[NU Sports] General thoughts

[Labbe John]

Regarding attendance, we actually had a pretty good turnout today.   
According to the box score, we had 25,471 people in attendance at the  
game, which is more than any other non-conference game at Ryan Field  
since the September 10, 2005 game against Northern Illinois, when we  
had attendance of 35,114.

Heck, our attendance today was more than all but two games last  
season--both the Minnesota and Indiana games (and all three non- 
conference games) last season had lower attendance than today's game.   
We had over 30,000 last season for Penn State and Wisconsin, but even  
those two were nowhere close to sold out.

Hopefully the relatively strong turnout today is a sign that we'll  
have better attendance throughout the season.  (I think it also helps  
that we have one less non-conference home game this season, so the  
casual fan that might just take in one game has one fewer game to  
choose from.)

By the way, there didn't appear to be that many ISU fans there today,  
in case anyone thinks that boosted the attendance a lot.


On Sep 11, 2010, at 5:14 PM, mlinhardt at netzero.com wrote:

> For those of you not in Evanston here are the things you missed:
> Plenty of rain pregame which made attendance pretty horrid even  
> though I thought the marketing department had some effect and our  
> attendance would be have decent with better weather.
> An inflatable cat tunnel with fireworks.  Well A for effort, but  
> kind of hokey.  Vandy had an exploding scoreboard ala veck.
> We have a new twirler.  Lauren's younger sister.  I believe she is a  
> freshman or sophomore.  I had doubts on a twirler when she first  
> showed up but it has grown on me especially after hearing the  
> backstory from Pete Friedman how she sent an unprompted audition tape.
>
> Schmidt distanced himself from the crowd, but only in a negative way  
> over the past 2 games with his fumble-itis.  Arby has the job by  
> default.  We were amazed he got near 100 yards.
> I was so glad Persa did not run much.  With EW a work in progress we  
> can't afford to have Persa out for more than a few plays.
> Venric looked decent, but he again had punt coverage problems  
> getting in Jeravin's way.
> I worry about playing Dunsmore too much.  He has had a lot of  
> surgeries.  I would rather he stay healthy for the big ten season.
> Rashad Lawrence.  He not only caught the ball, but ran well with  
> it.  Our receivers are very exciting and have good yac.
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