[NU Sports] Two responses for the price of one

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

> > NU students have demonstrated over the years, that
> many won’t come to ANY
> > game, so a sport that depends on large student
> turnouts will always be
> > lacking at NU.

While part of me is proud to have attended a school where sports are not the kings they are at other "institutions of learning," I do believe the numbers tell another story.

During the mid-90s when I was there, NU regularly sold out of student tickets and averaged 5000+ students at home games (often 6000 or 7000). When you consider that that's more than 2/3 or 3/4 of the student population of NU, that's pretty darn impressive. Especially since it was after they started making the students pay instead of just getting in free with ID like it was when I first arrived.

And there have been some hoops games this year and in the past where the student section seems rather full and the rest of the arena empty - so I'm not sure it's the students.

You just have to remember that we have only 8000 or so NU students on campus, as opposed to schools like dOSU, where the student population would more than fill Ryan Field to capacity.

By the numbers, NU students seem to be pretty good sports fans.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT