Since we are in the middle of MACtion, I have decided to start the attendance thread after the first game or two of the week and edit it after each game. So here goes:

Buffalo 15,447
NIU (Chicago) 10,180

MAC Avg. 8,242

Akron 6,605 (So what's the excuse since there was no World Series, no election and no rain?)
KSU 4,536 (Sure, it's election night and it was raining, but still.)
BSU 4,442 (Was it raining in Muncie?)

(11-09-2016 12:58 AM)John52168 Wrote:  Akron 6,605 (So what's the excuse since there was no World Series, no election and no rain?)

No excuse. Akron sucks and no one cares.

(11-09-2016 12:58 AM)John52168 Wrote:  Since we are in the middle of MACtion, I have decided to start the attendance thread after the first game or two of the week and edit it after each game. So here goes:

NIU (Chicago) 10,180
Akron 6,605 (So what's the excuse since there was no World Series, no election and no rain?)
KSU 4,536 (Sure, it's election night and it was raining, but still.)
BSU 4,442 (Was it raining in Muncie?)

MACtion. That's your answer. The MAC doesn't care about attendance.

Please tell me these figures are a joke...Did we really have 4 games at 10k or less...and 2 under 5k?? The high school football playoff game I'm about to attend this Saturday will have 6 thousand plus...

You mean 4000+ people traveled on a Tuesday night in a torrential downpour to watch a poor team?

(11-11-2016 01:29 AM)inductchuck16 Wrote:  Please tell me these figures are a joke...Did we really have 4 games at 10k or less...and 2 under 5k?? The high school football playoff game I'm about to attend this Saturday will have 6 thousand plus...

It's not a joke. Those are the official numbers reported in the box scores.

Is this surprising to some people? Have people not been following the MAC very long? I doubt there has ever been a season in MAC history where there weren't multiple sub-10k crowds. This is the MAC. This is what we do. We have some crowds in the 20K's, most around 15K, and a good number under 10K every season, for as long as I can remember, and I can remember a lot of seasons.

I don't know why you are so shocked by these numbers. They seem pretty consistent with MACtion numbers.

(11-11-2016 08:24 AM)axeme Wrote:  Is this surprising to some people? Have people not been following the MAC very long? I doubt there has ever been a season in MAC history where there weren't multiple sub-10k crowds. This is the MAC. This is what we do. We have some crowds in the 20K's, most around 15K, and a good number under 10K every season, for as long as I can remember, and I can remember a lot of seasons.

I dunno Axeme these are pretty sad crowd numbers.

(11-11-2016 08:31 AM)kreed5120 Wrote:  I don't why you are so shocked by these numbers. They seem pretty consistent with MACtion numbers.

agreed. these are not shocking if you have been following the MAC for any length of time. once again, MACtion is not about attendance; it is about television...plain and simple. that's it and that's all it will ever be.

(11-11-2016 08:31 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  

(11-11-2016 08:24 AM)axeme Wrote:  Is this surprising to some people? Have people not been following the MAC very long? I doubt there has ever been a season in MAC history where there weren't multiple sub-10k crowds. This is the MAC. This is what we do. We have some crowds in the 20K's, most around 15K, and a good number under 10K every season, for as long as I can remember, and I can remember a lot of seasons.

I dunno Axeme these are pretty sad crowd numbers.

Show me a season in the last 20 years when there weren't crowds like these.

I've been following the MAC for awhile now too...we usually have games around the 10k mark but not multiple games 7k or less, usually just one or maybe two. This weeks figures have got to be one of the worst in history.

Under 5k is pretty low turnout... even for November MACtion. However, I do remember a couple November games in past years that reported 10k+ in the seats, but in actuality, it was probably half that.

Keep in mind that it depends who's hosting the MACtion. Teams like Akron don't inflate much at all, so when they have weeknight games it looks especially low while some in the conference inflate numbers more so they're in the five-digit range on paper.

According to the numbers published by each school's website:

Crowds under 10,000
2011-2015

Akron
9/15/12 Morgan St 9933
9/29/12 Miami 8211
10/20/12 NIU 7074
11/10/12 UMass 7716
8/28/14 Howard 9104
10/4/14 EMU 8416
10/11/14 Miami 8223
11/18/14 UMass 5571

Ball State
9/17/11 Buffalo 8964
10/22/11 CMU 7160
11/25/11 Toledo 6873
11/6/13 CMU 9494
11/29/13 Miami 6784
8/30/14 Colgate 9659
10/25/14 Akron 7617
11/5/14 NIU 6642
11/22/14 EMU 5317
10/17/15 GSU 7564
10/31/15 UMass 4576
11/24/15 BG 5201

Bowling Green
11/12/13 Ohio 8527
11/12/14 KSU 8417
11/28/14 BSU 8534

Buffalo-None

CMU-Does Not Publish

EMU
9/4/11 Howard 3563
9/10/11 AL ST 4771
10/1/11 Akron 3375
10/22/11 WMU 6672
11/5/11 BSU 3288
11/12/11 Buffalo 3830
9/8/12 IL ST 5006
10/6/12 KSU 6011
10/13/12 Toledo 2837
10/20/12 Army 4252
11/10/12 CMU 4111
11/23/12 NIU 1349
8/31/13 Howard 7668
9/21/13 BSU 5402
10/19/13 Ohio 3257
11/9/13 WMU 2177
11/23/13 BG 1751
9/30/14 Morgan St 8748
11/22/14 Toledo 5317
9/5/15 ODU 6474
9/19/15 BSU 4463
9/26/15 Army 6513
10/10/15 Akron 5638
10/29/15 WMU 3534
11/14/15 UMass 2759
11/27/15 CMU 8049

Kent State
11/13/13 Miami 8573
11/4/14 Toledo 7471
11/28/14 Akron 5118
11/15/15 CMU 8742

Miami
11/23/12 BSU 8154
11/19/13 Buffalo 9895
11/1/14 WMU 9045

Northern Illinois
11/11/14 Toledo 8462
11/24/15 Ohio 9755

Ohio-None

Toledo-None

WMU-Does Not Publish

(11-09-2016 12:58 AM)John52168 Wrote:  Since we are in the middle of MACtion, I have decided to start the attendance thread after the first game or two of the week and edit it after each game. So here goes:

Buffalo 15,447
NIU (Chicago) 10,180

MAC Avg. 8,242

Akron 6,605 (So what's the excuse since there was no World Series, no election and no rain?)
KSU 4,536 (Sure, it's election night and it was raining, but still.)
BSU 4,442 (Was it raining in Muncie?)

Here are the final numbers for week 11.