Bear Down Wildcats

I think Phoenix isn't pulling its weight. Less than 2 percent of the alumni there can't make it down for a game? Just a 100 minute drive...pathetic

azcat49 wrote:People retire from all over the vountry and there allegiences are to many other schools

I know people complain about the blue hairs at McKale, but I think many of us who are retirees or near retirees from out of the area would love to see a UA football game, esp. people like me who grew up and watched games in the fall with not so nice weather.

7 pm basketball games are OK for us old timers since they go only 2 hours or so.

But look at the 4 home games this year at Arizona Stadium.

7:30pm
8:00pm
7:00pm
7:30pm

That's for a 3 1/2 hour game. That gets pretty late.

For some of us, that's bed time. For the college kids, the parties start at half time.

6 pm games are ideal for that reason.

Merkin wrote:

azcat49 wrote:People retire from all over the vountry and there allegiences are to many other schools

But look at the 4 home games this year at Arizona Stadium.

7:30pm
8:00pm
7:00pm
7:30pm

That's for a 3 1/2 hour game. That gets pretty late.

For some of us, that's bed time. For the college kids, the parties start at half time.

6 pm games are ideal for that reason.

That's just it, though. 6pm is ideal to the 50K in the stadium, but not necessarily to the millions watching elsewhere and the machine that dictates who plays when and where.

The games and profits for the FBS schools are centered around the TV deals. Byrne, Dantonio, Saban, or anyone else can shake the trees and make their pleas but unless the Power 5 are willing to forgo the TV deals, the stadium experience will always rate lower and the paying fans in the seats will be made to bend to those who choose to watch at home or in the bars...the real revenue generators. No amount of marketing gimmicks can compete. Even winning isn't necessarily the panacea although it will surely help in the case of a starved fanbase like ours.

Anecdotally, Phoenix fans don't show-up, I've tried to get more of my friends to show up and they, foerthe most part, rather just watch on TV. It is easy for Tucson fans to criticize when they have a 10-30 min drive. That drive back is tough after a 3-4 hr game that started at 7:30pm.

Fan attendance for students is a problem in most stadiums. People are acting as if this is an isolated problem.

Yes, that is true. Not an isolated problem by any stretch. Students, that is.

Even Alabama is having trouble filling it's student section and having them stay the whole game

Wow 2 whole busloads of Phoenix people might show up! Practically filling the stadium on their own.

ASUHATER! wrote:Wow 2 whole busloads of Phoenix people might show up! Practically filling the stadium on their own.

3 bus loads

Really need to move the games to Phoenix already

scumdevils86 wrote:Really need to move the games to Phoenix already

Please leave this tired trope on the old board. We get it, you don't like Phoenix and you don't like Machina.

Kyle seemed to be a big fan of Tomey type ball. Shutdown defense and 3 yards and a cloud of dust offense. Not sure how he felt about RR.

Me and him got into it one time, perhaps because he was calling out Arizona's shitty fans--(a pet peeve of mine after my 30 year love/hate relationship with AZ football)

I understand the issue but just don't think it's productive to try and shame Tucson into supporting football. Better to see if you can make the game day experience more attractive than to rely only on school and community spirit.

Anyway Kyle was pissed because I told him to f-off. He did accept my apology though so I had no real problem with the guy.

azthrillhouse wrote:

scumdevils86 wrote:Really need to move the games to Phoenix already

Please leave this tired trope on the old board. We get it, you don't like Phoenix and you don't like Machina.

Stop whining.

WHERE THE F**K IS MACHINA????

He needs to get this straightened out. Maybe in Bristol they confuse UA and ASU, but not this place!

Can't wait for the BYU game in Glendale on 9/3/16. Wonder how many Tucson fans make the trip. You know Mesa is gonna show up.

I used to go to the 7up shootout at the America West Arena. Pretty good turnout but never sold out.

We typically sell-out Wells Fargo when we play the Devils. I imagine it is mainly Phoenicians.

Maybe we should move the whole campus to the State Fair Grounds..plenty of room if we demolish Encanto Golf Course and Veterans Memorial.

AAAhh..a boy can dream!.

Merkin wrote:WHERE THE F**K IS MACHINA????

He needs to get this straightened out. Maybe in Bristol they confuse UA and ASU, but not this

No shit. Bannable offense. Get on it Machina!

Merkin wrote:WHERE THE F**K IS MACHINA????

He needs to get this straightened out. Maybe in Bristol they confuse UA and ASU, but not this place!

Has the whole world gone crazy????



I'm just going to close my eyes and repeat to myself, "Arcadia Tavern is better than McKale" until I forget all about that abomination above.

Agree with all of the above.

But I do think its cool ASU has the stones to schedule Norte Dame.

CalStateTempe wrote: But I do think its cool ASU has the stones to schedule Norte Dame.

That was my thought too. Was the Max Zendejas kick the last time UA played ND?

Merkin wrote:

CalStateTempe wrote: But I do think its cool ASU has the stones to schedule Norte Dame.

That was my thought too. Was the Max Zendejas kick the last time UA played ND?

Yes. They beat us the year before in Tucson, right?

Awesome.

Nope. All bad fans.

(JK, we got this award because of me personally... )

Hey zoo, show up to the game.

PHXCATS wrote:Hey zoo, show up to the game.

I'm convinced we will never have a good student turn out for a 1pm game.

You go sit in the 94 degree direct sunlight for 5 hours and see how long you will last.

