Watching the Lady Vols game and I am very disappointed by lack of fans at the game

#51
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LadyOrange said:
We aren’t lazy and slow. Even Belmont’s best player said in the presser what a good team we are and singled out Sara Puckett. Belmont coach praised us too. And Belmont is a very good team.
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To me it doesn't matter if the pope says we are not lazy and slow. If I can believe my eyes, we are lazy and slow
 
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Raebo said:
The last 5 minutes of these tournament games are a marathon with the constant timeouts and reviews. Wish they would cut way back on the number of team time outs or do something.
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Really, its the whole game. Said last night, the extended and frequent TV timeouts are just excruciating. .Everytime a t.o. was called everyone in my section said in unison "AGAIN?!" Throw in the lengthy reviews (or refs ordering takeout at the scorers table as one poster said) and there's zero chance for any game flow.

Fortunately, the LVs are rarely in any kind of flow anyway so it doesn't hurt us. One place it really could have though was when TK had to wait a crazy long time to shoot those crucial free throws. Belmont did not have to call timeout to ice her, refs did it for them.
 
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I think the thing people must understand is that there are very few folks who care about LV basketball anymore. Women's B-Ball nationally really. The WNBA has done nothing but make it worse. Those who do care about women's basketball and LV basketball are attached to a past narrative that is long gone. It isn't a driving force nationally or locally. The baseball team is more popular...by a long shot. We can be upset that people aren't going to games, but at the day, people aren't watching it on TV either. It's not an enjoyable product to the overwhelming majority. Doesn't make it right...just a simple fact.
 
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Darth_Vol said:
And how many of those were Belmont fans? What an embarrassing level of fan apathy for a program looking to go to its first Sweet 16 in six years...

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Maybe 600 at most. They had their student section (which was dwarfed by the UT student section) and 10 rows behind their bench. Quit acting like they were a huge portion of the crowd. Those bitching about crowd size should get off their lazy ass and drive to the arena to support the team!
 
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volbound1700 said:
What is going on? TBA looks fairly empty, especially in the upper decks. I think there is about as many Belmont fans there as Lady Vols fans.
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I think the "coverage" was trying to make Belmont seem to have as big a crowd as the Ladies. When Belmont got control of the game, they didn't show the UT fans very much at all and then only for a second or three. It's is the kind of TV coverage that causes TV fans to stay tuned in game after game. This though, at a point late in one of unending stoppages (for what ever reason be it TV, officials, team time outs or injury stoppage) the camera angle showed the Belmont cheer squad having a cheering fit. In the background at the far end of the court our small army of cheerers seem to be just standing spread out over the court doing nothing. At this point in the stoppage, they showed very little excitement.
 
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Lady Vol Guru said:
Maybe 600 at most. They had their student section (which was dwarfed by the UT student section) and 10 rows behind their bench. Quit acting like they were a huge portion of the crowd. Those bitching about crowd size should get off their lazy ass and drive to the arena to support the team!
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I don't know if you made a typo, but I was there and the Belmont students and fans dwarfed our student section x10. And they were loud and having a great time. Of course their several hundred was a small portion of the total crowd, but they were by far the loudest until the very end. But it's understandable, this was a huge event for them that they may not see again.

One thing about our student section, it was helped out by almost the entire men's team, who graciously signed autographs and posed for pictures the whole game. And celebrated wildly at the end with the rest of us.
 
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volbound1700 said:
What is going on? TBA looks fairly empty, especially in the upper decks. I think there is about as many Belmont fans there as Lady Vols fans.
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Upper level was not sold, per NCAA regulations, and the curtain was down. Lower level was mostly full.

Looked like there were a lot of Belmont fans because Belmont gets the entire section directly behind their bench and behind their second-half basket. They bussed in about 500 students for the behind the basket section.
 
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glv98 said:
I don't know if you made a typo, but I was there and the Belmont students and fans dwarfed our student section x10. And they were loud and having a great time. Of course their several hundred was a small portion of the total crowd, but they were by far the loudest until the very end. But it's understandable, this was a huge event for them that they may not see again.

