Beard and the fans

[Tampa 2]

I LOVE that he made it well known from day 1 that the fans, alumni, student attendance MUST improve.
And we must have a home court advantage.

Beard has no issue calling out people who need called out.
And he absolutely does not shy away from expectations. LOVE the intensity.

 

[TheAssquatch]

Fan attendance is really simple. Win important games and they show up. Start making some tourney runs and the attendance won't be an issue imo.

 

[JMART1016]

Welp I don’t like being told what to do so no more basketball games for me.

 

[Tampa 2]

Fan attendance is really simple. Win important games and they show up. Start making some tourney runs and the attendance won't be an issue imo.

This is true, but Texas even in the peak Barnes years seemed to be very fickle and selective at games they care to attend.

Yes we need to make tourney runs, that's a given.

 

[PaulieD]

Fan attendance is really simple. Win important games and they show up. Start making some tourney runs and the attendance won't be an issue imo.

I am putting my season ticket reservation in now.

 

[TheAssquatch]

This is true, but Texas even in the peak Barnes years seemed to be very fickle and selective at games they care to attend.

Yes we need to make tourney runs, that's a given.

New arena should help. The Drum was a giant to fill and the atmosphere was kind of shitty honestly. Smaller arena should give a better feel imo.

 

[HornEsch]

New arena should help. The Drum was a giant to fill and the atmosphere was kind of shitty honestly. Smaller arena should give a better feel imo.

The Drum just never felt right for a BB arena. Felt more like going into a large government building.

 

[Tampa 2]

New arena should help. The Drum was a giant to fill and the atmosphere was kind of shitty honestly. Smaller arena should give a better feel imo.

100% agree.
I love the 10k attendance for CBB games. FEC was always about 5k too large IMO.

We needed to develop a smaller, tighter quarters feel around the court.

 

[utguz]

Student on side o court would help.

 

[snoop9928]

The only thing that will bring back attendance is cheap nachos

 

[Horn2013]

Beard is the antithesis of Soft Shaka. I really believe he is going to kill it here.

 

[kerrpatcher]

The Drum just never felt right for a BB arena. Felt more like going into a large government building.

It was great for Adds & Drops in the 80’s...

 

[DKR-3rings]

Great post op. I agree totally and I think it’s the way to do it. Mack used to do it but in a passive aggressive way which didn’t work.

 

[Cdun]

2 things

1. Give students better seats
2. At halftime, if there are empty seats, anyone can move from the upper decks to fill them.