Why would they need to be there that early when only a few students showed up and the time of the game. Use those college brains zoo. Did not help in the game at all.

It looked awful in person and on TV.

Lots of students sitting with parents on parent's weekend. We have this discussion seemingly every year. This year was worse than many, but a 1pm game in heat after 2 losses against OSU wasn't going to inspire a great zoo turnout anyway, then add students all over the place with their parents. That is why the west side stands were more packed than for UCLA.

What the fuck. Football attendance sucks now basketball. Can't make power moves in sports without money

PHXCATS wrote:

What the fuck. Football attendance sucks now basketball. Can't make power moves in sports without money

ZonaZoo passes are prepaid. This just means that not enough students have reserved their seats online yet. Although, I guess it could imply the number of purchased ZonaZoo passes has decreased.

DrWildcat wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:

What the fuck. Football attendance sucks now basketball. Can't make power moves in sports without money

ZonaZoo passes are prepaid. This just means that not enough students have reserved their seats online yet. Although, I guess it could imply the number of purchased ZonaZoo passes has decreased.

There are tons of seats at the box office available for Wednesday

Zona Zoo not filling up for basketball actually means increased revenue, with the remaining tickets becoming available for sale to the public. Weird flex to attempt there

prh wrote:Zona Zoo not filling up for basketball actually means increased revenue, with the remaining tickets becoming available for sale to the public. Weird flex to attempt there

He’s still mad at Sean Miller for that thing he totally made up about Sean Miller.

The Zoo never sells out until conference play starts or a big name comes to town. This has been the case for years...

AZCatGirl wrote:The Zoo never sells out until conference play starts or a big name comes to town. This has been the case for years...

The difference is that the Basketball Team is saying many tickets are still available in the zoo. Never remember seeing that before. Always remember seeing that there were few tickets left etc. As well as tons of general tickets still being available for tomorrow

I think the team is going to have to play well and dominate bad teams before attendance gets maxed out again.

A lot of the general public has a bad taste with Miller and the team. Early exits and the “scandals”.

The other day I was listening to FRANK SHOW on KLPX. He said he was upset that Book took the fall for Miller.
Justin Spears (1490 ESPN) was the guest. He didn’t say a thing to correct Frank.
Spears also calls it the “Pay for Play” scandal on his own show.

When local guys are framing things this way I can see how the casual fan is going to have negative opinions.


EDIT: I get very few stations in my work vehicle, so don’t blast me for what I listen to.

PHXCATS wrote:

AZCatGirl wrote:The Zoo never sells out until conference play starts or a big name comes to town. This has been the case for years...

The difference is that the Basketball Team is saying many tickets are still available in the zoo. Never remember seeing that before. Always remember seeing that there were few tickets left etc. As well as tons of general tickets still being available for tomorrow

It's NAU. No one cares. Nor should anyone care.

Postmaster wrote: I think the team is going to have to play well and dominate bad teams before attendance gets maxed out again.

A lot of the general public has a bad taste with Miller and the team. Early exits and the “scandals”.

The other day I was listening to FRANK SHOW on KLPX. He said he was upset that Book took the fall for Miller.
Justin Spears (1490 ESPN) was the guest. He didn’t say a thing to correct Frank.
Spears also calls it the “Pay for Play” scandal on his own show.

When local guys are framing things this way I can see how the casual fan is going to have negative opinions.


EDIT: I get very few stations in my work vehicle, so don’t blast me for what I listen to.

This is not a Phoenix vs Tucson thing or saying Phoenix is so great so please dont take it that direction. But if this is happening it is on Tucson to correct it.

In Phoenix several shows on Arizona Sports, the flagship for the Dbacks Suns Cardinals and Scumdevils said the same thing. People called the out for it, called sponsors, called the station management and all the hosts. They corrected it and have had Scheer on their stations to talk about it.

Another show on 1580 was saying the same. That host was fired.

If this is happening call out Spears and the Frank Show. Call their management and sponsors. Get it corrected because it hurts UA to have this bullshit out there

Not sure how the zoo was tonight but ASSU set a student attendance record vs Oregon

azcat49 wrote:Not sure how the zoo was tonight but ASSU set a student attendance record vs Oregon

what 500?

Haha maybe. Just thought it might motivate the zoo

azcat49 wrote:Haha maybe. Just thought it might motivate the zoo

The zoo has been a complete embarrassment for the last few years

PHXCATS wrote:

azcat49 wrote:Haha maybe. Just thought it might motivate the zoo

The zoo has been a complete embarrassment for the last few years

So has the basketball team. What did you expect?

AZCatGirl wrote:

PHXCATS wrote:

azcat49 wrote:Haha maybe. Just thought it might motivate the zoo

The zoo has been a complete embarrassment for the last few years

So has the basketball team. What did you expect?

Yeah a half game out of first is not an embarrassment

And the Zoo has sucked for years even with Lauri

You've sucked this whole time Machina, but here we are.

UAdevil wrote:You've sucked this whole time Machina, but here we are.

When everyone attacks you all the time you know you are doing it right

PHXCATS wrote:

UAdevil wrote:You've sucked this whole time Machina, but here we are.

When everyone attacks you all the time you know you are doing it right

Doing what right? Trolling.

When you constantly take the contrarian viewpoint on every fucking subject you are not not doing anything right

PHXCATS wrote:

UAdevil wrote:You've sucked this whole time Machina, but here we are.

When everyone attacks you all the time you know you are doing it right

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

^This