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Post by rgs318 on Oct 17, 2022 16:48:08 GMT -5
Now let's hope the results also exceed Yale.
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Post by cruskater31 on Oct 17, 2022 16:51:58 GMT -5
Now let's hope the results also exceed Yale. I'll be happy with that score. But let's aim high!
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Post by thecrossisback on Oct 17, 2022 16:57:55 GMT -5
Time to get on the Ram message board and poke the ram. To try and get them to show up and watch Demorat get sacked!
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Post by hcpride on Oct 17, 2022 17:41:58 GMT -5
Attendance for the Fordham game will exceed the Yale game according to the ticket office. The Fordham supporters will greatly outnumber the Yale fans given the natural rivalry between our Jesuit schools, high playoff stakes of the contest, and national ranking of each team. Not sure FU gets in the playoffs if they lose and we may lose our seed if we do. I have the distinct impression Yale fans don’t care about an HC football contest nowadays. Great matchup for parents weekend! Let’s break 15k.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 17, 2022 17:50:50 GMT -5
Attendance for the Fordham game will exceed the Yale game according to the ticket office. The Fordham supporters will greatly outnumber the Yale fans given the natural rivalry between our Jesuit schools, high playoff stakes of the contest, and national ranking of each team. Not sure FU gets in the playoffs if they lose and we may lose our seed if we do. I have the distinct impression Yale fans don’t care about an HC football contest nowadays. Great matchup for parents weekend! Let’s break 15k. While I think you're right that Yale fans in general don't care about Holy Cross, Fordham doesn't travel particularly well either. Too many city slickers without access to cars or willing to miss brunch in Manhattan to make the trip to Worcester on a cold fall day.
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Post by efg72 on Oct 17, 2022 18:13:33 GMT -5
A win this weekend and fair promotional push we come close to 18,500
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 17, 2022 18:26:05 GMT -5
A win this weekend and fair promotional push we come close to 18,500 Anything in the 12,000-14,000 range would be a phenomenal crowd for late October against a Patriot League opponent from outside New England. With decent weather, I'm going 13,400.
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Post by hcpride on Oct 17, 2022 18:31:40 GMT -5
A win this weekend and fair promotional push we come close to 18,500 Anything in the 12,000-14,000 range would be a phenomenal crowd for late October against a Patriot League opponent from outside New England. With decent weather, I'm going 13,400. I’d agree v all the other PL/NEC/Ivy schools…but Fordham and DeMorat and playoff implications has a bit of weight…parents weekend…HC has a campus/Worcester buzz they haven’t had in 30 years…easy travel for Fordham fans…with decent weather of course… I’m thinking like efg72
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Post by cruskater31 on Oct 17, 2022 18:45:54 GMT -5
15.9k vs UMass. I'm going right in that range I think. Good amount of Ram fans but fewer than UMass. More HC fans this time.
In other news, it is homecoming at Fisher Stadium this week so I think they may have a season high 6k for our game.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 17, 2022 18:58:06 GMT -5
Anything in the 12,000-14,000 range would be a phenomenal crowd for late October against a Patriot League opponent from outside New England. With decent weather, I'm going 13,400. I’d agree v all the other PL/NEC/Ivy schools…but Fordham and DeMorat and playoff implications has a bit of weight…parents weekend…HC has a campus/Worcester buzz they haven’t had in 30 years…easy travel for Fordham fans…with decent weather of course… I’m thinking like efg72 I agree Fordham has more cache among HC alum and Worcester folk than anyone in the PL/NEC group by a landslide, maybe Colgate a somewhat close 2nd. Fordham doesn't really travel well though...unless it's to Yankee Stadium, West Point or maybe Villanova. Too many alum still living in NYC who don't own cars. Who knows, maybe the JetBlue flight frkm JFK-ORH will be PACKED on Friday night.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 17, 2022 18:58:54 GMT -5
15.9k vs UMass. I'm going right in that range I think. Good amount of Ram fans but fewer than UMass. More HC fans this time. In other news, it is homecoming at Fisher Stadium this week so I think they may have a season high 6k for our game. Maybe more if weather is good. 7200.
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Post by hcgrad94 on Oct 17, 2022 19:06:23 GMT -5
Attendance for the Fordham game will exceed the Yale game according to the ticket office. The Fordham supporters will greatly outnumber the Yale fans given the natural rivalry between our Jesuit schools, high playoff stakes of the contest, and national ranking of each team. Not sure FU gets in the playoffs if they lose and we may lose our seed if we do. I have the distinct impression Yale fans don’t care about an HC football contest nowadays. Great matchup for parents weekend! Let’s break 15k. [br Fordham had 1,900 people at their evening home game in perfect weather vs Atony Brook last weekend.
