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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-02-2019 09:47 AM)AppYosef Wrote: (12-02-2019 09:46 AM)SkullyMaroo Wrote: (12-02-2019 08:55 AM)AppYosef Wrote: (12-02-2019 08:52 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:
Good numbers for Troy with two weekday games
USA’s numbers aren’t great, but considering we were 1-10 heading into the last game and finished 2-10, I’ll take it. The new stadium being on campus (and hopefully better team) should help boost that number for the Jags next year.
and considering all of the games that you all had nationally televised.
I'mma predict a ~5000 boost per game average next season.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-02-2019 03:57 PM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-02-2019 10:00 AM)TroyFootball05 Wrote: Georgia Southern's numbers are surprising considering how good their program has been over the last few decades.
It was an absolute downpour for 4/6 games.
Without beating the dead horse that's already been mentioned, we're one of the few teams in the country that counts butts in the seats vs tickets sold/given away.
This past Saturday in Statesboro, we had both lower bowls at about 90% capacity and the upper deck about 30% full. We claimed 15k. In contrast, you could nearly count each individual person in the stands during Georgia State's game against South Alabama. They claimed also claimed 15k.
No clue why we do it that way when the rest of the conference doesn't.
It was also raining for a portion of the South Alabama game. Attendance wasn't great for that game, but most people that were there stayed under the covered seats for the majority of the game, even when it cleared up in the second half.
Not sure why GS gets to use rain as an excuse, but GSU does not.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-02-2019 11:45 PM)Panthers347 Wrote: (12-02-2019 03:57 PM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-02-2019 10:00 AM)TroyFootball05 Wrote: Georgia Southern's numbers are surprising considering how good their program has been over the last few decades.
It was an absolute downpour for 4/6 games.
Without beating the dead horse that's already been mentioned, we're one of the few teams in the country that counts butts in the seats vs tickets sold/given away.
This past Saturday in Statesboro, we had both lower bowls at about 90% capacity and the upper deck about 30% full. We claimed 15k. In contrast, you could nearly count each individual person in the stands during Georgia State's game against South Alabama. They claimed also claimed 15k.
No clue why we do it that way when the rest of the conference doesn't.
It was also raining for a portion of the South Alabama game. Attendance wasn't great for that game, but most people that were there stayed under the covered seats for the majority of the game, even when it cleared up in the second half.
Not sure why GS gets to use rain as an excuse, but GSU does not.
Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
in the "who is the better conference" debate, looks like cusa had 6-7 teams that averaged over 20,000 while we had only 3..
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 08:15 AM)runamuck Wrote: in the "who is the better conference" debate, looks like cusa had 6-7 teams that averaged over 20,000 while we had only 3..
I feel bad for those fans
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 08:15 AM)runamuck Wrote: in the "who is the better conference" debate, looks like cusa had 6-7 teams that averaged over 20,000 while we had only 3..
Given the definition of attendance is soo liberal why is this even being discussed? Particularly as a basis of who's better.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-02-2019 11:45 PM)Panthers347 Wrote: (12-02-2019 03:57 PM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-02-2019 10:00 AM)TroyFootball05 Wrote: Georgia Southern's numbers are surprising considering how good their program has been over the last few decades.
It was an absolute downpour for 4/6 games.
Without beating the dead horse that's already been mentioned, we're one of the few teams in the country that counts butts in the seats vs tickets sold/given away.
This past Saturday in Statesboro, we had both lower bowls at about 90% capacity and the upper deck about 30% full. We claimed 15k. In contrast, you could nearly count each individual person in the stands during Georgia State's game against South Alabama. They claimed also claimed 15k.
No clue why we do it that way when the rest of the conference doesn't.
It was also raining for a portion of the South Alabama game. Attendance wasn't great for that game, but most people that were there stayed under the covered seats for the majority of the game, even when it cleared up in the second half.
Not sure why GS gets to use rain as an excuse, but GSU does not.
Just going off your post, but you cant compare GSU to GS. GS had 3 games that rained the entire time (and 2 of those were heavy downpours). There is nowhere for most fans to take cover. The area under the mid deck is strictly for ticket holders and there is no way to watch from the concourse (even that is mostly exposed and offers no protection from the weather). A lot (including myself) have to drive several hours in order to get there and it's just not practical or safe to try and drive in those conditions for no tailgating and to get soaked to your bones when you can sit at home and watch on TV. Also, a lot of those games came after some bad losses. We just couldn't get any momentum this season. It was bad, pathetic actually (even I only made 2 home games this year and I usually make all of them). But if you look at our average over the years (even bad FCS years) we aren't concerned about 1 outlier. If this happens over the next 2 years, then we have a problem. Hopefully the weather will be more cooperative.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 12:06 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-02-2019 11:45 PM)Panthers347 Wrote: (12-02-2019 03:57 PM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-02-2019 10:00 AM)TroyFootball05 Wrote: Georgia Southern's numbers are surprising considering how good their program has been over the last few decades.
