Why did students leave?

[BisonTeacher]

Sabin talking about alabama fans leaving early on gameday today.

[On_the_road]

Sabin talking about alabama fans leaving early on gameday today.

I saw that just now. It seems fans leaving is a more common occurrence than we might think.

[tjbison]

I saw that just now. It seems fans leaving is a more common occurrence than we might think.

it is, happens everywhere, just more noticeable in a stadium that only seat 19k opposed to 100k

[1st&TennBison]

Sabin talking about alabama fans leaving early on gameday today.

Not only is Sabin telling then not to come if they are not going to stay the whole game, he wants them to give their tickets to people who will stay. And the school is taking away the reserved ticket assignment of those students who have left, they did it for this weeks game and are making it a free for all with seating (first come first serve), could it lead to losing their tickets all together? Who knows, but when Nick talks the school listens. I have to admit that I like the idea, if your not going to stay at least until mid 4th quarter of any game including a lopsided win then why go at all. Due to my not really knowing the system that well yet I did not end up getting season tickets and missed my chance when they sold the last 2-3 thousand seats in like a half hour. I have still managed to make it to all the home games but have had to scramble to do so and I have not once left a game before the clock read 00.00.

[56BISON73]

Sabin talking about alabama fans leaving early on gameday today.

Did he compare them to NDSU????

[HerdBot]

Just read on a media release that Montana State is averaging just under 20k a game. So I went to their website and they had a story about how they broke an attendance record with 21k at a recent game...... oooookay... Does anyone think thats just ridiculous? their stadium capacity is listed at a few hundred less than ours... but they say theyre packing 2-4 thousand more than us per game. I understand they have bleachers and an open endzone for standing room... But it looks to me that both of our sidelines have more seats... and our endzone looks to be a toss up... and then we had an additional endzone to top it off...

Two thoughts come to mind
1. They're HORRIBLE at counting in Montana, and have a case of the NDSU's from the 80's when we too claimed to have around 20thou for some games.
2. Their counting is correct and they are somehow drawing 20k/game... which makes me wonder "If MSU can get 20k/game.. how many can We draw- CONSISTANTLY. We have twice the fanbase as them MINIMUM. sooo... how many? My guess would probably cap out at 24k or so right now... thoughts? (And I'm sure this has been talked about before, but just humor me with an estimate please haha)

Montana State is trying to be better than us at some kind of ranking.... makes them feel better about the themselves. Well never know what our record could be until they figure out something

[Facts]

Not only is Sabin telling then not to come if they are not going to stay the whole game, he wants them to give their tickets to people who will stay. And the school is taking away the reserved ticket assignment of those students who have left, they did it for this weeks game and are making it a free for all with seating (first come first serve), could it lead to losing their tickets all together? Who knows, but when Nick talks the school listens. I have to admit that I like the idea, if your not going to stay at least until mid 4th quarter of any game including a lopsided win then why go at all. Due to my not really knowing the system that well yet I did not end up getting season tickets and missed my chance when they sold the last 2-3 thousand seats in like a half hour. I have still managed to make it to all the home games but have had to scramble to do so and I have not once left a game before the clock read 00.00.

I fully anticipate our students allotment being reduced and possibly moving them to the end zone as well.

[bisonaudit]

I fully anticipate our students allotment being reduced and possibly moving them to the end zone as well.

That would be some BS.

Alabama hasn't taken any seats away from students they've just stopped giving some blocks of student seats to specific organizations, mostly Greek houses.