Beary Manilow wrote:
Maybe it's disappointing for somebody just looking at a number on a box score from afar, but in person it was actually far from a disappointing crowd. It was actually quite encouraging. It was the loudest I remember the Farris Center being in some time and the majority of folks (students included) stayed the whole time and stayed into the game. Organized "defense" chants and everything. Might not have been a huge number of folks, but with the new setup it was a much more effective crowd and they were engaged. I'll take 500 people sitting together making noise over 2,000 spread out everywhere, sitting on their thumbs every single time.
It's unrealistic to expect 4,000 in there – particularly with the state of the program of late. But you can look around the country and outside of the big-time programs there are a lot of places drawing that size crowd.
What would be a realistic non-disappointing number to you? And is that number unconditional, or would you have different standards for early season, non-conference midweek games and for conference games?
You are right..I see where the capacity is reduced to around 1,800...which I am sure 1,000 or so look alot better in that size space as opposed to a space that holds 5,000.
As far as your last question..I don't know what would be a non-disappointing number. I guess when I think about it...1,000+ really isn't that bad given the state of the program over the past few years.