KENT STATE/BOSTON COLLEGE ATMOSPHERE: ATOMIC!
…as in, like an atom, there was mostly empty space in Cleveland for the Kent State/Boston College game. Announced attendance: 10,788. Number of confused Browns fans who showed up: 5,037. Number of beers consumed by those fans: One millionthousandeighty.
For future reference: if you need a quiet, empty place to spray-paint some boards or cook chitlins without bothering anyone else, a neutral site game between the ACC and the MAC looks perfect. Add in the well-spaced fans at the ACC Championship Game, and we’re just heaping burning shame on the ACC it really doesn’t need, now. You’ve got a great personality! Your skin, oh, it’s fabulous! And there’s that degree you’ve got! You’ve…you’ve got so much…tears. Great, tears.
They’re going to need a minute. Please, turn off the cameras. (HT: Nathan.)
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ALGator says:
Someone or some entity lost money because of that game. The trick is to have two teams that actually have a fan base to make a game like this profitable.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 am
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skinnyphatman says:
In all fairness to the Kent State students, many more were planning to attend. But when the learned that the Ohio National Guard was providing “security” they wisely stayed home.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 am
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Touchdown74 says:
This was a perfect time to bring back “Ten Cent Beer Night!!!”
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
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Wooderson says:
BC football: Feel the Excitement!
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
Ratio of people on field to people in stands in that picture = 1:1
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
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Bunkie Perkins says:
We’re still wearing “Salty Dog Cafe” t shirts?
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 am
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haybeav says:
Looks like Dolphin Stadium during a Marlins game
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
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haybeav says:
Kent State is HOT! HOT! HOT!
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:45 am
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Brooklyn Eagle says:
“if the whole world moved to their favorite vacation spots then the whole world would live in Hawaii, Italy, and Cleveland.”
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 am
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She Blinded Me With Violence says:
/kicks lifeless conference in the crotch
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
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Der Schatten says:
MAC-ACC showdown: Attendance that the SunBelt rightfully mocks.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:04 am
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Raider Red says:
The MAC needs to drop down to 1-AA…Kent St.-BC might draw more for basketball.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
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Pants McPants says:
Ohio State plays Toledo there next year. Buy stock in beer…
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 am
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AlanInDC says:
#12… if you really believe that, that’s sad. There are some quality teams and programs in the MAC. I would give teams like Ball State and Central Michigan a chance against any Big East or ACC school.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
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Crabapple Buck says:
They could have played that game at Kent State and had room left over in their own stadium. I guess BC wanted to be closer to the airport for a quicker getaway.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 am
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meatybob says:
#2
You are excellent, sir!
I am curious if a similar incident will happen in St. Paul this week. Personally, I would have assumed there would have been a rain of gunfire when the protester shouted, “fuck the white government”, even though the protester was white and lives in a city/state that makes Omaha look like urban Miami.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:27 am
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BurritoBrosShits says:
@16
The one in Florida right? Only during football season are we reminded that there is one in Ohio.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
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Pants McPants says:
@ 17- “Miami” is a University in Oxford, OH., not the name of the city.
@16- I have no idea what the hell you are talking about.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
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Excuse me Stewardess, but I speak jive says:
Bunkie:
He is only wearing the “Salty Dog” t-shirt because his “Big Johnson” shirt was in the wash…
Seriously- a few years ago the Alabama HS State Championships nearly filled Legion Field, where Alabama played for nearly a century. Sadly, though, most in attendance were Alabama fans that thought attending a whole season of HS football counted as “goin’ to hi skool”…
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:50 am
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Tater Salad says:
@ 19:
Heyo! Wocka wocka wocka…
@haybeav-
At first glance, I thought it was Dolphin Stadium. I was trying to figure out why Kent State and BC would be playing in Miami. Doh.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:58 am
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InsaneCoachPosse says:
dad’s been looking for a new place to put that meth lab… guess I’ll have to show him this hehehe
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:04 am
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Edsall is God says:
I’d just like to add that I’m attending the UConn/Temple game in Philly on Saturday as part of my boy’s bachelor party (wooo Atlantic City). The forecast includes the remnants of a hurricane. Predicated attendance: 5,000. I’ll try to remember to take a picture, it should be epic.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 am
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Flutie22 says:
You SEC fans just can’t measure up to our standards of academic and athletic excellence. It’s either academics (Vandy) or sports (the rest of you) for the SEC, not both.
