Marge Schott
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RE: Week 1 Attendance.
(09-10-2014 12:09 AM)Ole Blue Wrote: (09-09-2014 11:42 AM)Marge Schott Wrote: (09-09-2014 10:27 AM)Wilkie01 Wrote: Louisville sold all the tickets against Murray State. However, we do not count the no shows in our attendance count, only butts in the seats are counted. Louisville fans are not going to turnout for FCS schools any more. So I look for more G5 schools to be scheduled or all G5.
FSU was sold out as well, but apparently about 1,000 tickets weren't used. I was expecting several thousand more no-shows, so that was a pleasant surprise.
(09-09-2014 10:19 AM)Ole Blue Wrote: (09-09-2014 09:54 AM)lumberpack4 Wrote: (09-08-2014 11:45 PM)Ole Blue Wrote: [quote='Marge Schott' pid='11092927' dateline='1410222917']
Week 2 (Season Average):
Florida State - 81,294 (81,294)/82.3 = 99% full
Clemson - 78,000 (78,000)/81.5 = 96% full
Virginia Tech - (62,722)/66 = 95% full
North Carolina State - 55,390 (54,832)/57.5 = 95% full
North Carolina - 58,000 (54,500)/63 = 87% full
Louisville - 50,179 (52,804)/55 = 96% full
Miami - 48,254 (48,254)/76 = 63%
Georgia Tech - (45,403)/55 = 83%
Syracuse - (41,189)/49 = 84%
Pittsburgh - (40,549)/65 = 62%
Virginia - 34,533 (39,641)/61.5 = 64%
Duke - 31,213 (31,213)/34 = 92%
Boston College - 30,083 (30,083)/44.5 = 67%
Wake Forest - 26,925 (26,925)/31.5 = 85%
95% Capacity and above - FSU, Clemson, NCSU, Louisville, and VT - VT's % will jump this weekend. Duke is doing well at 92%. UNC, GT, and Syracuse are middling. I don't know how you evaluate Pitt and Miami without shaving off big chunk of their shared pro stadiums. If they built they own stadiums they would probably build 50-55K?
BC and UVa are bad.
Miami's is a little inaccurate considering there are four large tarps in the corners of the endzones on the upper deck and a few smaller tarps in the club level endzone areas too. I'd guess that reduces capacity by about 12k? So maybe a more accurate "tarped" capacity could be 64-65k. If you calculate it that way, "visible" capacity turns into around 75%.
Problem with this is how you can't proclaim a total capacity for one game to be less than your other games. So if the total capacity is 76K(?) for the FSU game, it has to be that for every other game. Now, if EVERY game were tarped, including FSU, then sure, ~65K would be acceptable.
Yep. I guess the reduced capacity gives a little more peace of mind of not filling as much of the stadium, more so than 76k. Oh well. Sun Life should be pretty nice after the renovations.
To be clear, I'm not sure if that's an actual NCAA rule. I just meant it doesn't make sense in general. It's similar to how in the NFL, where if a team tarps their endzones all season (Jacksonville), they can't then untarp them for the postseason, if they're to make it. I guess I don't really care if UM wanted to say their capacity was 40,000 for one game and 76,000 for another. I'd be able to make fun of it regardless. But every team should be allowed to make the same adjustments to their attendance "percentages" and that's just dumb, and rather meaningless.
Let's not forget, the Orange Bowl was basically the same size as Sun Life.
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