cruzan_flame13 wrote:Jonathan Carone wrote:FlamesRise wrote:Is creating an organized group going to just change the way the student body operates though? Why won't they just stay away from that section and stay sitting?
The answer is yes and no.
There will always be a large majority of people who show up for games to be social and hang out with friends. As long as they're there, I'm good with it.
If there is an organized group of students leading the student section, others will join in even if they're not a part of the group. We proved that 07-09 with The LUnatics. Even the 09-10 season when fan support started dropping there were still a good percentage of students who were there who were involved because they had a group leading them.
If the Jokers will actually show up at every game and be there to lead -- or if some other group will do it for them -- then it'll turn around.
That other group will be the reboot of the LUnatics. They have a twitter page @LibertyLunatics, although their last post was in December of last year.
We used to have a group of fans called the lUNAtics. That's kinda funny that yall have one too. Ours kinda disappeared as time went on for some reason.
We are having a student participation problem as well. We are hovering around the 1k mark to basketball games, but only about 40-50 students have been showing up, or at least sitting in the student section. But we have not had but 3 D1 home games, so that may have something to do with it.
I imagine, after we get settled in throughout the transition and when we start winning more, that will change.