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Post by 86BEAVER on Jan 27, 2024 20:35:22 GMT -8
We defeat a Top 10 team for the first time in years and 2 nights later follow it up with approximately 400 fewer people in the stands for a weekend afternoon game that out-of-towners had no excuse to skip.....if they still cared.
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Post by osubeaver2018 on Jan 27, 2024 20:51:25 GMT -8
We defeat a Top 10 team for the first time in years and 2 nights later follow it up with approximately 400 fewer people in the stands for a weekend afternoon game that out-of-towners had no excuse to skip.....if they still cared. Win down in LA I bet this changes. I was disappointed in the sub-4k crowd for the Saturday game though too. |
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Post by beavaristotle on Jan 27, 2024 21:00:02 GMT -8
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, fans are waiting to see if the turnaround is real after being beaten down for most of the last 30 years
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Post by rgeorge on Jan 27, 2024 21:13:59 GMT -8
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, fans are waiting to see if the turnaround is real after being beaten down for most of the last 30 years All the WT deniers seem.to forget once you lose a fan base it takes more than a game to earn back the trust and enthusiasm. It'll take more than a 7-8 win Pac12 season. It is part of the equation when you retain a coach. Like it or not the fan base draw matters. And, that includes NLI donations. Coaching has always been, and will always be, what have you done for me lately... The team played awesome these two games. But, just as the program record is what it is, so are the attendance #s. It isn't the fault of OSU fans. It's the normal fan program relationship when wins are scarce. |
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Post by mountainbeaver on Jan 27, 2024 21:45:19 GMT -8
Well gee whiz, after this weekend we’re now 11th in conference standings.
And after the last two train wreck seasons (or is it three, I can’t remember)
the apathy is not too surprising. I was very happy to see the team get it
together this weekend. Great stuff for sure. But…it’s been a signature of the
Tinkle era to follow hope with despair. I’ve never seen a program that swings
so wildly between two poles. I actually appreciate what Wayne has done,
but geez, when his teams are bad, they’re truly awful. One weekend, we beat
a ranked team, the next we get creamed by a far lesser team. It’s incredibly
frustrating and emotionally draining. I’d love to see this team go on a run, but
it’s hard to get invested in a program that’s so wildly inconsistent.
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Post by rgeorge on Jan 27, 2024 21:50:32 GMT -8
Well gee whiz, we’re now 11th in conference standings. And after the last two train wreck seasons (or is it three, I can’t remember) the apathy is not too surprising. I was very happy to see the team get it together this weekend. Great stuff for sure. But…it’s been a signature of the Tinkle era to follow hope with despair. I’ve never seen a program that swings so wildly between two poles. I actually appreciate what Wayne has done, but geez, when his teams are bad, they’re truly awful. Technically tied for 10th! |
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Post by schissler on Jan 27, 2024 21:52:49 GMT -8
It was 400 fewer total fans in the seats Saturday but it was likely there were more Beaver fans than there had been Thursday night. I attended both games and guesstimated there were about 650-700 Arizona fans Thursday night and perhaps 100-150 Arizona State fans Saturday afternoon. If that’s anywhere near correct you’re looking at maybe 550 fewer visiting fans, so 400 fewer overall would be an increase of about 150 Beaver fans.
Which is still a negligible gain but rgeorge is right - you’re not going to turn attendance habits around in two days based on one game, no matter how great a win that was. As a longtime Oregon State fan who reveres our athletic history, I appreciated the day’s tributes to the 1963 Final Four team, the Beaver basketball alums and longtime basketball secretary Anne Harper but I don’t know that those are a huge draw for the general public.
After 30-plus years of fairly consistent struggles and sporadic success it takes more than one weekend to rekindle interest among the masses, let alone actionable passion. I’ve grown to like this team despite the moments and games that leave me shaking my head in disbelief. It is figuring out the value of rapidly paced passing vs. dribbling and stagnant ball movement and there have been some possessions this month that were Orange Express-like. Not enough, mind you, but flashes of capability that give me hope.
(And let me take a moment to tip my cap to Dexter Akanno for a possession of extended one-on-one defense that was worthy of Lester Conner or Gary Payton.)
Who stays, who goes - who knows. But if somehow these guys stick together for another season they could have enough success to make a game at Gill an attraction again. I’ll be there rooting for it to happen.
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Post by beaverbeliever71 on Jan 27, 2024 21:53:37 GMT -8
We defeat a Top 10 team for the first time in years and 2 nights later follow it up with approximately 400 fewer people in the stands for a weekend afternoon game that out-of-towners had no excuse to skip.....if they still cared. I think fans need to see more than 2 good home wins. Get at least 1 win on the LA trip and I think you may see decent crowds for the Washington schools next home stand. Get blown out like the last road trip and it will be more of the same. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Jan 27, 2024 22:03:06 GMT -8
We defeat a Top 10 team for the first time in years and 2 nights later follow it up with approximately 400 fewer people in the stands for a weekend afternoon game that out-of-towners had no excuse to skip.....if they still cared. Did you go? I think you could find the negative side of a sunrise. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Jan 27, 2024 22:46:35 GMT -8
We defeat a Top 10 team for the first time in years and 2 nights later follow it up with approximately 400 fewer people in the stands for a weekend afternoon game that out-of-towners had no excuse to skip.....if they still cared. Did you go? I think you could find the negative side of a sunrise.  |
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Post by zzufrevaeb on Feb 3, 2024 18:38:37 GMT -8
Will the crowds be bigger this next time around? Everyone's seen enough from Wayne.
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Post by fridaynightlights on Feb 3, 2024 18:48:16 GMT -8
It is remarkable that they are able to sell as many season tickets as they do considering the decades of futility.
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Post by zzufrevaeb on Feb 3, 2024 19:25:14 GMT -8
It is remarkable that they are able to sell as many season tickets as they do considering the decades of futility. The good old corporate write-off's. |
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Post by korculabeav on Feb 4, 2024 7:32:39 GMT -8
We defeat a Top 10 team for the first time in years and 2 nights later follow it up with approximately 400 fewer people in the stands for a weekend afternoon game that out-of-towners had no excuse to skip.....if they still cared. Win down in LA I bet this changes. I was disappointed in the sub-4k crowd for the Saturday game though too. Well….that didn’t happen. |
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Post by irimi on Feb 4, 2024 8:35:26 GMT -8
Win down in LA I bet this changes. I was disappointed in the sub-4k crowd for the Saturday game though too. Well….that didn’t happen. But in classic Beaver style, we play an inspired game against a strong competitor, only to get blown out by a “bad” team. |
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