North Carolina Wide Receiver Has An Innovative Idea To Get Fans To Attend Games
The University of North Carolina is a basketball school. Fans who bleed Carolina blue often do so between the months of November and April before taking a six month hiatus until tipoff of the next season. The problem is, UNC has a football team, too — a team that isn’t half bad. Hell, they could win the ACC this season, if only some fans would actually come to watch them play.
Last Saturday, UNC demolished an undefeated Illinois team at home, 48-14. It was the Tar Heels second dominant victory of the season. Even though the Illini are by no means a Big Ten powerhouse, it was still a decent non-conference home game that should’ve drawn UNC fans out in droves to support their squad.
They didn’t show:
UNC players notice the empty seats in Kenan Stadium (includes quotes from Marquise Williams): http://t.co/AKS4i9AMsF pic.twitter.com/ZIUFEmZB3U
— CarolinaBlue.com (@CarolinaBlue247) September 22, 2015
UNC star wide receiver Bug Howard has an innovative idea to get the Tar Heel faithful to show up at Kenan Stadium: Let the basketball team scrimmage during halftime.
Maybe if we did a Men's basketball pick up game at halftime of our games maybe people will show up? Will you?
— Bug Howard (@ThaBugMan) September 22, 2015
Sure, noon kickoffs aren’t exactly ideal, but WTF, UNC? That’s such a piss-poor turnout that you don’t even deserve a good football team. This is why no one takes you seriously during football season. You can bet every bordering state you touch, sans Virginia, would have had close to a sellout crowd if they were hosting Illinois.
Howard might be onto something. Maybe the only way to get fans to support a secondary sport is by forcing the most popular sport to show up and do a run-through at halftime. I know Texas basketball would be more popular if Texas football did the Oklahoma drill during TV timeouts. It’s something to think about.
Howard explained to the media today that his tweet was meant to be a lighthearted joke. But look at that crowd again — he is not joking. Go support your goddamn football team, you seersucker-wearing, pasty white Tar Heel weirdos..
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TFM has gone great lengths to make me hate poor man’s UVA
10 years ago at 4:06 pmIt’s the bastion of liberal ideology in NC. They can all go to hell.
10 years ago at 4:15 pmAs a proud 3rd year at UVA thanks for exposing how terrible UNC is
10 years ago at 4:08 pmJunior. You are a junior.
10 years ago at 4:21 pmHey don’t give him too much credit, he might have only passed 12 credits worth of classes in his first two years.
10 years ago at 4:44 pmMeet me at the white spot tonight at 9 pm and I will reveal my real identity to you only
10 years ago at 4:29 pmAre you asking me on a date?
10 years ago at 4:32 pmI hear he gives a mean hand jibber.
10 years ago at 4:48 pmWhat the fuck is “sans Virginia”
10 years ago at 4:10 pmWell, I could be wrong, but I believe it is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War.
10 years ago at 4:13 pmActually, it was an ironclad that liberal yankees prefer to call the “Merrimack.”
10 years ago at 5:46 pmIt’s mean with exception, which is false. Although we may suck, we would have a much better turnout than that. Fuck you SteveHolt
10 years ago at 4:15 pmUsed in a sentence: #1 “Have you check out that website Total Frat Move?”
10 years ago at 5:45 pm#2 “Yeah I have, but it’d be much better sans that fuckwad Steve Holt.”
It’s a french word that means “without”.
10 years ago at 6:01 pmSpeaking any language besides English. NF.
10 years ago at 12:08 amRead a book, get a kindle, do something about your sorry ass condition.
10 years ago at 6:04 pmSteve Holt should join ISIS so i would have an excuse to decapitate him #blackballsteveholt
10 years ago at 4:12 pmLittle much there, buddy.
10 years ago at 5:02 pmMeh. Win some, lose some
10 years ago at 5:49 pmNeeding an excuse to do what you want. NF
10 years ago at 6:03 pmYou are a worthless POS loser making jokes like that.
10 years ago at 9:22 pmYoure one to talk, champ
10 years ago at 9:48 pmThis is pretty sad
10 years ago at 4:18 pmThey’re looking like a MAC school attendance-wise.
10 years ago at 4:20 pmHave you seen a Marshall game in the last decade?
10 years ago at 6:29 pmMarshall isn’t in the MAC
10 years ago at 10:23 pmIf you were a real college football fan you would know MAC games are just SEC games on week days
10 years ago at 8:15 pmHey Tech guy, can I get notification on my phone when someone replies to one of my comments?
10 years ago at 4:29 pmSecond.
10 years ago at 4:30 pmOr an e-mail for those of us who use the website rather than the app, which I understand to be godawful.
10 years ago at 6:01 pmOr a place where we can respond to comments without being on an article…
10 years ago at 9:35 pmI’m talking about the fucking forums
10 years ago at 9:35 pmor they could do what duke did a while back when they were squeaking out 2 wins a year: require students to go to a certain amount of home football games before theyre eligible to get basketball tickets. food for thought
10 years ago at 4:48 pmDuke never did this.
10 years ago at 5:47 pmSMU does this
10 years ago at 7:31 pmnow that SMU can’t pay for players, they pay for fans
10 years ago at 10:56 pmFk that pssy.
10 years ago at 9:33 pmThey could try what you USC (S.Car) did, where they build a loyalty program, and for every sporting event you attend, you get points, and can get better seats at football games. Also, you get sweatshirts and other cool shit.
10 years ago at 1:30 amThat sounds like my sorority’s sisterhood, philanthropy and social points system that’s main purpose was to provide a fair method of competition for people sucking up to live in. I’d much rather go to one game and either get there early to get a good seat or just push my way though eventually than have to sit through a bunch of irrelevant sporting events
10 years ago at 5:26 amDon’t care. Whip your tits out.
10 years ago at 7:05 amThat’s not how it works. Stop ruining shit.
10 years ago at 12:24 am