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Subject: Re: Ivy Football a rather dull season Author: Kevin [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 20:50:18 11/01/09 Sun In reply to: Mike 's message, "Re: Ivy Football a rather dull season" on 20:12:31 11/01/09 Sun Ah, ok. Got it. I can definitely agree with you about those two subjects. It seems to me like we're losing a lot of players to teams from the Patriot League and CAA mostly, and attendance has been an issue for most teams for quite some time now (although Brown's has been much better than in the decade or so prior this season and last season). [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Ivy Football a rather dull season Author: Doggers [Edit] Date Posted: 09:06:15 11/02/09 Mon It's all FCS (D-1AA) that suffers from attendance. Even the more football crazy schools in our subdivision (App State, Delaware, Montana) only draw around 25,000. The only Ivy game that consistently draws crowds is Harvard-Yale. People would rather watch Alabama or Florida on their big HDTV on their couch than sit in the cold in Hanover or Ithaca.

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Ivy Football a rather dull season Author: Go Green [Edit] Date Posted: 09:31:35 11/02/09 Mon There are numerous causes for declining attendance. Most were discussed by Carm Cozza in his autobiography. TV is indeed a factor. Student demographics is another big one. Increased competition in some localities for the casual fan is also an issue. There was a time when schools like Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Penn were the kings for local football coverage, but they've since been displaced by other schools in that regard.

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Ivy Football a rather dull season Author: boola [Edit] Date Posted: 13:53:28 11/02/09 Mon For decades thru the seventies Yale "was college football" in Conn. As for the present, if you were a non alum (or maybe even an alum) would you rather go see UConn play Notre Dame or Yale play Brown.

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Uconn...no contest Author: Henry L. [Edit] Date Posted: 16:59:24 11/02/09 Mon

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Um, I think that wa a rhetorical question Author: reality check [Edit] Date Posted: 17:16:01 11/02/09 Mon