(09-22-2014 01:36 PM)Bull Wrote:  

(09-21-2014 11:38 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(09-21-2014 11:27 PM)Fred Matt Wrote:  Did Memphis really have more than 40k attendance?

Judge for yourself

Thats pretty awesome. Is that the new scoreboard that was recently installed?

Just goes to show that a bit of winning and a strong team will put fans in the stadium. We get thread after thread grousing about USF attendance. Well Duh, the team sux... it has nothing to do with playing in the Bucs stadium.

Agreed.

just one fan's opinion........
I find it more amazing that 20-25K people attend games (or at least buy tickets) for years for relatively poor performing programs than selling 40K tickets for programs that win 7-11 games. I'm not critical at all of the 40K tickets sold for winning programs; but the dedication of fans buying season tickets for decades for mostly poorer performing programs is a testament how passionate/patient the fan base really is.

Show the fans some life in the program and they will show up with $ in their hands to buy tickets.

(09-22-2014 01:52 PM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 09:35 AM)TripleA Wrote:  We have long been a sleeping giant. We were just so horrible the last few years that most fans outside Memphis didn't realize it. Let's hope we can keep it up. The next 3 are tough: @ Ole Miss, @ Cincy, and home to Houston.

If we can win 2 of those (or maybe even one and be competitive in the others), the sky is the limit. After that, our last 6 games are against more or less the bottom 6 in the league.

If we beat Ole Miss, even if we lose to Cincy, that stadium will explode for the Houston game--upwards of 55,000 I would guesstimate.

Actually, the reverse of that might cause a sellout. Lose in a competitive game to OM, and beat Cincy up there, and we'll likely have a 57K+ sellout for Houston.

Win both, and we'll have to build a temporary addition to the Liberty Bowl. Or make the scalpers rich.

(09-22-2014 01:21 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 05:58 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  there was no ticket deal. it was a legit crowd (btw, the stadium capacity was reduced to just under 59,000 after the last ada renovations. im not sure how many seats are removed by the endzone tarp underneath the large video board, maybe a 1000 so capacity for tiger games right now is somewhere in the 57,000 range. i was on tiger lane 8 hours before kickoff and ive never seen people looking for extra tickets and finding none. i think thats why so many people got hung up at the ticket booths before kick-off, they had always been able to find tickets floating around outside the stadium and this time there just werent any. when tiger football has a pulse, people respond. i was really suprised at how few people mtsu brought - smallest batch they've ever brought.

this line was double and stretched past the fountain & was taken 30 minutes before the game. the ticket booths by the gates also had long lines at them.

There was a ticket deal...$7 tickets on living social (instead of the normal 10)

I posted the link on the MTSU message board to be nice.

Thanks for the heads up. May use this if we get a free weekend. Only 500+ have been purchased thus far...no significant effect on season attendance yet.

I will be at the Houston game.

(09-22-2014 01:36 PM)Bull Wrote:  

(09-21-2014 11:38 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(09-21-2014 11:27 PM)Fred Matt Wrote:  Did Memphis really have more than 40k attendance?

Judge for yourself

Thats pretty awesome. Is that the new scoreboard that was recently installed?

That photo does the crowd justice, but not the size of the scoreboard. It. Is one massive beast.

Fans in this conference haver become obsessed with attendance numbers. *


















* ...of course my feelings would be different if we were still averaging 40K per game ;^)

Good to see some AAC teams doing well at the turnstiles.

(09-22-2014 06:43 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 01:36 PM)Bull Wrote:  

(09-21-2014 11:38 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(09-21-2014 11:27 PM)Fred Matt Wrote:  Did Memphis really have more than 40k attendance?

Judge for yourself

Thats pretty awesome. Is that the new scoreboard that was recently installed?

That photo does the crowd justice, but not the size of the scoreboard. It. Is one massive beast.

this is the old scoreboard superimposed over the large video board in the south endzone.



the new video board in the north endzone is isnt tiny itself.

(09-22-2014 01:21 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  There was a ticket deal...$7 tickets on living social (instead of the normal 10)

I posted the link on the MTSU message board to be nice.

I really don't think $7 tickets vs $10 tickets explains anything. It's not like getting $30 face value tickets for $8--that can get people to go because they're "saving so much money" because we act like the $22 savings goes into our pocket.

But $7 vs $10 doesn't explain 40,000.

Hats off to you.

Irregardless all smack talk, big ups to Memphis football for bringing in that number.

At UH they just got over the 40k mark during the opener so I hold the figure as a huge milepost.

Great news for our conference

Not that it matters much, but the cheapest ticket at the gate is now $15. And parking went up from $10 to $15 now. So that makes it even more impressive. Baby steps.

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(09-22-2014 10:30 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  In memorial

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May they live long in our hearts

(09-22-2014 10:43 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 10:30 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  In memorial

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May they live long in our hearts

F**k 'em.

(09-22-2014 10:43 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 10:30 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  In memorial

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Cougar King

May they live long in our hearts

I wonder what makes people enjoy going overboard with being annoying....especially when they clearly know that they are being a complete oddball and the overwhelming majority of their contemporaries totally dislike what they are doing.

I can be a pest at times, but it's never just for sport.

(09-22-2014 11:28 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 10:43 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(09-22-2014 10:30 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  In memorial

Quo
Cali cat
Geo Tag
Cougar King

May they live long in our hearts

I wonder what makes people enjoy going overboard with being annoying....especially when they clearly know that they are being a complete oddball and the overwhelming majority of their contemporaries totally dislike what they are doing.

I can be a pest at times, but it's never just for sport.

Same here. I never will understand peeps who stand out like sore thumbs for being annoying on message boards. I mean, just typing that sounds dumb.

I suppose they think they are cool, or different, or smarter, or whatever, but all they are is laughed at, or people just shake their heads at their social idiocy.

My theory is a lot of them just get a charge out of people taking the bait. The worst thing that could happen to them is to be completely ignored.

Guys... Temple won't be hitting 40k for any of our games this season. I think that we hit 29k for Navy and 19k last week for DSU. We have some serious attendance issues that go beyond winning. The argument that the team sucks and the fans will come once the team starts winning isn't holding up. Granted we are not Top 25 but the team is decent and fun to watch. It was only 2011 when the team went out and won a bowl game. I see us as a middle of the pack AAC team. That should be good for better than last place in attendance.

The only permanent cure is a campus stadium. It won't solve everything but a sellout for that Navy game in a 30k campus stadium sure would have looked good!

For our final home games I think that we will do ... 18k for Tulsa, 30k for ECU, 22k Memphis and 20k for Cinc ... I am thinking 6 to 8 wins this season ...

Note: next season we will see some big numbers with 68k for both Penn State and Notre Dame ....

I don't think I'd ban anyone for being an annoying dumb***. Sometimes these people are an example of how NOT to behave. I don't know if I'd want a completely sterilized board. I do draw the line at personal attacks using vulgarities.