Husky fans and the lack of passion people have talked about (compared to the 1990s)
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Agree that it has gotten ridiculous. Nobody wants to go Ajax tho. They want to go have a real college experience.DuckHHunterisafag said:
That's such bullshit that states (people paying the taxes) can do this to their in-state kids. What does it take now in-state to get into UW? If it's bad in Washington, try getting into a UC school in CA. You essentially can't. You could have the highest possible GPA, a perfect SAT, be a multi-letter athlete and do all kinds of charitable activities and still not get accepted into a UC school. It's criminal. However, and I'm not entirely sure of the details but, CA is now offering the first 2 years of JC for free and then you are guaranteed to be accepted into a state school; still not a a UC school but not an entirely terrible deal. There are probably some gotchas but there always are.RoadDawg55 said:
The average male student who got a 3.2 in high school and grew up watching UW can’t get into UW anymore. I think this definitely hurts the fan base, although a lot of those kids (myself being similar) are still UW fans.Alexis said:
Not to mention the UW demographic has changed. The kids like myself who grew up 30 minutes away, grew up playing sports. Went to games as kids. Got decent grades and grow up to have businesses in the area arent the ones that are the main student body any more.whuggy said:
It's not the mix that's the problem. Young kids who used to play football and want to go to Husky games now play soccer and want to go to the Sounders. There's no new era out there. It's the over 40's and the millenials who played football who are carrying the crowd these days.RoadDawg55 said:It’s a mix of blue hairs who attend the games for an outing to see old friends and millennials who really don’t give a fuck. The passion is gone and it will stay that way until the blue hairs that remember the 80’s and 90’s are gone and a new era of Husky Football begins. Right now, there is too much of a mix.
The 90’s aren’t coming back. I accepted that a long time ago.
The UW decided long ago that out of state and out of country tuition brought in more money, and the local ones who can get in are the nerds who are there to play school. Those students grow up, and move away, or if they hang around, they are too busy hanging out at Starbucks on Saturday.
My kid who went to games with me since he was 5 is now in Tempe rooting for the Bitchforks. -
This board likes to think of itself as the home of rabid fans but the majority never attend a game. Quit being little bitches and actually show up to the stadium.
The student section was 95% full and they stayed until the end. Having school in session helps. -
If I got to 3 ish games a year and otherwise get loaded at home can I bitch?UWhuskytskeet said:This board likes to think of itself as the home of rabid fans but the majority never attend a game. Quit being little bitches and actually show up to the stadium.
The student section was 95% full and they stayed until the end. Having school in session helps. -
Yes but only because I do the same thing.PostGameOrangeSlices said:
If I got to 3 ish games a year and otherwise get loaded at home can I bitch?UWhuskytskeet said:This board likes to think of itself as the home of rabid fans but the majority never attend a game. Quit being little bitches and actually show up to the stadium.
The student section was 95% full and they stayed until the end. Having school in session helps. -
UWhuskytskeet said:
Yes but only because I do the same thing.PostGameOrangeSlices said:
If I got to 3 ish games a year and otherwise get loaded at home can I bitch?UWhuskytskeet said:This board likes to think of itself as the home of rabid fans but the majority never attend a game. Quit being little bitches and actually show up to the stadium.
The student section was 95% full and they stayed until the end. Having school in session helps.
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You said 6-7 days out of the year, now multiply that by two and you have your number.huskyhooligan said:
Agreed, they don't, but the dates for this season were announced on December 4th of last year. If late games are a problem, and you want to plan ahead, book a room and wait until the week of the game to cancel it if it's not a late game. Booking a room almost always costs nothing. I know, extra costs but no one is making you stay downtown and some Air BNB rates are really fucking reasonable.PurpleJ said:
The late games don’t exactly help out with that.huskyhooligan said:Maybe people who are passionate about husky football and live with Skagit, Snohomish, Kitsap, King, Pierce, Kititas, and Thurston Counties should actually put money where their mouth is and attend the games, show up on time, make noise on defense. It's literally 6-7 days out of the year you can plan on. Figure it out.
This is the night of the Ute gayme, in walking distance.
It isn’t about the money, in fact I personally don’t need to get a room if I come up for a night game. I got connects like that. Most people do not.
