We would all like to see the Liberty Bowl sold out for every game, but here are the facts around Tiger Football attendance since the Liberty Bowl opened in 1965:

307 total games (158-142-7)
Average attendance for years 1965-2015- 28,275
Highest yearly attendance- 2015- 43,802 (home record 5-1)
Lowest yearly attendance- 1982- 17,000 (home record 1-5)

Last 5 years attendance
2011-20,078
2012-24,371 (+4,293)
2013- 28,537 (+4,166)
2014- 33,851 (+5,314)
2015- 43,802 (+9,951)
Increase of 23,724 fans in the stands since 2011

2016 attendance (3 games)
38,679

We have had an incredible surge in attendance the past 5 years, more than doubling the 2011 average attendance.

With Temple, Tulsa, South Florida and Houston remaining on the home schedule this year, I see no reason why we won't approach last year's record setting average home attendance.

Can we continue to add fans at the rate of the past 5 years? Probably not, but if we continue to play and recruit like we have recently, I see no reason why we won't be averaging 50K by 2020.

Just keep winning

it always has been and always will be too big of a stadium for Memphis football.

I've always thought they should do some cool effect by blocking out certain segments of seats and make it look like tiger stripes. And then everyone just fills in around them.

Love being able to spread out with my family. More enjoyable than sitting knee to knee with a stranger. Otherwise, the wife and kids aren't coming to a Kansas/SEMO/Bowling Green type game.

Every football stadium should be 10k "too big".

(09-27-2016 11:05 AM)tiger86 Wrote:  We would all like to see the Liberty Bowl sold out for every game, but here are the facts around Tiger Football attendance since the Liberty Bowl opened in 1965:

307 total games (158-142-7)
Average attendance for years 1965-2015- 28,275
Highest yearly attendance- 2015- 43,802 (home record 5-1)
Lowest yearly attendance- 1982- 17,000 (home record 1-5)

Last 5 years attendance
2011-20,078
2012-24,371 (+4,293)
2013- 28,537 (+4,166)
2014- 33,851 (+5,314)
2015- 43,802 (+9,951)
Increase of 23,724 fans in the stands since 2011

2016 attendance (3 games)
38,679

We have had an incredible surge in attendance the past 5 years, more than doubling the 2011 average attendance.

With Temple, Tulsa, South Florida and Houston remaining on the home schedule this year, I see no reason why we won't approach last year's record setting average home attendance.

Can we continue to add fans at the rate of the past 5 years? Probably not, but if we continue to play and recruit like we have recently, I see no reason why we won't be averaging 50K by 2020.

And I would love to know the demographics of the 23K we have added over the past 5 years. I see lots of young adults and kids in Tiger Lane these days. That bodes well for the future if we keep winning.

(09-27-2016 11:28 AM)tiger86 Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 11:05 AM)tiger86 Wrote:  We would all like to see the Liberty Bowl sold out for every game, but here are the facts around Tiger Football attendance since the Liberty Bowl opened in 1965:

307 total games (158-142-7)
Average attendance for years 1965-2015- 28,275
Highest yearly attendance- 2015- 43,802 (home record 5-1)
Lowest yearly attendance- 1982- 17,000 (home record 1-5)

Last 5 years attendance
2011-20,078
2012-24,371 (+4,293)
2013- 28,537 (+4,166)
2014- 33,851 (+5,314)
2015- 43,802 (+9,951)
Increase of 23,724 fans in the stands since 2011

2016 attendance (3 games)
38,679

We have had an incredible surge in attendance the past 5 years, more than doubling the 2011 average attendance.

With Temple, Tulsa, South Florida and Houston remaining on the home schedule this year, I see no reason why we won't approach last year's record setting average home attendance.

Can we continue to add fans at the rate of the past 5 years? Probably not, but if we continue to play and recruit like we have recently, I see no reason why we won't be averaging 50K by 2020.

