(10-29-2022 05:52 AM)BDKJMU Wrote:  

(10-28-2022 07:59 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(10-28-2022 04:06 PM)BDKJMU Wrote:  

(10-24-2022 08:28 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  

(10-24-2022 02:34 PM)JMad03 Wrote:  It's not "banning" anyone. Just means they have to pay for their ticket like everyone else. Let the students that stay be given a free ticket for the game. And I'm not saying they have to stay until the clock reads 0:00. But if someone leaves at halftime or a few mins into the third, that isn't fair to those students that missed their opportunity to get a ticket.

Don't worry folks, my idea isn't going to happen.

Hmmm…students have already paid for their tickets, PLUS more than 70% of the cost for the entire athletic budget. Indeed, if students (through their mandated fees) weren’t already ponying up there would be no BFS, or new basketball arena. Funny how simple facts like this get forgotten when somehow 8,000 students showing up for games (yet leaving a bit early) is considered a “problem”

Yep, you’re right. Your idea(s) are going nowhere.

So leaving a game at halftime is "a bit early"?

Come on, you know full well that the students don’t leave AT halftime, and those who choose to leave AFTER halftime (and after watching their friends in the MRDs do their thing) don’t represent 100% of the 8k students who are present near the start of the game. There are also season ticket holders who leave early in the 3rd or 4th quarter. Should we (and by “we” I’m referencing the super-fans who post regularly on this board) be busting on those people too?

It’s my opinion the concern over students leaving before the game is over is a whole lot of angst over a small issue. The fact JMU attracts a strong student presence at the start of football games is far more important, and would only be a legit concern if JMU FB wasn’t generating a sold-out student turnout. MBB should be so lucky to have that problem.

It would be interesting to compare the percentage of the students who stay for the entire game vs. the season ticket holders who stay until the final whistle.

Its not ‘after’ halftime lol. Maybe soon as the band is done, but its still before the 3rd quarter starts. The majority are leaving more than a ‘bit early‘ as you claimed. Of course its not 100%. But its a CLEAR majority clearing out before the 3rd quarter kickoff. Understandable if a lopsided game (as most have been), or the weather sucks. But in the case last Sat it was a 12-9 ballgame at the half with good weather.

The majority of season ticket holders aren’t clearing out at the end of the half of competitive games in decent weather, as we had Sat. And its apples to oranges to compare leaving after the halftime band is done to leaving end of 3rd or 4th qtr once the outcome has been determined.

Now it is what it is, and probably nothing can be done to change it, and yeah we should drop it and move on, but don‘t try to spin it that most students aren‘t leaving by the end of halftime, leaving earlier and in far greater percentage than STHs.

I’m sure you have stats, or something other than your eyes to support your “spin”…

Give it a rest man. It’s not an issue you can fix.