Totally Outcoached Today

['Din Djarin]

Maybe that was too much pressure for the team, especially CJ. Did anyone think of that?

This is not the comforting perspective that you think it is.

[FU Hoopla]

Attendance today was 3,700

SoCon football stinks...

It's basically 32 miles from Travlers Rest to Spartanburg, if the attendance was on 4k, I'd say it's as much or more Furman fans' fault. Wofford had nothing to play for and their fans had given up on the team several games ago. Where were the Furman fans? Maybe Furman football stinks...

Pipe down little maggot, I am clearly calling out both fan bases


Oh and your school Western community college still has 0 championships, talk about stinks

[Bootie]

If you don't compete at the top level then most folks just don't care, thats the facts...
FCS ball just does not get many folks excited around here...
Its the reason the entire student section is gone after halftime, they just don't care about this level of football even when we are ranked #2....

A hard truth but a fine summary, I think.

[FU3]

We averaged around 10,000 fans per game with our opponents bringing a couple hundred at best. This from a school with a 2,500 student enrollment. I think the Athletic Department has done a great job with fan experience and as Greenville continue to grow we have a chance to attract casual fans like the ones who attend Drive games.

[FUBeAR]

We averaged around 10,000 fans per game with our opponents bringing a couple hundred at best. This from a school with a 2,500 student enrollment. I think the Athletic Department has done a great job with fan experience and as Greenville continue to grow we have a chance to attract casual fans like the ones who attend Drive games.

While there are a billionty-billion different variables feeding into (city size, weather, student’s hometown’s, visiting teams’ following, et cetera ad infinitum e pluribus unum) the numbers, a reasonably “fair” measure of ‘support’ (which could also have a bilionty-billion different definitions) would be Avg Attendance/Enrollment Ranked. Anyone have those all those figures handy for all SoCon Schools/Teams?

Using FU3’s ‘SWAG’ here, we can see that FU’s ‘Support’ ratio is 4.0 (same as FUBeAR’s GPA) and just with a quick/dirty interweb scan, FUBeAR finds enrollment at WCU is ~12k w/Avg Attendance of ~10k … so that’s a support ratio of .833 for the Cantamounts.

So, FU’s support ratio is about 5x better than WCU’s … sounds about right and aligns with also having a Football Team that is 5x better than WCU’s.

[FUBeAR]

We averaged around 10,000 fans per game with our opponents bringing a couple hundred at best. This from a school with a 2,500 student enrollment. I think the Athletic Department has done a great job with fan experience and as Greenville continue to grow we have a chance to attract casual fans like the ones who attend Drive games.

While there are a billionty-billion different variables feeding into (city size, weather, student’s hometown’s, visiting teams’ following, et cetera ad infinitum e pluribus unum) the numbers, a reasonably “fair” measure of ‘support’ (which could also have a bilionty-billion different definitions) would be Avg Attendance/Enrollment Ranked. Anyone have those all those figures handy for all SoCon Schools/Teams?

Using FU3’s ‘SWAG’ here, we can see that FU’s ‘Support’ ratio is 4.0 (same as FUBeAR’s GPA) and just with a quick/dirty interweb scan, FUBeAR finds enrollment at WCU is ~12k w/Avg Attendance of ~10k … so that’s a support ratio of .833 for the Cantamounts.

So, FU’s support ratio is about 5x better than WCU’s … sounds about right and aligns with also having a Football Team that is 5x better than WCU’s.

So...this article just came out... https://herosports.com/fcs-football-202 ... ders-bzbz/
- FUBeAR saw it and figured somebody wanted FUBeAR to 'formalize' these numbers and the article already did half the work...So, a quick spin through Mr. Google and using College Navigator for all enrollment data, FUBeAR has produced the SoCon 'Support Ratio' Rankings...No surprises

FCS Att Rank | Conf Support Ratio Rank | Team | Conference | Avg Att | % Capacity | Enrollment | Support Ratio
23 1 Furman SoCon 10,467 65.4 2443 4.28
84 2 VMI SoCon 4,854 48.5 1512 3.21
20 3 The Citadel SoCon 11,005 95.7 3721 2.96
93 4 Wofford SoCon 4,019 30.9 1823 2.20
27 5 Mercer SoCon 9,741 95.5 8889 1.10
15 6 WCU SoCon 11,935 86.5 11635 1.03
70 7 Samford SoCon 5,618 83.8 5682 0.99
38 8 Chattanooga SoCon 8,177 39.5 11283 0.72
43 9 ETSU SoCon 7,990 103.8 13483 0.59