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Ohio Pilot
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Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/8/2011 8:10:55 PM

OHIO should be the only MAC team allowed on tv. This crowd is making the league look real bad. BG already has a touchdown pass 20 secs into the game.

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/8/2011 8:35:18 PM

And it took NIU two plays to get one of their own. It's another No D Tuesday in the MAC.

Is it exam week? The WMU-Toledo game is pretty sparsely attended, although they seem to have more than BGSUCKS.

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/8/2011 9:22:17 PM

Not that the fans overlap greatly, but playing two NCAA FBS games in the same county at the same time is a recipe for low attendances. That, and everybody's at home watching Glee.

Seriously. This is embarrassing.

We've sold out 40 percent of fall Saturday tradition for $8 million split 13 ways and see 500 in the stands. And everybody here that's taking great joy in our stands being full on Nov 2 is due a comeuppance on Nov 22 in a game that could mean everything.

ESPN could save a channel and put a camera in a weather balloon, show both games at once, and the crowds won't look any smaller.

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/8/2011 9:27:06 PM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

ESPN could save a channel and put a camera in a weather balloon, show both games at once, and the crowds won't look any smaller.

Don't give them any ideas!

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/8/2011 9:36:17 PM

Pete Chouteau wrote:

I invite you to check out the webcasts from the last couple of Saturdays of MAC Play. Or Miami's Homecoming. You'll see the same crowds you see tonight. When the cold weather comes, what fans there are check out. Playing in secrecy on Saturdays for 50 years got this conference nowhere. ESPN is giving you a stage, it's up to you to do something with it. NIU/Toledo and Ohio/Temple certainly did last week.

Plus, the advent of the 12-game schedule allowed MAC schools to schedule one more early season game. That game helps to compensate for the cold weather games that no one attends no matter the day of the week. Coaches like the exposure, players like the exposure and as a fan I kind of like it (I'm a hero come Saturdays when I'm free for the kids). Getting paid is not a bad concept either.

The crowds are embarrassing but I think people understand. The question that should be asked is how can MAC teams put on a better show in the stands because these games are here to stay.

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/8/2011 9:48:26 PM

At least there are some people in the stands in Toledo. The BUGS stadium seems barren.

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/8/2011 10:04:15 PM

Toledo is in Lucas County.
Bowling Green is in Wood County.

Not that it matters.

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/8/2011 10:17:30 PM

GoCats105 wrote:

Toledo is in Lucas County.
Bowling Green is in Wood County.

Not that it matters.

Lucas County is all urban so those cityfolks have lots of free time in the evenings.

Wood County is rural; everybody's out tonight getting the corn harvest in before the rain hits tomorrow.

http://www.sent-trib.com/farm/wet-fields-keep-farm-trucks...

Last Edited: 11/8/2011 10:24:47 PM by Pataskala

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/9/2011 2:59:48 AM

Good result for Ohio. Loss #4 for BGSU puts them out of the east race. Even if we lose at BGSU we can still win the east beating CMU and Miami. Tonite the Bobcats were the winner as we got more outs if we struggle at BGSU. Bobcats pretty much need 2 of 3 and we win the east. Any two of three and we should be fine assuming Miami loses to WMU and Temple. We hold tie breakers over Temple and Kent St (yes, they are still alive in the east race with Akron, Temple and Buffalo to play)

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/9/2011 3:40:18 AM

Is BG being punished? Why else would they have to wear those gawd-awful looking orange uniforms? That's gotta kill recruiting.

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/9/2011 8:30:41 AM

In all fairness to BG, and I'm certainly not a fan of BG, I think the crowd shots you were seeing was from the visitors side of the stadium. I don't know what the other side may have looked like nor what total attendance may have been. Anyway - Go Bobcats!!!

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/9/2011 11:22:15 AM

13752 is what it says in the box score...

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/9/2011 11:59:27 AM

Lande71 wrote:

What kind of Division I school has a visitors side of the stadium? This isn't high school.

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RE: Bowling Green vs NIU

Posted: 11/9/2011 2:27:30 PM

RE: visitors side at BG. I just know in the past that the "old folks" and the students sit on the same side of the field which would be the west side. I guess I'm referring to the other side as the visitors side and probably most of the fans seen on TV were from NIU.

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