deacvision7
Mod Emeritus
They already think students should come to games. They probably think most Wake students are self-entitled rich kids, and for the most part they are right. Why on EARTH would they want to be told to do certain things differently by people that they probably don't hold all that much regard for in the first place?
And I know you are probably decent friends with a few of the players since you started talking to them before they got on campus, so you had that relationship already established. Most other students do not. I lived in a suite in North (or whatever it is called now... the one beyond Polo) with a bunch of football players my sophomore year. We sucked ass then. They sure as shit didn't care what most students thought the football team should do to encourage attendance. Most of them thought students should go to the games anyway. And they sure as shit didn't want to be lectured to, and it will feel like a lecture, by fellow students telling them what they needed to do to increase attendance. Do you realize how self-important that students will look to the players if they do that?
"Yeah, I know we get in for free, but that's not good enough. Here is some other shit you guys have to do to get my friends and me to come to your games...." Yeah, brilliant idea. Pure brilliance.
Win games and people show up in big numbers. Don't win games and people show up in small numbers. Everyone knows this and no stupid gimmicks put out there concocted up by 5 Screamin' Demons and a couple basketball players is going to change that at the Joel. And forgive my rj-esque absoluteness here, but it is a fantasy world to think otherwise.
And I know you are probably decent friends with a few of the players since you started talking to them before they got on campus, so you had that relationship already established. Most other students do not. I lived in a suite in North (or whatever it is called now... the one beyond Polo) with a bunch of football players my sophomore year. We sucked ass then. They sure as shit didn't care what most students thought the football team should do to encourage attendance. Most of them thought students should go to the games anyway. And they sure as shit didn't want to be lectured to, and it will feel like a lecture, by fellow students telling them what they needed to do to increase attendance. Do you realize how self-important that students will look to the players if they do that?
"Yeah, I know we get in for free, but that's not good enough. Here is some other shit you guys have to do to get my friends and me to come to your games...." Yeah, brilliant idea. Pure brilliance.
Win games and people show up in big numbers. Don't win games and people show up in small numbers. Everyone knows this and no stupid gimmicks put out there concocted up by 5 Screamin' Demons and a couple basketball players is going to change that at the Joel. And forgive my rj-esque absoluteness here, but it is a fantasy world to think otherwise.