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This is why I laughed at all the suggestions of how to fill the stadium, like take away student tickets. You literally can't give tickets away. Trust me they've tried.I had a fascinating conversation with a longtime Bull Gator last night. He's a good friend that I've known for 30 years. He's been in for 100k a year for a long time. He has his own box. Has since they built the things.
He told me last night that he's out. Giving up the box. No season tickets. Out. No bitterness or anger. He said it has just come to feel like an obligation. It's not that much fun anymore. He has a hard time even giving away the tickets to fill up his box. There have been games when it sat completely empty.
Sign of the times I guess.
Steve Russell right now on WRUF is arguing that any fan living anywhere in the US that decides not to go to games because of the product on the field is a fair weather fan. Guy called in challenging it talking about Travel and Hotel expenses and the need for the money to be with it. Steve said that guy is a fair weather fan.
As he is one of the top 5 mouthpieces for UF Athletics with a daily call in show and the post game call in show, what do you make of these comments? Is he right, is he wrong? Discuss.
Personally, I don’t miss home games, UGA and FSU, but I know I have been blessed in that regard. However, I don’t think people not traveling to Gainesville to watch a 100+ ranked offense the last few years are fair weather.
Seems like a solid business plan.I love when businesses whine about the customers.
One of the big issues I have is UF has changed...It wants to be Elite. It has an IVY League Prez.
We'll you want to be Vandy, Harvard, Duke...You attract those students and produce those Alumni.
Y'all make fun of LSU yet they fill 100K Stadiums and pack Omaha during the CWS...Who does that? It's baseball.
I could not get research done at UF for under $100K. So, we went to UGA. We have a PhD student for 3 years.
I love the Gators but I am discouraged with UF. If I were a student today, I'd probally have not gone to UF. Many of my Gator Buds now have kids NOT going to UF...Could not get in.
You wanted Elite...You get elitist fans. Heck just look at what the younger Alumni post.
The dude never asked me to sit up there. I would run him over getting in a sky box.This is why I laughed at all the suggestions of how to fill the stadium, like take away student tickets. You literally can't give tickets away. Trust me they've tried.
good points bigga. It drives me NUTS that pop warner plays on Saturdays but I guess the have to.I guess it's also fair weather to have a family and make it your priority. Hell, I've had to listen to gator games in the car recently and watch the recording later (or in the case of the last two.. don't bother). Why? Because I have my own athletes who travel across multiple states every weekend for sports.
Yep.. fair weather.
Cry me a river GErn.........Gator fans before you were born sat through fckn decade after decade after decades pulling for teams that were left at the alter every year. We had more almosts than God had a right to give us. We had a guy once throw a ball out of bounds to stop the clock on FOURTH DOWN. We had QBs that make the last 6 look like all SEC. We had Georgia stomp in our face for decades to keep us from winning that FIRST sec title. We only won four last year? Try this on for size........ We went year after year after year and stood up when Two Bits came by. We pulled for the boys cause they were OUR TEAM............When SOS finally came home to exorcise all those ghosts we knew our wait was worth it...........Steve is an idiot . Gator fans have sat through 10 years of worse than garbage offensive offensive football .
good points bigga. It drives me NUTS that pop warner plays on Saturdays but I guess the have to.
Honestly, even better, The perfect game for young kids and the great equalizer. Size and speed are not as important. I taught it for 39 years in my PE classes and usually was their fav. sport.in my case it's not football, but futbol. Lots of it.
Someone should send him these on behalf of the fair weather fans
you had me in my feels up till Strickland.Steve is an idiot . Gator fans have sat through 10 years of worse than garbage offensive offensive football . It's like an actor that makes a sorry movie and then gets pissed off no one goes to it . This program was run into the ground by King Jeremy Foley with bad hires not keeping up football facilities and calling loyal fans " noise in the system " Muschump is getting his last check from uf for over 700,000 this month . Foley giving extensions to 2 year coaches and large buy outs was beyond mismanagement bordering on a criminal waste of money . That foley is still on the payroll ( 500,000) for doing nothing is sickening ! Gator boosters have done a horrible job monitoring the abysmal job Foley did with the program also . Stricken has the program headed forward thank god .
I'm out of the country on assignment and not able to travel to a game.
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