Elon/Richmond

[SpeedkingATL]

Elon had the opportunity to jump out to a bid lead in the first quarter and didn't get it done. Richmond hung around and took it away. Good win for the Spiders, touch loss for Elon.

[JConnolly]

We missed a lot of chances to capitalize on Richmond's mistakes and they were the better team down the stretch. Place kicking really killed us as usual at Richmond. And about our fans, many were not loud, many were children, and they split the 750 tix up on both sides at the ends of the visitor sideline bleachers. I guess what they did was sell the tickets to the Phoenix Club by how many Club Points people had. You earn points from donations, and years in the club, so older fans, not as likely to be loud or be out in the sun.

[PenthouseClosedEnd]

Who cares the age, gender or spirit of youf fans? Where were they?

[JConnolly]

Split up on the ends of the bleachers. Half of our 750 was on one end, and the other half was on the other end. You had quite a few empty seats too. There were a few sections that weren't even half filled on the home side. Brand new stadium, great game, two pretty evenly matched teams, stadium half the size of the old one, on campus, and you can't sell it out, where were YOUR fans? Also get new guy to lead the in stadium student section chants, he sounds ridiculous with that lisp. "Leth go Thpiderth"

[BDKJMU]

Richmond Fans throwing streamers? Real cool.

So UR decides to copy JMU and throw streamers?

[clenz]

Elon fans, we sent you 750 tickets.

it appears 300 of you showed and you didn't give the rest back..

What gives?

They don't have to give them back...build a bigger stadium and that isn't a problem.

[ur2K]

Split up on the ends of the bleachers. Half of our 750 was on one end, and the other half was on the other end. You had quite a few empty seats too. There were a few sections that weren't even half filled on the home side. Brand new stadium, great game, two pretty evenly matched teams, stadium half the size of the old one, on campus, and you can't sell it out, where were YOUR fans? Also get new guy to lead the in stadium student section chants, he sounds ridiculous with that lisp. "Leth go Thpiderth"

It was sold out. The students were given 2,200 tickets (BTW-we have 2900 undergrads) when they normally will get 1,600. Those extra kids packed into the end zone section leaving some seats in the main sections unoccupied.

[AppMan]

Congrats on the sellout crowd of 8700. It was only 20,500 less than showed up in Boone on Saturday.

[ur2K]

you also only have 14,000 more students than us.

[AppMan]

you also only have 14,000 more students than us.

Ok, Ok. Take away the additional 5,000 students at the ASU game (7,000 - and that's quite a stretch - ASU students minus the 2300 students at your game) and we only had 15,500 (roughly twice the size of your crowd) more show up. In a town of 16,000 compared to a metro area of more than 1,300,000. Feel better now?

[Bostonspider]

So only 6,000 of your 17,000 students showed up? That is sort of a pathetic percentage. 2,200 of Richmond's 2,800 students were at the game, close to 80%. Your school and stadium are much bigger than ours, we get it. Who cares?

[clenz]

So only 6,000 of your 17,000 students showed up? That is sort of a pathetic percentage. 2,200 of Richmond's 2,800 students were at the game, close to 80%. Your school and stadium are much bigger than ours, we get it. Who cares?

It isn't about % of students, it's about what % of the students fits in the stadium to begin with.

UNI can't fit all of our students in. If we fill out student section 100% full we are still leaving out about 8,000 students

[GannonFan]

Richmond Fans throwing streamers? Real cool.

So UR decides to copy JMU and throw streamers?

Well, to be honest, streamer throwing was a 50 year old tradition at Big 5 games in Philly long before that past 5 years when JMU started throwing them. If you guys can copy that tradition why can't Richmond do the same???

[mcveyrl]

Richmond Fans throwing streamers? Real cool.

So UR decides to copy JMU and throw streamers?

I'm sure alexale's behind it.

[AppMan]

So only 6,000 of your 17,000 students showed up? That is sort of a pathetic percentage. 2,200 of Richmond's 2,800 students were at the game, close to 80%. Your school and stadium are much bigger than ours, we get it. Who cares?

More would show up if we had the seating. Still can't believe you guys went with a 8,000 seat stadium. I know the issues with the area the school is in, but 8,000 seats?