It was an absolute downpour for 4/6 games.
Without beating the dead horse that's already been mentioned, we're one of the few teams in the country that counts butts in the seats vs tickets sold/given away.
This past Saturday in Statesboro, we had both lower bowls at about 90% capacity and the upper deck about 30% full. We claimed 15k. In contrast, you could nearly count each individual person in the stands during Georgia State's game against South Alabama. They claimed also claimed 15k.
No clue why we do it that way when the rest of the conference doesn't.
It was also raining for a portion of the South Alabama game. Attendance wasn't great for that game, but most people that were there stayed under the covered seats for the majority of the game, even when it cleared up in the second half.
Not sure why GS gets to use rain as an excuse, but GSU does not.
Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
Lol, this! Unless they had 14,500 people hiding under covered seating, there was no way in the world that they had 15,000 people there.
As we've all already said, Southern counts butts in the seats while State (and everyone else) counts tickets sold/given away. So if State allocates 6,000 tickets to students, has 4,000 season ticket holders, allocates 5,000 to corporate givings, and literally no one shows up, they can and will report 15,000 in attendance. That's not a knock on State, majority of FBS teams do this. I wish we would.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 08:15 AM)runamuck Wrote: in the "who is the better conference" debate, looks like cusa had 6-7 teams that averaged over 20,000 while we had only 3..
Maybe UTA could step up and revive football so that we would have 4.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 09:35 AM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-03-2019 12:06 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-02-2019 11:45 PM)Panthers347 Wrote: (12-02-2019 03:57 PM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-02-2019 10:00 AM)TroyFootball05 Wrote: Georgia Southern's numbers are surprising considering how good their program has been over the last few decades.
It was an absolute downpour for 4/6 games.
Without beating the dead horse that's already been mentioned, we're one of the few teams in the country that counts butts in the seats vs tickets sold/given away.
This past Saturday in Statesboro, we had both lower bowls at about 90% capacity and the upper deck about 30% full. We claimed 15k. In contrast, you could nearly count each individual person in the stands during Georgia State's game against South Alabama. They claimed also claimed 15k.
No clue why we do it that way when the rest of the conference doesn't.
It was also raining for a portion of the South Alabama game. Attendance wasn't great for that game, but most people that were there stayed under the covered seats for the majority of the game, even when it cleared up in the second half.
Not sure why GS gets to use rain as an excuse, but GSU does not.
Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
Lol, this! Unless they had 14,500 people hiding under covered seating, there was no way in the world that they had 15,000 people there.
As we've all already said, Southern counts butts in the seats while State (and everyone else) counts tickets sold/given away. So if State allocates 6,000 tickets to students, has 4,000 season ticket holders, allocates 5,000 to corporate givings, and literally no one shows up, they can and will report 15,000 in attendance. That's not a knock on State, majority of FBS teams do this. I wish we would.
Asked David Cutler, our assistant AD and Ops manager, about why we report our attendance differently from other FBS teams and if it could hurt us negatively when it comes to bowl season and being chosen for ESPNU games. His answer (and I'm paraphrasing) was basically: "Why lie? Why be one of those schools? Reporting accurate numbers shows us where we need to improve in ticket promotions and sales and what teams on our schedule do and don't sell well. Also, the bowl committees and ESPN broadcasters aren't dumb. They are present at our games and at our conference mates' games and can see the difference in our attendance versus theirs."
I mentioned to him that Ben Moore and the gang were using their higher reported attendance average in their smack talk pre-Georgia State game. He said he couldn't care less what some fans on Twitter were saying. They are wrong.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 09:55 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:35 AM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-03-2019 12:06 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-02-2019 11:45 PM)Panthers347 Wrote: (12-02-2019 03:57 PM)kdarnell233 Wrote: It was an absolute downpour for 4/6 games.
Without beating the dead horse that's already been mentioned, we're one of the few teams in the country that counts butts in the seats vs tickets sold/given away.
This past Saturday in Statesboro, we had both lower bowls at about 90% capacity and the upper deck about 30% full. We claimed 15k. In contrast, you could nearly count each individual person in the stands during Georgia State's game against South Alabama. They claimed also claimed 15k.
No clue why we do it that way when the rest of the conference doesn't.
