[NU Sports] This doesn't help attendance...

[CHerron604 at aol.com]

I can't think that an on-line poll could hurt attendance, but I could see  
where coming out flat against another ranked team at home in a featured (2:30)  
game, point and a half underdogs losing by 17 could.  It is hard to  fault 
unaffiliated fans for saying 'Same old Northwestern', even if that might  not be 
the case.
 
The best thing for attendance would be beating MSU, Purdue, Indiana,  
Minnesota...
 
Chuck Herron  Tech '85 
 
 
In a message dated 10/16/2008 1:18:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
mlinhardt at netzero.com writes:

Northwestern coach not looking past  Purdue
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/northwestern/chi-081015-northwest
ern-purdue-big-ten,0,7020510.story

The  article is not so bad, but they have a reader poll next to the  article:

Plans for Saturday?
So you may have been guilted into going  to Northwestern's last game. This 
week you will…
* Study in the  library
* Head into Chicago
* Hit the tailgate, but not the game
*  Stick by my 'Cats all the way, baby


We are not a 1-5 team where the  coach guaranteed(promised) victory last week 
and did not deliver, we are a 5-1  team that played a very poopy 1st quarter 
vs. the Spartans.  Reader polls  like this don't help attendance as 3/4 
answers are anti-attendance.   Northwestern has had a historically strong connection 
to the Trib.  I  don't expect a positive bias, but at least we could limit 
the negative  bias.

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