Students | City Size | |
Marquette | 11,516 | 953,328 |
Georgetown | 14,246 | 591,833 |
Villanova | 10,466 | 778,048 |
I know this is a question just about students, but when I saw this I thought, "but what about the population? Surely those two schools have more students and bigger metropolitan areas to draw from?" the idea being bigger crowds = more excitement.
Students City Size Marquette 11,516 953,328 Georgetown 14,246 591,833 Villanova 10,466 778,048
You are vastly understating the size of Philadelphia and the surrounding area.
I know this is a question just about students, but when I saw this I thought, "but what about the population? Surely those two schools have more students and bigger metropolitan areas to draw from?" the idea being bigger crowds = more excitement.
Students City Size Marquette 11,516 953,328 Georgetown 14,246 591,833 Villanova 10,466 778,048
I used the surrounding county for the population. The numbers certainly don't tell everything, but these three schools are certainly in the same ballpark.
Students City Size Marquette 11,516 953,328 Georgetown 14,246 591,833 Villanova 10,466 778,048
Metropolitan Statistical Area | 2008 Population | |
Marquette | Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI | 1,549,308 |
Georgetown | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 5,358,130 |
Villanova | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 5,931,427 |
Instead of looking at the city size you should check out how many seats are in the student sections for these facilities and draw comparison based on that. MU's student section top to bottom is about 6,000 seats I believe. That literally means better than half of the student population is needed to fill the section (or 75%+ of the undergrads). How many bodies do the Georgetown and Nova student section fit? What % of their student body is needed to fill those? I would provide those numbers but my Google search failed.
Part of it is the lay out and acoustics at the BC.
How can you compare what you hear on TV and base the quality of a student section entirely on that? Tons of factors come into play with what you hear on tv--the arena size, the acoustics of the arena, placement of the student section in relation to the guys calling the game. All in all, Marquette has a great student section. We always rank highly in student attendance, our fans follow the team religiously, and they can make it LOUD in the bradley center. I'm a current student, I wasn't at the game last night because I'm studying abroad in Madrid but if I was in mke I would've been there several hours early, as I'm sure many many students were. To make the argument that our student section is worse than others based on how loud it seems from the TV is an awful one. Come to a big game some time and you'll see the student section at it's best. i.e. Georgetown game 2 years ago, Georgetown, UCONN, UW last year. Can't say too much about this year, but looking at the pictures it looked like a pretty good crowd last night
It's such as shame because when we played at the old Arena it was always written up in SI and other publications as one of the toughest "snake pits" to play in. Kerry Kirkpatrick of SI did an article about it and MU was the featured team/venue.
Al tried to play UCLA and Wooden would not agree to a home and home.....no one wanted to play at the Arena. We managed to have some great home and homes with other top teams like Tennessee (the Bernie and Ernie teams), Memphis State (Gene Barstow), South Carolina (McGuire), Long Beach State (Tarkanian), Minnesota (Musselman) and even Jacksonville in the Artis Gilmore days.
We had our 61 game home win streak broken by Notre Dame which somehow always managed to have their games in Milwaukee scheduled when students were still away (or the Saturday before coming back) from Christmas break yet ND students were always in session when we played there.
You'd leave the arena with your ears ringing from all the noise.....it was great.
It's such as shame because when we played at the old Arena it was always written up in SI and other publications as one of the toughest "snake pits" to play in. Kerry Kirkpatrick of SI did an article about it and MU was the featured team/venue.
Al tried to play UCLA and Wooden would not agree to a home and home.....no one wanted to play at the Arena. We managed to have some great home and homes with other top teams like Tennessee (the Bernie and Ernie teams), Memphis State (Gene Barstow), South Carolina (McGuire), Long Beach State (Tarkanian), Minnesota (Musselman) and even Jacksonville in the Artis Gilmore days.
We had our 61 game home win streak broken by Notre Dame which somehow always managed to have their games in Milwaukee scheduled when students were still away (or the Saturday before coming back) from Christmas break yet ND students were always in session when we played there.
You'd leave the arena with your ears ringing from all the noise.....it was great.
It's such as shame because when we played at the old Arena it was always written up in SI and other publications as one of the toughest "snake pits" to play in. Kerry Kirkpatrick of SI did an article about it and MU was the featured team/venue.The most raucous crowd I remember at the Arena was Al's midnight exhibition game featuring The Russians Are Coming.
Al tried to play UCLA and Wooden would not agree to a home and home.....no one wanted to play at the Arena. We managed to have some great home and homes with other top teams like Tennessee (the Bernie and Ernie teams), Memphis State (Gene Barstow), South Carolina (McGuire), Long Beach State (Tarkanian), Minnesota (Musselman) and even Jacksonville in the Artis Gilmore days.
We had our 61 game home win streak broken by Notre Dame which somehow always managed to have their games in Milwaukee scheduled when students were still away (or the Saturday before coming back) from Christmas break yet ND students were always in session when we played there.
You'd leave the arena with your ears ringing from all the noise.....it was great.
THIS is what our student section look like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhDZ91hST-w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhDZ91hST-w)
(skip to the 3 minute mark)