Listen to your AD, kiddies! He knows what’s best. What your school needs is a vast new expensive football stadium. Everything will be much better then.
Pay no attention to your university’s most recent football game! That tells you nothing. Nothing, do you hear me? Not a goddamn thing! Don’t quote from the article about it, UD! Don’t do it!
How does it feel to play a game in front of a half-empty stadium?
Heartbreaking.
CSU has won both of its home games at Hughes Stadium this season, but fans haven’t shown up to watch. The Rams are averaging 16,832 fans at home, ranking second-to-last in the Mountain West.While area flooding had an affect [Scathing Online Schoolmarm says: Make that effect] on Colorado State University distributing 14,146 tickets to the game against Cal Poly on Sept. 14 — the schools’ least attended home opener since 1968 — Saturday’s match-up with UTEP wasn’t much better.
It was 57 degrees, sunny and Ag Day — annually one of the most popular games of the season. But only 19,517 fans showed up to watch the Rams win their fifth consecutive home game. All five games played in front of less than 20,000 fans.
It fuckin breaks their fuckin hearts, man! Please give all you can to the new stadium fund!
October 4th, 2013 at 10:37AM
It says here that enrollment at CSU (including non-residents) is 27,500… so, exactly how many spectators were expected?
October 4th, 2013 at 11:05AM
MattF: Oh, alumni, the entire local community — everyone loves football.
October 4th, 2013 at 1:51PM
So if Jack Graham is so convinced the project is financially viable, why not structure it in such a way that he can put a substantial portion of his net worth into it (say, 30%) under terms that he will get it back, with a modest gain, out of the stadium’s profits?
It would be amusing to hear his arguments as to why this wouldn’t be reasonable.
All kinds of institutions could benefit from leadership with more skin in the game.
October 4th, 2013 at 4:43PM
What’s interesting are the comments by the CSU stadium build out supporters. The fact that $37 million is going to be supposedly paid for by donors justifies the renovation. Amazing, not one person that I read compared that to the cost of student tuition. You can’t get increased corporation taxes in order to make the university accessible to average citizen, but you can find millions for football.