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Student turnout is absolutely embarrassing. A Mean Green basketball game should be an absolute EVENT for the student body: even on Christmas break. Most of these kids live in DFW and would enjoy an opportunity to get away from their parents for an evening. 

An easy connection that has not been made here is with the Greeks. Did you see all the High Point Greek pledges wearing suits to the basketball game when we played them at their place? 

Why aren’t OUR Greeks competing throughout the season to show the most support for the basketball team/athletic program? The winner gets their letters displayed prominently inside the Super Pit/DATCU, gets their own commercial on the video board and Hell, Mosley should be putting up his own $$ as a cash award to incentivize this. 

There could be Greek basketball All-Star games at halftime or after our game to encourage attendance and get the whole community out. 

We gotta find a way to get consistent Greek attendance at these games. And once you have that base of students who are always there, it can turn into a snowball effect.

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I sit on the opposite side of the players bench.  Last night there was two people sitting at those seats that are right next to court and the seats behind them had few people in them.  Do season tickets go towards the attendance numbers? if they need people to sit in those seats to make look better I am all in.

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On 12/21/2024 at 10:43 AM, southsideguy said:

I sit on the opposite side of the players bench.  Last night there was two people sitting at those seats that are right next to court and the seats behind them had few people in them.  Do season tickets go towards the attendance numbers? if they need people to sit in those seats to make look better I am all in.

This is why we need a new arena max 1500/2,000 and make that thing Rocking. 

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1 hour ago, GMG24 said:

This is why we need a new arena max 1500/2,000 and make that thing Rocking. 

Sounds like it may be time to take smaller projected attendance games to the Snake Pit. 

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Third home game in a row under 3K in attendance and 4th for the season.  Now at 2,947, average attendance is down almost 13% (439 per game) compared to the first 7 home games last year.  We are now down 1,185 in average attendance compared to last season's full year average.  The home conference slate kicks off with UAB on New Year's Eve.  Hopefully, we will be able to chip away at this attendance deficit as some familiar foes visit the Super Pit, but it looks like hitting a 4K average and growing average attendance for the 3rd year in a row is becoming increasingly out of reach.

Just win and they will come they said.  SMH.

On the bright side, we're currently sitting at 9-3 and 7-0 at home and own the 2nd best Net rating in the conference only behind Memphis.  Unfortunately, the conference is incredibly weak this year so we don't have many opportunities to improve that ranking.  Aside from winning on the road at Memphis, holding serve in terms of a Net rating may be the best we can do from here.   Actually, looking at the schedule, we do have three Q2 road games (Wichita St, FAU and Temple).  They need to keep winning and we will need to win those three to improve our resume.

 

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13 hours ago, NT80 said:

No, we're good...

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When the Pit is packed, really good environment. When its not... woof. The downfall of the Pit is not the amount of seats, it's its cavernous size. Although I think a new arena in the 6-7k seat mark is the sweet spot and would do wonders for game environment even when attendance is low.

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