Weak basketball crowd attendance
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After the last game, what would you anticipate? Like the last year of Horn, no one wanted to see that show.
There is no excitement around this program. Frank and the have to win back the fans with their effort and performance…I’m not optimistic.
The product on the court matters. The glare from Martin's head isn't helping either.
Good game today. Frank actually coached instead of just knee-jerk pulling guys from the game. He had a rotation and stuck with it. Still yelled, which is fine, but let them work through mistakes.
Also, stuck to the game plan. Georgetown had some nice size instead but a little young and raw. Our bigs played much better over-all game-to-game and better as the game went on. Still a bit of street ball sloppiness but it worked itself out (Georgetown tried to speed us up). Also, actually exploited the zone instead of becoming check and duck.
I just hope the life lesson game earlier this week doesn't kill us in the end.
Also, stuck to the game plan. Georgetown had some nice size instead but a little young and raw. Our bigs played much better over-all game-to-game and better as the game went on. Still a bit of street ball sloppiness but it worked itself out (Georgetown tried to speed us up). Also, actually exploited the zone instead of becoming check and duck.
I just hope the life lesson game earlier this week doesn't kill us in the end.
Frank's Back on the Track;
He's Free from Attack!
He's Free from Attack!
I know it's sarcasm but one clause is 20 games too early and the other clause will never exist here.
Georgetown is not the same program, they have been horrible the past few years and this years team is especially bad. Good win but doesn't cancel out that 24 point coastal loss.
This one game can't...the loss, especially by 12+ with the NET, is going to mean USC better beat FSU or they're going to have to win an extra SEC regular season game or 2 in the tournament.
Regardless, this Georgetown team was capable enough to beat us like at Stony Brook, Boston University of Stetson if USC played like it did on Wednesday.
Did frank belittle the fans for not showing up in his post game presser? He has quite the history of this.
We can blame it on Frank, the Coastal loss, etc….but the truth of the matter is we never draw a good crowd in games prior to January. We’ve given away tickets to Gamecock Club members for the Clemson game at home in the past….and that was when we were really good.
Students are cramming for exams this week, Sundays are horrible for the out of town crowd and in general no one is going to notice we are even playing prior to January.
Students are cramming for exams this week, Sundays are horrible for the out of town crowd and in general no one is going to notice we are even playing prior to January.
Since the Corner our Frank has Turned;
He's no Longer Apt to be Burned.
You're right. The crowd actually wasn't too bad for Sunday pre-SEC but that was probably more because it was Georgetown. There were a surprising number of Georgetown fans there. They have two kids from Columbia but still more than I would have expected sitting in locations other than behind the Georgetown bench.
I agree but not completely surprised. They became a national brand in the 80s. Like you said they had some local boys too and that always brings out a few more.
Honestly if we had beaten Princeton and Coastal there might be 500 more people there, but it wouldn’t have mattered much.
I’m glad we’re playing games like this. I know Frank catches a lot of heat on this board, but he has scheduled Michigan, Virginia, Georgetown and some other big time match ups in his time here. These games are a lot more fun than the one against Allen coming up.
I know with all this rhyming junk you think you're clever but you're really not.
Just sayin'.
You're making entirely too much sense. Isn't it easier just to blame it all on Tanner?
It may not have been for you, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t keep students away.
Playing the Clemson game before exams when students are actually still on campus would be nice. Hell, schedule them as a mid-season OOC game.
Both schools need to do better with this.
Attendance is a product of market forces. If people aren't buying your product, criticizing them won't cause them to change their mind.
That’s the problem with all of FM’s teams: INCONSISTENCY
They play great one game and then play like crap for the next three games. Winners draw fans — losers don’t.
I'm so tired of this attendance talk. We had 9k there for the game Sunday. Guess what Duke's freaking place only holds 9k, so we literally had just as many as every Duke home game has. Look at what both the men's and women's teams average attendance is compared to the rest of the country over the last 20 years. We do fine w attendance.
pepsicock
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Speaking of Sunday games, does anyone remember when the Gamecocks played on the very first college basketball Sunday game? It was televised — believe it was against Marquette.
