Terrible Student Section

[muwarrior69]

12,243 last night paid.  The crowd was as flat footed and ham handed as the team.

As I have said many times here most schools would die for those numbers....and we are getting them when we are not that good, yet.

[cheebs09]

It was a tough game for the crowd to get involved imo. It seemed any time we got something going, the offense put up an ill-advised shot or turned it over. On defense we got more stops, but our offense didn't convert enough to put a big run together.

For the students, I was surprised. Top 25 team coming in and very few in the upper bowl. I figured we'd get a better turnout. That Providence loss may have dampened excitement on campus after the Nova win.

[warriorchick]

Don't make me put up the DePaul picture again.  They have suffered enough humiliation.

[skianth16]

Buzz was all about making 3 stops, you can see how that changes momentum for the other team and gets the crowd really into it.  The Bradley Center is to big for MU as a location, it sells out maybe once a year. 

Didn't the BC sell out multiple times a year back in the years of the 16-team Big East? I think we had attendance of 18,000+ for several big games back in the good old days. Seems like the stadium was fine then; it just seems too small now that we're not consistently ranked and not getting the same marquee matchups.

[Marcus92]

Maybe the crowd was either too drunk on $2 beers or in a food coma after stuffing themselves with $2 nachos and hot dogs.

Actually, I loved the promotion and hope we see more of it. And I thought the crowd was pretty good. Great during the run when we took the lead. Stunned, perhaps, when Butler shut us down near the end.

[jsglow]

I have no quarrel with the students. 4 years of 'losing' simply means that folks find other things to do.  The last time Marquette basketball was relevant was 2013, when this year's graduating class was in high school.  People flock to winners and simply ignore mediocrity.  It's Wojo's job to more fully fill the arena. Ultimately, that's how he'll be judged.

[Johnny B]

I was proud to sit upper bowl with 20 other students

[Mr. Nielsen]

As I have said many times here most schools would die for those numbers....and we are getting them when we are not that good, yet.

Very true. That's the problem playing in a building that seats 18,717.

[Mr. Nielsen]

Didn't the BC sell out multiple times a year back in the years of the 16-team Big East? I think we had attendance of 18,000+ for several big games back in the good old days. Seems like the stadium was fine then; it just seems too small now that we're not consistently ranked and not getting the same marquee matchups.

Not for weeknight game. Marquette in it's Bradley Center history that dates back to 1988, has ONE sellout for a weeknight game. UCONN in 2009 in late February. That was a top 12 match-up.

MU does well on weekends. Wisconsin was sold-out and Xavier and Creighton will end up as sell-outs this season.

[MilWarrior]

Our students must be more well-off or more responsible than MU students were 10 years ago when I was there - how can you turn down $2 beers, nachos and hot dogs for an hour?

[MerrittsMustache]

Not for weeknight game. Marquette in it's Bradley Center history that dates back to 1988, has ONE sellout for a weeknight game. UCONN in 2009 in late February. That was a top 12 match-up.

MU does well on weekends. Wisconsin was sold-out and Xavier and Creighton will end up as sell-outs this season.

In addition, that game was #2 UConn against #8 Marquette (also the game Dom broke his foot). MU has a ways to go in order to be a top 10 team.

[GGGG]

8pm Tuesday...early February. outside temp hovering north of 30 degrees. get the ef out of your dorm/apt/house and be there.

Lazy, lazy, lazy.

I fear for the day we work with them.

Or maybe their priorities are simply different than yours were.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

My first year at TAMU, they went 18-16 and played in the CBI tournament. Student attendance wasn't Depaul level but it was pretty close and Aggies don't have the excuse of an arena in the middle of nowhere.

My third year at TAMU, they 28-9 and went to the Sweet 16. They literally turned students away when Iowa State came to town because there was no more room in the stadium (buying season football tickets automatically gets you season basketball tickets as a student).

Students show up when the team is winning. Simple as that. These students haven't seen winning basketball in their first three years. This year they've gotten some but as many posters can attest to, they have hard time believing that it will continue.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

8pm Tuesday...early February. outside temp hovering north of 30 degrees. get the ef out of your dorm/apt/house and be there.

Lazy, lazy, lazy.

I fear for the day we work with them.

Ahh right, youre just one of those millennial haters. That makes way more sense.

Under what pretense are you working with if you think that if you cant get half of the entire Marquette student body to the game, then than means they're automatically lazy?

Again, get bent.

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

Wholly Diagree  on the crowd.  Its pretty hard to get people to come to games when the teams lacks heart, toughness, and intelligence.  People will consume a good product.  The crap MU has put on the floor the last couple years is reflected in the attrndance numbers.  In regards to the energy of the crowd itself, that too can be blamed on the team.  When is the last time MU came out ready to play?
Game after game instead of coming out ready to play n getting tge crowd energized and enthused, MU comes out n craps the bed and goes down 6-8-10 points immediately.  The mental weakness of this team allows the visitor to enact its will and fo exactly what a visitor hopes to do... That is to takean early lead n get the crowd out of the game.  Since the  Depaul home game and a few seconds maybe of each game since MU has rarely led and in most cases have been losing by decent margins. 
People dont show up to watch heartless stupid play and then question why the hell they even did shiw up when they see the product on the floor.  Them is the facts.  Cannot wait for this senior class to get their degrees ,  best of luck to them in their future endeavors.  Hopefully they can learn to be winners in life because they surely never learned what it took to be winners on the basketball court.
Sometimes the facts can be judged as harsh, but they are what they are.
Its analogus to Al McGuires lobster story.

