I am a fan of Northwestern, a school with 11 fans. I know what it's like when there are no fans in a college football stadium. Some teams, like Northwestern, try to hide it, with tarps. Others, like Illinois, pretend there are actually fans there, which doesn't go well:
That moment when you don't have enough students in your student section to do a card stunt. pic.twitter.com/BEgPdhJy3H
— Erin Sorensen (@erinsorensen) October 3, 2015
This is not the first time they have done this:
Oh #Illini. Saddest card stunt ever. pic.twitter.com/8IE8G24Ty3
— Kevin Trahan (@k_trahan) November 30, 2013
Props to the students for having the coordination to sit in a square with their colors, and more importantly, for figuring out how to make this look like a letter despite there being exactly eight people there.
Illinois has some student section pic.twitter.com/RpImRsCMM8
— Miles Joseph (@MilesLGHL) November 16, 2013
Illinois: You need to stop! You're just helping everybody notice that there are no fans there!