But even so, it’s still a big time commitment like you said yourself. That’s almost the entire weekend and some people have kids and other commitments. Then you also have to consider that we? insult our fans by scheduling scrimmages with Fucknut State 1-2x a year and it makes season tickets even less worth it.
Moral of the story is the TV networks win the day and the AD doesn’t help matters with the non-conference dreck. NOGAF about the fans these days and maybe Jen should fucking do something about it. Until then, it’s single game tickets and watch the rest of the games in HD at home where I can drink and smoke weed/cigs as much as I want while posting on HH in my soiled sweatpants. Eat my ass with a spork if you don’t like it. -
UW denied my kid w/a 3.5 from a private HS and decent test scores. A 3.2 barely gets you into the Coug these days.RoadDawg55 said:
The average male student who got a 3.2 in high school and grew up watching UW can’t get into UW anymore. I think this definitely hurts the fan base, although a lot of those kids (myself being similar) are still UW fans.Alexis said:
Not to mention the UW demographic has changed. The kids like myself who grew up 30 minutes away, grew up playing sports. Went to games as kids. Got decent grades and grow up to have businesses in the area arent the ones that are the main student body any more.whuggy said:
It's not the mix that's the problem. Young kids who used to play football and want to go to Husky games now play soccer and want to go to the Sounders. There's no new era out there. It's the over 40's and the millenials who played football who are carrying the crowd these days.RoadDawg55 said:It’s a mix of blue hairs who attend the games for an outing to see old friends and millennials who really don’t give a fuck. The passion is gone and it will stay that way until the blue hairs that remember the 80’s and 90’s are gone and a new era of Husky Football begins. Right now, there is too much of a mix.
The 90’s aren’t coming back. I accepted that a long time ago.
The UW decided long ago that out of state and out of country tuition brought in more money, and the local ones who can get in are the nerds who are there to play school. Those students grow up, and move away, or if they hang around, they are too busy hanging out at Starbucks on Saturday.
My kid who went to games with me since he was 5 is now in Tempe rooting for the Bitchforks. -
These are the attendance numbers for Alabama the past two years:
100,495 Arkansas St
101,821 TAMU
101,471 Louisiana-Lafayette
101,821 Missouri
101,821 Miss St
101,681 The Citadel
101,821 Auburn
100,710 New Mexico St
101,821 Southern Miss
99,590 Ole Miss
Doesn't matter who they're playing, presumably what time of day, what the stakes are, they pack that motherfucker every week. Tuscaloosa has a population of 100,000, Seattle 750,000. Tuscaloosa is one hour away from Birmingham, a metro area of 1.1m, Seattle 4m. Median household income of Birmingham $32k, Seattle $45k.
Our fans just suck, in general. But Depeche Mode reminds us that people are people, so it likely has a good deal to do with poor branding/calls to action/engagement. -
It just means more. Also, they win titles and I’m guessing they actually build enough roads to make traffic not suck there. So there’s that.
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That'd be me.RoadDawg55 said:
The average male student who got a 3.2 in high school and grew up watching UW can’t get into UW anymore. I think this definitely hurts the fan base, although a lot of those kids (myself being similar) are still UW fans.Alexis said:
Not to mention the UW demographic has changed. The kids like myself who grew up 30 minutes away, grew up playing sports. Went to games as kids. Got decent grades and grow up to have businesses in the area arent the ones that are the main student body any more.whuggy said:
It's not the mix that's the problem. Young kids who used to play football and want to go to Husky games now play soccer and want to go to the Sounders. There's no new era out there. It's the over 40's and the millenials who played football who are carrying the crowd these days.RoadDawg55 said:It’s a mix of blue hairs who attend the games for an outing to see old friends and millennials who really don’t give a fuck. The passion is gone and it will stay that way until the blue hairs that remember the 80’s and 90’s are gone and a new era of Husky Football begins. Right now, there is too much of a mix.
The 90’s aren’t coming back. I accepted that a long time ago.
The UW decided long ago that out of state and out of country tuition brought in more money, and the local ones who can get in are the nerds who are there to play school. Those students grow up, and move away, or if they hang around, they are too busy hanging out at Starbucks on Saturday.
My kid who went to games with me since he was 5 is now in Tempe rooting for the Bitchforks.
I still show up, stand up, and talk my shit. I'm a rare breed with my priorities horribly misaligned.
