ebrooks11 wrote:Proud Dad10 wrote:couch 'em wrote:Would live beer sales.......but it wouldn't boost attendance. It's a cultural problem not an alcohol problem
I agree with you it is a cultural thing. Me being a parent can tell you that SMU you is a wounderful school, but not the must comfortable of atmospheres. When you come to a football game and people ask you to sit down, people come dressed like they're going out to dinner or something rather than a football game with high heels, dresses, khaki shorts and their pink shirts(and everyone on here wants to talk about uniform colors where are those colors represented in the school colors). And to top it all off the crowd that does come sits on their hands and very rarly cheers. What a welcoming football environment!!!! I sure hope all this talk is true that the fans will come out with a move to an AQ conference. I'm just speaking from a parents point of view who just happens to make 95% percent of ALL the games and get to see other schools in our conference pack their house, that play the same schools we play and aren't in a AQ conference yet.
I agree with most of your post except other schools packing their house. I think it will take a couple of more years to have really good attendance. Moving to the Big East will help and also the kids graduating from here on out will be used to a better brand of football and be more inlcined to comes to games after graduating.
Maybe packing might not be the best word, but there are a few schools in our conference that have no problem getting fans into the stadium. I just don't think that the move is going to boast attendance as much as people think. Hell we just beat a top 25 team and our stadium was still have empty.
