ACU a week after Tech

[MooseLodge]

Looks like the squeaker loss to Texas Tech finally put ACU on the map. They had all of 7100 in attendance at their first home game. D1 is just so good.

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

Looks like the squeaker loss to Texas Tech finally put ACU on the map. They had all of 7100 in attendance at their first home game. D1 is just so good.

A loss is a loss.

If ACU racks up the wins and get into the top 25 I am sure the attendance will pick up a tick.

The biggest head scratcher is Tarleton. They averaged 18k+ last year in attendance but only 2000 for the last game would have me worried.

[MooseLodge]

A loss is a loss.

If ACU racks up the wins and get into the top 25 I am sure the attendance will pick up a tick.

The biggest head scratcher is Tarleton. They averaged 18k+ last year in attendance but only 2000 for the last game would have me worried.

Yeah, someone fudged last year. Your attendance doesn't drop 90 percent from 18K average to 2K, unless a whole lot of people moved or died. I'll go with someone internally is trying to sunshine pump and create a false narrative. Happens all the time.


There were more people who paid and attended 3 WT volleyball D2 non-conference matches on a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday than attended Tarleton's football game.


And if ACU was reporting 7000...

[oldbuff]

Tarleton was not at home last Saturday. They played at Houston Christian and drew 2030, which was probably a huge crowd for HCU.

[MooseLodge]

Tarleton was not at home last Saturday. They played at Houston Christian and drew 2030, which was probably a huge crowd for HCU.

Boy, the competition really stiffens when you move up.

[SPOLOVILO4EVER]

Tarleton had 14k for its home game. It was low because it was really hot and the game was on ESPN2 and everyone wanted to see it on TV. We will probably draw 20k ish until deer season begins and then it will drop again.

[frutedog]

Yeah, Pops/Mooseknuckle really goofed and no one called him on it. He then went on to talk about FCS competition in Houston Christian who nearly beat Texas Tech a few years ago, yet says nothing about Sul Ross now being a proud member of the mighty lone star conference. He’s a tool. Tarleton will have 20k+ at games at the end of Sept. and again in mid Oct. and then have 13-18k for the other 3.
LSC got way more problems than worrying about ACU, Tarleton and FCS. So just stop. You look jealous and petty. Get rid of your cancerous president and come join us WT. It really is a better place than where you are now.

[ctrabs74]

A loss is a loss.

If ACU racks up the wins and get into the top 25 I am sure the attendance will pick up a tick.

The biggest head scratcher is Tarleton. They averaged 18k+ last year in attendance but only 2000 for the last game would have me worried.

As noted downthread, I think you were referring to this game:

https://hcuhuskies.com/sports/footba.../boxscore/5822

And HCU, who was coming off a season opening drubbing at SMU in the Mustangs' home opener, gets to face UTSA in the Alamo Dome on the 21st. Sandwiched between the Tarleton and UTSA games is a winnable (well, in theory) game against NAIA Louisiana Christian.

[Turbonium]

Yeah, Pops/Mooseknuckle really goofed and no one called him on it. He then went on to talk about FCS competition in Houston Christian who nearly beat Texas Tech a few years ago, yet says nothing about Sul Ross now being a proud member of the mighty lone star conference. He’s a tool. Tarleton will have 20k+ at games at the end of Sept. and again in mid Oct. and then have 13-18k for the other 3.
LSC got way more problems than worrying about ACU, Tarleton and FCS. So just stop. You look jealous and petty. Get rid of your cancerous president and come join us WT. It really is a better place than where you are now.

Weird that you're still reading the LSC board and posting here more now than when Tarleton was actually in D2.

[Herb Street]

Tarleton had 14k for its home game. It was low because it was really hot and the game was on ESPN2 and everyone wanted to see it on TV. We will probably draw 20k ish until deer season begins and then it will drop again.

If Tarleton had 14,000 for its ESPN-televised game, then my name is Santa Claus.

And "It was low because it was hot and the game was on ESPN2 and everyone wanted to see it on TV" is pretty pathetic.

[Techster88]

Fruit dog has a point. Tarleton has flourished as a FCS school and I think I saw somewhere that they are ranked.

they also had some of the best attendance numbers for FCS last year. Not sure about the 20k.

The LSC is starting to look a shell of its former self. The competition has dropped quite significantly in the last few years. ACU, Tarleton and East Texas Commerce are solid programs that imho have not been replaced.

Central Wash is a quality add but for how long?

What once was a great football conference is now a conference with football as an afterthought.

I’ll be surprised if more than team gets to the playoffs. Kinda sad.

[Herb Street]

Fruit dog has a point. Tarleton has flourished as a FCS school and I think I saw somewhere that they are ranked.

they also had some of the best attendance numbers for FCS last year. Not sure about the 20k.

The LSC is starting to look a shell of its former self. The competition has dropped quite significantly in the last few years. ACU, Tarleton and East Texas Commerce are solid programs that imho have not been replaced.

Central Wash is a quality add but for how long?

What once was a great football conference is now a conference with football as an afterthought.

I’ll be surprised if more than team gets to the playoffs. Kinda sad.

No question, the LSC isn't what it once was in football. The trend in Texas among some schools has been to go the FCS route. But funding that is all about student taxes. ACU is a private school and they can tax whatever the market will bear. Same for UIW. Tarleton has an enrollment sufficient to compete at a middling football level. Commerce doesn't have the funds to compete, and probably never will. They are stuck in loser land. All sports are extreme shoe-string D1.

No public schools in the LSC have sufficient enrollments to fund a competitive D1 program. You might see someone else go the Commerce route, but I doubt it; that's no man's land.

[ASUPops]

Yeah, Pops/Mooseknuckle really goofed and no one called him on it. He then went on to talk about FCS competition in Houston Christian who nearly beat Texas Tech a few years ago, yet says nothing about Sul Ross now being a proud member of the mighty lone star conference. He’s a tool. Tarleton will have 20k+ at games at the end of Sept. and again in mid Oct. and then have 13-18k for the other 3.
LSC got way more problems than worrying about ACU, Tarleton and FCS. So just stop. You look jealous and petty. Get rid of your cancerous president and come join us WT. It really is a better place than where you are now.

Heeeeyyyyy.....Don't bring me into this crap. Calling me Bullwinkle is an insult.

[Techster88]

No question, the LSC isn't what it once was in football. The trend in Texas among some schools has been to go the FCS route. But funding that is all about student taxes. ACU is a private school and they can tax whatever the market will bear. Same for UIW. Tarleton has an enrollment sufficient to compete at a middling football level. Commerce doesn't have the funds to compete, and probably never will. They are stuck in loser land. All sports are extreme shoe-string D1.

No public schools in the LSC have sufficient enrollments to fund a competitive D1 program. You might see someone else go the Commerce route, but I doubt it; that's no man's land.

No doubt it has been ughhhly for Commerce so far. They were thinking a name change could help, I, personally, think it could if it is the right name. The stupidity that was being bounced around made absolutely no sense.

The name is right there for them East Texas A&M. They need something to link the bridge to older alums. Something to get more involved and start building up the program to compete at FCS.

Trying to add Dallas to the school name is assinine,

[HOGSVRR]

Fauck ACU.