Attendance Issue Clarification?

robdupont · Post by **robdupont** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:47 pm

The answers is the 17000 students in town that Wednesday Night when we play Miami. Students on this site hear this, you are the answer a great number of the students must go to the game go through the gates then either stay or go home. I repeat the student body is the answer go to the game go through the gates and then leave if you do not want to stay for the game.. The Athletic Department is going hit BG News and really push this. That is it, the student body will be asked to come out an save the day by going threw the gates. You know the studentes always come through on the Blood Bowl with Toledo , now they need to come through for the Athletic Deparment and the Alumni. I remember what the Student did when ESPN show up on campus for Game Day Now they are being called on to come through again.

San Diego Falcon · Post by **San Diego Falcon** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:51 pm

Yes, the students get in free. All of them can go in-and-out about 20 times through different gates so we get an attendance figure of 250,000.

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:24 pm

San Diego Falcon wrote:Yes, the students get in free. All of them can go in-and-out about 20 times through different gates so we get an attendance figure of 250,000.

The students are charged for their tickets in the student fee.

robdupont · Post by **robdupont** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:44 pm

Look the number can only be has many has number of Student on Campus..Home coming they had over 3000 student at the game. The Athletic Department does not expect the student togo through more than one gate. They are hoping for the students to show up. vFree ticket do not count .

BGSUfalcons · Post by **BGSUfalcons** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:10 pm

I have an ingenious solution: Fix the turnstiles or hire people to manually count at the gates. I'm not going to pretend that I can guess the actual attendance at a BG football game with much accuracy, but I'm pretty sure that there were more than 11,000 people in (actual) attendance at the EMU game, more than 9,000 at the Buffalo game, etc.

I really hope that I am misunderstanding how actual or "turnstile" attendance is calculated, because I can't stomach the thought that BG is having these problems because someone hasn't checked to see if the turnstiles function properly.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:06 pm

A disturbing article at any rate. I hate that NCAA rule to start with. My dad and mom came up last night to watch the game and I mentioned this to them. My dad started up his usual "break off the non BCS from D-1 and start a new level so you can play for a national title" speech. It does make sense but I would love to see BG as a bonafide D-1 program...BCS or not.

UK Peregrine · Post by **UK Peregrine** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:16 am

The attendance rules are a load of crap. First, I don't understand how the NCAA picked the arbitrary number of 15000 as the requirement for attendance. Why this number and not some other random number? Perhaps more importantly there seems to be no real oversight or control over this BS rule. Just look at the quote below from and article on Ball State's attendance issues.

"Louisiana-Monroe have entered into a unique arrangement with Arkansas, who they play today, in which the Little Rock game counts as a home contest."

I you can do this, why doesn't BG just count its game in Columbus as a home game. That is essentially what Louisiana-Monroe has done with Arkansas.

http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... 20016/1006

Redwingtom · Post by **Redwingtom** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:16 am

So let's see here...the NCAA, which does little to nothing to assist us in increasing our attendance sets a limit that if we don't meet takes away bowl games and our chance to make money to assist in increasing our attendance.

Have I got that right?

My 2 cents: F*** 'EM!

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:00 am

Redwingtom wrote:So let's see here...the NCAA, which does little to nothing to assist us in increasing our attendance sets a limit that if we don't meet takes away bowl games and our chance to make money to assist in increasing our attendance.

Have I got that right?

My 2 cents: F*** 'EM!

Well Said Tom.

gentlesatirist · Post by **gentlesatirist** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:27 am

...with the ridiculous concern of teams being dropped down. When's the last time that happened? Youngstown State voluntarily did so abotu 20 years ago. That's the only case I've even remotely heard of.

On the other hand, at least 4 teams have jumped to d-1 in the last decade. The NCAA wants more d-1 teams - not less - so that they can justify having more bowl games, no matter how obscure those bowl games might be.

The whole attendance scare thing is just a way for the NCAA to encourage schools to rally the troops, which is always a good thing.

Think about it : If Temple isn't out of d-1 yet, it's not going to happen.

- FE
Wickliffe OH

MACMAN · Post by **MACMAN** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:51 pm

I am telling you all its all being enforced for smart reasons. to create the separation the BCS wants from the rest of D1 to prevent a playoff systema nd equal distribution of bowl and tv money.
Think abou tit
what would the NCAA realy be able to do if the BCS schools creat thier own govering agency for BCS football where a player is not required to take classes durring the season and must only abv 21 credit hours a callander year.
Nothing that is what, and the NCAA knows it, so they are acting on behalf of the BCS...look at the Miami FL int game...and how lame that whole deal and how little coverage the BS lack of action after.

in a few very short years the BCS will be onthier own, they will drop counting occ games and reduce game schedual
and in 20 some years the face of college will be very very different and we all talk abou t the good time from back in the day.

gentlesatirist · Post by **gentlesatirist** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:10 am

...I would put more stock in this "threat" if someone could name me one 1-a program that involuntarily got kicked down to 1-aa in the last 20 years.

- FE

Falcon30 · Post by **Falcon30** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:27 am

I don't get the actual attendance figures.

our average should be 18006

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:22 am

Falcon30 wrote:I don't get the actual attendance figures.

our average should be 18006

I think you have to be a calculus freak to understand how we come up with our attendance number.

transfer2BGSU · Post by **transfer2BGSU** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:53 pm

Falcon30 wrote:I don't get the actual attendance figures.

our average should be 18006

Are you taking the actual calculation of pi or rounding to 3.1415? Also, don't forget to take the SIN of the circumference of the hypotenuse using the TAN of the square root of 49. Then divide that by the number of time Ohio BobKitty comes onto the site to remind us that Kent State will be the MAC East champion and...wait....that would be zero and the result would be 1....instead take TomToledo's weight pre-diet and multiply it by the number of times NWLB puts ToledoTom in one of his signature files and that should give you the actual attendance figure within +/-500 or so.

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