It was also raining for a portion of the South Alabama game. Attendance wasn't great for that game, but most people that were there stayed under the covered seats for the majority of the game, even when it cleared up in the second half.
Not sure why GS gets to use rain as an excuse, but GSU does not.
Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
Lol, this! Unless they had 14,500 people hiding under covered seating, there was no way in the world that they had 15,000 people there.
As we've all already said, Southern counts butts in the seats while State (and everyone else) counts tickets sold/given away. So if State allocates 6,000 tickets to students, has 4,000 season ticket holders, allocates 5,000 to corporate givings, and literally no one shows up, they can and will report 15,000 in attendance. That's not a knock on State, majority of FBS teams do this. I wish we would.
Asked David Cutler, our assistant AD and Ops manager, about why we report our attendance differently from other FBS teams and if it could hurt us negatively when it comes to bowl season and being chosen for ESPNU games. His answer (and I'm paraphrasing) was basically: "Why lie? Why be one of those schools? Reporting accurate numbers shows us where we need to improve in ticket promotions and sales and what teams on our schedule do and don't sell well. Also, the bowl committees and ESPN broadcasters aren't dumb. They are present at our games and at our conference mates' games and can see the difference in our attendance versus theirs."
I mentioned to him that Ben Moore and the gang were using their higher reported attendance average in their smack talk pre-Georgia State game. He said he couldn't care less what some fans on Twitter were saying. They are wrong.
That's a good point.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 09:46 AM)JoeJag Wrote: (12-03-2019 08:15 AM)runamuck Wrote: in the "who is the better conference" debate, looks like cusa had 6-7 teams that averaged over 20,000 while we had only 3..
Maybe UTA could step up and revive football so that we would have 4.
Or maybe UTA could make sure they aren't middle of the pack in the only revenue sport they play.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 09:55 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:35 AM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-03-2019 12:06 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-02-2019 11:45 PM)Panthers347 Wrote: (12-02-2019 03:57 PM)kdarnell233 Wrote: It was an absolute downpour for 4/6 games.
Without beating the dead horse that's already been mentioned, we're one of the few teams in the country that counts butts in the seats vs tickets sold/given away.
This past Saturday in Statesboro, we had both lower bowls at about 90% capacity and the upper deck about 30% full. We claimed 15k. In contrast, you could nearly count each individual person in the stands during Georgia State's game against South Alabama. They claimed also claimed 15k.
No clue why we do it that way when the rest of the conference doesn't.
It was also raining for a portion of the South Alabama game. Attendance wasn't great for that game, but most people that were there stayed under the covered seats for the majority of the game, even when it cleared up in the second half.
Not sure why GS gets to use rain as an excuse, but GSU does not.
Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
Lol, this! Unless they had 14,500 people hiding under covered seating, there was no way in the world that they had 15,000 people there.
As we've all already said, Southern counts butts in the seats while State (and everyone else) counts tickets sold/given away. So if State allocates 6,000 tickets to students, has 4,000 season ticket holders, allocates 5,000 to corporate givings, and literally no one shows up, they can and will report 15,000 in attendance. That's not a knock on State, majority of FBS teams do this. I wish we would.
Asked David Cutler, our assistant AD and Ops manager, about why we report our attendance differently from other FBS teams and if it could hurt us negatively when it comes to bowl season and being chosen for ESPNU games. His answer (and I'm paraphrasing) was basically: "Why lie? Why be one of those schools? Reporting accurate numbers shows us where we need to improve in ticket promotions and sales and what teams on our schedule do and don't sell well. Also, the bowl committees and ESPN broadcasters aren't dumb. They are present at our games and at our conference mates' games and can see the difference in our attendance versus theirs."
I mentioned to him that Ben Moore and the gang were using their higher reported attendance average in their smack talk pre-Georgia State game. He said he couldn't care less what some fans on Twitter were saying. They are wrong.
If you're a bowl, I'd be interested in tickets sold, not butt's in seats.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 11:19 AM)CajunAmos Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:55 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:35 AM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-03-2019 12:06 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-02-2019 11:45 PM)Panthers347 Wrote: It was also raining for a portion of the South Alabama game. Attendance wasn't great for that game, but most people that were there stayed under the covered seats for the majority of the game, even when it cleared up in the second half.
Not sure why GS gets to use rain as an excuse, but GSU does not.
Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
Lol, this! Unless they had 14,500 people hiding under covered seating, there was no way in the world that they had 15,000 people there.
