(09-05-2018 08:55 AM)Knights_of_UCF Wrote:  when usf announced 31K I thought there was legit 15K max there. Turns out there was actually 21K. Honest question, are usf fans happy with 21K coming off the best year in school history to opening home game?

Memphis looked larger than 33K tbh but I cant say whether it was up to 40K or not, hard to tell on TV. Probably somewhere between 35-36K. Very good for an FCS team. I know the UCF game later this year is going to be a capacity crowd, biggest we'll see all year at UCF.

Uconn was better than they expected and better than I expected. I think it was pretty close to the 23K announced. For a team that hasn't been any good in a long time I thought they did well.

ECU had a solid crowd as well and in the same boat as Uconn I am impressed by their fans continuing to show up despite awful play on the field. If ECU was coming off the last few seasons that USF had no doubt in my mind there'd be 50K+ every game.

Tulane and Tulsa is what it is. Small private schools with a small following and in Tulane's case theres some major competition for eyeballs in new orleans. Hopefully they can improve.


With the bang Cinci started with and the new stadium renovations I am very excited to see their crowd this weekend.

UCF should be sold out as well for the FCS home opener, it'll probably be announced in the 44K range.

Tulane played at the same time as the saints, so I think 15,000 isn't too bad. I think you will see a jump this week even though it's fcs, it's a local school and no NFL competition.

Tulsa's crowd was bigger than 4 games last year. On labor day weekend, vs an fcs school, after a 2-10 season, with temp highs on Saturday that felt like a 100+ and was actually 92 without the heat index at kick off. I would say that is a positive showing for Tulsa to get it's attendance back to respectable.

This year we have some new ideas and new people being put in. This is leading to a better response about game day atmosphere and the little perks being offered. We're doing a lot of community outreach, Saturday was our first responders game and we honored a local police officer and former player as a team captain. Cain's a world famous music venue is putting on concerts pre game. In general we are doing marketing for the first time and it appears doing it correctly. A winning team will seal the deal, but the positive attitude change is a good start to lay the foundation again.

It looks like the reseating has brought up sales a little and games on television should look much better as crowds. The student section, general admission, band, medium tier tickets are all on the camera side now. Although our end zone seating may be sparse if we don't improve on last year's performance especially because TU moved the family fun zone to the west grand stand, which was a smart move but was a large portion of the end zone crowds.

(09-05-2018 12:01 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  

(09-05-2018 08:55 AM)Knights_of_UCF Wrote:  when usf announced 31K I thought there was legit 15K max there. Turns out there was actually 21K. Honest question, are usf fans happy with 21K coming off the best year in school history to opening home game?

Memphis looked larger than 33K tbh but I cant say whether it was up to 40K or not, hard to tell on TV. Probably somewhere between 35-36K. Very good for an FCS team. I know the UCF game later this year is going to be a capacity crowd, biggest we'll see all year at UCF.

Uconn was better than they expected and better than I expected. I think it was pretty close to the 23K announced. For a team that hasn't been any good in a long time I thought they did well.

ECU had a solid crowd as well and in the same boat as Uconn I am impressed by their fans continuing to show up despite awful play on the field. If ECU was coming off the last few seasons that USF had no doubt in my mind there'd be 50K+ every game.

Tulane and Tulsa is what it is. Small private schools with a small following and in Tulane's case theres some major competition for eyeballs in new orleans. Hopefully they can improve.


With the bang Cinci started with and the new stadium renovations I am very excited to see their crowd this weekend.

UCF should be sold out as well for the FCS home opener, it'll probably be announced in the 44K range.

Tulane played at the same time as the saints, so I think 15,000 isn't too bad. I think you will see a jump this week even though it's fcs, it's a local school and no NFL competition.

Tulsa's crowd was bigger than 4 games last year. On labor day weekend, vs an fcs school, after a 2-10 season, with temp highs on Saturday that felt like a 100+ and was actually 92 without the heat index at kick off. I would say that is a positive showing for Tulsa to get it's attendance back to respectable.

This year we have some new ideas and new people being put in. This is leading to a better response about game day atmosphere and the little perks being offered. We're doing a lot of community outreach, Saturday was our first responders game and we honored a local police officer and former player as a team captain. Cain's a world famous music venue is putting on concerts pre game. In general we are doing marketing for the first time and it appears doing it correctly. A winning team will seal the deal, but the positive attitude change is a good start to lay the foundation again.

It looks like the reseating has brought up sales a little and games on television should look much better as crowds. The student section, general admission, band, medium tier tickets are all on the camera side now. Although our end zone seating may be sparse if we don't improve on last year's performance especially because TU moved the family fun zone to the west grand stand, which was a smart move but was a large portion of the end zone crowds.

good info, thanks for sharing. Good luck to Tulsa this year. The heat is killer for daytime football games.

(09-05-2018 12:20 PM)Knights_of_UCF Wrote:  

(09-05-2018 12:01 PM)Foreverandever Wrote:  

(09-05-2018 08:55 AM)Knights_of_UCF Wrote:  when usf announced 31K I thought there was legit 15K max there. Turns out there was actually 21K. Honest question, are usf fans happy with 21K coming off the best year in school history to opening home game?

