium is our fans.  If SMUT wasnt playing TCU I bet no more then 10k fans would show up for the game.  It is a good time to be green and I am going to enjoy the ride. 

[NorthTexan95]

8 hours ago, Withers940 said:

I thought it was a cock fight?

A cock fight would help with attendence ... especially from law enforcement and PETA supporters.

[southsideguy]

I have to agree with the PETA people for sure, they are hot of the victory from freeing the animals on the animal cracker boxes.  No more bars for them on those boxes.   Has anyone told the PETA that there are not real animals in animal crackers boxes?  

[Cerebus]

38 minutes ago, NorthTexan95 said:

A cock fight would help with attendence ... especially from law enforcement and PETA supporters.

Don't worry, we've found a very civilized alternative that I am sure everyone is going to love:

[SteaminWillieBeamin]

Maybe I missed the part of the question where is asked if all the die-hards on this board, all 50 of us, would ever miss this game?  Because those seem to be the responses -- and not answering if you think UIW or post big win, will make some people stay at home and our attendance suffers. 

 

[UNTLifer]

In the event of rain, don't bring an umbrella.  The walk back to the car would be a whippin'

[Withers940]

1 hour ago, UNTLifer said:

In the event of rain, don't bring an umbrella.  The walk back to the car would be a whippin'

Are these allowed?

[untjim1995]

This is why these game are terrible for us right now. Incarnate Word brings nobody out to this game, but it does keep some from coming out. We aren't anywhere near a place as a program where the opponent doesn't matter--like at almost every other G5 locale.

RV screwed us in so many ways, but the biggest was his unbelievably poor OOC scheduling. There are a handful of FCS schools that bring decent interest here--SFA, SHSU, and Grambling are the ones that come to mind. Instead, we have scheduled Portland State, Bethune-Cookman, Lamar, Incarnate Word, Abilene Christian, Houston Baptist, and Rhode Island. Only ACU might bring a decent crowd with them. The others didn't or won't, while providing UNT fans another reason to do what so many already do--see who UT, A&M, OU, Tech, etc...are playing and go to those games or watch it on TV versus giving up 6 or more hours of your day for these spare opponents.

Wren Baker continues to be a ray of sunshine here in so many ways, but his OOC scheduling is the biggest difference in being the AD at UNT, as compared to RV's absolute lazy ass. The fact that we got Apogee built in 2011 and still we had two of the first 5 seasons of its existence have only one FCS opponent for our fans to enjoy while paying for the new facility. It was the biggest kick to the nuts RV gave us.

[SteaminWillieBeamin]

@untjim1995 I'm pretty sure that Wren is the reason we have half of those terrible OOC games on your list.