Why doesn't UNC Football have any fan support?

i was at the game and told you it was almost full...you were at home and said it was at 1/2 capacity. hmmmm...wonder who's right.

 

Capacity is 60,000 and attendence was 48,000

 

All 2 of them?

 

Haven't been to a football game in a long time now. But when I used to go all the time, it was jammed packed in there. Football just will never be what basketball is to that school or the majority of people/fans.

 

Come to a basketball game in the SEC. If you go anywhere but Kentucky you will never see a sellout. My freshman year at Georgia they were 17-14 and barely missed the tournament. Stegeman might hold 11,000 at the most and there is no way that there was more than 7,000 people in the stands against Kentucky or Florida, because basketball means nothing to people in the SEC. It's just the opposite in the ACC.

 

Come to a basketball game in the SEC. If you go anywhere but Kentucky you will never see a sellout.

thats because you go to UGA. Home of basketball suckiness

 

Georgia wasn't bad at all before Harrick screwed the program over. Two Top 25 recruiting classes coming in. 17-14 isn't that bad of a record. If a team is 17-14 in the ACC then they will sellout close to every game. It's just how it is. That's why Arkansas and Ole Miss always sell out their football games no matter how bad they are. It's more of a regional thing than anything. I admit UNC is a ton better than they were about 5 years ago, but hardly any of the students remember the Mack Brown years that much when UNC was #2 in the ACC. If they can beat Maryland and Duke and get into a bowl then I think that would give a big boost to the football program. Shows some stability that they haven't had in about a decade. It might just be an ACC thing to that the play in basketball historically is far better than the football play has been cause Georgia Tech has a hard time selling out and they are in the middle of Georgia and have a decent program. When Georgia played them there was more red than gold in the stands. I'm sure adding BC, VT, and Miami to the conference will only help better attendance.

 

like I said...almost full. 4 of every 5 seats had a person in it.

 

I'm one of the rare Carolina fans who loves football and merely likes basketball, but I have to say that the team doesn't get a lot of support and it's mostly the fault of the students. I attended the Miami game last season and the crowd was positively electric in large part because of the alumni presence, but anytime you have to depend on UNC students turning up for a football game, you're going to be disappointed. I think if more alumni lived in the immediate vicinity (as with ECU) then the crowd would be more active, but for now that's just the reality.