As frustrating as it is, the reason students don't care because there hasn't been anything worth cheering for. Not only are most of our students from all over the country, the team hasn't been a perennial powerhouse to the point where kids come itching to go to the games and such. Only way to turn that around is to build this program back up to where it needs to be (students were barely alive for our period of dominance) and create a better gameday atmosphere and for the love of God build a stadium closer to campus.
Among the issues with the students.
Gameday shuttles suck, each one is like a rolling crypt that is policed and the kids can't bring/smuggle much of anything with them.
The few groups of students that organize and drive themselves can't accommodate everyone.
Shuttles begin to bring kids back to campus at halftime. Which the alienated, tight budget, noon dehydrated and bored ones can't wait to board.
University Narcs fluck with their gameday experience @ that shltty lot. Never knowing when they'll be called in w/video of rowdiness.
They're sectioned in the absolute hottest, most uncomfortable (N/W) location in that mid-day microwave. Back in the day, the S/E corner of the OB was prime, many bypassed it for WEZ activities.
The band (bless their hearts) aren't doing them any favours....and often find themselves alone during the post game alma mater.
In a nut shell....Sun lifeless sucks, the gameday experience sucks and the students have been reduced to ornaments to reduce the emptiness for televised appearances. That and stop nickel-and-diming their Student Cane Cards.
My first act as AD would be the purchase or rental of a crap load of below and protection from University narcs and the local Gestapo.
A few for season ticket holders as well....or anything that arrives with a bikini.
