(10-11-2017 08:31 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  ECU has a floor to how far they can actually drop this year. I imagine that 31k number is probably about as low as we can announce just due to season ticket sales and student Pirate Club tickets, but I highly doubt there's a game the rest of this season with 30k butts in the seats.

Agreed. Truthfully, i don't care if the stadium is empty as long as the tickets were sold.

(10-11-2017 09:01 PM)panicstricken Wrote:  Tulsa will probably have 10000 for homecoming.

Please, i hope.

(10-11-2017 08:48 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  Memphis sold a hella lot more tickets for the Monroe game than the 10k announced attendance. I wonder why we are using turnstile counts if others are turning in distributed numbers

Yes, for its home opener last year against FCS SE Missouri State, Memphis had 42,000. Considering Memphis sold more season tickets this year, we would have easily exceeded that if we'd had good weather.

I imagine with over 20,000 season tickets, the number of tickets actually sold prior to the tropical storm forecast was probably well in excess of 30,000 minimum

(10-12-2017 11:16 AM)TU4ever Wrote:  

(10-11-2017 09:01 PM)panicstricken Wrote:  Tulsa will probably have 10000 for homecoming.

Please, i hope.

Have all those Wichita fans who adopted Tulsa as their AAC football team already jumped ship?

(10-05-2017 12:41 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  We have always led in football attendance, but thats going to be trending down the rest of the year

Yet some folks think if you expand stadiums they will come...the South will be the last to be affected but attendance is dropping nationwide.

TV, expense in money in time to devote to a FB weekend, CTE concerns, and longer games are killing attendance (what was 3 hrs is now 4 hrs). Millennials don't do Football as much either. They grew up playing Super Mario Bros and not playing Pop Warner.

(10-12-2017 11:41 AM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 11:16 AM)TU4ever Wrote:  

(10-11-2017 09:01 PM)panicstricken Wrote:  Tulsa will probably have 10000 for homecoming.

Please, i hope.

Have all those Wichita fans who adopted Tulsa as their AAC football team already jumped ship?

Has football season started? I didn't know...


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(10-12-2017 11:41 AM)cotton1991 Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 11:16 AM)TU4ever Wrote:  

(10-11-2017 09:01 PM)panicstricken Wrote:  Tulsa will probably have 10000 for homecoming.

Please, i hope.

Have all those Wichita fans who adopted Tulsa as their AAC football team already jumped ship?

They're navy fans.

Tulsa and wichita dont get along lol

(10-11-2017 08:48 PM)tigerjeb Wrote:  Memphis sold a hella lot more tickets for the Monroe game than the 10k announced attendance. I wonder why we are using turnstile counts if others are turning in distributed numbers

I agree. I don’t understand why a turnstile count is listed in the box score when everyone else uses ‘tickets distributed’. If we want to gripe about attendance we at least have to all be on the same page. There are no no scores anywhere, in any league, that use turnstile. Not sure why we are.

(10-05-2017 12:04 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  [quote='C0|db|00ded' pid='14647413' dateline='1507222596']
The worst athletic program in the conference leads the league in attendance in the highest profile sport. Market inefficiencies like these do not happen by accident. I smell socialism.

ECUSSR FTW!

Don't worry, ECU benefited from its home game vs. VA Tech, which travels very well. ECU average attendance will continue to fall. What is surprising is how modest the Memphis attendance is, despite having the home game vs. UCLA.

VT may have had 1-2k at the game. They normally travel pretty well but not this year.

Our attendance will fall as long as the team sucks. But it will still be better than most of the pitiful numbers other AAC teams put up historically.

Navy attendance has been hurt by being in the AAC. Being in the West division, means few fans from teams in that division travel to Navy. Previously, Navy would draw the biggest crowds playing teams like Pitt, West Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, Delaware, and Temple. We still play Temple, but only every four years. With yearly OOC games with Air Force, ND, and Army, there is no room for a better drawing OOC team. I love Navy being in the AAC, but I also think that Navy played a toughed schedule as an independent.

