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(12-30-2021 12:13 AM)ShrackUAB Wrote:  

(12-29-2021 07:45 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  Absolutely no way that was accurate for UAB this past year.

95% of schools post sold attendance and not butts-in-seats attendance. There are only a few who do not.

Actual attendance almost always translates to 60-75% of announced for every school, that includes P5s and SEC teams.

Our attendance this year was fantastic considering we started home games in October and our opponents averaged an over 10 hour drive to come to the game. The only home opponent within 8 hours driving distance was La. Tech. We didn't get to host a FCS or nearby Alabama school to pad the early September attendance numbers either. Not getting to host a September game itself is significant when it comes to actual attendance. If we had we would be looking at a 27 or 28k average for the year.

Good year. Hopefully we see an increase next year.

Thank you for a rational, positive observation on current and future attendance. The combination of rational and positive seem quite rare on this forum these days.