(12-08-2014 02:30 PM)Bearcat61 Wrote:  

(12-08-2014 09:26 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  A lot of folks just had no interest in going downtown to PBS. I get it. I went but there were games I would have almost preferred to watch from the couch. Sterile as hell and I always feel like I am a 5 iron away from the play no matter where I sit. Students largely said the hell with it too. Had the season started off better than it did in those first 5 games, the gate would have been far better. Fireworks shows or not, a lot of folks decided to just sit on the sideline until 2015. This is not all on the fans. Customers are allowed to make informed choices regardless of the loyalty mandate from some.

You have to give the 25,000 fans a lot of credit for dealing with PBS on a terrible weather day. You put that game in Nippert and you could add about 5,000 fans. And if we were in the hunt for the Access bowl, you are talking another 5,000 fans. The average attendance this year was 28,850 with a high of 41,926 for Miami of Ohio.
Back home in a renovated Nippert, we should average about 37,000 to 39,000 with at least 3 sold out games including opening day (does not matter who we play), UCF, and probably Temple. Keep in mind, it was not long ago that the average attendance was about 18,000 fans (pre-Big East).

Sellout for Temple? Nothing says excited fans more than Temple, you know that Philly team that was thrown out of the BE and had to play several years in the purgatory that is the MAC? Serious?