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

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glv98 said:
Very possible my ancient eyes need calibrating. When I say students, I mean the young people standing and loudly cheering the whole game. Many, or most, in the photo you shared are not students at all. And certainly were not "student active" the whole game. Again, I sat in the wedge right next to that section. Maybe 6 or 7 rows and the small pep band were acting like students. Someone who was there, please help me. Up until Pucketts shot, what section was by far making the most noise and having the most fun? That was my point. Also, Belmont had a fairly sizable section behind their bench.
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They had approximately 10 rows behind their bench with 14 seats per row yielding 140 people. Not all of those seats were occupied by Belmont fans. Those plus the roughly 500 Belmont students was the basis for my original approximation of 600. I was in my regular season seats at center court, so I had a good vantage point to assess the rough breakout between fan groups.
 
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Coach Jumper said:
I'd still like to know what play was called
there is an old mantra,,,"go for the tie on the road and go for the win at home"

If coach k drew it up as "We've got time (9 seconds), we'll set up a 3 pass/baseline 3-pt shot play,,we've been killing them on the boards and if it is a miss, I will take our chance on a putback for the tie"...

wow!
calling a play like that in such a tourney,,,would take guts
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Actually you have it backwards! You play for a win on the road and a tie at home!
 
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Coach Jumper said:
I'd still like to know what play was called
there is an old mantra,,,"go for the tie on the road and go for the win at home"

If coach k drew it up as "We've got time (9 seconds), we'll set up a 3 pass/baseline 3-pt shot play,,we've been killing them on the boards and if it is a miss, I will take our chance on a putback for the tie"...

wow!
calling a play like that in such a tourney,,,would take guts
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No, the first two options on that play were two point shots, but those options were closed down so we ended up with the three pt shot which was the third option.
 
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An upset win Saturday against 1-seed Louisville would probably do wonders for attendance next season. Besides there still being quite a few Lady Vol fans who are still avoiding large crowds -- I know several myself -- I also know several people who haven't attended consistently since Pat died, and a couple of folks who simply can't take anymore heartbreak. The disappointingly early exits from the tournament broke some people. Those are the ones who may consider coming fully back into the fold once the program takes another step up.

Even a competitive loss on Saturday would probably help, but a win would jumpstart a few broken hearts and get them back into TBA.
 
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lvocd said:
An upset win Saturday against 1-seed Louisville would probably do wonders for attendance next season. Besides there still being quite a few Lady Vol fans who are still avoiding large crowds -- I know several myself -- I also know several people who haven't attended consistently since Pat died, and a couple of folks who simply can't take anymore heartbreak. The disappointingly early exits from the tournament broke some people. Those are the ones who may consider coming fully back into the fold once the program takes another step up.

Even a competitive loss on Saturday would probably help, but a win would jumpstart a few broken hearts and get them back into TBA.
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Yes. I stopped going to games when Pat died. But when Kellie was hired, I got season tickets.
 
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Just making it fun again got me back. Winning is the main thing but the atmosphere around the team is a big thing too. I quit going during the Cooper/DeShields/Nared etc era when it became obvious no one, not players, coaches, or fans was having any fun. The whole thing got painful to watch and my kids got bored with it.
 
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Voluble2 said:
No, the first two options on that play were two point shots, but those options were closed down so we ended up with the three pt shot which was the third option.
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the only ones who know the true story are the ones who were in hearing range of the huddle...so far I have two affirmations and descriptions of the play,,,both different??
 
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EarlVolFan said:
No, it's a generational issue that's been going on for a while. The Lady Vols 'Boost-hers' are aging out and the UTAD has failed to attract younger fans since Hart tried to kill the brand.

They need to get back to the days where games were fun to attend and do a better job promoting the program to young families and students. I'm afraid the next season's new ticket pricing strategy is going do the opposite and chill attendance.
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You mean free tickets so the crowd can once again be kids, blue hairs and alternative lifestyles? Looks like the students turned out at least
 
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savannahfan said:
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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Thank god they quit showing that stupid old grandma from Belmont dancing.
 
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volbound1700 said:
I attended several when I was a student, they had more fans than the Men's team at the time. Bruce Pearl became coach my senior year and the Men started to pull a crowd then.

I went to games against UCONN and Xavier and they had a packed house.
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They’ve really never had more fans than the men. Ever. Even when we were 5-22 that one year
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
How is that classless? I don’t want to see other fans celebrating over our team in our building. Do you?
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"Stupid old Grandma?" She was Belmonts original head coach so stupid.....I think not! "Blue Hair" is just another low class term to diss our elderly fan base. Using terms like this to hurt is nothing but low-class discrimination. If you keep up this rhetoric, I'm going to call your mother.
 
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Rickster said:
"Stupid old Grandma?" She was Belmonts original head coach so stupid.....I think not! "Blue Hair" is just another low class term to diss our elderly fan base. Using terms like this to hurt is nothing but low-class discrimination. If you keep up this rhetoric, I'm going to call your mother.
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Who cares who she was. Screw her. This is our arena and program and I’m glad she can continue to live the rest of her life without seeing her team beat Tennessee. Her little “look at me” show with the cameras was cliche and cringe. And “discrimination”? Jesus, it’s a message board post Francis relax
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Who cares who she was. Screw her. This is our arena and program and I’m glad she can continue to live the rest of her life without seeing her team beat Tennessee. Her little “look at me” show with the cameras was cliche and cringe. And “discrimination”? Jesus, it’s a message board post Francis relax
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What are you....15?
 
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