Phildog wrote:

When the Dukes kept missing the last 6 min of the game, Rene stepped up and started hitting three's and those awkward drives that he somehow scored on.

This makes me wonder why he never got to play the last three years.

I still think this team will improve throughout the year, JRob had a few flashes last night but then the defense of Cornell stepped up on him.

Have faith, better days will be coming.

To be fair, Rene was decent last year, but he was awful 2 years ago, and earned his spot on the bench.

At last night's game. Very disappointed in the outcome but saw it coming by the end of the first half. Did not expect to win from that point on. If we had a 10 point lead at the half, well maybe. Obvious lack of bodies to throw out there. In his presser KD mentioned that he was trying to establish a style for the future and that is what he is attempting to instill in the players. He is not a zone guy by ant stretch and does not want to focus on it to the detriment of the players continuing to improve on the man D. At least that's what I got out of it. This is why I said that the team would need to go 6-3 in league home games to get beyond 14-15 wins. It does look like I underestimated our difficulties. Hoping Chas Brown can bring it when healthy! Pitt will be tougher than Cornell was. GO DUKES!!

CLK wrote:

I was really hoping we would see more students turn out.  I don't know if they are still on break but there looked to be only a handful of students.  DU students have to be the worst fans in the Country. Maybe, just maybe we would see more energy and fire from this team if the had their fellow students cheering them on.  You would think the football team would turn out in full to support a fellow player and the DUWBB would show up occasionally along with other athletes.  School Spirit and School Pride is non existent at DU.  The student body is a bunch of losers.  Yes, as usual,  they will show up at the Pitt game and cheer, but that will be last time you see them come out in mass all season. 

 

They're only a handful of students outside the Pep Band that stand and cheer. There were probably a little less than 100 students in the section sitting, and there are many that sit somewhere else during the game. I have no idea why they do this, but there's not enough seats being filled elsewhere to stop them from sitting over there.

A girl came up to buy a City Game ticket last night, swear to god, in a Pitt shirt... WTH is she doing??

CLK wrote:

I was really hoping we would see more students turn out.  I don't know if they are still on break but there looked to be only a handful of students.  DU students have to be the worst fans in the Country. Maybe, just maybe we would see more energy and fire from this team if the had their fellow students cheering them on.  You would think the football team would turn out in full to support a fellow player and the DUWBB would show up occasionally along with other athletes.  School Spirit and School Pride is non existent at DU.  The student body is a bunch of losers.  Yes, as usual,  they will show up at the Pitt game and cheer, but that will be last time you see them come out in mass all season. 

 

The students are not going to care until we start winning. Look at the mass exodus from the Pitt fanbase after one bad year. If they can't get fans to stick with them after the best 15 year stretch in their program's history, you know how fickle the fans are. It is what it is. We can complain until the cows come home, and it won't matter. This town doesn't tolerate losers.
 

I don'[t get the lack of interest on the part of the students. I went to tons of games at the arena in my DU days. Of course I saw the final year of Willie Somerset. I also saw great games with the Nelsons, Jarrett, Billy Zopf and that crew. Maybe there is something about winning that will help turn this around. I couldn't be more excited about the future of DU hoops. With 10 players for next year that aren't even on this year's team, it should be something special to see!  GO DUKES!!!

The Dome wrote:

Gents don’t want to be a sexist but this isn’t the university many of us knew. I welcome the opinions of the more recent grads that post but having a daughter who was a recent grad I believe the school is over 60% female the interest just isn’t there.

I believe that is correct. Regardless, I am of the belief that people (even non-DU) people will come if Duquesne wins. It's that simple. While most people believe that Dambrot will win here, Duquesne has been down for too long for people to show up before the winning actually starts.

fjhryn wrote:

I wasn't surprised at all that there weren't more students at the game. Any time there's a Dukes game the same night as a Penguins game, few students show up at Palumbo. But when I'm walking up to Gate B there's a ton of students wearing Pens jerseys heading to PPG. It's been that way for years & I don't know how it can be changed. What's more troubling is the comment about a female student buying a ticket to the Pitt game wearing a Pitt shirt. I was on campus the day that Pitt played Oklahoma State at Heinz Field & I couldn't believe the number of DU female students wearing Pitt gear & heading to that game. Going to these games (Pens & Pitt at Heinz) are events that the students seem to gravitate towards, just like the Dukes/Pitt game on Friday. Sad to say, but going to Palumbo just isn't and I don't think it has anything to do with the Athletic Department staff.
 

This is it. Changing staff won't help. The football is small time, only the die hards care. I went to one football in my 4 years on the Bluff, despite the team being good. After last night, can you blame the students for finding something else to do with their time? Pittsburgh has no interest in losers.
 

CLK wrote:

I was really hoping we would see more students turn out.  I don't know if they are still on break but there looked to be only a handful of students.  DU students have to be the worst fans in the Country. Maybe, just maybe we would see more energy and fire from this team if the had their fellow students cheering them on.  You would think the football team would turn out in full to support a fellow player and the DUWBB would show up occasionally along with other athletes.  School Spirit and School Pride is non existent at DU.  The student body is a bunch of losers.  Yes, as usual,  they will show up at the Pitt game and cheer, but that will be last time you see them come out in mass all season. 

 

I didn't expect a large student turnout after losing to RMU again; but just wanted to respond to CLK regarding a few of his comments.  First, the DUWBB team has been turning out for the men's games when they are in town.  I sat behind a number of the DUWBB players along with Coach Burt and his family.  There was another group of women's players sitting close to the team entrance to the court. 
In general, I've given up trying to understand why more students won't walk about 100 yards to see the team play.  It must come down to the type of students that are attracted to Duquesne in this era. 

Last edited by levon1975 (11/29/2017 6:47 pm)

Back in Reds day we won almost all the home games and it was exciting, I remember the 72-73 team, we lost our final game at South Carolina with Frank McGuire team loaded with NYC kids. And lost our NIT bid, finishing 16-8. We were all so pissed only winning 16 and not 20.
Give me those days again with Coach D and I will be happy!