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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 5, 2021 11:53:02 GMT -5
I wish you guys well with your transition to the Big South. In my opinion our moved to the OVC has reaped little benefit football wise. The gleam and glitter of playing in a pro stadium wore off years ago. Most of our fan base particular the old, old heads have little interest in playing pwc's. Although during my day, late 70's early 80's, we played 2 to 3, some times 4, each year. For you band heads, it's terrible. I can count on one hand the number of times we had another band in the conference to visit us. Jacksonville State. And that was only when we played at Nissan Stadium. Due to your success you may not have difficulty generating interest. Aggie pride appears to be as strong as ever! Rumor had it that we were going to join you in the newly formed ASUN Conference but things fell apart. With Eastern Kentucky and Jaxville State leaving our conference will take a hit as far as strength in concerned. thanks for posting. i've been trying to tell our folk exactly what you said about playing in a pwc conference. hampton alums have expressed the exact same sentiments about playing in a pwc conference as you have. so i've been expressing those same sentiments to aggie alums, they probably think i "paid you" to post what you stated...
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Post by The Professor on Mar 5, 2021 13:40:13 GMT -5
Everyone knows the drawback. However our coaches and administration wants to compete for the FCS Championship. We can't do that in the MEAC due to the Celebration Bowl contract.
We made the best decision for us.
And now it looks like we are going to have atleast 5 maybe 6 Out of conference games depending on that ASun vs Big South Challenge.
We will play 3 to 4 HBCUs a year. (NCCU and Hampton already locked in)
Our fanbase will be fine.
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Post by The Professor on Mar 5, 2021 13:43:35 GMT -5
Hampton's issues are easy to fix.
Schedule
Howard, NSU, Morgan , VUU, Delstate and an FBS IN Virginia.
Put the HBCUs on 4 year Home and Home contracts. 2 home and 2 away.
Then play the Big South Schedule. Their fans will be fine
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 5, 2021 13:47:48 GMT -5
Hampton's issues are easy to fix. Schedule Howard, NSU, Morgan , VUU, Delstate and an FBS IN Virginia. Put the HBCUs on 4 year Home and Home contracts. 2 home and 2 away. Then play the Big South Schedule. Their fans will be fine Their fans really never supported football when in the MEAC.
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Post by The Professor on Mar 5, 2021 13:51:07 GMT -5
Hampton's issues are easy to fix. Schedule Howard, NSU, Morgan , VUU, Delstate and an FBS IN Virginia. Put the HBCUs on 4 year Home and Home contracts. 2 home and 2 away. Then play the Big South Schedule. Their fans will be fine Their fans really never supported football when in the MEAC. Exactly when Taylor was there and they were winning. Thats why u play the regional HBCUs to help interest and attendance. Not like they gonna win the conference or go to the playoffs no way They also need to hire a couple of the winning HS coaches in VA to recuit the kids too.
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 5, 2021 14:22:12 GMT -5
Hampton Football attendance
2012 - 5175 2013 - 4013 2014 - 8071 2015 - 4246 2016 - 6537 2017 - 7088 2018 - 6527 Big South 2019 - 7218 Big South
2021 - We will be back on their schedule so an attendance boost
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 5, 2021 16:49:50 GMT -5
that doesn't show the true story. the "true story" is that hampton had far "better attendance" playing against hbcu's than big south teams. so post the "average" attendance for big south games and compare that to the attendance against hbcu's in the same season.
don't lump ooc hbcu games in their average attendance, that's very "misleading"...
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 5, 2021 17:01:27 GMT -5
Hampton Football attendance 2012 - 5175 2013 - 4013 2014 - 8071 2015 - 4246 2016 - 6537 2017 - 7088 2018 - 6527 Big South 2019 - 7218 Big South 2021 - We will be back on their schedule so an attendance boost hbcu games “average” => 12,696ecsu => 8234 vuu => 8127 howard => 19425 vul => 15000 big south games “average” => 3,982n. alabama => 4213 presbyterian => 4123 kennesaw st => 3612 hbcu games “average” => 12,696 big south games “average” => 3,982BIG DIFFERENCE!!
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Post by outsidethinker on Mar 5, 2021 17:31:07 GMT -5
Hampton Football attendance 2012 - 5175 2013 - 4013 2014 - 8071 2015 - 4246 2016 - 6537 2017 - 7088 2018 - 6527 Big South 2019 - 7218 Big South 2021 - We will be back on their schedule so an attendance boost hbcu games “average” => 12,696ecsu => 8234 vuu => 8127 howard => 19425 vul => 15000 big south games “average” => 3,982n. alabama => 4213 presbyterian => 4123 kennesaw st => 3612 hbcu games “average” => 12,696 big south games “average” => 3,982BIG DIFFERENCE!! I'll take the bait lol, this is still weighted unfairly to shift the narrative. ECSU was Hamptons season opener. It's going to be packed regardless VUU is a team with a lot of recent success at an hour or less travel distance. Howard is a lifetime rivalry game, No explanation needed. VUL was Homecoming...... Hampton has always had attendance issues dating back to when I attended T. See link: www.dailypress.com/sports/college/dp-spt_huvig_1119nov19-story.html
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Post by Maxell on Mar 5, 2021 17:55:23 GMT -5
I actually think that having our HBCU schedule as "premium content" will enhance the game atmosphere AND increase the attendance at those games. Based on past games against Coastal and Gardner Webb, I expect the Big South games to average around 14K and our HBCU games to average around 18.5K in the Fall. Our HBCU games will all be against more desirable opponents.
