mvfcfan wrote:Yeah I don't think football is holding anyone back too much especially at the FCS level. At least the MVFC is actually capable of getting more than 1 bid into the tournament. We're typically getting 3-4 bids and we actually have a chance of winning a national championship. When any of the privates in the MVC have a chance of winning a national championship in basketball please let me know. At least the 5 schools in the MVC that have football are actually competing for something.
Are you serious? You're seriously comparing a championship tournament boasting Kansas, Duke, Texas, Kentucky and every big name on the planet with a championship over schools like *glances at 2016 FCS playoff bracket* Eastern Washington, St. Francis (PA), Samford, and Charleston Southern? I don't think anyone is confusing James Madison v. Youngstown St. with Alabama vs. Clemson. Nobody knows those schools! The only household name I see in the FCS bracket is Villanova, and it sure as hell isn't because of their FCS football. Somebody flipping through the channels might stop if they see the Nova name, until they realize it's lower division football. Not to mention, bids to the NCAA mens basketball tournament are worth millions. How much is an FCS bid worth?
Some people are just delusional with this FCS stuff.
redhawk wrote:That's an average of 5685 for those 3 FCS games which compares to the 5953 avg "true fans" at a Bradley basketball game. Based on that postseason success the Birds averaged 10156 per home football game in 2016. While most of us Redbird fans prefer MVC bball to MVFC football to say that there is no
support for FCS football is uninformed and ludicrous.
First, you can't compare basketball attendance with football. Michigan and Ohio State football draw 100k+, but their basketball teams draw 20k. There are reasons for that. Mainly, there are fewer football games, and fewer good seats around a basketball court than a 120 yard football field. Second, ISUr football was coming off its best season ever, playing in its biggest home game ever, and still couldn't draw more than the 18 game average of Bradley at perhaps the lowest point in the program's history. That's what you're telling me.
mvfcfan wrote:It's also December and cold, so 5-6K is actually not that bad. That's actually pretty decent.
The weather was actually pretty good for these games.
December 6, 2014 1:00 PM No. 10 Northern Iowa* Hancock Stadium • Normal, IL (FCS Playoffs Second Round) ESPN3 W 41–21 Attendance: 5,575
>>>>>Weather in Bloomington was 35 degrees at kickoff with overcast skies, and it rose to 37.4 in an hour.
https://www.wunderground.com/history/ai ... reqdb.wmo=December 5, 2015 1:00 PM Western Illinois* Hancock Stadium • Normal, IL (FCS Playoffs Second Round) ESPN3 W 36–19 Attendance: 6,124
>>>>>Weather was 40 degrees at kickoff with scattered clouds, still 41 degrees a couple hours later
https://www.wunderground.com/history/ai ... reqdb.wmo=December 11, 2015 6:30 PM No. 12 Richmond* Hancock Stadium • Normal, IL (FCS Playoffs Quarterfinals) ESPN3 L 27–39 Attendance: 5,356
>>>>>Unseasonably warm! Weather was 54 degrees at kickoff with overcast skies, rising to 57 degrees!
https://www.wunderground.com/history/ai ... reqdb.wmo=Sorry, those numbers are just bad. It tell you nobody cares about FCS football. You can inflate regular season attendance with homecoming, "Parents day/Siblings day", "Local band day" and just people looking for an excuse to get drunk and tailgate but with the most consequential games you draw 5k? Pathetic.
