At what point do you really start to get behind...

[dawgstudent]

this years basketball team. We look to be 12-1 when SEC play starts. Open with Arkansas and @Ole Miss.

I think fans will start to notice if they win first SEC game.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

I’ve watched every game on tv. I think we have a lot of potential. We are a NIT team at minimum. I wish I could make some games at the Hump, but I live 4 hours away. I hope to still make some.

 

[missouridawg]

12-1, then start SEC play at 3-2 or better. I’d guess that beating OM, AUburn, and Vandy would have the Hump at 7000 or higher each SEC game after that, assuming we don’t go on a long losing streak.

Would be really nice to give Florida hell, too. I think a close loss to a really good team would help our fans too.

 

[Philly Dawg]

Stumble out of the block in conference play and forget it.

 

[DAWG61]

I've watched every game. I don't understand fans that only want to watch when the team is good. You miss the climb to being good which is the best part.

 

[Philly Dawg]

The problem in basketball is the number of season tickets held by people in the Jackson Metro. I went to the game last night. I left at 4:30 and got home after 11:00.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

I’ve watched every game on tv. I think we have a lot of potential. We are a NIT team at minimum. I wish I could make some games at the Hump, but I live 4 hours away. I hope to still make some.

At minimum? I’d be thrilled and somewhat excited with an NIT bid. I have zero expectations of an NCAA bid. Zero.

As I’ve said before, prove me wrong Ben Howland, please.

 

[DAWG61]

The problem in basketball is the number of season tickets held by people in the Jackson Metro. I went to the game last night. I left at 4:30 and got home after 11:00.

It took you 6.5 hours to get home cause there was so much traffic from the nobody attends basketball game? We ain't your wife Philly this excuse no flyo

 

[DreadNought.sixpack]

Hard to watch the Cinn game and feel like the dogs have much of a chance to be good. Just not seeing any improvement and on paper we have talent. No inside game to speak of offensively or on the boards.

 

[RocketDawg]

It took you 6.5 hours to get home cause there was so much traffic from the nobody attends basketball game? We ain't your wife Philly this excuse no flyo

Pretty sure he meant he left home in Jackson at 4:30, watched the game in Starkville, and got back home in Jackson at 11:00. So that's a total of about 2 hours each way, assuming getting parked, into the Hump a little early, and getting out of the lot took 2 hours.

Not bad really. I've done the same when I had tickets but I'd get home around 2 or 2:30 a.m. when the game started at 7. That's not doable on a regular basis. That was back when we filled the Hump fairly regularly and I didn't want to have tickets to a seat that would be vacant most of the time unless we were playing a Kentucky or Florida.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

I think the basketball team could really help themselves by playing their December games in Southaven, Tupelo, Jackson and the coast....

 

[KurtRambis4]

Hell, hoops is the best, in

that regard. I love how quick they are.

If a football or baseball game game starts at 7, you're getting home at 2am or later.

 

[DAWG61]

Should have turned on my brain first before posting

 

[BulldogBlitz]

this years basketball team. We look to be 12-1 when SEC play starts. Open with Arkansas and @Ole Miss.

I think fans will start to notice if they win first SEC game.

Why the hell are you not behind them already? Whose bandwagon are you currently riding?
Be a bulldog fan always, not just when we might make post season.

 

[Philly Dawg]

Exactly. There was no traffic and that included a bathroom stop on the way there and a gas stop on the way home.

You are looking at about 6.5 hours which people will make when the team is good but can be a bigger hurdle when the team isn’t good.

 

[She Mate Me]

this years basketball team. We look to be 12-1 when SEC play starts. Open with Arkansas and @Ole Miss.

I think fans will start to notice if they win first SEC game.

To me it's pretty simple. When they start winning games they aren't supposed to and competing in all games the fans will be there. A lot of folks are paying attention, but the time commitment attending games involves only comes with good games against good opponents. Fans know the difference and aren't interested in watching us destroy SWAC schools.

 

[512taylor]

Why the hell are you not behind them already? Whose bandwagon are you currently riding?
Be a bulldog fan always, not just when we might make post season.

Exactly

 

[FQDawg]

Fans know the difference and aren't interested in watching us destroy SWAC schools.

I’ve said this before and I’m sure I’ll say it again but I don’t understand this logic. If you don’t go to games because we don’t “win enough” I’d think those games against SWAC schools (and similar opponents) are perfect to go to because you’re almost guaranteed to see a win. And isn’t seeing a win better than seeing a loss?

 

[KurtRambis4]

I can accept

bad attendance in the preseason, that's just how it is. Always has been. Always will be. However, not attending games when league play starts is ****. That's just being a fair-weather fan.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

I am behind them. I have had moments where I lost it, then remembered we really are inexperienced as a group(Chemistry) and still defining roles. The talent is there to make some noise. There is also enough youth to drive you crazy at times and we still do not have a solid, go to post player as of today. I'm hoping we will gain some maturity as the season goes on because this bunch does play decent defense right now. If we could get some chemistry in our playmakers, they can light up the score board any night.

