It's fine for kids but grown men sticking a pen in front of a teenager is kinda weird, but like you said, "to each his own" just like using the term "mancave" to each his own I guess. Lol
Spring Game attendance?
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Yep..my little sanctuary in the house. Designed, built by me, and a fantastic place to have friends over to watch games and drink a few suds. Ever do anything similar for yourself? Personally chiding men getting autographs and using the term mancave isn't as strange as adult men LOLing on here....c'est la vie, or LOL in your terms.
Yeah, I don't get this whatsoever. Even if we were winning National Championships, we'd never pack the Spring Game. It is a completely different environment in this state, just unique to the whole country. I looked at comments for the PUS Spring Game, and they had people coming from places where there's nothing else to do - rural areas in NC, PA, TN, etc. We don't have that here. There is so much in this state that competes for the residents' attention that it's amazing we get what we do given how little successful history we have.
Memorial Day Weekend 2001 to be exact.
I had inside info on it, but had to study for my CFA Level 2 the following week.
In hindsight, I should have gone.
Concert would have been a great experience if warm sunny day. As it were, was impressed with Big and Rich. Funny if this were the 70's, think they would have been classified as southern rock. Sort of Molly Hatcher-ish. Great effort by RU. Hope they try again with better weather in years to come.
Here's my thought: Why not do the concert but in one of the parking lots or in the athletic glen. I have to think more people would wander over (with their adult beverage) and listen. On top of which, why they needed to clear the stadium after the women's lacrosse game is beyond me. Let people stay, there's no real setup. It seemed as it was overmanaged
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we may not pack the house for the spring game, but on average we do
much better than the average program that has the game.... sure, there are the Alabamas, Penn states that draw incredible crowds.... but on a nice day we can get near 20,000, at least we did a few years ago....and this puts us way ahead of almost all the northeast teams.
RU has the best fanbase for college football in the Northeast for anyone not named The Cult. And that's with average to below average seasons of late.
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which can be a minor selling point to impressionable recruits who go to multiple spring games in the east.... I believe BC, syracuse have very few
attendees for theirs, if/when they have tried
Ha! Do you really think a recruit is basing his selection of school on spring game attendence??
Are you one of those who also believe that the school unis play a big roll in recruiting too?
Its just another opportunity for the critics posing as fans to blast Rutgers and its fans. Miserable people.
They often have bands in Athletes Glen and even in the yellow lot, you don't know they are there. I liked the band in the stadium.
Like in .00000000001%? Than I agree. Its probably 5,347 on the list of reasons why.
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I would only add that if a impressionable recruit went to, lets say the Penn state spring game, and they had 70,000, then the Maryland one with,
obviously just a few fans, they might have a better time at the PU one, the fans maybe acknowledging said recruits...
don't make it out to anything more than that..... it is always about showing the recruit the school, and having them have a good time... ..... the school invites recruits to a spring game as one of many sales pitches
a big crowd can't hurt, but as you note, is not a difference maker
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I know that but no offense to the bands in the Athletes Glen, they probably aren't as well known as a group such as "Big & Rich." But one step further, put them in an actual parking lot. I haven't seen bands in the yellow lot, but put them in the Scarlet lot or right on the North Plaza. Just a thought.