#s were released early this month. Every year seems like a broken record as the #s have been going down year after year. Even Clempson didn’t sell out a single home game. Recent article that mentions JMU a couple of times..
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The Solution To Declining College Football Attendance Numbers Is Oversharing
This week, the NCAA reported their annual college football attendance figures for 2018, including FBS, FCS, Division II, and Division III.
Once again, the base numbers showed many issues of concern for Football Championship Subdivision.
Certainly FCS isn’t an outlier when it comes to attendance troubles – all of Division I college football has had issues over the last few years. Last year, the FBS had their biggest drop in average attendance per game in 34 years. This year, seven of ten FBS conferences experienced their lowest-average attendance in a decade or more.
But as expected, FCS saw a similar decline across the board in their average per game numbers as well.
For the first time, the average FCS crowd size was below 8,000 per game, averaging 7,853 fans. Last year, the average 8,223 fans per contest, marking a 4.5% drop from year to year.
What’s wrong, and can anything be done to reverse the decline?...”
http://www.college-sports-journal.com/th...ersharing/