As we've all already said, Southern counts butts in the seats while State (and everyone else) counts tickets sold/given away. So if State allocates 6,000 tickets to students, has 4,000 season ticket holders, allocates 5,000 to corporate givings, and literally no one shows up, they can and will report 15,000 in attendance. That's not a knock on State, majority of FBS teams do this. I wish we would.
Asked David Cutler, our assistant AD and Ops manager, about why we report our attendance differently from other FBS teams and if it could hurt us negatively when it comes to bowl season and being chosen for ESPNU games. His answer (and I'm paraphrasing) was basically: "Why lie? Why be one of those schools? Reporting accurate numbers shows us where we need to improve in ticket promotions and sales and what teams on our schedule do and don't sell well. Also, the bowl committees and ESPN broadcasters aren't dumb. They are present at our games and at our conference mates' games and can see the difference in our attendance versus theirs."
I mentioned to him that Ben Moore and the gang were using their higher reported attendance average in their smack talk pre-Georgia State game. He said he couldn't care less what some fans on Twitter were saying. They are wrong.
If you're a bowl, I'd be interested in tickets sold, not butt's in seats.
Corporate bulk ticket sales to boost attendance numbers don't translate to bowl ticket sales.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 11:21 AM)Klak Wrote: (12-03-2019 11:19 AM)CajunAmos Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:55 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:35 AM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-03-2019 12:06 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
Lol, this! Unless they had 14,500 people hiding under covered seating, there was no way in the world that they had 15,000 people there.
As we've all already said, Southern counts butts in the seats while State (and everyone else) counts tickets sold/given away. So if State allocates 6,000 tickets to students, has 4,000 season ticket holders, allocates 5,000 to corporate givings, and literally no one shows up, they can and will report 15,000 in attendance. That's not a knock on State, majority of FBS teams do this. I wish we would.
Asked David Cutler, our assistant AD and Ops manager, about why we report our attendance differently from other FBS teams and if it could hurt us negatively when it comes to bowl season and being chosen for ESPNU games. His answer (and I'm paraphrasing) was basically: "Why lie? Why be one of those schools? Reporting accurate numbers shows us where we need to improve in ticket promotions and sales and what teams on our schedule do and don't sell well. Also, the bowl committees and ESPN broadcasters aren't dumb. They are present at our games and at our conference mates' games and can see the difference in our attendance versus theirs."
I mentioned to him that Ben Moore and the gang were using their higher reported attendance average in their smack talk pre-Georgia State game. He said he couldn't care less what some fans on Twitter were saying. They are wrong.
If you're a bowl, I'd be interested in tickets sold, not butt's in seats.
Corporate bulk ticket sales to boost attendance numbers don't translate to bowl ticket sales.
I think it depends on the team/bowl and other circumstances. Some of those corporate bulk tickets turned into large block purchases for the Cajuns on the years when we had large attendance numbers in N.O.. One of those years the Bowl extended our ticket allotment (twice I think) and we would up selling over 22K tickets from our local ticket office. I will say that circumstances played a large part in that as well as there was a fervor about the sport at that time around the program. I will say that a large number of those corporate blocks probably went to suites and not to ticket sales as there were a large number of suites leased for those games in the dome.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 11:19 AM)CajunAmos Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:55 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:35 AM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-03-2019 12:06 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-02-2019 11:45 PM)Panthers347 Wrote: It was also raining for a portion of the South Alabama game. Attendance wasn't great for that game, but most people that were there stayed under the covered seats for the majority of the game, even when it cleared up in the second half.
Not sure why GS gets to use rain as an excuse, but GSU does not.
Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
Lol, this! Unless they had 14,500 people hiding under covered seating, there was no way in the world that they had 15,000 people there.
As we've all already said, Southern counts butts in the seats while State (and everyone else) counts tickets sold/given away. So if State allocates 6,000 tickets to students, has 4,000 season ticket holders, allocates 5,000 to corporate givings, and literally no one shows up, they can and will report 15,000 in attendance. That's not a knock on State, majority of FBS teams do this. I wish we would.
Asked David Cutler, our assistant AD and Ops manager, about why we report our attendance differently from other FBS teams and if it could hurt us negatively when it comes to bowl season and being chosen for ESPNU games. His answer (and I'm paraphrasing) was basically: "Why lie? Why be one of those schools? Reporting accurate numbers shows us where we need to improve in ticket promotions and sales and what teams on our schedule do and don't sell well. Also, the bowl committees and ESPN broadcasters aren't dumb. They are present at our games and at our conference mates' games and can see the difference in our attendance versus theirs."
I mentioned to him that Ben Moore and the gang were using their higher reported attendance average in their smack talk pre-Georgia State game. He said he couldn't care less what some fans on Twitter were saying. They are wrong.
