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Post by Wormtown Railers Fan on Nov 13, 2022 20:11:47 GMT -5
Attendance has improved. Who do our posters think is buying the incremental tickets: (1) old fans from Worcester getting religion again, (2) fans, alums or locals, who attended one game a year now attending 2 or 3, (3) lapsed alums returning, (4) new fans who had never before gone to a game, (5) better student attendance? Of course it is some combination of the above and of other factors, but what do you think are the biggest contributors? While some here don’t like the Polar Park game, it has generated interest in HC football on a greater level the past couple of years than any advertising could do.
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Post by bfoley82 on Nov 14, 2022 9:01:26 GMT -5
Attendance has improved. Who do our posters think is buying the incremental tickets: (1) old fans from Worcester getting religion again, (2) fans, alums or locals, who attended one game a year now attending 2 or 3, (3) lapsed alums returning, (4) new fans who had never before gone to a game, (5) better student attendance? Of course it is some combination of the above and of other factors, but what do you think are the biggest contributors? When you win, people show up. Simple as that
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Post by jflare on Nov 14, 2022 9:29:53 GMT -5
Attendance has improved. Who do our posters think is buying the incremental tickets: (1) old fans from Worcester getting religion again, (2) fans, alums or locals, who attended one game a year now attending 2 or 3, (3) lapsed alums returning, (4) new fans who had never before gone to a game, (5) better student attendance? Of course it is some combination of the above and of other factors, but what do you think are the biggest contributors? While some here don’t like the Polar Park game, it has generated interest in HC football on a greater level the past couple of years than any advertising could do. Incremental attendance probably Worcester Fans Old and New ..... More Alums as well All good stuff
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Post by JRGNYR on Nov 14, 2022 10:11:52 GMT -5
I agree that the announcing team at Fitton did a much better job yesterday than their compatriots at other PL venues this year. (Anybody remember that jerk at Colgate who spent most of the third quarter doing a lengthy and fawning "interview" of a former star Red Raider player back in Hamilton for homecoming, virtually ignoring what was happening on the gridiron for long stretches?) Whether or not the announcers were "total homers" depends on what you mean by "total" in my view. I personally thought they overdid by several orders of magnitude their praise of Chesney and the entire HC football program...especially as Bryant started chewing us up in the second half. If I had been a Bryant fan, I might have been tempted to throw a shoe at the screen at several points. But, when all was said and done, they were preaching to the choir as far as this ardent Crusader was concerned! I felt the same as you did as Bryant was making it very interesting. The announcers spent way too much time extolling the virtues of Coach Ches and his staff. I like Kevin a lot but being a football color analyst is not in his wheelhouse.
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Post by timholycross on Nov 14, 2022 15:03:46 GMT -5
HC gave away the Worcester fandom many years ago. They all left and I don't think that many have returned. The demographics of Worcester have changed greatly over 50 years. In the 1970 Census, of a population of 176,000, 172,000 were white, and 3,300 were "Negro". 9,600 had completed four years of college, 5.4 percent of the population. Foreign stock were almost entirely from European countries and Canada. 200 were from Mexico and Cuba, and 500 were from elsewhere in Central and South America.. In the 2020 Census, of a population of 206,500, Percentage of the population that was White alone, not Hispanic or Latino was 54 percent. Black or African American alone was 13 percent. Asian alone 7 percent. Hispanic or Latino 23 percent. (Does not add to 100 percent because I excluded several racial categories, e.g., two or more races.) 21 percent of the population was foreign born. 31 percent had completed four or more years of college. (< The great majority of these did not go to Holy Cross.) In 1970, the working class population of Worcester probably gravitated to supporting Holy Cross because they had not attended another college or university, and Holy Cross students were from the same demographic milieu as themselves. ....and there were a considerable number of HC students from the city and its immediate suburbs that, as commuters, interacted w/the general population daily.
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Post by ndgradbuthcfan on Nov 14, 2022 15:39:57 GMT -5
I bet I can list 30-40 HC grads that I know (around my age brackett - 75) who were from Worcester and its environs). Does the current student body include many locals? Not exactly on topic but we're talking about support from the Worcester community for HC sports.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Nov 14, 2022 15:47:02 GMT -5
We should have more locals, shouldn’t we, with the scholarships reserved for Worcester residents? I’m guessing we do not
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Post by Crucis#1 on Nov 17, 2022 14:25:11 GMT -5
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Post by hchoops on Nov 17, 2022 18:02:04 GMT -5
That was a large number of seniors.
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Post by rgs318 on Nov 17, 2022 18:35:07 GMT -5
Two years worth?
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