(06-16-2016 04:05 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(06-15-2016 09:07 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  Ideally, a school wants demand in excess of seating. Mandatory "donations" to the booster organization to get in the season ticket queue is another layer of revenue that schools with optimized capacity to attendance ratios accrue.

The school with 30k in demand and a 25k capacity/sellout attendance is probably substantially out earning the school with 30k in demand, a 40k stadium, and 30k real attendance plus 5k fake attendance.

This is probably going to deep into this lol but.

Wouldn't it just depend on building materials?

If two schools build a 30k and 40k stadium at the same price. There is no high maintenance in the seats alone.

I personally would rather be in the 40k stadium with a 30k demand. Maybe that's the Engineer in me but I feel like a design should always have scalability.

And jeez there is nothing worse than being stuffed into a crowed stadium next to some drunk 19 year old.

You seem to be looking at this from a fan's (buyer's) point of view and not the school's (seller's) point of view. Scarcity is what drives prices up, to the benefit of the seller. If there are always lots of empty seats, there are going to be a lot of fans who would have been willing to pay more for them - either in the form of ticket prices or donations/seat licences. But since they don't have to, they don't.

(06-15-2016 04:20 PM)BullsFanInTX Wrote:  

(06-15-2016 01:50 PM)YNot Wrote:  Too confusing and convoluted, but I've created a new promotion-relegation G5 conference scheme, based solely on attendance:

30K CONFERENCE
NORTH
Temple (44,159)
ECU (43,274)
Cincinnati (37,096)
Navy (32,338)
Army West Point (30,991)

SOUTH
BYU (58,532)
Memphis (43,802)
Houston (33,980)
Boise St. (33,612)
UCF (30,065)

Here is USF's historical attendance.

2005 38,865
2006 30,222
2007 53,170
2008 49,690
2009 52,553
2010 40,849
2011 44,550
2012 44,130
2013 34,702
2014 30,694
2015 26,578

Yes but look at the trend.