meager attendance at Nutter Center?

[ChampionOfSteel]

None of these pics really have the crowd shown:

http://daytonbulldogs.org/gallery/20060409.asp


You can only estimate something isn't right here. A few front rows actually have people with lots of empty seats in this picture:

http://daytonbulldogs.org/images/gallery/game20060409/Scrimmage5sm.jpg

Play calling must be whispered? I mean I've never seen the Nut House this empty for a sporting event.

Total bummer.

[Gunsmoke]

I was in the Nutter Center when the Bulldogs played
the Marshals.
There were maybe 500 people there.
I think most people were parents of the group
that put on the half time show.

[ChampionOfSteel]

I was in the Nutter Center when the Bulldogs played
the Marshals.
There were maybe 500 people there.
I think most people were parents of the group
that put on the half time show.

People are fed up with NIFL football. It's not the team. It's the league. They want nothing to do with it.

Reputation means everything. You can't make plans ahead of time with this league as a fan.

[fevermel]

here in tri-cities weve been averaging at least 4500 a game. we sold out last weekend against wyoming.
No problems here.
We have been lucky enough to be winning ballgames which obviously helps bring people out.
Are the teams there good??

[nksports]

Are the teams there good??

The current Dayton ownership has to overcome bungling by one team that folded before playing a game (the UIF ownership) and the near folding of the second ownership (those fine people at CSM). They are on their third ownership group in two seasons.
The current group had to hit the ground running in terms of marketing, promotion, ticket sales. They only had a couple of weeks to do it.
What you almost have to do is put this season behind you and start work for next year. One change I'd make for next season, which should bring costs down, is move to Hara Arena. It's about a little more than a third the size of the Nutter Center (just under 5,000), but it oozes old-timey atmosphere. (I may be predjudiced because I practically grew up there.)

[preeths]

Fevermel, you are right that winning probably helps the Fever to some degree, but the team also runs itself well. They appear to be a good example for the industroy off the field, as well as on.