Liberal Arts Colleges where football games are packed and a social event

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Anonymous wrote:Davidson home football attendance is very small.

It’s a small school. 2,000 kids, maybe less. The question is whether a solid percentage of those 2,000 kids make it a priority to attend home games.

Like, if my sports-loving kid were a freshman at Davidson next year, would it be easy for them to find a similarly sports-loving crew to go watch football, basketball, and lax games? And when they’re at football and basketball games, is it fun?

For reference, they’re at a relatively small public high school in New England- 200 per grade, so 800 kids total. The student turnout for home games is loud and very fun. Not huge in terms of numbers because the school is relatively small. But active, loud, and fun.

To use the SEC comparison, of course DC’s football game experience is nothing like the big high schools in Texas! But it’s great for its size/scale/location. Looking for LACs that are similar.

They should just go to a university where people make sports their identity then.

They don’t want a big school.

Their first priority is to go to a small LAC (for academic and other non-sports reasons).

Their second priority is that the LAC they choose has as much school spirit and sports participation as possible given the size and type of school.

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Backtrack then. Find a medium school with strong sports culture that has a cohort small enough to be like an LAC.

They don’t want a medium-sized school.

They want a small LAC that is < 3000.

Again, we would love first-hand insights about which of the < 3000 LACs have strong sports culture given their size.

Holy Cross is one the better options

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Anonymous wrote:Davidson home football attendance is very small.

It’s a small school. 2,000 kids, maybe less. The question is whether a solid percentage of those 2,000 kids make it a priority to attend home games.

Like, if my sports-loving kid were a freshman at Davidson next year, would it be easy for them to find a similarly sports-loving crew to go watch football, basketball, and lax games? And when they’re at football and basketball games, is it fun?

For reference, they’re at a relatively small public high school in New England- 200 per grade, so 800 kids total. The student turnout for home games is loud and very fun. Not huge in terms of numbers because the school is relatively small. But active, loud, and fun.

To use the SEC comparison, of course DC’s football game experience is nothing like the big high schools in Texas! But it’s great for its size/scale/location. Looking for LACs that are similar.

They should just go to a university where people make sports their identity then.

They don’t want a big school.

Their first priority is to go to a small LAC (for academic and other non-sports reasons).

Their second priority is that the LAC they choose has as much school spirit and sports participation as possible given the size and type of school.

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Backtrack then. Find a medium school with strong sports culture that has a cohort small enough to be like an LAC.

They don’t want a medium-sized school.

They want a small LAC that is < 3000.

Again, we would love first-hand insights about which of the < 3000 LACs have strong sports culture given their size.

Holy Cross is one the better options

with social politics of the 80s.

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Holy Cross is the best choice. How many very good lacs play Northwestern, Army, or Syracuse. Believe HC has 4 grads playing in the NFL. Great school.

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OP - sounds like it’s YOU who wants him to go to a LAC. Sounds like HE wants the same experience his brother had, which was a large state school. Why don’t you let him choose the school that’s right for him?

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^Agree about Holy Cross they are the only non- Ivy school that plays both Harvard and Yale annually. Their fans travel well on road games. For a small school 3000 kids they have a very loyal following.

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Anonymous wrote:Davidson home football stadium capacity is tiny at 5,000. Most high schools have bigger stadiums.

They just built a new stadium. Maybe your info is outdated?

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^the stadium is new but pp is right capacity is 5k per official Davidson athletic website. Plus they play in unknown league for football seldom drawing over 4000. Football is not strong at Davidson.

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Anonymous wrote:^Agree about Holy Cross they are the only non- Ivy school that plays both Harvard and Yale annually. Their fans travel well on road games. For a small school 3000 kids they have a very loyal following.

And this is how populated your game will look...
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Op, seriously go to a university.

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^Nice try but that’s the visitors side for the HC- Harvard game. When Holy Cross played BC in 2023 there were 15000 HC fans at the game in Chestnut Hill. Post a clip of that game.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke, Tulane and Vandy. Midsized privates in competitive conferences.

Duke football culture...lol

They’re trying hard to build it up. It will never be anything like the SEC schools (or Duke basketball!)

But it’s much more of an event than it was 10 years ago and nothing like it was in the 90s.

Sure

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Anonymous wrote:^Nice try but that’s the visitors side for the HC- Harvard game. When Holy Cross played BC in 2023 there were 15000 HC fans at the game in Chestnut Hill. Post a clip of that game.

Your proof is only valid if it supports my viewpoint!!!

Please, most HC games are empty.

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Anonymous wrote:^Nice try but that’s the visitors side for the HC- Harvard game. When Holy Cross played BC in 2023 there were 15000 HC fans at the game in Chestnut Hill. Post a clip of that game.

The series has become sufficiently boring for Harvard that it’s not worth the trip. How much is holy cross going to get blown out this year? No hope of stopping Jaden Craig.

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Last year at very empty Harvard stadium the HC -Harvard was a fantastic game with Harvard winning by 1 point. Not a grad of either school but. 40% of the crowd that day was rooting for HC myself included. Harvard has very limited fan base as most of there students would not the difference between a football and a tennis ball.

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^Only time Harvard has a good crowd is for the Yale game.