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Post by longsuffering on Oct 17, 2022 19:08:00 GMT -5
Attendance for the Fordham game will exceed the Yale game according to the ticket office. The Fordham supporters will greatly outnumber the Yale fans given the natural rivalry between our Jesuit schools, high playoff stakes of the contest, and national ranking of each team. Not sure FU gets in the playoffs if they lose and we may lose our seed if we do. I have the distinct impression Yale fans don’t care about an HC football contest nowadays. Great matchup for parents weekend! Let’s break 15k. If we keep beating Yale in FB it could become a grudge match they are motivated to win.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 17, 2022 19:11:38 GMT -5
The Fordham supporters will greatly outnumber the Yale fans given the natural rivalry between our Jesuit schools, high playoff stakes of the contest, and national ranking of each team. Not sure FU gets in the playoffs if they lose and we may lose our seed if we do. I have the distinct impression Yale fans don’t care about an HC football contest nowadays. Great matchup for parents weekend! Let’s break 15k. [br Fordham had 1,900 people at their evening home game in perfect weather vs Atony Brook last weekend. Didn't help that that game overlapped with Yankee-Guardians ALDS Game 3. Can't recall the exact #'s, but I believe Fordham's 2 prior home games both drew 3,500+. 8,000 is a sellout at Jack Coffey. If HC played down there this year, I have no doubt that game would sell out with SRO set up in the baseball stands and behind the visiting bench.
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Post by longsuffering on Oct 17, 2022 19:18:27 GMT -5
Colleges in Boston and I assume NY, Philly, Washington, etc., don't have TV Sports anchors regularly pumping up their football games on the evening news broadcast of a station that carries most home games like HC has with Kevin Shea.
Lehigh, Lafayette, Bucknell and Colgate might have something similar but in smaller communities than Worcester. The current Chesney excellence leverages that advantage.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Oct 17, 2022 19:20:34 GMT -5
For the Fordham game I plan to run a “proposition bet” competition, as I did once or twice last year, and I’ll certainly include an over/under for attendance among the many other challenges
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Oct 17, 2022 19:37:38 GMT -5
Colleges in Boston and I assume NY, Philly, Washington, etc., don't have TV Sports anchors regularly pumping up their football games on the evening news broadcast of a station that carries most home games like HC has with Kevin Shea. Lehigh, Lafayette, Bucknell and Colgate might have something similar but in smaller communities than Worcester. The current Chesney excellence leverages that advantage. I didn't even realize Holy Cross had this. I always thought Worcester got hosed by being in the same TV market as Boston. Largest city in the country I believe that doesn't have it's own TV market. But, yes, there is no "media promotion" whatsoever of Fordham football games. I live within 2 miles of both Fordham and Manhattan College and, unless you actively go on the ESPN App and look up the PL, A-10 and MAAC schedules, or go onto the schools' athletic site, you're not hearing anything about game times or upcoming opponents. Rick Pitino coaches DI basketball <10 miles from my house and same thing nonetheless, no excess NY sports media coverage of Iona hoops despite the cheater-in-chief owning the head gig up in New Rochelle.
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Post by longsuffering on Oct 17, 2022 19:43:11 GMT -5
Worcester doesn't have a network TV outlet but it has nightly local news on the Charter/Spectrum Cable channel that people turn to for Central Mass news and sports.
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Post by hcpride on Oct 17, 2022 19:45:27 GMT -5
The Fordham supporters will greatly outnumber the Yale fans given the natural rivalry between our Jesuit schools, high playoff stakes of the contest, and national ranking of each team. Not sure FU gets in the playoffs if they lose and we may lose our seed if we do. I have the distinct impression Yale fans don’t care about an HC football contest nowadays. Great matchup for parents weekend! Let’s break 15k. [br Fordham had 1,900 people at their evening home game in perfect weather vs Atony Brook last weekend. And 5K in their daytime SUNY Albany game a few weeks ago. FWIW I’m actually not surprised at the size of the night crowd in the Bronx for the non-conference game given the general feeling the game v 0-5 (and reeling) SBU would not be at all competitive (it wasn’t). I might have headed in by train if it had been a daytime game. The drive is awful IMHO. But NYC mass transit at night ain’t what it used to be.
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Post by hchoops on Oct 17, 2022 19:47:35 GMT -5
That Albany attendance was listed at exactly 5000, which has to be fudged..
The only college sports story embraced by the NYC media that I can remember was the Chris Mullin St.John’s team with their Georgetown-Ewing rivalry circa 1985. Those two plus eventual winner Nova were all in the Final Four Many moons ago
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Oct 17, 2022 20:07:29 GMT -5
Why go into Manhattan or any of the boroughs if you don’t have to?
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Post by hchoops on Oct 17, 2022 20:26:09 GMT -5
There are a few places one can go of some interest- sports, theater, museums, music, concerts, clubs etc. Sorry to answer for you 2010
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Post by rgs318 on Oct 18, 2022 6:04:42 GMT -5
Why go into Manhattan or any of the boroughs if you don’t have to? Isn't that why the "New York" Giants and "NY" Jets have their stadiums in New Jersey?
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Post by crusader1970 on Oct 18, 2022 12:21:53 GMT -5
15.9k vs UMass. I'm going right in that range I think. Good amount of Ram fans but fewer than UMass. More HC fans this time. In other news, it is homecoming at Fisher Stadium this week so I think they may have a season high 6k for our game. Maybe more if weather is good. 7200. Last year they hosted Fordham for Homecoming and drew 2,950.
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Post by Crosser on Oct 18, 2022 12:52:20 GMT -5
$7 ticket promo for Fordham game ends today. I believe at 2 pm. What's the promo code?
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