Fitzgerald has opinions about things he doesn’t understand and is proud of it, e..g. The Mercer game no decision circumstances and the crowd here boosted by students that didn’t stay until he looked around in the third quarter.
He is also.defensive about his education, otherwise why mention N Cal people as being educated. Everyone is educated these days, some people just didn’t learn anything.

I think the 17k was high - probably had to estimate the number of freshmen coming into the building. But it was larger than any crowd I’ve seen. 14k might be more realistic.

The number I know are correct are 1 and 3…..SUU’s record which should be most important to the coach. Why the heck was he paying attention to the attendance announcement when the game was still in the balance?

He had a run in with folks in El Paso last year -- then, of course, Southern Utah proceeded to beat the Miners in that game -- now the former UTEP running back Dye runs for Southern Utah! Dye certainly tore us a new one on ground all night last Saturday.

No kidding. 1-3 is all that matters. He also mentioned talking smack to the chain gang about the attendance numbers DURING THE GAME which is kind of wild. Imagine getting the brakes beaten off you so bad you take the time to talk smack to some volunteers. Maybe he's just trying to be funny, but sheesh.

He seemed to not like that the show host was impressed with our AD and the tour of our athletics facilities and especially our strength and sports medicine facility. He went to say that the locker room for our opponents was lackluster and "didn't even have urinals" so he had to stand in a long line to take a leak. I think he just unloading his frustrations about being 1-3 right now.

yeah, he was a bit of a grump about that. He really bristled when the hist t as liked about the facility and that it was something they could shoot for.