Game 9: Akron (Gillette Stadium)

[mdogt12]

UMass Football ‏@UMassFootball · 6h6 hours ago
@ZipsFB at UMass at @GilletteStadium on Nov. 7 will kick at 12 p.m. ET and air live on @CBSSportsNet. #WinTogether

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[Cahoonaville]

This game is going to look great on TV with about 65,000 empty seats surrounding the field

[mdogt12]

pack Gillette!!

[78]

My guess -- real attendance = 9,000 or so; announced attendance = 13,000 plus.

[photoman]

My guess -- real attendance = 9,000 or so; announced attendance = 13,000 plus.

Never. Band Day had announced at 12k plus. No freak'n way that many were in that stadium For Akron we're looking at announced of 10k, and real of 6500. Talk about a high-expectations season turning UGLY.

[Rolling Ridge]

Talk about a high-expectations season turning UGLY.

True, but we're just going to have to get over that. It didn't turn out the way we wanted this season, but I'm not going to stop supporting the team. If that article was right, we made some trade-offs that hurt us this year but may pay off down the road. We'll see.

But I've come around to the idea that really we are now in year two of Whipple, and it's going to be a couple of years yet until we really start to turn the corner. I'm not panicking until then, and if it means I have to go out to Gillette or Amherst and watch my team lose, then that's what I'm going to do. And I'm bringing friends.

See you there! Right?

[photoman]

Of course I'll be there. Doesn't mean I haven't completely lost my mind over this season. I don't ever want to hear "bowl game" until the invitation is in my mailbox.

[tdmass]

Hey guys cheer up . . just got off the cell with one of the UMass players . . they think they can "run the table", "their confidence is still at an all time high" and they are going to have a "good week of practice" . . . You Buying!!!

[photoman]

Hey guys cheer up . . just got off the cell with one of the UMass players . . they think they can "run the table", "their confidence is still at an all time high" and they are going to have a "good week of practice" . . . You Buying!!!

Buying? I'm not even renting that crap.

[harbo]

My guess -- real attendance = 9,000 or so; announced attendance = 13,000 plus.

Never. Band Day had announced at 12k plus. No freak'n way that many were in that stadium For Akron we're looking at announced of 10k, and real of 6500. Talk about a high-expectations season turning UGLY.

How many would have been at band day had we beaten Temple and Kent State and gone into the Toledo game at 3-3?

[njumass08]

Going to be a nice day Saturday. Hopefully the guys have some fight left in them.

[Rolling Ridge]

This should be a fairly competitive game, and I'd think we have a chance to win this one. When Akron wins, they seem to win big, so they can score under the right conditions. Personally I'd like to see our offense do something, anything, in this game. Defense is not good, but they kept us alive at Ball State. Offensive miscues just killed us. If the players don't show any fight on Saturday, I'd have no problem putting in younger guys and moving on, letting them start to get experience. The next few games would be a great opportunity to do that if we don't show any life.

[eldonabe]

This is going to be one empty stadium - the over under on how long it would take to count by hand the number of people there is about 15 minutes... and that number could easily be less than 5K!

[photoman]

This is going to be one empty stadium - the over under on how long it would take to count by hand the number of people there is about 15 minutes... and that number could easily be less than 5K!

Hopefully Zippy the Kangaroo makes the trip. Every person and mascot counts!

[eldonabe]

^ Maybe Derek Kellogg can make all of his assistants go to the game - that would double the attendance figure