NowherePoke said:
McPeachy said:
BeaverPoke said:
Lol yeah I never thought he was actually getting pissy with the fans but making a joke. Leave it to the interwebs to run wild with it though, and start disliking coach shyatt.
That is a little extreme Beav - not sure anyone here is disliking coach Shyatt. :roll:
That said, he certainly has a track record for speaking out about how
awful the UW fanbase is, attendance / attitude / all. And I completely disagree with him...we have been dick whipped as a fanbase in basketball for more than 12 years. A few CBI's, a head-kick, an ACL, and some mono - what is really expected these days?
Our attendance this year certainly should be better IMO, but still we are averaging 6400 per game (7700 in MWC play). How many programs in the country would have a similar attendance if they had the following:
1. One NCAA appearance in the last 27 years.
2. No NIT/NCAA appearances in the 12 years.
3. A RPI of approximately 80 and limited chances of earning a NCAA bid
There are some, but not many. Now, how many programs combine those factors with a very sparse population and difficult winter travel conditions? I am going to go out on a limb and say it narrows it down to one.
I get your point but HATE when people bring in the traveling and population.
Why? Because people can justify it for anything. It becomes the huge glaring asterisk***
We could have 1000 people show up and we would be hearing the population and traveling excuse- and yes although it is a reality it is still an excuse.
It tries to make us look better than what we are.
Sure we only get X amount of fans but considering our population it's not too bad compared to schools in cities.
It's just an old and tired excuse and its a crappy one too. Our population wasn't very high back in the day when Wyo had 10K, 11K, 12K per game.
So can we stop trying to change the reality of the situation by trying to justify it by the population excuse?
