just an observation from this season alone.
i don’t know what it is, but it seems like student section participation has been down across the board in the league. Greenons week 2 game vs Northwestern was the only time the student section looked as it should, compared to past years. even last year was much better than this year. i can remember a few games where Greenon had a packer student section. Mechanicsburg in 2019 really impressed me with their student participation.
why does student section participation seem to be down? i’m interested to hear a few theories on this.
1. maybe when kids couldn’t go to games during the 2020 pandemic year they just lost interest and never went back.
2. maybe kids have decided that working is more important and choose to do that on Friday night instead of going to the game.
3. (and i’m sure this has always been partially true with any school) when the team is having more success, more kids who wouldn’t usually go, find interest in going to the games