RapidsFan

The current students are getting nickel and dimed by the school and the administration treats them poorly. Students see the football stadium as a giant "fuck you" monument on a campus that's heavily isolated. Of course the alumni who never had to worry about money are wondering why everybody doesn't have "school spirit". One of UB's least self-aware employees was crying about it 46 years ago. Guess who...

Ron's job is to distract you from the fact that we'll see record crowds of 1,200 people inside UB's brand new Murchie Family Football Stadium before they ever spend another dime on basketball

The AD, head of the Alumni Association, and the school's top donor are all football guys. You can see how this is quickly becoming a problem. Reggie Witherspoon as AD, Turner Battle as head coach, and let one of the Murchie kids run the Alumni Association Would anyone object to that?

UB has been bullshitting attendance figures for years, bud. It's not a new thing: College Football’s Growing Problem: Empty Seats

You're absolutely right, it was a standing-room only crowd. Just look at them all!

The lowest announced attendance at Alumni Arena this year was 1,361 for the Miami (OH) game on 1/9, and that includes tickets sold and not the turnstile count - so it's less than that

The sound of 500 more season ticket renewals hitting the bottom of the trash can

He shot better with the visor/mask on - not sure if he got contacts or something

Dropping football to FCS and putting the savings towards the basketball program was the way to go, but that ship has sailed - Alnutt's going to be a doormat for the donors and their terrible ideas for the next 20 years Pooling money to get rid of Halcovage and letting Alnutt keep his job would be ridiculous - so of course that's what will happen

Average UB home attendance by year: Kenneth Pope 1983 (12-15) - 1,023 Dan Bazzani 1984 (14-13) - 605 1985 (5-19) - 1,051 1986 (14-11)- 1,004 1987 (15-10) - 664 1988 (14-13) - 971 1989 (15-14) - 1,000 1990 (14-13) - 1,002 1991 (13-14) - 1,025 1992 (2-26) - 927 1993 (5-22) - 1,311 (Modie's first season) Tim Cohane 1994 (10-18) - 1,440 (Rasaun's first season) 1995 (18-10) - 2,274 (Modie's last season) 1996 (13-14) - 1,834 1997 (17-11) - 4,105 1998 (15-13) - 2,024 (Rasaun's last season) 1999 (5-24) - 1,597 2000 (5-23) - 2,100 Reggie Witherspoon 2001 (4-24) - 1,720 2002 (12-18) - 2,387 (Turner's first season) 2003 (5-23) - 1,888 (Calvin's first season) 2004 (17-12) - 3,194 2005 (23-10) - 4,417 (Turner's last season) 2006 (19-13) - 4,279 (Calvin's last season) 2007 (12-19) - 2,898 2008 (10-20) - 1,862 2009 (21-12) - 2,663 (Watt's first season) 2010 (18-12) - 1,977 2011 (20-14) - 2,039 (Javon's first season) 2012 (20-11) - 2,684 (Watt's last season) 2013 (14-20) - 3,291 Bobby Hurley 2014 (19-10) - 3,486 (Javon's last season) 2015 (23-10) - 3,639 2016 (20-15) - 3,242 (CJ's first season) Nate Oats 2017 (17-15) - 3,791 2018 (27-9) - 3,569 2019 (32-4) - 5,290 (CJ's last season) Jim Whitesell 2020 (20-12) - 3,613 2021 (16-9) - N/A 2022 (19-11) - 2,893 2023 (15-17) - 2,858 George Halcovage III 2024 (3-21) - 2,459

Burke and Lembo are starting to cozy up to each other, and both have a history of demanding concessions/walking from jobs when they don't get their way. Lembo left Ball State when his budget wasn't what he thought it should be.

Alumni Arena is the house that Modie Cox built.