Attendance is Awful

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If I lived closer to Norman, I would be there in a heartbeat. I just don't get it
 
Thought it was a womens game(no offense to the girls). The students are back and the weather is fine. Pathetic.
 
been the age long problem at OU in alot of sports, the students do not show up in big numbers....OU just not a rowdie fan base for some reason.
 
If I lived closer to Norman, I would be there in a heartbeat. I just don't get it

I've seen worse. Not a lot for the crowd to cheer about tonight. Sooners are playing awful basketball.
 
I've seen worse. Not a lot for the crowd to cheer about tonight. Sooners are playing awful basketball.

Yeah it's not pretty but I'm sure a bigger crowd would help the team play with more fire
 
Yeah, the attendance looks pretty bad. It has all year for the most part. I'll admit I'm now part of the problem. I rarely missed a game during the Capel era, but I've missed a bunch this year. Having a kid will do that to you though.
 
give it time
as the saying goes
built it and they will come
 
It wasn't pretty, but it was a win.

There were more students than on Saturday.
 
They have to figure out how to get more students at the games. Students are the key to a great college game environment.
 
Probably more the product of the quality teams, but there were always more students before the section got pushed to behind the goal. Even though I thought it was a good idea to try, the birth of the CrimZone was the beginning of the death of the student section as we knew it.
 
I went to the game and don't blame people for not going, one of the worst college basketball games I have watched in person. It reminded me of the first home game this year.
 
They have to figure out how to get more students at the games. Students are the key to a great college game environment.

Sooner_In_Michigan and myself are literally spending every waking moments of our college lives, outside of class, coming up with ideas to get students to come to games....

I open it up to the board to throw ideas around, we're open to anything....

Tonight wasn't bad attendance wise, no energy on the court showed in the stands tonight, until the final three minutes which we fantastic, hopefully it will carry over to Baylor next week
 
most students I have seen at a home game in a long time.
 
It looks really horrid on TV, like a JV game. How about tying football tickets to student attendance at basketball games? If you don't show up to support the bball team, you don't get tickets to football.... and let 10K students in if they all show up at that point.

... and not that anyone else is showing up -- it's just that you have a more captive audience in the students.
 
Thought it was a womens game(no offense to the girls). The students are back and the weather is fine. Pathetic.

Get mad at the old people. Us students rolled out tonight for a game against a crap team.
 
As a twenty-five year season ticket holder I can tell you OU has never been very good at fan support for the team. There were times during the Tubbs and Sampson era when attendance was good but never great.

No question the key factors in making an exciting basketball venue is first quality basketball and second student support that makes the game a campus event . The presence of an excited student section makes the game more exciting and entertaining. Get the students to the game and the older fans will follow.

Kruger has worked diligently attempting to motivate student fan participation and he definitely has brought a better brand of basketball to LNC. Unfortunately it is going to take wins and an exciting brand of basketball to intrigue the students to venture to LNC and that is going to take some time perhaps 5-10 years.

Further the presence of the OKC Thunder has diminished the OU crowd and probably the OSU crowd by 15-25%. There are just so many entertainment dollars to be spent and a successful winning NBA franchise does not help.

Most season ticket holders are corporations that cannot give their tickets away to customers or employees that will attend. In time those tickets just set in a desk drawer and are written off as a necessary expense for supporting the university.

I have been attending OU basketball games for 50 years, first in McCasland Field House and now LNC. I would guess there have been no more than 15-20 sellouts and fewer full house than that. In Norman basketball excites very few. It is what it is and only a decade of top 20 performances will alter this attitude to any significant degree.

Actual attendance last night was 5,276 which from a historical perspective is relatively good for a Tuesday night game against lowly Tech ,especially with the present quality of the Sooners' play. KSU on Saturday drew 6,273 and the Kansas game the previous Saturday drew 9.415 but Kansas, Texas and OSU always draw considerably better than the other conference games.
 
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I've seen worse. Not a lot for the crowd to cheer about tonight. Sooners are playing awful basketball.
Yeah, but they played their best basketball of the season the game before. You would think people would show up and be excited to support the team that just beat a Top 20 team.
 
I'm in LE1 row 7... great seats. We had 3 people and there were 2 others in our row. Other than us 5 the ENTIRE row was empty. pretty pathetic.
 
May be time for the "free" approach... for a game.
 
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