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 5, 2021 18:02:01 GMT -5
Hampton Football attendance 2012 - 5175 2013 - 4013 2014 - 8071 2015 - 4246 2016 - 6537 2017 - 7088 2018 - 6527 Big South 2019 - 7218 Big South 2021 - We will be back on their schedule so an attendance boost hbcu games “average” => 12,696ecsu => 8234 vuu => 8127 howard => 19425 vul => 15000 big south games “average” => 3,982n. alabama => 4213 presbyterian => 4123 kennesaw st => 3612 hbcu games “average” => 12,696 big south games “average” => 3,982BIG DIFFERENCE!! Hampton 2012 Attendance vs ODU 5500 vs BCU 1200 vs SSU 5500 vs NSU 8500 2013 vs TTech 2709 vs A&T 8500 vs DSU 2700 vs NCCu 2800 vs HU 3355 2015 vs KSU 6354 vs Richmond 3515 vs A&T 2139 vs DSU 7010 vs FAMU 2212 A lot of HBCU games with attendance less than 3982
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 5, 2021 18:29:22 GMT -5
hbcu games “average” => 12,696ecsu => 8234 vuu => 8127 howard => 19425 vul => 15000 big south games “average” => 3,982n. alabama => 4213 presbyterian => 4123 kennesaw st => 3612 hbcu games “average” => 12,696 big south games “average” => 3,982BIG DIFFERENCE!! Hampton 2012 Attendance vs ODU 5500 vs BCU 1200 vs SSU 5500 vs NSU 8500 2013 vs TTech 2709 vs A&T 8500 vs DSU 2700 vs NCCu 2800 vs HU 3355 2015 vs KSU 6354 vs Richmond 3515 vs A&T 2139 vs DSU 7010 vs FAMU 2212 A lot of HBCU games with attendance less than 3982 If they are posting nice, round numbers as attendance figures, they really don't know how many people are in the stadium.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 5, 2021 19:09:32 GMT -5
hbcu games “average” => 12,696ecsu => 8234 vuu => 8127 howard => 19425 vul => 15000 big south games “average” => 3,982n. alabama => 4213 presbyterian => 4123 kennesaw st => 3612 hbcu games “average” => 12,696 big south games “average” => 3,982BIG DIFFERENCE!! I'll take the bait lol, this is still weighted unfairly to shift the narrative. ECSU was Hamptons season opener. It's going to be packed regardless VUU is a team with a lot of recent success at an hour or less travel distance. Howard is a lifetime rivalry game, No explanation needed. VUL was Homecoming...... Hampton has always had attendance issues dating back to when I attended T. See link: www.dailypress.com/sports/college/dp-spt_huvig_1119nov19-story.htmlnot arguing hampton's attendance issues at all, just showing that hbcu game attendance is much better than big south attendance whether its against an hbcu rival or not. the big south games weren't even "half" the attendance of hbcu games. and the exact same can be said for tennessee state games, i've already checked. so ya'll can make all of the "excuses" ya want, but the "fact" remains that hbcu fanbases rather attend hbcu games than pwc games. not gonna deliberate this topic all over again, i've already done so numerous times already. besides, the bdv powers that be has laid down the law that nobody can change subjects under a thread anymore (which doesn't make a bit of sense to me)...
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Mar 5, 2021 19:16:05 GMT -5
hbcu games “average” => 12,696ecsu => 8234 vuu => 8127 howard => 19425 vul => 15000 big south games “average” => 3,982n. alabama => 4213 presbyterian => 4123 kennesaw st => 3612 hbcu games “average” => 12,696 big south games “average” => 3,982BIG DIFFERENCE!! Hampton 2012 Attendance vs ODU 5500 vs BCU 1200 vs SSU 5500 vs NSU 8500 2013 vs TTech 2709 vs A&T 8500 vs DSU 2700 vs NCCu 2800 vs HU 3355 2015 vs KSU 6354 vs Richmond 3515 vs A&T 2139 vs DSU 7010 vs FAMU 2212 A lot of HBCU games with attendance less than 3982 wasn't the debate about "big south" attendance? hampton has only had 1 full big south schedule and that was in 2019, what you posted is "meaningless"...
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 5, 2021 19:22:35 GMT -5
Hampton 2012 Attendance vs ODU 5500 vs BCU 1200 vs SSU 5500 vs NSU 8500 2013 vs TTech 2709 vs A&T 8500 vs DSU 2700 vs NCCu 2800 vs HU 3355 2015 vs KSU 6354 vs Richmond 3515 vs A&T 2139 vs DSU 7010 vs FAMU 2212 A lot of HBCU games with attendance less than 3982 wasn't the debate about "big south" attendance? hampton has only had 1 full big south schedule and that was in 2019, what you posted is "meaningless"... Rightttt👍🏾
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