Interesting article (our bowl game victory over UNT is mentioned): https://footballfoundation.org/news/20 ... lease.aspx

Bambi is kicking everyone's (I can't express myself without swearing). Really she has a monopoly

I sure love College Football, most the folks I know are in to it much much more than the NFL. Ready for cooler Temps and the Season to get started, best time of the year for me.

I've been know to enjoy a good college football matchup from time to time.

These numbers are unreliable. They report 25,000+ attended the New Mexico bowl. I was at the game. There is no way on Earth that there were 25,000 people there, even if you include the surrounding neighborhood that could hear the game.

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August 1st, 2019, 11:49 am

dirtnsnow wrote: ↑

August 1st, 2019, 9:53 am

These numbers are unreliable. They report 25,000+ attended the New Mexico bowl. I was at the game. There is no way on Earth that there were 25,000 people there, even if you include the surrounding neighborhood that could hear the game.

Pfff...this guy sucks at counting.

Could be paid attendance. I did not go but bought tickets anyway. In order to get complete bowl revenue maybe you must sell so many tickets.

I love fall and I love the Aggies. I also love the game of football. A combination of those three things makes me very happy. If one of them is missing, I'm not as happy.

dirtnsnow wrote:These numbers are unreliable. They report 25,000+ attended the New Mexico bowl. I was at the game. There is no way on Earth that there were 25,000 people there, even if you include the surrounding neighborhood that could hear the game.

Their are a lot of ways different universities count this. I read an article that basically said scanned tickets was less than half the number reported to the NCAA for New Mexico. Individual athletic departments have detailed information but are not going to lower their reported attendance, especially when the inflated attendance numbers are already on a steep decline for some Universities.

I have this problem when people bring up the low attendance at USU. I watched the Hawaii game last season, and even with the tight camera angles they couldn’t hide all the empty front row seats. They reported over 21,000 in attendance, and what I saw was fewer people than the 15,000 that watched USU beat Tennessee Tech last season (the lowest attendance in Maverick Stadium last season).

I guess one can count all tickets sold as attendance. Which is why it is so important to buy season tickets.

oleblu111 wrote:I guess one can count all tickets sold as attendance. Which is why it is so important to buy season tickets.

You can also add in players, cheerleaders, concession workers.

Here is an article https://nmfishbowl.com/2018/12/31/how-u ... ll-crowds/

It includes this tweet showing what 14,269 in attendance looks like.



I don’t want this to be a shot at New Mexico, they just have the best reporting on this I’ve come across.

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August 1st, 2019, 12:15 pm

Their are a lot of ways different universities count this. I read an article that basically said scanned tickets was less than half the number reported to the NCAA for New Mexico. Individual athletic departments have detailed information but are not going to lower their reported attendance, especially when the inflated attendance numbers are already on a steep decline for some Universities.

My only point was that these numbers can't be relied upon in an article about how popular college football is. Where I live, almost nobody cares about college football; it's all about the NFL.

oleblu111 wrote:I guess one can count all tickets sold as attendance. Which is why it is so important to buy season tickets.

There were a lot of people in the upper decks, spread out. Only section that was dense was the Visiting section. Guessing around 15k, they really need to just close the upper deck.


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August 1st, 2019, 3:25 pm

oleblu111 wrote:I guess one can count all tickets sold as attendance. Which is why it is so important to buy season tickets.

There were a lot of people in the upper decks, spread out. Only section that was dense was the Visiting section. Guessing around 15k, they really need to just close the upper deck.


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Wait. Weren't we the visiting section? Are you calling us dense?