UNH...........home games over break?

[freak]

Obviously the women don't get the support on campus that they deserve. Even I can't make it to as many games as I'd like, as I often have to be at the PCAC on Sunday afternoons (2pm games, anyone...).

But does it make sense to anyone else to have 7 of 20 home games over winter break? At BEST, you have a couple hundred students on campus in the Gables or Woodsides. Now, I obviously wouldn't expect a big turnout even if most of these were 2nd semester games, but at least it would be something. As it is, we have 3 home games this semester. Doesn't provide much of an opportunity to encourage attendance, IMO.

[ClOuD 9]

I didn't understand having the Princeton (sat) and Yale (sun) games at 2:00 when there were no mens games following, the 7:00 time slot has always been a better draw. Add in the lack of advertising for the Harvard game that followed the US under-18 (they mentioned it all of two times during the mens game) and I am none too happy with the AD lately...

[Gibber]

Obviously the women don't get the support on campus that they deserve. Even I can't make it to as many games as I'd like, as I often have to be at the PCAC on Sunday afternoons (2pm games, anyone...).

But does it make sense to anyone else to have 7 of 20 home games over winter break? At BEST, you have a couple hundred students on campus in the Gables or Woodsides. Now, I obviously wouldn't expect a big turnout even if most of these were 2nd semester games, but at least it would be something. As it is, we have 3 home games this semester. Doesn't provide much of an opportunity to encourage attendance, IMO.
encourage attendance? How many students do you think actually go to these games normally? I'm not sure why they have so many home games in Jan and only one in Feb, not sure why it worked out that way, but I would assume student attendance wasn't taken into factor, since the student attendance at the women's games is usually very low, unfortunately :(
It would be a different issue if students had shown in the past that they support the women's hockey team, but since they don't, I don't see it as an issue as much as it is strange that the have something like 8 of 9 games in Jan at home and 7 of 8 games in Feb on the road... that'll be a tough stretch for them!

[ClOuD 9]

Well, if freak would get his band buddies to show up a little more often... 2 games a year seriously is lame, get the band there more often eh?

[freak]

encourage attendance? How many students do you think actually go to these games normally? I'm not sure why they have so many home games in Jan and only one in Feb, not sure why it worked out that way, but I would assume student attendance wasn't taken into factor, since the student attendance at the women's games is usually very low, unfortunately :(
It would be a different issue if students had shown in the past that they support the women's hockey team, but since they don't, I don't see it as an issue as much as it is strange that the have something like 8 of 9 games in Jan at home and 7 of 8 games in Feb on the road... that'll be a tough stretch for them!

I'm well aware that students don't generally go. I go whenever I can make it. But you gotta start somewhere. It isn't like the admin does anything to promote the games to students, so while it certainly isn't going to draw like the men, you might be able to get SOME kids to come.

[freak]

Well, if freak would get his band buddies to show up a little more often... 2 games a year seriously is lame, get the band there more often eh?

That's a class, and we also have the men's team, as well as both men's and women's basketball to play at. But if I had my way, we'd ignore the bounceyball, and play more women's games.

[ClOuD 9]

That's a class, and we also have the men's team, as well as both men's and women's basketball to play at. But if I had my way, we'd ignore the bounceyball, and play more women's games.
You need to go to more men's games too. Honestly, I think for the crowd to really start accepting the band and drop the "oh, the band is here, ****" attitude the band needs to be at every mens game.

[freak]

I'd love to. But pep band is a spring semester class. Most of the people who participate in pep band are in the marching band during fall semester. We will usually do a couple of the bigger games during fall semester on a volunteer basis. But marching band commitments come first. Even if you made pep band a fall class too, you'd end up splitting people between it and marching band, and both would suffer. The one thing that I've thought about, would be to have every fall semester game be done on a volunteer basis. But if you volunteer to do it you GOTTA be there for EVERY game; can't have 25 for one game, and then have only a handful show up for another.