RMU doing well

[HailToPitt1985]

I never knew why RMU never developed any fanbase at all. I realize they are in a tough spot given it's a lower-tier school in a pro town but my God does this town hate college basketball. RMU should be getting 3000 just for opening the doors. Pitt should be getting 8K-9K if the team is in the .500 vicinity and bubble teams should sell the place out consistently. Instead, Pitt gets Horizon League attendance (real attendance, not the made-up numbers) and RMU draws worse than a whole lot of WPIAL teams.

Pitt's real attendance, even while we are playing this badly, is in the 6,500 - 8,000 range. We would get close to selling out if we were a real NCAAT team and playing back in the old Big East. Playing in the ACC has been a hindrance to attendance because there are no real rivalries with Pitt, other than 'Cuse. And now, they're an afterthought. Boeheim is gone and it's hard to hate them.

Coaches are the other factor. Even in the ACC, the great coaches are gone now, the ones who we just loved to boo because it was them. Remember playing against teams coached by Boeheim, Wright, Huggins, Calhoun, Thompson, Crean, Williams, Pitino...we just showed up to root against them.

In the current ACC, the coaches don't exactly elicit any hatred like some of the old Big East coaches did. The identity and aura are gone now.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Pitt's real attendance, even while we are playing this badly, is in the 6,500 - 8,000 range. We would get close to selling out if we were a real NCAAT team and playing back in the old Big East. Playing in the ACC has been a hindrance to attendance because there are no real rivalries with Pitt, other than 'Cuse. And now, they're an afterthought. Boeheim is gone and it's hard to hate them.

Coaches are the other factor. Even in the ACC, the great coaches are gone now, the ones who we just loved to boo because it was them. Remember playing against teams coached by Boeheim, Wright, Huggins, Calhoun, Thompson, Crean, Williams, Pitino...we just showed up to root against them.

In the current ACC, the coaches don't exactly elicit any hatred like some of the old Big East coaches did. The identity and aura are gone now.

No it's not. We are the 9th team out according to Lunardi so still within a prayer of the NCAAT and there will be 3000 people vs GT, so basically the same as Stallings 0-19.

Even if we were 13-14, there should be 8000 there. Its major college basketball.