… the University of Miami community seems disinclined to attend games. Pay for play, brawls, Nevin Shapiro, sanctions – it’s just decades of major gross-outs. But hark:
Now, while the sanctions may be an answer as to why attendance is so poor, that doesn’t necessarily justify it, Hurricanes fans. The Penn State Nittany Lions were hit with one of the harshest punishments in the history of college football last season, yet they still consistently put 80-90,000 people in Beaver Stadium last season. There’s no light at the end of their tunnel for the next four years, yet the faithful still showed up every home game and cheered their team on. Why couldn’t you do the same?
It’s an interesting argument. You can’t go too low for the fans at Penn State; why should Miami fans be so holier than thou?
March 14th, 2013 at 4:37AM
Ah Margaret, missed the point massively. What is a fair weather fan? Penn State fans enjoy the game and support the boys win or lose. And it does not mean just the football team. The boys and girls of the Blue Band are a big draw, too. Pardon the sexist language but beng down under that’s just how the men and women refer to each other (really).
March 14th, 2013 at 8:52AM
The truth is that Miami has always had attendance issues – even when the team was contending for (and winning) the national championship, most of its sellouts came against Florida or Florida State. Although very visible nationally, Miami has never had the local fan base of a public flagship campus, or of Notre Dame and USC.