I went to the game last year at Navy. UH had several thousand fans there and a pep band. The weather was awful though so even though it was sold out, there were tons of empty seats.

Nothing to be ashamed of guys, I'm pretty sure all the other P6 conferences average 28k.

USF will have the best crowd of the year vs. Cincinnati which will help spike our average.

(10-13-2017 10:06 AM)kmst19a Wrote:  Navy attendance has been hurt by being in the AAC. Being in the West division, means few fans from teams in that division travel to Navy. Previously, Navy would draw the biggest crowds playing teams like Pitt, West Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, Delaware, and Temple. We still play Temple, but only every four years. With yearly OOC games with Air Force, ND, and Army, there is no room for a better drawing OOC team. I love Navy being in the AAC, but I also think that Navy played a toughed schedule as an independent.

This actually isn't true.

In 2015 Season attendance average was 31,669 and average attendance for our AAC games was 32324.
In 2016 Season attendance average was 31,571 and average attendance for AAC games was 32,237.
Those numbers both include the championship game which was anemic with one week's notice, week before Army game was played in Baltimore. I'm definitely not proud about it, and I'm not making excuses but it is explicable why our 30k+ numbers weren't there for it. So....take away that anomaly, and season was 33,322 and AAC 4 regular games averaged 34,593.

OUR FOUR SCHEDULED AAC GAMES LAST YEAR AVERAGED 101.7% of CAPACITY.

Now your points about regional teams traveling well is good, but...
Look at out top 10 attendance - 5 AF games appear, including last Saturday's at #1. Pitt appears twice, Rutgers appears twice ('06 and '08), and Wake Forest once. Rutgers 10th place spot was 36,918 - two AAC games have been within 1,000 tickets. Attendance in 2014, when Rutgers was a little removed from Schiano's great year in 2006, was 33,655; five AAC games have had better attendance in the two years since that game. You mentioned Delaware - three Delaware games in the Johnson Niumatalolo era averaged 35,277. Three of eight regular season AAC games have drawn better and another 2 are within 750 tickets. Those five schools were Houston, SMU, Memphis, Tulsa and (the only one that should be expected) East Carolina.

Let me circle back to AF - half of our top ten attended games at NMCMS. While last week was #1, 2015 AF was only 32,705 - essentially our AAC average for that year.

(10-13-2017 03:00 PM)2Buck Wrote:  Nothing to be ashamed of guys, I'm pretty sure all the other P6 conferences average 28k.

Actually most of the middle of the pack p6 equal that. The michigan, osu, texas, and ou's skew the numbers a bit. But in the attendance trash talk is dead thread several p6 schools are exposed, tcu, maryland, and usc to name some. Good try though.

(10-05-2017 06:57 PM)zfred12 Wrote:  

(10-05-2017 06:52 PM)MemTiger90 Wrote:  Take away the hurricane game and we're averaging 44k

memphis doesn’t even know what a hurricane is. We’ll see how attendance is after they ran into that hurricane in Orlando.

Yep, we'll have 45,000+ tomorrow when we play Navy.

(10-13-2017 10:06 AM)kmst19a Wrote:  Navy attendance has been hurt by being in the AAC. Being in the West division, means few fans from teams in that division travel to Navy. Previously, Navy would draw the biggest crowds playing teams like Pitt, West Virginia, Duke, Wake Forest, Delaware, and Temple. We still play Temple, but only every four years. With yearly OOC games with Air Force, ND, and Army, there is no room for a better drawing OOC team. I love Navy being in the AAC, but I also think that Navy played a toughed schedule as an independent.

Navy played maybe one P5/BCS school a year at NMCMS as an indy, sometimes zero, every now and then two. No way was the schedule tougher. But the crowds were probably bigger b/c the winning was newer, and college football attendance was across the board higher a decade-plus ago.

USF attendance: 43,708
Its improving