Frogs On A Plane
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I don't notice a difference but then again I started school in 01.
Did the students not come?
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I don't notice a difference but then again I started school in 01.
Some fans are front runner, but also remember we sucked for basically 40 and have only been good for the past 10 years.
Tcu lost basically a generation of fans which should be th foundation of our fan base right now. The new generation of frog fans who only know winning are in their early thirties.
Give it another 5 years and see where we are then? Tcu has already come along ways in the past 5
neo926
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This can't be emphasized enough. Barring some kind of catastrophe, we will average over 40,000 fans a game. I don't know historical numbers outside of the last decade, but I'm going to assume that's never been done before, or certainly not with the lack of visiting fan support that we have to deal with.
You can't just magically gain a fan base overnight. It takes time, years, to get there. Each year that we bring in a new class to TCU, that's a new group of Frog fans, and from that group there's a section of them that will become Frog fans for life, and will go to the football games. And over time we start to add fans from the FW area. But it takes time. And the results in our attendance show that.
Actually, I do not think this is true at all. Maybe at 10 or so places. Everywhere else, the 18-22 year olds act like 18-22 year olds without any sense of perspective, no independent thinking, and little regard for tradition or anything beyond their own immediate interests. If the "cool kids" are in the parking lot drinking and not at the game, the herd will follow.
TCU allocates a ton of seats for students -- for about 60% of the student body to be able come, yes? -- and rarely sells out the stadium. There's a sense that you can come and go, so students do.
There will be a lot of regret, I think, when TCU is not undefeated and in the top 5. Folks will wish they had enjoyed it more.
From the shots I saw on Versus, the student turnout for BYU on Saturday would have been the best turnout of the year in 1998 or 1999. The 2000 season was great because of LT and the 7-0 start. Even the home games after the SJfSU loss weren't bad. 2001 was a lost season - only 4 home games once the Marshall game was cancelled due to 9/11. One of those games was post-Thanksgiving (the surprising win over Top 20 Louisville).
One thing a love these days is that the students wear PURPLE. That was definitely not the case from 1998-2001.
TopFrog
Lifelong Frog
TCU wasn't a top 5 team playing for a shot at a national title in whatever years you want to bring up, other than last year.
TopFrog
Lifelong Frog
No kidding. That's not the reason. If The Toadies had been in concert students would have packed the place, came early stayed late, packed in, etc without complaints of sun or heat ...
Bonner4Prez
KMA
Wow have not heard that since high school.
froginaustin
Active Member
You are simply wrong and you can and no doubt will argue about it until you are blue in the face but you are wrong. Wrong.
The student section at its fullest was at least 2/3 full. You can believe what you want to, but on this matter you are wrong. Simply wrong.
Comparing our student-body attendance to a school like UTx, with 40,000 undergrads and an allocation of about 5,000 per game to student tickets, is silly. And no, I am not saying gdu made that comparison. It's just a rim-shot remark.
We have 7,200 students. Only 62% are from Texas. When we stop admitting kids from foreign countries like Pakistan, India , Japan and California, where all they know is futbol (kickball), and get kids from Mexia, Breckenridge and Kermit, then we'll get more students in the stadium. Simple.
Check 82Frog's photo gallery.
gdu
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I have. Only pic of the east side when I checked uses the goal post and angle to cut off the student sections. I don't think it was an accident.
To me, this one confirms a 2/3 full student section even without the part blocked by the goal post.
gdu
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Then, you sir, could be a MWC replay official.
Look at the north end. There are 6 flagpoles. Look how much seating there is beyond that.
On the south side, only 4 flag poles are visible (but we all know there are also six and as much room beyond that as there is on the north). That is alot of room for people to not be there. And a very intersting angle to shoot from if those sections were anyhere near 2/3 full.
Maybe I'm wrong, but if I am, surely someone has a picture that could prove it.
Frogs On A Plane
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Thought you took pictures before the game, after halftime, and in the 4th for every home game? You have been for the last 10 years. You said it.
