The title of this thread is probably not great but I’m tired and being lazy.
I was shocked yesterday when the guy that sat next to me, full IU gear on, excited and cheering for the Hoosiers, there with his teenage son (using a friend’s tickets) leaned over to ask me who our QB was. And then asked what happened to the QB from Center Grove? I immediately thought of Tyler Cherry, but he was talking about Tayven.
all of that to say, we still have a new fan base. Not die hards like people that post on message boards 12-months a year. And we need those people so that they can become bigger fans.
just a specific interaction I thought I would share to maybe help with some perspective.
NGL, I had to look it up. I new the guy was form Cal. Right now, I'm cautiously optimistic after one good year. I was hopeful with Allen but we know how that turned out. I'll get more interested if Coach Cig can win 9/10 this year. Hopefully then, the 2-3 start recruits turn into 3-4 with an occasional 5, and he's off to the races.
Coach Bigfoot got the fans in during the first 3 years of his tenure even for the pud non-conference schedule we rolled out every year. By year 4, the writing was on the wall and they stopped showing up. This is year 2 for Cig and coming off a historic season. I just expected too much out of our fanbase for football.
@auburnhoosier wait, you will get more interested only IF he has the two best seasons in program history back to back?
Most don’t want to hear this, but the football program has had more success over the last 8 years than the basketball program. But I’m sure you’re still “interested” in that program
@cigten yeah he doesn’t sound much like an IU fan. There are a lot of programs that would love to be in the position IU football is in today.
@cigten True.
I'd argue making the playoff was the biggest accomplishment in IU sports since the 2002 finals run (no offense to non-rev sports, they're just not a national focus).
Fact of the matter is CFB is king and substantially bigger than basketball. No one really cares if you win a conference title in basketball. A lot more people care about CFB and who makes the playoff, etc. And we somehow did it with dinky amounts of NIL.
Will we be in the mix to do that every year? -- as we all know of course not. Frankly this program is still in the early stages of being build up. But I think IUFB has proven it's worth getting excited for.
Basketball this season is a rebuild with the best case being making the field of 68 without much drama and perhaps stealing a tourney win. Whoop dee doo.
Coach Bigfoot got the fans in during the first 3 years of his tenure even for the pud non-conference schedule we rolled out every year. By year 4, the writing was on the wall and they stopped showing up. This is year 2 for Cig and coming off a historic season. I just expected too much out of our fanbase for football.
the upper balcony has been empty for those games going back to when i was a freshman in 2002. sure, they're filled for purdue or msu, but even teams like minnesota didn't fill the stadium. it's a myth that it did.
@iureactionary With a comfy chair/couch and HD TV, who wants to sit in the dark rafters of Assembly Hall for a game and see 3/4 of the court?
The OSU home bball game was $140 for the cheapest ticket — to watch a crappy and hard to like Mike Woodson team that was about to miss the tournament. Some of our bball fans have a screw loose.
it wasn't completely full from 90-94 when I was there and we were #1 my entire junior year. Like you said for Purdue or Michigan maybe but not for Wisconsin or Iowa etc
it wasn't completely full from 90-94 when I was there and we were #1 my entire junior year. Like you said for Purdue or Michigan maybe but not for Wisconsin or Iowa etc
no I'm not. I'm talking about the upper deck. Sat there as a student several times and it wasn't full. Fuller than it is now. But not 100 percent full
no I'm not. I'm talking about the upper deck. Sat there as a student several times and it wasn't full. Fuller than it is now. But not 100 percent full
We have two different versions of the same story at the same time (91-95).
perhaps you weren't at the games I was at.
I mean, I guess that's likely given the allocation process, but by and large we probably had the same number of high profile vs less appealing opponents. But given that we had a 70-something home winning streak in there and were a perennial contender and the #1 recruiting class mixed in, I recall students being hyped for every game and in their seats and being yelled at by the 'Applesauce' usher in the balcony if we didn't have our fingers up for FTs.
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