2021 Fall Playoffs Round 1: UT Martin @ Missouri State

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Originally Posted by Professor Chaos

Crowds are always super small this weekend and generally smaller in the playoffs overall. There's several reasons; holiday weekend (many people already have alternate plans), no students on campus, only a week (and a holiday week at that) to sell tickets, and because the NCAA gets 75% of the net gate schools all of a sudden get a lot more conservative about who is counted for official attendance (bands, cheer teams, other school personnel, are not counted). If you can draw 50% of your regular season average this weekend you're doing well. 75% or above is outstanding.

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Can you tell this whole process is new to all us Missouri State fans?

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Originally Posted by MSUWineGuy

Can you tell this whole process is new to all us Missouri State fans?

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Nothing wrong with that. There's no football like playoff football! My team has been in it for the last 12 years straight and, as a fan, I still get the excited jitters knowing that it's win or go home season. :)

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Originally Posted by MSUWineGuy

Can you tell this whole process is new to all us Missouri State fans?

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I was about to say the same. It still feels like a fricking dream!

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Originally Posted by Professor Chaos

If you can draw 50% of your regular season average this weekend you're doing well. 75% or above is outstanding.

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I will be so disappointed if we're between 5500 and 8000 fans this weekend...

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Originally Posted by MSUDuo

I will be so disappointed if we're between 5500 and 8000 fans this weekend...

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I think we will top at least 10k. Not having students or the full band will be killer, but those that do come are going to be loud as hell. 8 of the 12 lower bowl sections have already sold out and those are the fans you can hear the most on the field, so that is great to see.

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Originally Posted by MSUDuo

I was about to say the same. It still feels like a fricking dream!

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Originally Posted by MSUWineGuy

I think we will top at least 10k. Not having students or the full band will be killer, but those that do come are going to be loud as hell. 8 of the 12 lower bowl sections have already sold out and those are the fans you can hear the most on the field, so that is great to see.

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Welcome to the Play-offs MoSt Bears! Glad to have you participating. Pulling for you to up hold your end and do some serious damage in the play-offs. You have the talent, my friends.

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Originally Posted by MSUDuo

I was about to say the same. It still feels like a fricking dream!

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Yes. Enjoy it. It will be thrilling until it ends in bitter disappointment for all except one. Trust me from experience...it is usually disappointment.

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Originally Posted by Catbooster

That must just be for the first round (since there are 8 games in the first round)? We hosted 2 games and I'm sure our attendance was well over 7,500 as well as Montana, NDSU, JMU who all hosted multiple games after the first round. Not that it changes your conclusion.

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Yes, just the first round because we were discussing teams that "should be" hosting getting screwed due to the "lower ranked" team bidding more. After the first round, it becomes pretty unlikely for an unseeded team to host, making bids less important. It is impossible in Round 2, because the seeds are guaranteed to host (assuming they at least bid the minimum, which I don't think anyone has ever NOT done). In the QF and SF, both seeds would have had to have been upset. Since seeding the top 8 started in 2013, it has only happened twice - the 2015 QF of SHSU-Colgate and the 2016 QF of YSU-Wofford. That's 2 out of 48 QF and SF games (4.167%) where bids mattered.

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Originally Posted by MSUWineGuy

We can’t find a beat writer for them but our beat reached out to the school and the school said he was day to day then a couple hours later came that interview. Petrino said they are preparing as if he will play.

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That's what I would expect. Unless I saw a star player in a full body cast, if the opposing coach says the stud is DEFINITELY OUT, I'm taking that with a truckload of salt and would still only believe it if I personally pushed the guy out of his hospital bed onto the floor to test for a believable shriek of pain.

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Originally Posted by MSUWineGuy

Can you tell this whole process is new to all us Missouri State fans?

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Originally Posted by MSUDuo

I was about to say the same. It still feels like a fricking dream!

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Congrats to the Missouri State fans! It wasn't so long ago that I had the same reaction about the Bobcats in the playoffs as Jim Mora so enjoy it. And not only does your playoff drought end, but it looks very likely that you'll come away with at least one victory (if the poll voters know their stuff). But I can only support you for the 1 win xsmiley_wix