And I would love to know the demographics of the 23K we have added over the past 5 years. I see lots of young adults and kids in Tiger Lane these days. That bodes well for the future if we keep winning.

My 8 year old (in the avatar) is now hooked on Tiger football, thanks to Tiger Lane (Tom, bouncy houses, etc.).

He wants to know when we can go back to Memphis for another Tiger game!

I consider anything above 40,000 a very good crowd for UM.

Memphis fans are sort of sensitive. Might rain v Kansas, hurt the crowd. Too hot against BG, hurt the crowd.


But still. 38,000 for a program in the AAC is nothing to sneeze at.

Houston is in the top 10 and has played two home games:

39,402 v Lamar
33,133 v Texas State.

Cincy has had 3 home games:

28,520 v UTM
40,015 v Houston
38,112 v Miami (OH)

Now ECU has had some decent crowds so far:

44,161 v West Carolina
50,719 v NC State

We might as well chair back the rest of the Liberty Bowl because that is the only way we are going to play in a lower capacity stadium

It all depends on us winning through October at a decent clip. If we're at say 8-3 for the last home game against an undefeated Houston team, I could us pulling in at leat 55k and that would spike attendance quite a bit. Of course, Houston could 'Coog it' against Louisville the prior week. If we beat Ole Miss on October 1, we could easily see more than 50k against Temple.

Lots of ifs, but it could definitely happen.

(09-27-2016 12:22 PM)pdlglm Wrote:  I consider anything above 40,000 a very good crowd for UM.

Memphis fans are sort of sensitive. Might rain v Kansas, hurt the crowd. Too hot against BG, hurt the crowd.


But still. 38,000 for a program in the AAC is nothing to sneeze at.

Houston is in the top 10 and has played two home games:

39,402 v Lamar
33,133 v Texas State.

Cincy has had 3 home games:

28,520 v UTM
40,015 v Houston
38,112 v Miami (OH)

Now ECU has had some decent crowds so far:

44,161 v West Carolina
50,719 v NC State

Last year we were just a couple hundred people from leading the G5 schools in attendance, and I certainly thought with the momentum we had that this years attendance would have been even better. But instead we have fallen off while others have picked up. There are currently 5 schools ahead of us with 4 being AAC schools. Why did last years fans not return? How can you not have a good time walking tiger lane when everybody in happy, smiling and having a good time? Or, when 40,000 people are clapping and cheering on the team? My little groupe has doubled our season tickets this year and have brought along more each game. If everyone of the 38,000 fans just invited one friend to join in the fun....the game would sell out.

Attendance is important. It shows the rest of the country and the networks which teams the fans want to see. winning only helps put fans in the stands. Notre dame and Texas aren't the most powerful schools in football because of their records.

http://www.essency.net/ucfsport/attendan...AAAGizBAA=

http://www.essency.net/ucfsport/aac_attn_2016.html

(09-27-2016 01:01 PM)nastar36 Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 12:22 PM)pdlglm Wrote:  I consider anything above 40,000 a very good crowd for UM.

Memphis fans are sort of sensitive. Might rain v Kansas, hurt the crowd. Too hot against BG, hurt the crowd.


But still. 38,000 for a program in the AAC is nothing to sneeze at.

Houston is in the top 10 and has played two home games:

39,402 v Lamar
33,133 v Texas State.

Cincy has had 3 home games:

28,520 v UTM
40,015 v Houston
38,112 v Miami (OH)

Now ECU has had some decent crowds so far:

44,161 v West Carolina
50,719 v NC State

Last year we were just a couple hundred people from leading the G5 schools in attendance, and I certainly thought with the momentum we had that this years attendance would have been even better. But instead we have fallen off while others have picked up. There are currently 5 schools ahead of us with 4 being AAC schools. Why did last years fans not return? How can you not have a good time walking tiger lane when everybody in happy, smiling and having a good time? Or, when 40,000 people are clapping and cheering on the team? My little groupe has doubled our season tickets this year and have brought along more each game. If everyone of the 38,000 fans just invited one friend to join in the fun....the game would sell out.