If you're a bowl, I'd be interested in tickets sold, not butt's in seats.
Can't sell entire sections of your stadium for $1 a chair to a corporate sponsor with bowl games.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 11:27 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-03-2019 11:19 AM)CajunAmos Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:55 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:35 AM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-03-2019 12:06 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
Lol, this! Unless they had 14,500 people hiding under covered seating, there was no way in the world that they had 15,000 people there.
As we've all already said, Southern counts butts in the seats while State (and everyone else) counts tickets sold/given away. So if State allocates 6,000 tickets to students, has 4,000 season ticket holders, allocates 5,000 to corporate givings, and literally no one shows up, they can and will report 15,000 in attendance. That's not a knock on State, majority of FBS teams do this. I wish we would.
Asked David Cutler, our assistant AD and Ops manager, about why we report our attendance differently from other FBS teams and if it could hurt us negatively when it comes to bowl season and being chosen for ESPNU games. His answer (and I'm paraphrasing) was basically: "Why lie? Why be one of those schools? Reporting accurate numbers shows us where we need to improve in ticket promotions and sales and what teams on our schedule do and don't sell well. Also, the bowl committees and ESPN broadcasters aren't dumb. They are present at our games and at our conference mates' games and can see the difference in our attendance versus theirs."
I mentioned to him that Ben Moore and the gang were using their higher reported attendance average in their smack talk pre-Georgia State game. He said he couldn't care less what some fans on Twitter were saying. They are wrong.
If you're a bowl, I'd be interested in tickets sold, not butt's in seats.
Can't sell entire sections of your stadium for $1 a chair to a corporate sponsor with bowl games.
Are they seriously selling seats for $1 a chair? I can understand some discounts, but that would be ridiculous.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
Can I quickly interrupt to suggest that this board just adopt BIS as an abbreviation for Butts In Seats? I think we'll all appreciate it in the long run.
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 11:21 AM)Klak Wrote: (12-03-2019 11:19 AM)CajunAmos Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:55 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:35 AM)kdarnell233 Wrote: (12-03-2019 12:06 AM)TrueBlueDrew Wrote: Because when it rains and Georgia Southern only has 10,000 people show up, Georgia Southern reports 10,000 people. When it rains and Georgia State only has 1,000 people show up, Georgia State reports 12,500 people.
Lol, this! Unless they had 14,500 people hiding under covered seating, there was no way in the world that they had 15,000 people there.
As we've all already said, Southern counts butts in the seats while State (and everyone else) counts tickets sold/given away. So if State allocates 6,000 tickets to students, has 4,000 season ticket holders, allocates 5,000 to corporate givings, and literally no one shows up, they can and will report 15,000 in attendance. That's not a knock on State, majority of FBS teams do this. I wish we would.
Asked David Cutler, our assistant AD and Ops manager, about why we report our attendance differently from other FBS teams and if it could hurt us negatively when it comes to bowl season and being chosen for ESPNU games. His answer (and I'm paraphrasing) was basically: "Why lie? Why be one of those schools? Reporting accurate numbers shows us where we need to improve in ticket promotions and sales and what teams on our schedule do and don't sell well. Also, the bowl committees and ESPN broadcasters aren't dumb. They are present at our games and at our conference mates' games and can see the difference in our attendance versus theirs."
I mentioned to him that Ben Moore and the gang were using their higher reported attendance average in their smack talk pre-Georgia State game. He said he couldn't care less what some fans on Twitter were saying. They are wrong.
If you're a bowl, I'd be interested in tickets sold, not butt's in seats.
Corporate bulk ticket sales to boost attendance numbers don't translate to bowl ticket sales.
What Sun Belt school has bulk corporate ticket sales aside from Georgia State?
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RE: 2019 Football Attendance - Final Regular Season Attendance
(12-03-2019 10:06 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote: (12-03-2019 09:46 AM)JoeJag Wrote: (12-03-2019 08:15 AM)runamuck Wrote: in the "who is the better conference" debate, looks like cusa had 6-7 teams that averaged over 20,000 while we had only 3..
Maybe UTA could step up and revive football so that we would have 4.
Or maybe UTA could make sure they aren't middle of the pack in the only revenue sport they play.
a certain place would have to freeze over for us to have a football team and then average over 20,000...but you are right about the other sports. as a diehard uta fan I would be happy to see the sports we DO sponsor become very good. the girls are making good progress, just need the guys to ramp it up..we should be in the top 80-100 in every sport since we dont have the financial drain of football.
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12-03-2019 03:22 PM |
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