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  • godawgst
    godawgst Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,554 Swaye's Wigwam
    You know it's much more than "just win games" when you have to hang hat on 2016 Stanford game as the bell cow and b4 that LSU 2009 Sark's first game as the last two times there was special juice in the stadium.

    You know what those games are called in 15 places east of Norman, Oklahoma. A above average game during the regular season.
  • phineas
    phineas Member Posts: 4,732
    im going to laugh as UW is the last place in the country still demanding a mask and your papers in 2 years. you get what you ask for
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,066 Founders Club

    Even when I was a kid and we were shitty, the stadium was always rocking, no matter the opponent.

    One big mistake the school made was giving rich donors the student section seats at midfield. The atmosphere goes to shit when you give old, rich people the most impactful seats. Kids don't want to watch games from behind an end zone. Dumb as shit.

    Look what happened to the Seahawks. They became good... old, rich people bought all the good seats as soon they were marked up, atmosphere lost. They're the type of morons that ask you to sit down and be quiet so they can enjoy their wine.

    I tend to agree, but most schools don’t have the students on the 50.
    The AD can't even figure out how to fix the "Go Huskies" chant. They aren't going to be able to fix anything of meaning for the game day atmosphere.
  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,269
    From a Seattle cultural perspective, I do think that is a large part of the issue. Look at how many fans attend Sounders games. 20 years ago if you thought a soccer team would draw 40k per game in Seattle you’d be put in an insane asylum.

    The blue collar core went to the Seahawks cause they got good and we sucked in the 2000s.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,834 Founders Club
    The Sounders played at Memorial Stadium for their first two seasons before moving to the Kingdome. On April 25, 1976, 58,218 watched the Seattle Sounders and the New York Cosmos in the first sports event held in the Kingdome.[8]

    From 1979 to 1982, they competed in three NASL Indoor campaigns, playing their home games also at the Kingdome.

    They pulled around 20k a game in the 70s version of major league soccer

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Sounders_(1974–1983)
  • whlinder
    whlinder Member Posts: 5,269

    The Sounders played at Memorial Stadium for their first two seasons before moving to the Kingdome. On April 25, 1976, 58,218 watched the Seattle Sounders and the New York Cosmos in the first sports event held in the Kingdome.[8]

    From 1979 to 1982, they competed in three NASL Indoor campaigns, playing their home games also at the Kingdome.

    They pulled around 20k a game in the 70s version of major league soccer

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Sounders_(1974–1983)

    Pffft. Anything in Seattle pre-1990 was not reported on the east coast other than the production of Boeing jets.
  • TrojanSword
    TrojanSword Member Posts: 555
    I wonder if 0-12 did it or what was it? Because Everytime I go to Seattle I don't see not one person wearing a UW anything.
  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,183

    I wonder if 0-12 did it or what was it? Because Everytime I go to Seattle I don't see not one person wearing a UW anything.

    It's really not that difficult. You've sucked and you've sucked for a long time. If you would have done something in your two year run of greatness you'd see more people wearing UW Football gear now. You guys win and you're not discussing changing demographics in Seattle now. Coming off 2020 when most everyone but the SEC had no attendance, you guys were gawd awful. What incentive did you give to people to show up for your games? Good gawd you fucking lost to Montana.

    Oregon isn't filling their stadium like they used to. Meathead ball just isn't that entertaining when compared to what people grew accustomed to under Chip. But they are still winning, so people will continue to show up but not like they used to do.
  • TXDawg
    TXDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 851 Founders Club
    gmo said:

    Evolution of Seattle a huge factor.

    The atmosphere at Stanford is our future. Everything about the Bay Area today is Seattle’s future. That’s why I GTFO.