Attendance is important. It shows the rest of the country and the networks which teams the fans want to see. winning only helps put fans in the stands. Notre dame and Texas aren't the most powerful schools in football because of their records.

The fans haven't gone anywhere. The difference is last year we had several marquee opponents at the LB. And those attendance numbers pushed our average way up. We had a few games last year that had worse attendance than any game this year

(09-27-2016 02:36 PM)MemTiger90 Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 01:01 PM)nastar36 Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 12:22 PM)pdlglm Wrote:  I consider anything above 40,000 a very good crowd for UM.

Memphis fans are sort of sensitive. Might rain v Kansas, hurt the crowd. Too hot against BG, hurt the crowd.


But still. 38,000 for a program in the AAC is nothing to sneeze at.

Houston is in the top 10 and has played two home games:

39,402 v Lamar
33,133 v Texas State.

Cincy has had 3 home games:

28,520 v UTM
40,015 v Houston
38,112 v Miami (OH)

Now ECU has had some decent crowds so far:

44,161 v West Carolina
50,719 v NC State

Last year we were just a couple hundred people from leading the G5 schools in attendance, and I certainly thought with the momentum we had that this years attendance would have been even better. But instead we have fallen off while others have picked up. There are currently 5 schools ahead of us with 4 being AAC schools. Why did last years fans not return? How can you not have a good time walking tiger lane when everybody in happy, smiling and having a good time? Or, when 40,000 people are clapping and cheering on the team? My little groupe has doubled our season tickets this year and have brought along more each game. If everyone of the 38,000 fans just invited one friend to join in the fun....the game would sell out.

Attendance is important. It shows the rest of the country and the networks which teams the fans want to see. winning only helps put fans in the stands. Notre dame and Texas aren't the most powerful schools in football because of their records.

The fans haven't gone anywhere. The difference is last year we had several marquee opponents at the LB. And those attendance numbers pushed our average way up. We had a few games last year that had worse attendance than any game this year

^THIS^. A 60K sellout against Ole Miss will help move the numbers when your base is 6-7 games. There also was an extremely solid crowd for that Thursday night shootout with Cincinnati last year. We need to show up in droves for Temple October 6th!

And regardless of what happens Saturday, we will next Thursday.

Barring, you know, rain.

(09-27-2016 02:32 PM)3601 Wrote:  http://www.essency.net/ucfsport/attendan...AAAGizBAA=

http://www.essency.net/ucfsport/aac_attn_2016.html

ECU's numbers are very good, though they have a game against instate rival NC State in their early season sample.

USF played Florida State at home.

Houston's should be higher than they are being in the top 10.

If we have a good turnout against Temple we could possible end up with over 40k averaged this year. If Houston is still ranked the turnout should be good and USF shouldn't bean awful crowd - unless our season has really tanked.

(09-27-2016 02:54 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  And regardless of what happens Saturday, we will next Thursday.

Barring, you know, rain.

And if it cools off down into the 50s you've always got freezing rain/sleet to worry about, lol

Last year's Navy game had an awesome crowd. It just shows that when we're good, maybe the opponent won't matter as much.

True, but Navy was a ranked (or near ranked) opponent on primetime ESPN with about 8-10K supporters themselves.

(09-27-2016 04:34 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  True, but Navy was a ranked (or near ranked) opponent on primetime ESPN with about 8-10K supporters themselves.

Yea, you're right

It was a perfect storm of two nationally ranked (or close) teams in primetime and good weather. Their running back was a giant pain in the a $$.

(09-27-2016 04:34 PM)AlonsoWDC Wrote:  True, but Navy was a ranked (or near ranked) opponent on primetime ESPN with about 8-10K supporters themselves.

I was there and Navy DID NOT have anywhere near 8-10 thousand fans in attendance. MAYBE 1.5 -2k. Where do you come up with your numbers?