Quote Originally Posted by Jim Ganzer, "IWB" View Post
A few comments -

First off, 72 - the Jerel steal and 59-58 were both at USF. Also, most students don't remember games like us older diehards do. The casual student doesn't remember the Jerel steal because none of today's students were at MU during that game. The 59-58 game - today's seniors were sophs, juniors were freshmen. Are you sure they all even watched that game? I don't care how good their team is in any given year, the name "South Florida" does not create a great deal of excitement in the students' minds. Just wait for the new conference - Xavier and Butler should/might draw, but do you think students will come out in droves for Dayton or maybe Saint Louis at 8:00 on a Monday?

The best student section in the country - agree, sounds dumb, especially when they say it when the upper deck is empty.

While yes, I do agree that there should always be more students there, Armen Saryan pointed out on Facebook that this year there has been a lot of games in Madison where the student section was not full. They have 40,000 students. Marquette has 9,000. It would take more than 50% of the student body to fill the entire student section. To equal that, Wisconsin would have to fill the entire Kohl Center and turn away a thousand students. That would never ever ever happen.
That is why there are too many student tickets. Cut the allotment. Give the other ones away to inner city youth for all I care. Develop another generation of fans. While they are at it, MU should probably look at their pricing mechanisms for some of these games. I can't remember the last time I paid full price for a ticket. They might as well sell the upper corner opposite of the student section for about 2 bucks each for non marquee games.