Besides, they moved the game from Kent State, and I’m sorry, but a trip to Cleveland is a little much for most of us who call Massachusetts home.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
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tjc says:
Temple-UConn will draw more than 20,000, even with Hurricane remnants.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
That game looks craptastic (I love that non-word).
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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meatybob says:
@18, yes the city and read slate.com coverage of the protestors at the RNC.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
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drod says:
BC and ACC football at it’s best! Drawing, tens upon tens since it’s inception. Next stop, the Meineke Car Care Bowl!
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
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Raider Red says:
Yes, BG and Ball St. are perennially decent, but the rest of the teams are as bad as the Sun Belt. I looked up the Sagarin ratings…BG, Ball St, Troy and Ark. St. are all between 60-85. Outside of those four schools, the league avg. is about the same as the MVC and Colonial.
It’s an unfortunate fact that these leagues (unlike the MWC, C-USA and the WAC) will never, ever sniff the BCS, and their teams are condemned to the purgatory of money games and 55-10 asskickings from the Floridas of the world for all eternity. Better for the schools to drop down to 1-AA where they can compete for championships (on the field, even!) and not drive their athletic departments into hellacious debt trying to keep up with the Joneses.
I’m sorry if I sound like a heartless bastard, but that’s just the way it is.
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
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Godfrey says:
#23 – That’s the point… a trip to Cleveland for the BC fan base is in fact asking too much, whereas 20,000 third-shifters with Bear Bryant tattoos would gleefully go about a road trip to an away game in Vancouver with Cormac McCarthy travel conditions.
I’m not saying it’s sane, I’m saying it’s the Ehs-E!-See
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
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Cock D says:
Feh – the attendance was better earlier in the day at the airshow.
The number of folks in OSU jerseys watching shiny planes leave smoke trails in the sky while making loud noises probably outnumbered the crowd at the game by 4 to 1.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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Pants McPants says:
#28, I have no idea what kind of data you are using, but you obviously do not follow the MAC at all. Ball State attained 7 wins last year for the first time since 1996. They are nowhere near “perennially decent”. And BG is pretty good, hardly a standard bearer.
Yes, the MAC may be down this year, but to say they’ll never sniff a BCS game is ludicrous. In the early 2000s, Toledo was a force, with multiple 10 win seasons, in 2003 some QB named Rothlesbergermeister led Miami (OH) to a 13-1 season, and before they moved, Marshall was THE original BCS buster with Penninton and Leftwich.
Never? The WAC was the biggest joke in CFB only a decade ago, these things all change…
September 4th, 2008 at 7:57 am
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meatybob says:
Having been to both, I’d say that Boston pretty much equals Cleveland, and both pretty well suck.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:03 am
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DevilGrad says:
Re #28: As bad as mid-majordom is financially (and that has been exacerbated mightily by the BCS), they still lose less money on football than even the most competitive of the I-AAs. That’s why the trend in Division I membership has been to move *up* rather than down.
At bottom, individual institutions should be able to make their own decisions about how they deploy campus resources, and, as long as they offer a sufficiently varied athletic program, the NCAA shouldn’t deny them membership on the grounds of their lack of success as an entertainment product (which is all attendance measures). After all, we don’t shut down Texas Tech’s econ department just because IT is shitty.
FWIW, I think this is the second year for a MAC game at Browns Stadium in conference-sponsored experiment. IIRC, last year’s Akron-Army game was significantly better attended.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:06 am