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AstonRoyal

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Watching the Locker Room right now with Erik Ainge on it and he made a pretty good point. When you're down by two scores with 13 minutes left in the game and half the stadium is full, how do you expect to succeed. You've got a team filled with freshman and sophomores and they look up to see that the fans have given up on them how do you expect them to perform?
 
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Most of the fans that left were obviously VN'ers going home to rant on their computers about how CDD is in over his head. Gotta beat the traffic.
 
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that bothered me as well. i understand leaving if the game is out of hand, but we definitely had a chance at that point. the stadium seemed to start bleeding fans after the second td by USCjr
 
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I was there for the game and i can tell you that the crowd was there for pretty much the whole game. this thread is a fail. i dont go to every game, but i always stick it out to the end if im there. against south carolina, the whole crowd was there until about 4 minutes to go in the game, when south carolina had control, we had no timeouts, and they were just running it down our throats. i am always optimistic and i was very happy to see that almost everybody stuck this one out to the end.

i was next to the student section, and i did see several students leaving! that was disappointing
 
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goldvol said:
I was there for the game and i can tell you that the crowd was there for pretty much the whole game.
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You weren't paying attention then. There was a mass exodus very early in the 4th quarter. I know it was cold and we looked anemic, but it was inexplicable how early some people were leaving.
 
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goldvol said:
I was there for the game and i can tell you that the crowd was there for pretty much the whole game. this thread is a fail. i dont go to every game, but i always stick it out to the end if im there. against south carolina, the whole crowd was there until about 4 minutes to go in the game, when south carolina had control, we had no timeouts, and they were just running it down our throats. i am always optimistic and i was very happy to see that almost everybody stuck this one out to the end.

i was next to the student section, and i did see several students leaving! that was disappointing
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i dont know what section you were in, but the stands were clearing out a lot earlier than that where i was. i had 2nd row in section i, and we were packed in about 2 to a seat in the first half, but there were empty seats everywhere around the beginning of the 4th qr
 
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I love it when players blame the fans. Fan enthusiasm is a function of how much reason the team gives them to believe. If you don't like the support from a fanbase that's historically been one of the best in sports, look in the mirror. I guess Ainge isn't far enough removed from it to have figured it out yet.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I love it when players blame the fans. Fan enthusiasm is a function of how much reason the team gives them to believe. If you don't like the support from a fanbase that's historically been one of the best in sports, look in the mirror. I guess Ainge isn't far enough removed from it to have figured it out yet.
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Clearly he isn't blaming fans. Fans would have stayed until the end of the game.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I love it when players blame the fans. Fan enthusiasm is a function of how much reason the team gives them to believe. If you don't like the support from a fanbase that's historically been one of the best in sports, look in the mirror. I guess Ainge isn't far enough removed from it to have figured it out yet.
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I generally agree with that, but I don't know that I've ever seen a crowd bail so early in a 2 score game. I even saw some fans picking up and leaving after the 98 yard drive late in the 3rd.
 
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GAVol said:
You weren't paying attention then. There was a mass exodus very early in the 4th quarter. I know it was cold and we looked anemic, but it was inexplicable how early some people were leaving.
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It was cold. It was late on a Saturday night. It's an hour or two (or more) for a lot of fans from the time they walk out of the stadium until the time they pull in their driveway. This team hasn't given its fans any reason to believe it can stage a massive comeback in what, five years? I don't leave games early myself -- to the eternal annoyance of my wife -- but it's easy to see why a lot of fans would have bailed on that game after the 99 yard drive that effectively ended the game. Everyone knew the game was over.
 
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I am in section D, and in fairness, it was the least enthusiasm I remember seeing out of the crowd for an SEC night game. Almost everyone was sitting and quiet, and we were asked to sit down while on a big defensive down.
 
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You buy the ticket, you do whatever you want. Your money; your choice.

You don't buy the ticket, you're already doing less than the ones who bought the tickets, so you don't have any grounds for complaint.
 
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I'm never going to be one to tell another fan what they should and shouldn't do. Everybody has their priorities. But I just couldn't quite figure why you'd sit through that slop and freeze your butt off and not at least see if something fluky would happen on the next possession.
 
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If you're going to leave early to "beat the traffic" or whatever lame excuse you have, then why even go in the first place?
 
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goldvol said:
I was there for the game and i can tell you that the crowd was there for pretty much the whole game. this thread is a fail. i dont go to every game, but i always stick it out to the end if im there. against south carolina, the whole crowd was there until about 4 minutes to go in the game, when south carolina had control, we had no timeouts, and they were just running it down our throats. i am always optimistic and i was very happy to see that almost everybody stuck this one out to the end.

i was next to the student section, and i did see several students leaving! that was disappointing
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The hell it was. Even the commentators were saying that the stadium was half empty. You must have been on it or something. Stadium was half empty...
 
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People are getting tired of watching this train wreck. If this keeps up, the stands will be half full at the start of the games.
 
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