Official Attendance: 9806

[UNTflyer]

[UNTflyer]

Evan Robertson, 201 yds on 27 carries (7.4 avg)

Johnny Quinn 81 yds, 9 catches (9.0 avg)

[meangreenfreak]

Where were the students? That side looked woefully empty.

[KingDL1]

Where were the students?  That side looked woefully empty.

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Probably protesting.

[meangreenfreak]

Probably protesting.

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I just don't get why anyone would be that upset that DD is gone. Surely the students get sick of this kind of football. Even when we were winning, there were very few times it was pretty.

[UNTflyer]

As a student, I don't believe athletics is really promoted on campus. I NEVER see any posters or emails asking the students to come out and support the team. This doesn't make sense to me, because even though students get in for free they still spend money at the concession stand.

[meangreenfreak]

As a student, I don't believe athletics is really promoted on campus.  I NEVER see any posters or emails asking the students to come out and support the team.  This doesn't make sense to me, because even though students get in for free they still spend money at the concession stand.

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I've never had a problem with the students getting in for free. They do spend money in the concession stand. Students are poor. I think it's our responsiblity as Alumni to foot the bill for the rest. We ahve got to find a way to get students to a FREE game.

Student attendance was better when we were winning. Nobody wants to be remined of how bad you suck.

[ntsumck]

WHY???? do you need posters or emails asking the students to come to the damn game? It is your school and football team. You should support them. I do not care what school someone attends. 90% of the students will know that they have a FB team and that they play on a specific Saturday.

I am sick and tired of the students needing to be begged to come and support their athletic teams at NT. It is the same with men's and women's BB.

Students support your athletic teams.

[UNTflyer]

Oh, I agree. With enrollment of 31,000 we should have no problem filling the student section. But when you aren't putting butts in the seats, the university needs to step up and do what it can to bring them out.

[meangreendork]

Where are the students? Somewhere else that's better and more entertaining than a losing game in the bloody cold, that's where. You want students to support the team? You need to give them a reason to support the team. Not everyone is a hardcore fan, but in order to become a hardcore fan, you have to start out a fairweather fan first.

If I'm a first-year student, I wouldn't show up to some of these games either, especially when it's as cold as it is, and when the team's been coughing up games they should be winning. I don't blame them.

What does the school need to do? The solution isn't just promotion, because in reality, a promotion is worthless unless the product is worthwhile, and lately, it's easy to see the football team as an unworthy product. The university needs to improve the program, and that will put butts back in seats. Period.

[FirefightnRick]

9,806? Uh, no! Maybe 4,000?

Visitor side at kick off.

Home side at end of halftime.

Rick

Edited November 19, 2006 by FirefightnRick

[Hunter Green]

Students are like anyone else. Give them a good product to watch, and they will come to the games. We have not had a good product for two years and we lose to team they have never heard of. I don't blame them.

[VideoEagle]

Students don't get in free! They paid at registration for the right to go to every home game in every sport through their student use fee. If they choose not to attend an event to which they have already paid admission, that is their right. The fact so many don't realize they already paid is their fault.

Also, 50 degrees Fahrenheit in NOT COLD if you wear any kind of jacket, sweater, etc.

[the green rokemi]

More students probably showed, saw the black uniforms and went "what the hell? Where are the Mean Green? Must be an away game this week..." Then went home.

[untwillrise]

When i was at rice yesterday it was thier homecoming and they are trying to get a bowl bid for the first time in forever, and their posted attendence was 12,000. when i pulled up i thought the game was over because you could clearly see the inside of the stadium and there were like 5,000 people there.

Not everybody likes football, to get them out you have to win or play winning teams

3-7 vs 3-7 ummm i think i am going to spend my night with my grandmother knitting.

[EagleChick03]

Sadly it was the first home game I have missed since 2001.

[Cr1028]

More students probably showed, saw the black uniforms and went "what the hell?  Where are the Mean Green?  Must be an away game this week..."  Then went home.

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I did a modified version of this.