One thing about our student section, it was helped out by almost the entire men's team, who graciously signed autographs and posed for pictures the whole game. And celebrated wildly at the end with the rest of us.
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That's not true at all. The Tennessee student section was at least 20 rows deeper than the Belmont section on the opposite end.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
That's not true at all. The Tennessee student section was at least 20 rows deeper than the Belmont section on the opposite end.
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Not what I saw. Actual students, counting the men's teams, was not more than 6 or 7 rows and the pepband. The rest of folks in that endzone (which I sat next to) were run of mill, sit on your hands LV fans. And no question that Belmont bunch in the other endzone were the loudest and most enthusiastic.

UT students do not go to LV games, sadly.
 
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Cloudland vol said:
Happy that the LV’s won, They snatched a victory from an almost certain loss. How a team goes from playing a very good half to a half of demonstrating that they don’t have a clue and don’t care for a half is beyond my comprehension. And Harper’s coaching, did she learn nothing from Summit?Horrible coaching job tonight. Does she understand that’s it’s ok to call a timeout when the opponent has taken total control of the game and you need to stop the game to allow you and your team a chance to gather their wits; try to figure out where and why the breakdowns and break the flow of the game for the other team. They were very lucky tonight, with nine seconds left they were beat. Some of you will say that you knew they would win even then. The best you could hope for was a miraculous tie. On to the Sweet 16!
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I think it’s safe to say that Belmont had a lot to do with the game being so close.
 
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Lady Vol Guru said:
Maybe 600 at most. They had their student section (which was dwarfed by the UT student section) and 10 rows behind their bench. Quit acting like they were a huge portion of the crowd. Those bitching about crowd size should get off their lazy ass and drive to the arena to support the team!
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So in other words, less than 5K Tennessee fans showed up for a 7:00 tipoff, for the most pivotal home game of Kellie's tenure and the program's biggest home game in several years.

Catch the fever y'all...
 
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Darth_Vol said:
So in other words, less than 5K Tennessee fans showed up for a 7:00 tipoff, for the most pivotal home game of Kellie's tenure and the program's biggest home game in several years.

Catch the fever y'all...
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Correct, as reported, that's what happened. Did you not know attendance has been down for a long time? It's a pretty simple equation, when you lose alot and the program is in disarray for a few years, folks don't enjoy coming to the games. I'm surprised you're surprised. It's part of the rebuild KJH is working on. Hopefully soon there will be a fever to catch.
 
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LadyOrange said:
We aren’t lazy and slow. Even Belmont’s best player said in the presser what a good team we are and singled out Sara Puckett. Belmont coach praised us too. And Belmont is a very good team.
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You can hide from the truth all you want, but we ARE LAZY and it showed last night. Belmont shouldn't have been within 10 points of us less on winning with under 30 seconds left.
 
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BigOrangeCrush32 said:
Well, with your username, you must be the expert on what AZZ smells like. Congrats on that.
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You’ve diverted your attention from the implied question. Where did you come up with 85-90% percent value of what our fans think? Just seemed you had pulled them from your hinter loins. Why don’t you go back to the football forum to troll, and you can practice how to pronounce Iamaleava.
 
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glv98 said:
I don't know if you made a typo, but I was there and the Belmont students and fans dwarfed our student section x10. And they were loud and having a great time. Of course their several hundred was a small portion of the total crowd, but they were by far the loudest until the very end. But it's understandable, this was a huge event for them that they may not see again.

One thing about our student section, it was helped out by almost the entire men's team, who graciously signed autographs and posed for pictures the whole game. And celebrated wildly at the end with the rest of us.
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You need to calibrate your eyes! UT students outnumbered Belmont at least 2 to 1! Here is a picture of the UT students; Belmont occupied half of the retractable section (lower) in the opposite endzone. UT students filled the entire retractable section plus half of the permanent endzone seats.
 

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