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Attendance: 6211 for Saturday night Bartow Classic. Sure seemed like more than Thursday night (6664)...but it was a lively crowd!

As I was waiting on the rest of my group to meet at the door after the game, I had to move over to allow the young lady to use her phone light to view the turnstile counter, then watched her write the number down on a small scrap piece of paper. There is no way each turnstile is reported accurately, nor every scrap piece of paper accounted for during the final tally. I too think there was more Saturday night than Thursday night, as the ends and corners were noticably fuller.

I'm surprised and happy that the end of our win streak didn't send the attendance numbers spiraling down. I really thought it would.

It's nice to see the attendance in the 6,000s.

(02-07-2016 09:10 AM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  Attendance: 6211 for Saturday night Bartow Classic. Sure seemed like more than Thursday night (6664)...but it was a lively crowd!

Even against a no-name opponent in a blowout it was a fun game...the coat toss, all the dunks and watching the team (and crowd) get behind Thomas Smallwood...everyone seemed to have a BIG time

Clearly more there Saturday. That said good crowd.

Have anyone noticed the attendance at some of these AAC games? They've been pretty underwhelming.

AAC ATTENDANCE:

Memphis (17) 11721
UConn (12) 10180
Cincinnati (14) 7862
SMU (12) 6865
Temple (9) 5435
Tulsa (11) 4646
East Carolina (12) 4486
UCF (12) 4438
Houston (14) 3563
USF (14) 2961
Tulane (12) 1827

League Avg: 6002

(02-07-2016 04:17 PM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  AAC ATTENDANCE:

Memphis (17) 11721
UConn (12) 10180
Cincinnati (14) 7862
SMU (12) 6865
Temple (9) 5435
Tulsa (11) 4646
East Carolina (12) 4486
UCF (12) 4438
Houston (14) 3563
USF (14) 2961
Tulane (12) 1827

League Avg: 6002

The Memphis number is a joke. A reporter got a turnstile count for Saturdays Cincinnati game and it was around 7000. It was also said to be one of the better attended games of the year.

C-USA ATTENDANCE:

UTEP (15) 7412
Old Dominion (12) 7002
Middle Tennessee (11) 5124
Marshall (10) 4957
Charlotte (11) 4812
UAB (14) 4602
Louisiana Tech (13) 3593
WKU (11) 3602
Southern Miss (11) 2987
Rice (13) 2112
North Texas (14) 1998
UTSA (12) 1042
Florida Atlantic (7) 1034
FIU (12) 975

League Avg: 3762

FAU had 3 OOC home games...vs Warner, vs Ave Maria, and vs Tennessee-Martin

(02-07-2016 04:30 PM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  C-USA ATTENDANCE:

UTEP (15) 7412
Old Dominion (12) 7002
Middle Tennessee (11) 5124
Marshall (10) 4957
Charlotte (11) 4812
UAB (14) 4602
Louisiana Tech (13) 3593
WKU (11) 3602
Southern Miss (11) 2987
Rice (13) 2112
North Texas (14) 1998
UTSA (12) 1042
Florida Atlantic (7) 1034
FIU (12) 975

League Avg: 3762

FAU had 3 OOC home games...vs Warner, vs Ave Maria, and vs Tennessee-Martin

Yeah, I mentioned this in another thread. FAU has only had 5 D1 home games all season so far. It's pretty sad.

Home CUSA games avg. 5,370...last 3 games over 6,000
Sellout Bartow for the last two

(02-07-2016 01:00 PM)Dragonz Lair Wrote:  

(02-07-2016 09:10 AM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  Attendance: 6211 for Saturday night Bartow Classic. Sure seemed like more than Thursday night (6664)...but it was a lively crowd!

Even against a no-name opponent in a blowout it was a fun game...the coat toss, all the dunks and watching the team (and crowd) get behind Thomas Smallwood...everyone seemed to have a BIG time

Exactly right. It does not matter who UAB is playing. If Bartow Arena is even 75% full, it's s great time. This is what we need more people to realize

We have over two weeks to sell out Bartow for the last homestand with Marshall & WKU. Both need a sound thrashing.

I can only imagine the beating WKU will receive when 11 guys are determined to get Robert Brown a win on senior night.

(02-07-2016 04:59 PM)Motley Blazer Wrote:  Home CUSA games avg. 5,370...last 3 games over 6,000
Sellout Bartow for the last two

I like it. Very encouraging.

(02-07-2016 04:30 PM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  C-USA ATTENDANCE:

UTEP (15) 7412
Old Dominion (12) 7002
Middle Tennessee (11) 5124
Marshall (10) 4957
Charlotte (11) 4812
UAB (14) 4602
Louisiana Tech (13) 3593
WKU (11) 3602
Southern Miss (11) 2987
Rice (13) 2112
North Texas (14) 1998
UTSA (12) 1042
Florida Atlantic (7) 1034
FIU (12) 975

League Avg: 3762

The bottom 3 teams combined are averaging 3051. This is high school level B.S. Why did those 3 schools get an invite into C-USA?

(02-08-2016 12:47 AM)Dracorex Wrote:  

(02-07-2016 04:30 PM)CourtsideBlazer Wrote:  C-USA ATTENDANCE:

UTEP (15) 7412
Old Dominion (12) 7002
Middle Tennessee (11) 5124
Marshall (10) 4957
Charlotte (11) 4812
UAB (14) 4602
Louisiana Tech (13) 3593
WKU (11) 3602
Southern Miss (11) 2987
Rice (13) 2112
North Texas (14) 1998
UTSA (12) 1042
Florida Atlantic (7) 1034
FIU (12) 975

League Avg: 3762

The bottom 3 teams combined are averaging 3051. This is high school level B.S. Why did those 3 schools get an invite into C-USA?

Football, perhaps.

If we average 7,800 for the last two games, we can get the season average over 5k. Let's make it happen!

(02-07-2016 06:12 PM)UABslant Wrote:  We have over two weeks to sell out Bartow for the last homestand with Marshall & WKU. Both need a sound thrashing.

I can only imagine the beating WKU will receive when 11 guys are determined to get Robert Brown a win on senior night.

That and there's the revenge factor.