Lowest attendance in CUSA

[BillySee58]

Man, we need this hire to work out so badly. Last in our division, last in CUSA in attendance, 1-11, men's basketball sitting at 0-3 against D1 competition with most likely an 0-7 start to the season facing us, and women facing a major rebuild sitting at 1-3 despite an impressive win. 

I don't care if it takes an extra week. This hire has to be a successful one.

[NorthTexan95]

13,631 ... wow ... I never thought I'd see numbers like that at UNT.  You'd think we were some MAC school.  

[97and03]

When you are below FI_AU in attendance, you are F'd in the A.

[Ben Gooding]

Ahhhh yes. Thanks, RV. Fly, give your buddy a pat on the back for me. Thanks. 

[NorthTexan95]

Repeating the broken record that so many of us on this board are playing ... how does RV still have a job?  

[Ben Gooding]

Repeating the broken record that so many of us on this board are playing ... how does RV still have a job?  

It's a record that must be spun until the owner of it decides to trash  it 

[Eagle-96]

RV sez:

"Yaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn, I get people to give us over-sized novelty checks at the halftime of football games. Attendance doesn't matter around here, at least not for 27 more months."

[BillySee58]

Repeating the broken record that so many of us on this board are playing ... how does RV still have a job?  

We also were last in CUSA in fundraising for the last year where the reports were released. 

[GreenTexan13]

So much for our "new facilities" being a factor for the lowest attendance records at Fouts,

[Ben Gooding]

We also were last in CUSA in fundraising for the last year where the reports were released. 

Yeah. We're awesome. Fly, pay attention. This is vision. 

[foutsrouts]

Rice generally has a few hundred in the stands, so getting blown away by them in attendance is downright disgusting.

[meangreen15]

Keep in mind this number is with us playing the other Texas schools in our conference at home this year.  Think about how much worse it would've been had those games been on the road

[oldguystudent]

Here's the Sun Belt:

So we beat out Idaho and Georgia St.  We beat nobody in the American.  Mountain West and MAC are incomplete information.  I can't find either of those.

So per information available, we're 126 of 128.  Yay us!

[NorthTexan95]

Keep in mind this number is with us playing the other Texas schools in our conference at home this year.  Think about how much worse it would've been had those games been on the road

Plus it's only five home games so the total attendance is even worse. 

[EagleMBA]

RV sez:

"Yaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnn, I get people to give us over-sized novelty checks at the halftime of football games. Attendance doesn't matter around here, at least not for 27 more months."

[Green P1]

Ahhhh yes. Thanks, RV. Fly, give your buddy a pat on the back for me. Thanks. 

why would Fly care about these numbers?  One of his last post here was something to the effect of "we already pay for everything around here, pissants not showing up doesn't matter."

[MDH]

We almost lost to the Kibbie? Jesus Christ.

[UNT90]

why would Fly care about these numbers?  One of his last post here was something to the effect of "we already pay for everything around here, pissants not showing up doesn't matter."

And that he really doesn't care if anyone shows up...

[Cr1028]

But what if you add that 6th home game we had in Dallas?

[MeanGreenDan]

I bet @flyonthewall and his friends are having a good laugh at us all and our empty stadium over the finest Jimmy John's has to offer!

[EagleMBA]

Repeating the broken record that so many of us on this board are playing ... how does RV still have a job?  

[Eagle-96]

Not surprising in the least. What's sad is that the actual number should probably be lower.

Butts in seats is MUCH lower.

[Cr1028]

I bet @flyonthewall and his friends are having a good laugh at us all and our empty stadium over the finest Jimmy John's has to offer!

I love me some jimmy john's. I don't know why everyone here hates them so much.

[Withers940]

Can someone put RV's head on this?

[untjim1995]

At some point, don't you have to wonder if maybe this level of athletics just isn't the place for us? One good season in football in the last 11 years. 4 winning seasons in 21 years. Today, we are the worst FBS team in America and have almost the lowest average in attendance for FBS schools. Texas State got more people to a game than we did, for crying out loud!! They play SBC nobodies and they drew better than we did. If you won't change the person in charge of that program for the last 15 years, where we have sucked for most of them, how can you expect anything to be different at this level? And for those that think I'm advocating a drop down in levels, I'm not at all--I'm just questioning if we can truly turn this around here for more than a year, particularly with the culture that allows RV to stay as the AD. I can honestly say that I don't think its possible with the current leadership and attitude of the personnel in charge at the BOR, administration, AD, and his circle of BMDs. 

I want us to be a great football program, just like everyone else here does, but at some point, don't you have to look at the fact that we have been just about awful since we moved up to FBS in 1995? We have two wins over Texas Tech, a win over Baylor, a win over Cincy, a win over UNLV, and a win over Rice when they won CUSA in 2013. Sure, we had some other solid wins--two over Ball State, a couple over SMU, and a win over Tulsa--in those 2 decades, but we have also suffered the worst loss in modern college football history against Portland State, 66-7.  Our attendance is horrible, our record is terrible, and our fundraising is pathetic--and that is sadly compared to SBCUSA schools now. And with all of that to look at and absorb, the leaders around here look at it and clearly say, "RV, great job, buddy!!"