Memphis looked larger than 33K tbh but I cant say whether it was up to 40K or not, hard to tell on TV. Probably somewhere between 35-36K. Very good for an FCS team. I know the UCF game later this year is going to be a capacity crowd, biggest we'll see all year at UCF.

Uconn was better than they expected and better than I expected. I think it was pretty close to the 23K announced. For a team that hasn't been any good in a long time I thought they did well.

ECU had a solid crowd as well and in the same boat as Uconn I am impressed by their fans continuing to show up despite awful play on the field. If ECU was coming off the last few seasons that USF had no doubt in my mind there'd be 50K+ every game.

Tulane and Tulsa is what it is. Small private schools with a small following and in Tulane's case theres some major competition for eyeballs in new orleans. Hopefully they can improve.


With the bang Cinci started with and the new stadium renovations I am very excited to see their crowd this weekend.

UCF should be sold out as well for the FCS home opener, it'll probably be announced in the 44K range.

Tulane played at the same time as the saints, so I think 15,000 isn't too bad. I think you will see a jump this week even though it's fcs, it's a local school and no NFL competition.

Tulsa's crowd was bigger than 4 games last year. On labor day weekend, vs an fcs school, after a 2-10 season, with temp highs on Saturday that felt like a 100+ and was actually 92 without the heat index at kick off. I would say that is a positive showing for Tulsa to get it's attendance back to respectable.

This year we have some new ideas and new people being put in. This is leading to a better response about game day atmosphere and the little perks being offered. We're doing a lot of community outreach, Saturday was our first responders game and we honored a local police officer and former player as a team captain. Cain's a world famous music venue is putting on concerts pre game. In general we are doing marketing for the first time and it appears doing it correctly. A winning team will seal the deal, but the positive attitude change is a good start to lay the foundation again.

It looks like the reseating has brought up sales a little and games on television should look much better as crowds. The student section, general admission, band, medium tier tickets are all on the camera side now. Although our end zone seating may be sparse if we don't improve on last year's performance especially because TU moved the family fun zone to the west grand stand, which was a smart move but was a large portion of the end zone crowds.

good info, thanks for sharing. Good luck to Tulsa this year. The heat is killer for daytime football games.

Yes, I'm sure it can be killer in Florida too. Thankfully both of our home games in September are evening/night games. OU had people dropping in their crowd at Saturday's game. Many of our alumni/fans are far too old to take that and come out ok.

A good showing in Austin, or even better a win and we should see a solid bump. Arkansas State will probably bring a few as well (UCA had a solid travel group apparently).

Good luck to UCF as well. Hopefully everyone can contribute out of conference and help push the AAC champ to another ny6 bowl and push the perception of this conference.

(09-05-2018 10:22 AM)Poseidon Wrote:  

(09-02-2018 02:36 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Tulane with that MACtion attendance.

That's what you get for playing on the same night as the Saints a few blocks away pre-season game or no.

he is right...if that pats played in ct...on the same day as us...lol we wouldn't even get 10k in the Rent

(09-05-2018 02:24 PM)Huskypride Wrote:  

(09-05-2018 10:22 AM)Poseidon Wrote:  

(09-02-2018 02:36 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Tulane with that MACtion attendance.

That's what you get for playing on the same night as the Saints a few blocks away pre-season game or no.

he is right...if that pats played in ct...on the same day as us...lol we wouldn't even get 10k in the Rent

Keep reading, broski. I already said the same thing!

Conference would have been better off with Marshall and Army instead of Tulsa and Tulane.

(09-05-2018 08:55 AM)Knights_of_UCF Wrote:  when usf announced 31K I thought there was legit 15K max there. Turns out there was actually 21K. Honest question, are usf fans happy with 21K coming off the best year in school history to opening home game?

Memphis looked larger than 33K tbh but I cant say whether it was up to 40K or not, hard to tell on TV. Probably somewhere between 35-36K. Very good for an FCS team. I know the UCF game later this year is going to be a capacity crowd, biggest we'll see all year at UCF.

Uconn was better than they expected and better than I expected. I think it was pretty close to the 23K announced. For a team that hasn't been any good in a long time I thought they did well.

ECU had a solid crowd as well and in the same boat as Uconn I am impressed by their fans continuing to show up despite awful play on the field. If ECU was coming off the last few seasons that USF had no doubt in my mind there'd be 50K+ every game.

Tulane and Tulsa is what it is. Small private schools with a small following and in Tulane's case theres some major competition for eyeballs in new orleans. Hopefully they can improve.


With the bang Cinci started with and the new stadium renovations I am very excited to see their crowd this weekend.

UCF should be sold out as well for the FCS home opener, it'll probably be announced in the 44K range.

the fans usually show up in decent numbers the first game of the season, its when we start losing as the season progresses that the interest starts to decline. i mean we had 24k + for our opener with holy cross last year, we had just under 30k for our opener for Maine the year before, 26k for the year before against nova, we had 35k for opener against byu the year before. 30k for towson our first year in aac. our fans show up with hope in the beginning..it When they realize we suck that they just watch it on tv, I dont blame em, its cheaper to watch uconn lose on tv lol.

(09-05-2018 02:31 PM)bearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  Conference would have been better off with Marshall and Army instead of Tulsa and Tulane.

I'm interested here. Make an argument how either school is better than Tulsa in all sports or even any of the major ones.