(09-05-2017 08:04 PM)Lizard Breath Wrote: Are some of you guys just going to have to deal with low attendance? Like WKU? You guys have been doing very good but your attendance is a black eye. We need our top teams getting top attendance numbers.
Lets see every game is shown on TV...LOCALLY. No dollar or five dollar night. Small population. Poor state. Two national championship and top all time programs (#1 & #6 ) with in 2.5 hours and both state schools.
The only one fighting that last part is UNCC and UAB. neither are figing the other problems of Small population base or every game being shown on live TV
So with that Western is sitting at 83% of butts in seats...17% of a full stadium. Would it look better and be better to fill those other 3900 seats? Sure it would.
But lets see which is more valuable to the conference....
17% of your seats sitting empty and winning 23 games over the last 2 seasons
Or having 4 to 5,000 more fans in the stands in a stadium that is half full and winning 7 or below games each of the last 2 years?
Seats sitting unused mostly only hurt that team. A team losing affects us all...
now out of these two has the larger negative affect on a conference...
1. 17% of your seats going unused and winning
2. 50% of your seats sitting empty even you are averaging 24k in attendance and losing
Lets be honest which do you think the average fan sitting at home watching a game is going to notice as a negative.....
only 18,600 fans in a 22k seat stadium winning
24,000 fans sitting in a half empty stadium losing
Lets just drop the winning or losing .....the average fan does not know or care the total number of butts sitting in those seats. The average fan will see a mostly full to a mostly empty stadium and take notice.