Elon 21,000
Tulsa 25,000
(HC) EMU 24,00 ... if the Miami game is close or we win. If not, 22,500
Akron 20,000
NIU 18,500
WMU 20,000 ...

Seems reasonable.

Averaging 21,600 in a 26,000 stadium will put to rest any ideas of leaving the MAC and also any major expansion. Granted, only 3 Saturday games skew those numbers, but if the Rocket program wants to envision a next level stature, they should fill the GB regardless of when the games are scheduled...

(08-13-2017 10:16 AM)FMRocket Wrote:  Averaging 21,600 in a 26,000 stadium will put to rest any ideas of expansion or leaving the MAC and also any major expansion. Granted, only 3 Saturday games skew those numbers, but if the Rocket program wants to envision a next level stature, they should fill the GB regardless of when the games are scheduled...

3 saturday NIGHT games plus a thursday night HOME OPENER is a terrific schedule for MAC standards. The NiU game is a 6 o clocker which helps. We cant ask for much of a better schedule. If NIU was a better quality team like they were a couple years ago that game could be large in attendance terms. The day after thanksgiving WMU could be great or crappy giving the holidays circumstances.

But no one is talking about expanding right now. It would be nice if our fans showed up not wearing scarlett and grey??? But we need another top25 season and a MAC title first.

(08-13-2017 11:18 AM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  

(08-13-2017 10:16 AM)FMRocket Wrote:  Averaging 21,600 in a 26,000 stadium will put to rest any ideas of expansion or leaving the MAC and also any major expansion. Granted, only 3 Saturday games skew those numbers, but if the Rocket program wants to envision a next level stature, they should fill the GB regardless of when the games are scheduled...

3 saturday NIGHT games plus a thursday night HOME OPENER is a terrific schedule for MAC standards. The NiU game is a 6 o clocker which helps. We cant ask for much of a better schedule. If NIU was a better quality team like they were a couple years ago that game could be large in attendance terms. The day after thanksgiving WMU could be great or crappy giving the holidays circumstances.

But no one is talking about expanding right now. It would be nice if our fans showed up not wearing scarlett and grey??? But we need another top25 season and a MAC title first.

I agree !!
Also, bucknut & scum fans need to stay home and watch big 10 network replays of their glorious classic games... The University of Toledo is our home team, and the local populace needs to get behind it 100%...

(08-13-2017 10:16 AM)FMRocket Wrote:  Averaging 21,600 in a 26,000 stadium will put to rest any ideas of leaving the MAC and also any major expansion. Granted, only 3 Saturday games skew those numbers, but if the Rocket program wants to envision a next level stature, they should fill the GB regardless of when the games are scheduled...

You could tell by the east side renovations done last year that no expansion is even being thought about.

That EMU game will depend on if MSU @ UofM is an afternoon or night game.

I can't believe that there's no ticket promotions for the Elon game. I want to go but my friends couldnt careless about seeing a FCS getting destroyed. I'll probably pass on paying full price to come down and watch that on a work night.

(08-12-2017 02:35 PM)UofToledoFans Wrote:  Elon 21,000
Tulsa 25,000
(HC) EMU 24,00 ... if the Miami game is close or we win. If not, 22,500
Akron 20,000
NIU 18,500
WMU 20,000 ...

Unfortunately, Ohio State opens with Indiana on the same Thursday night when we open against Elon. Will be interesting to see how that hurts attendance. Hope we can still pull 20k.