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Give Frogs a home-field advantage
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Watch the TV broadcasts and look for the obligatory shot across the stands. At most stadiums, the bleachers are filled to overflowing with fans wearing the school colors and cheering wildly.

Look around the stands at a TCU game, if you’re there. See the large number of empty seats and fans sitting on their hands? Is there something wrong with this picture?

The game last Saturday night against UAB was the most poorly attended game of the year for TCU, in spite of the fact that it was Homecoming.

Criminy, people. We have the 14th best team in the country, according to the Bowl Championship Series rankings, but we rank 65th in average attendance, according to the NCAA. Louisville pulled in ten thousand more fans this week than we did. So don’t say, “It’s because we aren’t in a big conference.”

Some of the best football in the country is being played right here at Amon Carter Stadium on Moncrief Field, yet there seem to be as many students draining kegs of beer in the parking lot as there are people in the stadium.

We know the beer is good, we know you want to relax on the weekend and we know they won’t let you carry the keg into the stadium. That’s not much of an excuse. The beer will be there when you get back. We promise.

The problem may just be the general lack of school spirit on campus. Take our tragi-comic pep rally as an example. The few people who even attended could barely be motivated enough to cheer.

The football team is great. We’re undefeated. Are we pumped?

Nah, it’s Friday, time to start drinking.

So come on Horned Frogs, come to a game, cheer on your football team for 60 minutes on a Saturday night (or Wednesday, Nov. 5, when we face Louisville.) Give our guys a true home-field advantage.