What about after halftime?Also went to Green- Jackson game and it was packed on both sides. Id say about the same size crowd as in 2019
Hudson had the biggest crowd I've seen since 2014 at their only home game this year. My sense is attendance is up at many, most, or all high school games.......... or at least in suburbia. Making up for the lost time of last year.Curious how the crowds have been at the games that you've attended?
Bigger than past years?
About the same?
Less than past years?
Started off small but are getting bigger now?
Started off bigger but are getting smaller now?
Other?
I'm a little slow....well played!What about after halftime?
All in good fun.I'm a little slow....well played!
Student sections have been much larger than in the past few pre-Covid years. And much more vocal. Hope it sticks.I'd say about the same as far as attendance, but the X-factor is the student sections being back in action.
I've been seeing that too. Students seem happy to be apart of something where they can just be kids.Student sections have been much larger than in the past few pre-Covid years. And much more vocal. Hope it sticks.
YAWN!As noted above, over 19,000 (reported-- it didn't look that big in person) showed up last night at X-Moeller (at UC's Nippert Stadium); crowds at X home games have been reflective of the general downward trend of the last 5-10 years: Lakota West (despite being the #2 team in SW Ohio matched with #1 X) brought less than 500 fans to X-- and X's side was NOT full or close to sold out (despite there being "mixer" event post-game, that brought out hundreds of teen-age girls from other schools); X did not fill the fairly small visitor side for the short trip to Colerain (and Colerain barely filled half of the home side); X's crowds at other road games (admittedly LONG trips to Olentangy and Mishawaka, IN) were minimal-- basically just those few die-hard parents who travel to every game to see their kids play...
The bottom line: X used to sell out an 8000+ stadium, for every top opponent (e.g.- GCL rivals, plus any game against a top team like Lakota West or Colerain [formerly])-- now, it looks like it would take a state championship game to draw that kind of crowd-- and even then, I'm not sure it would happen. The long-term, CTE-driven, disengagement-from-football trend continues-- can't say I'm surprised. Measure the numbers of players nationally, at any youth level of the game, and you will see the roots of the decline.
As noted above, over 19,000 (reported-- it didn't look that big in person) showed up last night at X-Moeller (at UC's Nippert Stadium); crowds at X home games have been reflective of the general downward trend of the last 5-10 years: Lakota West (despite being the #2 team in SW Ohio matched with #1 X) brought less than 500 fans to X-- and X's side was NOT full or close to sold out (despite there being "mixer" event post-game, that brought out hundreds of teen-age girls from other schools); X did not fill the fairly small visitor side for the short trip to Colerain (and Colerain barely filled half of the home side); X's crowds at other road games (admittedly LONG trips to Olentangy and Mishawaka, IN) were minimal-- basically just those few die-hard parents who travel to every game to see their kids play...
The bottom line: X used to sell out an 8000+ stadium, for every top opponent (e.g.- GCL rivals, plus any game against a top team like Lakota West or Colerain [formerly])-- now, it looks like it would take a state championship game to draw that kind of crowd-- and even then, I'm not sure it would happen. The long-term, CTE-driven, disengagement-from-football trend continues-- can't say I'm surprised. Measure the numbers of players nationally, at any youth level of the game, and you will see the roots of the decline.