(10-14-2016 06:04 PM)Jugnaut Wrote: I'm not referring to student tickets. My point is I find it odd that USF uses a term I've only seen them use "distributed" vs most schools using tickets "sold." Why the use of a different term, especially one that has a connotation that would include giving away for free. Why not just use tickets "sold" if the announced attendance number is really sold tickets?
Technically, every college football attendance figure includes basically 4 items that make up their official "announced" attendance:
1) Tickets Sold
2) Student Admission at the game (those scanned ID's at gate if they receive free admission on game day, usually due to athletic fee charged per hour class)
3) Distributed Tickets: Unpaid tickets used by marketing, Univ "owned" tickets, i.e. Athletic Dept own sections/Univ owned sections (where $$ many times is never changes hands), plus free tickets used in exchanged for marketing purposes, contests, promotions, etc...
4) Media and Stadium Personnel: Usually its a percentage based on attendance
Normally the above is how its done at every school...as its never just "tickets sold"...so yes, Tickets Distributed would be an adequate description for attendance figures.
Also, because of digital ticketing...Univ don't even have to "print out" tickets anymore...as they can digitally be "dropped" into virtually any category...and maybe some get used/scanned, others do not (maybe more so for 3rd party exchanges, sponsorships, promos, etc...).