 

[8dog]

Not those games. No way im driving 2 hrs to watch those games. And i think anlot of people feel that way

especially when i can watch on tv. Yall are all way underestimating the secnetworks impact on our attendance

 

[Irondawg]

I watch and I’m behind them but in all honesty I do not enjoy watching us play. We are hard to watch on offense

 

[MSUDC11]

Getting blown out in Cincy hurt fan morale a lot. If that’s a close game then most fans feel totally different about what they’re seeing from this team.

The fact is even at 9-1 we’ve proven nothing. Our schedule is so bad that we are going to have to win some meaningful games to get fan support back.

Look at last year. We win two in a row at LSU and Arkansas and all of the sudden we had 8,500 there for the A&M game and 9,700 for the Kentucky game. If we start 2-1 in league play this year, I bet we have a nice crowd that first Saturday home game against Auburn.

 

[ronpolk]

I keep up with them and certainly hope they win. But I just can’t get back in to college basketball. I was in it big time when I was a student (2004-2008) but checked out during the Ray era. As much as I’ve tried, I just can’t get back in it. I feel like there is a foul called every possession. When both teams are in the bonus and there is 10 minutes left in the half, you got a problem.

 

[512taylor]

this years basketball team. We look to be 12-1 when SEC play starts. Open with Arkansas and @Ole Miss.

I think fans will start to notice if they win first SEC game.

From Day 1

 

[DawgsOnTheWing]

I am behind them from day one, as I am any Bulldog team. So, assuming your intent was when will we get behind them with attendance........with the first SEC win. I would love to make more, as others have said the 3 hr drive one way is hard during the week.

 

[dawgstudent]

Who said I’m not behind them right now?

 

[KurtRambis4]

We have a RPI

at 47.

That attitude is ****, imo. The "well I'm going to wait and see!1".

The time is now.

 

[MSUDAWGFAN]

this years basketball team. We look to be 12-1 when SEC play starts. Open with Arkansas and @Ole Miss.

I think fans will start to notice if they win first SEC game.

Been to every game. The scan rewards program is a nice benefit for something I paid to do anyway. Plus a tour of the Mize center and locker room is something I didn't think I'd ever get to do. Especially for free.

Actually, if you want to know when I really got on board was the day we hired Howland. He is the best coach at the time of hire in the state's history. I've now been a season ticket holder for 3 years.

 

[Seinfeld]

I seem to be in the minority, but I’m behind them already. I get that we’ve played a weak schedule, but we’ve lost games to plenty of bad teams over the last 5 years, and I’m excited to think that we’ll actually have a chance in 80-90% of our games. Not to mention that this is still one of the youngest teams in the country.

It’s funny to think that in spite of all the **** that Stansbury gets on this board, how good could this team be if it just had a Bowers, Zimmerman, Austin, Roberts, Gordon, Rhodes, etc? We’ve got a lot of talent, but I’m still waiting to find out who the alpha is on this team

 

[tatedog]

This program has a lot of negative inertia to overcome and the false positives from the last two seasons aren't helping. People are cautious to jump in with both feet. I don't blame them. Tubby and his staff are playing the "fans aren't supporting us enough so we can't be good" card in Memphis and it's not going over well. Not saying our situation is exactly the same or that's what you are getting at (at all), just saying it will never work that way.

 

[mstateglfr]

I’ve said this before and I’m sure I’ll say it again but I don’t understand this logic. If you don’t go to games because we don’t “win enough” I’d think those games against SWAC schools (and similar opponents) are perfect to go to because you’re almost guaranteed to see a win. And isn’t seeing a win better than seeing a loss?

Ive seen you argue this perspective multiple times and it seems to fail(be ignored or countered). Just suggesting that perhaps it isnt as sound a theory as you think.

I agree that seeing wins is fun, but you arent taking into account how uninspiring many of the matchups are and how easy it now is to watch the games on TV/tablet/cellphone.

 

[FQDawg]

I definitely get that I'm in the minority (and may even be a minority of 1). I guess I'm just trying to understand the other side that everyone else seems to be on. Because I honestly don't get it. Other than the TV/tablet/cellphone thing. That I get.

As I think I said in another thread the other day, I go to games to support Mississippi State... not to watch the opponent. So I don't really care if the opponent is good or bad. I don't need the matchup to "inspire" me. If I can make the game (and I get that there are legit reasons why people can't go), I'm going to be there.

 

[tcdog70]

The AD ran off the 3000 locals that came to every game. They gave their tickets to a bunch of Jackson Folks who only come once in a blue moon. They have lost the students. Thus you have a ****** HUMP.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

The AD sold not gave the tickets to the folks in Jackson or elsewhere that were paying for the Bulldog Club priority required buy those season tickets. There were a lot of folks in the top 600-800 in the Bulldog Club that could not get decent season tickets previously while locals with much lower Bulldog Club #'s had lower level season tickets. The attendance issue is about the product on the court. People from Jackson & Memphis will come to games if we are competitive.