Really poor today guys. Sitting throughout the game, West side on phones, and sections not filled up. Would take a photo but it’s too depressing.
If you can’t get up for this kind of game…
If you can’t get up for this kind of game…
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When I heard it was only 85% full before tip… that had me concerned. Weak effort. Zero excuses for the Maryland game with an 8pm tip time. But it is Gen Z and they are unreliable so…
The students will stop coming if we aren't winning. Nothing has really changed. Bandwagon takes on passengers and it also loses them.
In big blocks.
In big blocks.
Blaming the students is ridiculous!
This game got away from us very early. The few times we actually did something they were enthusiastic.
You want to blame people, blame the turn coat STH, that sold prime seats to recoup some of their investment. There were way more MSU fans in the upper deck than NU fans, this includes the bottom 5 rows which I know are season ticket holders the entire section behind the MSU bench was MSU fans. There were even people on the courtside folding chairs and prime front row of the Wilson Club had MSU fans. Pathetic.
This game got away from us very early. The few times we actually did something they were enthusiastic.
You want to blame people, blame the turn coat STH, that sold prime seats to recoup some of their investment. There were way more MSU fans in the upper deck than NU fans, this includes the bottom 5 rows which I know are season ticket holders the entire section behind the MSU bench was MSU fans. There were even people on the courtside folding chairs and prime front row of the Wilson Club had MSU fans. Pathetic.
Sorry, the Wildside in recent years were pit bulls and carried the team by setting the tone for the arena. Even when opposing fans came in droves.
This year, not so much. What changed?
I’m a season ticket holder. Defintley less opposing than in years past. They are always going to be there just given Evanston’s close proximity to a major city and the number of alumni from every school that see this as their only way to see a game. There were also tickets available to buy until just a few days ago, and the area behind the bench is usually available to buy online behind the visitors bench. Unfortunately the game wasn’t close and we home fans didn’t have much to cheer for and their fans were able to get into it. It would be nice if the school tried to cut down on sellers but I believe the school makes additional money for the tickets that are resold on the secondary market and they also prob don’t want to threaten season ticket holders that donate.
Going to games, whether football or basketball when NU gets their ass kicked is an unpleasant experience. Hearing “go white” in your left ear and “go green” in your right ear at a home game flat out sucks. My beef isn’t with the MSU fans that buy the prime seats. It’s with the STH that sells those prime seats. It embarrassing as a fan and today was extra bad.
The students would have got into if there was anything to get excited about, but the game was over 10 minutes into it. Why should they be the only people responsible for bringing energy. Just going to say it, a lot of our STH’s stink!
The fans had nothing to with what happened in that game. Sparty played a great first half and we couldn't throw it in the ocean from three. Maryland won't bring many fans Thursday, if that makes a difference.
The team isn't as good and it's a small school. At every other Big Ten school, they only need 5% (or less) of the students to keep the student section filled and energetic for every game. They can have a big drop in overall enthusiasm when their team is mediocre and still have enough diehards to have an intense crowd. We can't, and that'll always be the case. Just a numbers game.
We really do have some absolute clown STHers, many of whom are rich but still have to squeeze every dollar out of their “investment” versus keeping those seats purple. Legit, it would be better to keep those seats vacant!
Let’s see what happens after a few wins, assuming some wins come. The students have been excellent for the last two seasons.
A Sunday at 11 is an eeeeeeaaaaarly game.
No doubt. I will say that winning the last two years has improved the problem although it still exists. I’ve had tickets about 8 years and it used to be worse. Possible solutions-
Offer sth an easy way to donate tickets to some locals.
Crack down on sellers by looking at who is in the seats consistently. Sounds difficult but not really difficult.
Monitor who is selling repeatedly via seatgeek.
I don’t think the school is interested in doing the work.
The season ticket holders that are selling their seats for these prime time games need to be getting called out. Not cool. Also barnheizer who threatened to go to the nba and come up with 4 points tonight not cool either. Refs were fine. The berry tripping call was awful. Also the leach foul early on as well for the plus 1. All things aside if we hit any sorts of shots today we win.
I am not sure about us winning today even if we hit shots. MSU is loaded. Their guards got to the hole easily and they had a big standing under the hoop the entire game. A big that can actually catch the ball and make a move or two. From my vantage point they down shifted as soon as they got up by 20.
If Barney had his normal game, it’s also a very different story. We’ll never know.
If Barney scores his norm season avg they win. Instead he just kept chucking up bricks. Sparty had 0 fast break points against us I think they avg 17 or so.
Given the way the game went I can’t blame the students too much. When we got the lead down to the 12-15 range a couple times they got pretty loud then the team immediately gave Sparty an easy bucket or two, made a dumb turnover, or took a bad shot to spoil any momentum.
Never going to happen. Seatgeek pays either us or the league to have a button on the ticket app. They are a sponsor. We are not going to punish fans who patronize a sponsor.
