Was it just my view or did it appear there was not a huge crowd at the game in Houston? I am not sure who leads the conference in home attendance, but we should be close, granted the first game will skew our numbers. How the heck did they expect anybody with common sense to go to that one in a hurricane?

Oh, by the way, even at my advanced age, my wife and I sat through one quarter before common sense set in!

(10-20-2017 09:31 AM)big12tigers Wrote:  Was it just my view or did it appear there was not a huge crowd at the game in Houston? I am not sure who leads the conference in home attendance, but we should be close, granted the first game will skew our numbers. How the heck did they expect anybody with common sense to go to that one in a hurricane?

Oh, by the way, even at my advanced age, my wife and I sat through one quarter before common sense set in!

Officially it was 30,001.

I think ECU always draws a big crowd.

(10-20-2017 09:35 AM)mairving Wrote:  

(10-20-2017 09:31 AM)big12tigers Wrote:  Was it just my view or did it appear there was not a huge crowd at the game in Houston? I am not sure who leads the conference in home attendance, but we should be close, granted the first game will skew our numbers. How the heck did they expect anybody with common sense to go to that one in a hurricane?

Oh, by the way, even at my advanced age, my wife and I sat through one quarter before common sense set in!

Officially it was 30,001.

The upper deck was about 1/4 full, so by my counting, the turnstile count was probably about 20-22k. Capacity is 40k and that is very, very nice stadium, by the way. In fact, a 45k replica would suit Tiger football basically perfect.

(10-20-2017 11:54 AM)ddramone Wrote:  

(10-20-2017 09:35 AM)mairving Wrote:  

(10-20-2017 09:31 AM)big12tigers Wrote:  Was it just my view or did it appear there was not a huge crowd at the game in Houston? I am not sure who leads the conference in home attendance, but we should be close, granted the first game will skew our numbers. How the heck did they expect anybody with common sense to go to that one in a hurricane?

Oh, by the way, even at my advanced age, my wife and I sat through one quarter before common sense set in!

Officially it was 30,001.

The upper deck was about 1/4 full, so by my counting, the turnstile count was probably about 20-22k. Capacity is 40k and that is very, very nice stadium, by the way. In fact, a 45k replica would suit Tiger football basically perfect.

Or the liberty bowl with all royal blue chair backs

NOT a fan of their stadium, particularly with the upper deck layout.

Ugly.

it looked bad on tv (the crowd)

The Houston stadium is way better than what ucf has

UCF has some serious problems with their relatively new stadium.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/classifie...story.html

(10-20-2017 01:13 PM)TIGER DENO Wrote:  it looked bad on tv (the crowd)

The upper deck was pretty sparse, and the lower tier was not filled.

Thursday night televised game and the fan base was unhappy with the coach after getting smoked by Tulsa the week before. Sound familiar? Also, A large part of that city are living with friends and in hotels while their houses are repaired.

Yea the UCF stadium is an example of going cheap is not always the right decision. They build an all metal stadium in FL and they didn't think it would begin rusting with all the rain and humidity down there.

The build the stadium for around $50M and now they are going to have to spend $14 to $20M to repair. Bad decisions cost money!

(10-20-2017 02:56 PM)JhanJo Wrote:  UCF has some serious problems with their relatively new stadium.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/classifie...story.html

(10-20-2017 03:19 PM)holyterror Wrote:  

(10-20-2017 01:13 PM)TIGER DENO Wrote:  it looked bad on tv (the crowd)

The upper deck was pretty sparse, and the lower tier was not filled.

Yep, looked more like 20-25K at most. Disappointing but it was Thursday night........

Also, some of you are acting like Houston has a decent fanbase. They do not.

We would have 40K+, Thursday night or not.

(10-20-2017 03:19 PM)holyterror Wrote:  

(10-20-2017 01:13 PM)TIGER DENO Wrote:  it looked bad on tv (the crowd)

The upper deck was pretty sparse, and the lower tier was not filled.

Yea, noticeably sparse. Their student section was pretty loud though.

(10-20-2017 04:09 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  

(10-20-2017 03:19 PM)holyterror Wrote:  

(10-20-2017 01:13 PM)TIGER DENO Wrote:  it looked bad on tv (the crowd)

The upper deck was pretty sparse, and the lower tier was not filled.

Yea, noticeably sparse. Their student section was pretty loud though.

My guess would be about 4000 students

(10-20-2017 03:28 PM)TigersTigers Wrote:  Yea the UCF stadium is an example of going cheap is not always the right decision. They build an all metal stadium in FL and they didn't think it would begin rusting with all the rain and humidity down there.

The build the stadium for around $50M and now they are going to have to spend $14 to $20M to repair. Bad decisions cost money!

(10-20-2017 02:56 PM)JhanJo Wrote:  UCF has some serious problems with their relatively new stadium.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/classifie...story.html

You need a good preventive maintenance plan from the beginning. They were probably told that and have one understaffed.

(10-20-2017 06:06 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(10-20-2017 03:28 PM)TigersTigers Wrote:  Yea the UCF stadium is an example of going cheap is not always the right decision. They build an all metal stadium in FL and they didn't think it would begin rusting with all the rain and humidity down there.

The build the stadium for around $50M and now they are going to have to spend $14 to $20M to repair. Bad decisions cost money!

(10-20-2017 02:56 PM)JhanJo Wrote:  UCF has some serious problems with their relatively new stadium.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/classifie...story.html

You need a good preventive maintenance plan from the beginning. They were probably told that and have one understaffed.

Someone sold them a bill o' goods; I think those repair costs are optimistic, not to mention all of the legal fees they spend dragging the construction/design firms into court