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Great Crowd!

Eric Schmoldt just posted a pic of the crowd on Twitter:
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Brings a tear to my eye that Wyo Basketball is digging out of the grave that it was in. Shyatt was a great hire and I love how hard this teams plays. Old School
 
Not really Cowboys basketball has been a non factor for a long time and it's very easy to understand the lack of support when we lost so many games. I do believe we will start having better crowds this game was just that game that was needed for the fans to see there is a team that wants to and can win.
 
My bad. I was trying to say how sad it is that this now constitutes a "good crowd." I am thankful that we are at least getting back to where the low end the the normal range used to be.
 
WyoExpat said:
My bad. I was trying to say how sad it is that this now constitutes a "good crowd." I am thankful that we are at least getting back to where the low end the the normal range used to be.
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I understand what you mean, But I'm happy that they are starting to show up again!
 
Loudest I can remember in at least 6 years.
I have to admit I love it when other teams crowds show up like that when we win. Now when we lose I hate those pr
 
WyoExpat said:
mrtnt3x said:
What good crowd on hand!
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It is tough to know that 7900 is a "good crowd by current standards"
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Considering that 7900 is damn near a sold out crowd at Moby arena I'm pretty happy with the progress so far.
 
7900 is a lot! We just happen to have a huge arena Cameron Indoor only hold 9300 it amazes me that people always find something wrong.
 
gopokes1399 said:
7900 is a lot! We just happen to have a huge arena Cameron Indoor only hold 9300 it amazes me that people always find something wrong.
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Well, when we faced Utah for the 2002 regular season title, we had over 16,000 people packed into the AA.
 
fromolwyoming said:
gopokes1399 said:
7900 is a lot! We just happen to have a huge arena Cameron Indoor only hold 9300 it amazes me that people always find something wrong.
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Well, when we faced Utah for the 2002 regular season title, we had over 16,000 people packed into the AA.
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That game was a ton of fun. BYU two nights before was awesome.. but half of my friends got arrested.. we had a bit too much Everclear before the game..
 
fromolwyoming said:
gopokes1399 said:
7900 is a lot! We just happen to have a huge arena Cameron Indoor only hold 9300 it amazes me that people always find something wrong.
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Well, when we faced Utah for the 2002 regular season title, we had over 16,000 people packed into the AA.
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I understand that, but I think averaging 8,000-10,000 people would be amazing, obviously the more the merrier but when people say that its sad that were excited about 8,000 people being there is dumb, because that is a legitimate crowd and it looks like it will only get better
 
BTW, who's all going to be there Tuesday? I know I will be (with my mother's fiance, who is alright and seems to know quite a few people).
 
averaging 8,000-10,000 people would be amazing, obviously the more the merrier but when people say that its sad that were excited about 8,000 people being there is dumb, because that is a legitimate crowd
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I think part of the discussion here is not that we are complaining about 8,000 but that there are those of us who remember when a poor, Joby Wright-coached team would draw 6,000-8,000 for non-marquee games. That is a good crowd but, in Laramie, 8-10 K should not be an exciting "high water mark" but should be about where normal is.

I would hope to see a season average in that 8,000-10,000 range, not have the big games land in that range.

In my mind, the discussion about crowd size and the expectations of current fans is directed more at the degree of harm caused by the prior regime than it is about where our program is headed.

Yes, the AA is big, and might even be a little oversized, but when things are as they should be at UW, the AA's capacity is just about right for a team that is in the hunt down the stretch.
 
WyoExpat said:
averaging 8,000-10,000 people would be amazing, obviously the more the merrier but when people say that its sad that were excited about 8,000 people being there is dumb, because that is a legitimate crowd
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I think part of the discussion here is not that we are complaining about 8,000 but that there are those of us who remember when a poor, Joby Wright-coached team would draw 6,000-8,000 for non-marquee games. That is a good crowd but, in Laramie, 8-10 K should not be an exciting "high water mark" but should be about where normal is.

I would hope to see a season average in that 8,000-10,000 range, not have the big games land in that range.

In my mind, the discussion about crowd size and the expectations of current fans is directed more at the degree of harm caused by the prior regime than it is about where our program is headed.

Yes, the AA is big, and might even be a little oversized, but when things are as they should be at UW, the AA's capacity is just about right for a team that is in the hunt down the stretch.
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No doubt. It takes time though. The long term average in the AA is 7355 (was 7800 before Heath Schroyer). This year we will likely end up in the 5500 range (would need to average about 7500 the rest of the way to finish there which I think is doable), which is pretty sad, should be above 7k for conference games which shows we are going in the right direction.
 
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