2015-2016 Schedule
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Midlo,
Thank you for your kind words and for your thoughtful post.
I agree with you 100 % when you say that fans should go to the game regardless of opponent, record, etc. and go because it builds camaraderie with the students and the community.
What I was trying to highlight in previous post was a student's perspective as to other students' mentality on sports at UR. Ideally you're philosophy is what we should all strive for.
One thing that I want to explain is that it is not necessarily the record that is important (even though I consider it a measure of success). It is the national exposure - that comes with it - that is more important in this sense. We could be 20-3 by playing "nobody teams" and not be ranked and it wouldn't have as much draw as 18-7 and ranked #24 in the nation. It's just that record and national exposure are very correlative. When teams like Kentucky play a nobody, fans still go because Kentucky is ranked and even if they have a bad season, they have already built such a strong fan base from decades of success, that fans will go knowing that it is just a down-year. Same applies when a team like Alabama plays some FCS school in football.
And for football, success isn't seen as the same success as basketball because our team is FCS and that will always seem like a water downed D1 football. Again, not agreeing with the mentality, that's just how it is. Basketball on the other hand competes at the highest possible D1 level which is why it is the most popular sport at UR for fans.
Lastly, I would like to point out that I really do believe we had a good attendance overall for basketball. Not including games that were over breaks i.e. winter and spring I would say there were only a few games in which there was a noticeable lack of student turnout.
Even though it was for NIT, check out the following link on what others thought of the RC experience.
Thanks again!
http://www.richmondspiders.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=26800&ATCLID=209982979
Thank you for your kind words and for your thoughtful post.
I agree with you 100 % when you say that fans should go to the game regardless of opponent, record, etc. and go because it builds camaraderie with the students and the community.
What I was trying to highlight in previous post was a student's perspective as to other students' mentality on sports at UR. Ideally you're philosophy is what we should all strive for.
One thing that I want to explain is that it is not necessarily the record that is important (even though I consider it a measure of success). It is the national exposure - that comes with it - that is more important in this sense. We could be 20-3 by playing "nobody teams" and not be ranked and it wouldn't have as much draw as 18-7 and ranked #24 in the nation. It's just that record and national exposure are very correlative. When teams like Kentucky play a nobody, fans still go because Kentucky is ranked and even if they have a bad season, they have already built such a strong fan base from decades of success, that fans will go knowing that it is just a down-year. Same applies when a team like Alabama plays some FCS school in football.
And for football, success isn't seen as the same success as basketball because our team is FCS and that will always seem like a water downed D1 football. Again, not agreeing with the mentality, that's just how it is. Basketball on the other hand competes at the highest possible D1 level which is why it is the most popular sport at UR for fans.
Lastly, I would like to point out that I really do believe we had a good attendance overall for basketball. Not including games that were over breaks i.e. winter and spring I would say there were only a few games in which there was a noticeable lack of student turnout.
Even though it was for NIT, check out the following link on what others thought of the RC experience.
Thanks again!
http://www.richmondspiders.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=26800&ATCLID=209982979
