Pushing student attendance record

Andrew · January 16

They are really pushing the students to come out next week to set the record. Hopefully 1,700 show up! D504C0A2-7B12-4E03-912B-A7506B632A11.jpeg.3b006cd6ad1b38e4ee593336dd8592c3.jpeg

Matt from A700 · January 16

Gotta get the Greeks involved.

UNTLifer · January 16

I like the push, but that record is just sad.

golfingomez · January 17

1 hour ago, Andrew said:

They are really pushing the students to come out next week to set the record. Hopefully 1,700 show up!

Hopefully 5,000 students show up

GMG_Dallas · January 17

1 hour ago, Matt from A700 said:

Gotta get the Greeks involved.

You'd think with the emergence of Antetokounmpo that Greeks would be more into basketball.

CMJ · January 17

I have to say I am a bit surprised that's the record. I would have thought more than that for the Texas Tech game in 2010 for example. I came back for that game and I remember a ton of students were there.

Andrew · January 17

31 minutes ago, CMJ said:

I have to say I am a bit surprised that's the record. I would have thought more than that for the Texas Tech game in 2010 for example. I came back for that game and I remember a ton of students were there.

There were a lot of Tech fans weren’t there? The Oklahoma state game was the most I remember as our season ticket was used since I was a student and we had to sit up by the stats sign in the upper corner. Idk what the numbers were but it was high.

MeanGreen22 · January 17

37 minutes ago, CMJ said:

I have to say I am a bit surprised that's the record. I would have thought more than that for the Texas Tech game in 2010 for example. I came back for that game and I remember a ton of students were there.

Could also be a data issue where they didn’t differentiate paid vs student ticketing up to a certain point.

RiseUNT · January 17

From 2004 to 2008 I just flashed my id and got in.

CMJ · January 17

14 minutes ago, Andrew said:

There were a lot of Tech fans weren’t there? The Oklahoma state game was the most I remember as our season ticket was used since I was a student and we had to sit up by the stats sign in the upper corner. Idk what the numbers were but it was high.

There were OSU fans in 2007 than there were Tech fans in 2010. I was at both and remember them well. The crowd split for OSU was like 65/35 us. Against Tech is was more like 75/25.

Plus there were more people total in 2010.

Edited January 17 by CMJ

Andrew · January 17

47 minutes ago, RiseUNT said:

From 2004 to 2008 I just flashed my id and got in.

Yeah they rallied them. You use to be able to show your ID and get marked down to get in. Now they make you get tickets before 😕

They would come clear out the rec to try to get everyone to walk over.

NT80 · January 17

No way that record is correct. Maybe a record since 2000, but not from earlier eras when we hosted Texas, DePaul, Tech, LSU, Smut, etc.

MeanGreenZen · January 17

It is an achievable objective and something everyone in the AD department will claim as a win. This is a good move.

Edited January 17 by MeanGreenZen

Cooley · January 17

Never missed a home basketball game as a student (1975-1978). Don't ever recall a game with less than 2,000 students in attendance. Largest, of course, was 10,500 total attendance (Jan. 21, 1977) against the Ira Terrell lead SMU Mustangs. (103-99 NTSU victory. Someone need to correct this misprint.

Big Z · January 17

I was a junior when we played OSU and we were going crazy in the student section. We even brought red solo cups to mock one of the OSU players who got in trouble a week before with a DWI.

Then, we won and got to rush the court!