Here is the final average attendance for all Sun Belt schools in the sports that track attendance:

FOOTBALL
Troy - 24,527
Appalachian State - 21,953
Arkansas State - 19,834
Louisiana - 18,550
Georgia Southern - 16,802
Georgia State - 16,615
South Alabama - 16,064
UL-Monroe - 14,210
Texas State - 13,115
Coastal Carolina - 10,635

MEN'S BASKETBALL
Louisiana - 3,940
UL-Monroe - 3,341
Texas State - 3,067
Troy - 2,368
Georgia Southern - 1,988
South Alabama - 1,907
UT-Arlington - 1,881
Georgia State - 1,716
Little Rock - 1,674
Arkansas State - 1,593
Coastal Carolina - 1,199
Appalachian State - 1,026

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Troy - 1,464
UT-Arlington - 1,346
Texas State - 1,290
Louisiana - 1,205
Arkansas State - 1,089
Little Rock - 1,070
UL-Monroe - 1,009
South Alabama - 513
Georgia State - 480
Appalachian State - 467
Georgia Southern - 451
Coastal Carolina - 271

BASEBALL
Louisiana - 4,663
Coastal Carolina - 1,648
Troy - 1,545
Texas State - 1,294
South Alabama - 1,245
Georgia Southern - 904
UL-Monroe - 871
UT-Arlington - 591
Georgia State - 343
Arkansas State - 342
Appalachian State - 322
Little Rock - 247

SOFTBALL
Louisiana - 1,470
Troy - 539
Texas State - 536
South Alabama - 452
UT-Arlington - 362
UL-Monroe - 266
Georgia Southern - 229
Coastal Carolina - 215
Georgia State - 192
Appalachian State - 137

WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Texas State - 1,255
UT-Arlington - 752
Louisiana - 495
Troy - 426
Little Rock - 415
South Alabama - 390
Arkansas State - 375
UL-Monroe - 372
Appalachian State - 358
Coastal Carolina - 330
Georgia Southern - 254
Georgia State - 213

MEN'S SOCCER
Georgia Southern - 498
Appalachian State - 269
Coastal Carolina - 163
Georgia State - 152
Howard - 126

WOMEN'S SOCCER
Texas State - 551
Troy - 362
Little Rock - 323
South Alabama - 313
Louisiana - 285
Georgia Southern - 222
Appalachian State - 205
Arkansas State - 166
Georgia State - 160
UL-Monroe - 136
Coastal Carolina - 91

Some of those basketball numbers seem highly suspicious to me.

And I wonder if Cajun fans who have been to a lot of their home baseball games this season would really say this season hasn't lessened actual butts in seats.

Actual footage of 75% of Sun Belt schools reporting attendance:

(05-20-2019 11:31 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Some of those basketball numbers seem highly suspicious to me.

And I wonder if Cajun fans who have been to a lot of their home baseball games this season would really say this season hasn't lessened actual butts in seats.

Paid attendance. Softball paid attendance was actually about 1800 as 4 days of tournament play at home where two games were played they reported zero attendance for one of the two games.

I was running the totals earlier this year and finished the count through the end of the season. If you take the days where we played two games in early season tournaments and used that attendance for both games that day Cajun softball would have averaged 1814 per game. If you inserted instead the lowest reported attendance for any game this year into those four games where we reported zero attendance, the per game average would have been 1793 per game. Either of those numbers would have put them fifth in average attendance or sixth in total attendance nationally.

In another perspective, Cajun softball would have come in second for baseball per game attendance.

Worst football since moving to FBS. Best mens basketball in a long time.

(05-20-2019 11:31 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Some of those basketball numbers seem highly suspicious to me.

And I wonder if Cajun fans who have been to a lot of their home baseball games this season would really say this season hasn't lessened actual butts in seats.

I agree. No way we averaged 1,026 in Men's Basketball!

I think out men's basketball attendance looks right. Home conference tournament game + 2 CIT games raised our average quite a bit I'm sure. Having 6 home games while students were on Christmas break brought it down too.

Blows my mind how literally every single time the topic of attendance comes up 99% of people don't understand the concept of paid attendance vs. actual attendance.

I would have to double check but I feel positive this the first time since 2011 season we dipped below 20,000+ average

(05-21-2019 09:31 AM)RamblinRedWolf Wrote:  I would have to double check but I feel positive this the first time since 2011 season we dipped below 20,000+ average

Everyone seems to be struggling with declining attendance. Even P5 programs are having trouble maintaining their attendance numbers. Young people today just aren't as crazy about football as prior generations have been, and student attendance has dropped considerably at many schools. Maybe it's the effect of these students having played soccer for years. Whatever the cause, this trend in attendance isn't a good sign of things to come for any of us.

(05-22-2019 04:08 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  

(05-21-2019 09:31 AM)RamblinRedWolf Wrote:  I would have to double check but I feel positive this the first time since 2011 season we dipped below 20,000+ average

Everyone seems to be struggling with declining attendance. Even P5 programs are having trouble maintaining their attendance numbers. Young people today just aren't as crazy about football as prior generations have been, and student attendance has dropped considerably at many schools. Maybe it's the effect of these students having played soccer for years. Whatever the cause, this trend in attendance isn't a good sign of things to come for any of us.

Soccer? Mama Boucher is that you?

How about access to watch games on TV or now mobile devices having a larger impact.

(05-22-2019 04:08 AM)BRtransplant Wrote:  

(05-21-2019 09:31 AM)RamblinRedWolf Wrote:  I would have to double check but I feel positive this the first time since 2011 season we dipped below 20,000+ average

Everyone seems to be struggling with declining attendance. Even P5 programs are having trouble maintaining their attendance numbers. Young people today just aren't as crazy about football as prior generations have been, and student attendance has dropped considerably at many schools. Maybe it's the effect of these students having played soccer for years. Whatever the cause, this trend in attendance isn't a good sign of things to come for any of us.

It's the effects of playing Minecraft and Fortnite from 6pm to 10pm every night.

Why would an adult want go to a football game when you can play video-Legos all night??

There are too many options of other things to do besides just attending sports. Plus as others said, you can see all games online or on tv these days. Even 15 years ago lower tier P5 programs were lucky to get a couple games on cable.

App's FB average attendance took a huge hit when the championship game was in sleety/rainy/windy weather. I think it went from 24k down to 21k after the CCG.

Amazing that Troy is in the top 4 in every category when the university is in the smallest community in the SBC. Troy city has 19,000 people and pike county has 33,000 people

(05-22-2019 05:12 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Amazing that Troy is in the top 4 in every category when the university is in the smallest community in the SBC. Troy city has 19,000 people and pike county has 33,000 people

What's the school enrollment?

(05-22-2019 06:08 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  

(05-22-2019 05:12 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  Amazing that Troy is in the top 4 in every category when the university is in the smallest community in the SBC. Troy city has 19,000 people and pike county has 33,000 people

What's the school enrollment?

The main campus is around 8,000 students

Not a lot to do in Troy, and sports are free for students and right on campus.

There are a number of Troy alumni and fans in the Mobile area that make the trip up there. When Troy plays us at home, the visitor section is full and then some. They are a lot louder than our fans. Our basketball numbers should improve next year. The team will be better under coach Riley and Auburn will play us at Mitchell Center.

(05-23-2019 01:51 AM)TrojansOneandAll Wrote:  Not a lot to do in Troy, and sports are free for students and right on campus.

I'd say that's true for several teams in the Belt