Sorry if you thought I meant specifically you in my reply. I was referring to MTFan's post also.

(02-01-2016 08:30 PM)WVTopper Wrote:  From what I remember the bleachers weren't pulled out and the lower bowl on the side the cameras showed was maybe 1000 people and that's being generous. Until I see photos or video I won't believe there was anywhere near 5000. You Marshall and SMU like to talk attendance smack about our football and basketball well we report actual button in seats. There are some teams like FIU and FAU that are flat out lying with their attendance numbers.

Each lower section seats around 400. The five middle sections on each side were nearly full, so let's say around 300 x 10 middle sections (5 each side) plus 200 x 8 side sections (4 each side). That gives around 4,600 and that assumes there weren't stragglers sitting throughout. The announced was not as off as you seem to think. We have done the math over and over. The MC is so big it makes good crowds like 5,000 seem like 2,000. We hear it all the time and it gets annoying. Our crowds are fine regardless of whether or not there are exactly 5,125 butts in seats that you can count.

I don't really care if it was 2k or 5k but when someone says the middle sections were nearly full..

I didn't see it in these clips and I know they aren't very clear but clear enough to see this side was less than 1/4 full and the ends were 1/10 full from the little I saw

(02-01-2016 09:30 PM)MT FAN Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 08:30 PM)WVTopper Wrote:  From what I remember the bleachers weren't pulled out and the lower bowl on the side the cameras showed was maybe 1000 people and that's being generous. Until I see photos or video I won't believe there was anywhere near 5000. You Marshall and SMU like to talk attendance smack about our football and basketball well we report actual button in seats. There are some teams like FIU and FAU that are flat out lying with their attendance numbers.

Nobody gives a a crap what some hillbilly from Kentucky thinks our attendance is.

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Someone in Tennessee calling someone in Kentucky a hillbilly, now that is funny.

(02-02-2016 06:16 AM)Franko Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 09:30 PM)MT FAN Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 08:30 PM)WVTopper Wrote:  From what I remember the bleachers weren't pulled out and the lower bowl on the side the cameras showed was maybe 1000 people and that's being generous. Until I see photos or video I won't believe there was anywhere near 5000. You Marshall and SMU like to talk attendance smack about our football and basketball well we report actual button in seats. There are some teams like FIU and FAU that are flat out lying with their attendance numbers.

Nobody gives a a crap what some hillbilly from Kentucky thinks our attendance is.

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Someone in Tennessee calling someone in Kentucky a hillbilly, now that is funny.

And vice versa.

(02-01-2016 09:30 PM)MT FAN Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 08:30 PM)WVTopper Wrote:  From what I remember the bleachers weren't pulled out and the lower bowl on the side the cameras showed was maybe 1000 people and that's being generous. Until I see photos or video I won't believe there was anywhere near 5000. You Marshall and SMU like to talk attendance smack about our football and basketball well we report actual button in seats. There are some teams like FIU and FAU that are flat out lying with their attendance numbers.

Nobody gives a a crap what some hillbilly from Kentucky thinks our attendance is.

I am not a hillbilly from Kentucky (there are a lot of us in BG) but I agree. I usually focus my attention on the court/field and don't much care what the attendance is (other than the impact is has on dollars)

(02-02-2016 07:30 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-02-2016 06:16 AM)Franko Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 09:30 PM)MT FAN Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 08:30 PM)WVTopper Wrote:  From what I remember the bleachers weren't pulled out and the lower bowl on the side the cameras showed was maybe 1000 people and that's being generous. Until I see photos or video I won't believe there was anywhere near 5000. You Marshall and SMU like to talk attendance smack about our football and basketball well we report actual button in seats. There are some teams like FIU and FAU that are flat out lying with their attendance numbers.

Nobody gives a a crap what some hillbilly from Kentucky thinks our attendance is.

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Someone in Tennessee calling someone in Kentucky a hillbilly, now that is funny.

And vice versa.

As you so eloquently stated in a thread several years ago; the residents of the South get enough crap thrown at them by the West Coast and Northeast "elitists" that we do not need to insult each other about what state that we live in. Let's all be proud to live in AL, MS, KY, TN, FL, LA, TX, NC, VA or WV.

(02-02-2016 11:09 AM)Jacque Wrote:  

(02-02-2016 07:30 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-02-2016 06:16 AM)Franko Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 09:30 PM)MT FAN Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 08:30 PM)WVTopper Wrote:  From what I remember the bleachers weren't pulled out and the lower bowl on the side the cameras showed was maybe 1000 people and that's being generous. Until I see photos or video I won't believe there was anywhere near 5000. You Marshall and SMU like to talk attendance smack about our football and basketball well we report actual button in seats. There are some teams like FIU and FAU that are flat out lying with their attendance numbers.

Nobody gives a a crap what some hillbilly from Kentucky thinks our attendance is.

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Someone in Tennessee calling someone in Kentucky a hillbilly, now that is funny.

And vice versa.

As you so eloquently stated in a thread several years ago; the residents of the South get enough crap thrown at them by the West Coast and Northeast "elitists" that we do not need to insult each other about what state that we live in. Let's all be proud to live in AL, MS, KY, TN, FL, LA, TX, NC, VA or WV.

Exactly.

In a completely unrelated note, I stayed at the on-campus hotel in Bowling Green and thought it was super convenient for my pre-game bourbon :) I wish Middle would put a hotel on campus.

(02-05-2016 05:56 PM)RowdyAlumni Wrote:  In a completely unrelated note, I stayed at the on-campus hotel in Bowling Green and thought it was super convenient for my pre-game bourbon :) I wish Middle would put a hotel on campus.

Thanks for the feedback on that, I've not heard much about the hotel yet. Was it an ok place?

(02-02-2016 11:09 AM)Jacque Wrote:  

(02-02-2016 07:30 AM)MTPiKapp Wrote:  

(02-02-2016 06:16 AM)Franko Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 09:30 PM)MT FAN Wrote:  

(02-01-2016 08:30 PM)WVTopper Wrote:  From what I remember the bleachers weren't pulled out and the lower bowl on the side the cameras showed was maybe 1000 people and that's being generous. Until I see photos or video I won't believe there was anywhere near 5000. You Marshall and SMU like to talk attendance smack about our football and basketball well we report actual button in seats. There are some teams like FIU and FAU that are flat out lying with their attendance numbers.

Nobody gives a a crap what some hillbilly from Kentucky thinks our attendance is.

.
Someone in Tennessee calling someone in Kentucky a hillbilly, now that is funny.

And vice versa.

As you so eloquently stated in a thread several years ago; the residents of the South get enough crap thrown at them by the West Coast and Northeast "elitists" that we do not need to insult each other about what state that we live in. Let's all be proud to live in AL, MS, KY, TN, FL, LA, TX, NC, VA or WV.

"The north isn't a place, it's just a direction out of the South."-Roy Blount Jr.

(02-05-2016 06:30 PM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:  

(02-05-2016 05:56 PM)RowdyAlumni Wrote:  In a completely unrelated note, I stayed at the on-campus hotel in Bowling Green and thought it was super convenient for my pre-game bourbon :) I wish Middle would put a hotel on campus.

Thanks for the feedback on that, I've not heard much about the hotel yet. Was it an ok place?

It is very nice; a Hyatt Place property. Right next to the Alumni Center. A Chili's is going in next door as well.