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1982Jacket

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Official attendance at yesterday's game. In a stadium that seats 55,000. In a metropolitan area of more than 6 million. At home on my TV, 650 miles away, it looked more like about 24,000.

Georgia State vs Georgia Southern attendance two weeks ago: 17,843. In Statesboro. With a "metropolitan" population of about 70 thousand.

I also had the distinct displeasure of reading an article today about the Cincinnati Bearcats which described Notre Dame's next two apponents as Stanford and "woeful" Georgia Tech.

Sad times.
 
Yeah, but when averaged with the next home game he numbers will look better.
 
1982Jacket said:
Official attendance at yesterday's game. In a stadium that seats 55,000. In a metropolitan area of more than 6 million. At home on my TV, 650 miles away, it looked more like about 24,000.

Georgia State vs Georgia Southern attendance two weeks ago: 17,843. In Statesboro. With a "metropolitan" population of about 70 thousand.

I also had the distinct displeasure of reading an article today about the Cincinnati Bearcats which described Notre Dame's next two apponents as Stanford and "woeful" Georgia Tech.

Sad times.
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Where were you sitting?
 
1982Jacket said:
Official attendance at yesterday's game. In a stadium that seats 55,000. In a metropolitan area of more than 6 million. At home on my TV, 650 miles away, it looked more like about 24,000.

Georgia State vs Georgia Southern attendance two weeks ago: 17,843. In Statesboro. With a "metropolitan" population of about 70 thousand.

I also had the distinct displeasure of reading an article today about the Cincinnati Bearcats which described Notre Dame's next two apponents as Stanford and "woeful" Georgia Tech.

Sad times.
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Speaking of Georgia State, their coach has the team playing hard and he inherited no facility to speak of, and hold your breath, actually yells at players rather than hugging them when they do stupid stuff. He makes $779,000 a year and evidently works just as hard as these GT coaches. Not that he is a fit for us, but it goes to show if you look around there competent coaches who don't require 4 or 5 million a year.
 
Thomas Hammock, the Northern Illinois coach who beat our ass earlier this year, did so making $630,000 per year. So what did our extra $2,470,000 get us? And to put that in perspective, Key makes $600,000 by last count, almost as much as the head coach at NIU. Their line seemed to be in our backfield as I recall, and their sideline didn't seem to focused on juice crew bs. Oh, I forgot, he probably can't recruit as good as Collins. When all this recruiting pays dividends, please get back to me.
 
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My heart sinks. Even assuming the crowd was a lot bigger on the side that we can't see, that can't even be near 20000. But that was still a few minutes before kickoff. Please tell me that everyone was still at the concessions.
 
1982Jacket said:
My heart sinks. Even assuming the crowd was a lot bigger on the side that we can't see, that can't even be near 20000. But that was still a few minutes before kickoff. Please tell me that everyone was still at the concessions.
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There were easily twice as many people at the game as that. I’d bet money on it. I didn’t get to my seats until after this and it was fuller than that.
 
1982Jacket said:
My heart sinks. Even assuming the crowd was a lot bigger on the side that we can't see, that can't even be near 20000. But that was still a few minutes before kickoff. Please tell me that everyone was still at the concessions.
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Drove 750 miles this weekend to be there. East stands was better than that at kickoff, but still not great. Thinking about the stands for some of the Clemson/VT night games of ~10 years ago. Gotta find a way to get back to that.
 
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