[RushmoreAcademy]

MU should change their acceptance policy and start only taking students who love basketball and will be loud at the games.  Basically, we should be recruiting better fans. Who's in charge of that?

[4everwarriors]

Dis team needs some bad ass mofos like back in da dey, like #31 cuttin' down nets wit a switchblade, ta lite a fire under der asses, ai na?

[wadesworld]

Wholly Diagree  on the crowd.  Its pretty hard to get people to come to games when the teams lacks heart, toughness, and intelligence.  People will consume a good product.  The crap MU has put on the floor the is reflected in the attrndance numbers.  In regards to the energy of the crowd itself, that too can be blamed on the team.  When is the last time MU came out ready to play?
Game after game instead of coming out ready to play n getting tge crowd energized and enthused, MU comes out n craps the bed and goes down 6-8-10 points immediately.  The mental weakness of this team allows the visitor to enact its will and fo exactly what a visitor hopes to do... That is to takean early lead n get the crowd out of the game.  Since the  Depaul home game and a few seconds maybe of each game since MU has rarely led and in most cases have been losing by decent margins. 
People dont show up to watch heartless stupid play and then question why the hell they even did shiw up when they see the product on the floor.  Them is the facts.  Cannot wait for this senior class to get their degrees ,  best of luck to them in their future endeavors.  Hopefully they can learn to be winners in life because they surely never learned what it took to be winners on the basketball court.
Sometimes the facts can be judged as harsh, but they are what they are.
Its analogus to Al McGuires lobster story.

Cool story.

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

MU should change their acceptance policy and start only taking students who love basketball and will be loud at the games.  Basically, we should be recruiting better fans. Who's in charge of that?

Change that to finding propspects that get really enthusiastic behind shitty uninspired basketball

[mu_hilltopper]

This has been a constant whine for many years.

It is hard to listen to these arguments because they have been said a thousand times before.

Nothing new.

This could be pinned to the top of every thread, every day. 

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Field a better, winning team and the crowd size changes. Not at a great deal to be be excited about going to the games. I mentioned on a post after Nova win on how great of feeling winning a big game at home creates. Program needs to string wins together to create sustrightble excitement.

I was there in the Dukiet era.  The students still came out.
Winning or losing shouldn't matter.

[Tugg Speedman]

This could be pinned to the top of every thread, every day. 

Do it!

[connie]

Wholly Diagree  on the crowd.  Its pretty hard to get people to come to games when the teams lacks heart, toughness, and intelligence.  People will consume a good product.  The crap MU has put on the floor the last couple years is reflected in the attrndance numbers.  In regards to the energy of the crowd itself, that too can be blamed on the team.  When is the last time MU came out ready to play?
Game after game instead of coming out ready to play n getting tge crowd energized and enthused, MU comes out n craps the bed and goes down 6-8-10 points immediately.  The mental weakness of this team allows the visitor to enact its will and fo exactly what a visitor hopes to do... That is to takean early lead n get the crowd out of the game.  Since the  Depaul home game and a few seconds maybe of each game since MU has rarely led and in most cases have been losing by decent margins. 
People dont show up to watch heartless stupid play and then question why the hell they even did shiw up when they see the product on the floor.  Them is the facts.  Cannot wait for this senior class to get their degrees ,  best of luck to them in their future endeavors.  Hopefully they can learn to be winners in life because they surely never learned what it took to be winners on the basketball court.
Sometimes the facts can be judged as harsh, but they are what they are.
Its analogus to Al McGuires lobster story.

So our crappy performance for 36 minutes against Villanova just a few weeks ago completely over rides the 4 minute comeback victory and you refused to celebrate that win, right?  Guess you hated the end of the Super Bowl as well.  I get why on a Tuesday night in February with an 8pm start and an up and down team there was a lower than expected attendance, but this is complete bs.

[Mr. Sand-Knit]

So our crappy performance for 36 minutes against Villanova just a few weeks ago completely over rides the 4 minute comeback victory and you refused to celebrate that win, right?  Guess you hated the end of the Super Bowl as well.  I get why on a Tuesday night in February with an 8pm start and an up and down team there was a lower than expected attendance, but this is complete bs.

No not saying this... However one only need took at the attendance figures over the last 3 years to see fans are rejecting a poor product.  Last few years attendance is down 2-3-4 thousand per game.  Attendance follows the success of the team.  Instead of putting out posts that blame the fans the posts should be directed at the players and coaches.  Attendance is a byproduct of the quality of play.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

MU should change their acceptance policy and start only taking students who love basketball and will be loud at the games.  Basically, we should be recruiting better fans. Who's in charge of that?

prolly university advancement, ai'na?