Recent USA Today Article on low Attendance

[bgsuman]

I looked and didn't see this posted, sorry if I somehow missed it..

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... ance_x.htm

[BGorDeath]

Watch the explosion of lawsuits if the NCAA tries to drop a school from 1-A.

[NY-BG-FAN]

So does the Cleveland game count or not. No one seems to have a straight answer on this. Because if it does count, aren't we fine for attendence? That artilce mentions the NIU game at Soldier Field vs. Iowa in 07 as "a Big Ten team visiting the MAC" so wouldn't our game vs. UW count as well?

[mjmorefield]

My questions are: Why is there or must there be an attendance mandate set? What purpose does it serve? If BG falls 100 fans short, is that cause for punisment compared to Easterm Michigan falling 9,500 short? It just doesn't add up (no pun intended) for me.

[redskins4ever]

here is the better question....

What does attendance have to do with I-A football?

[Bleeding Orange]

here is the better question....

What does attendance have to do with I-A football?

Yeah, I could have sworn that the different levels of NCAA football were deliniated by the number of scholarships that schools were willing and able to provide? Go figure...

[Warthog]

So does the Cleveland game count or not.

Yes, it counts, but not the 30,000 number that was announced. Apparently there is three different attendance numbers: announced, actual, and paid. For NCAA purposes, we can use the Actual or the Paid. We are using paid attendance. The difference between paid and reported has something to due with "sponsorship" tickets. These tickets can not count in the Paid attendance unless all the tickets are used. So if a sponsors gets 1,000 tickets but only 999 are used, then that counts as 0 for our paid attendance.

I sill don't know how our paid can be so much lower than the actual. See this thread for a better discussion and an article that was in the Blade last week and specifically discussed the BG situation. http://www.ay-ziggy-zoomba.com/phpBB2/v ... hp?t=13405

[MACMAN]

The bottome line is the system desinged in the 70s did not account for growth. More over with out going to a fair and equitable playoff s¥stem for all of D1 the majority of the conferences will never match up as equals. the being droped for attendance is fair game...15k is not alot to ask for, personally I think the BCS schools need to be spun off and BCS entrance require a stadium capable of holding 75k and avg attendance of 30k.
Football is changing and the BCS is in charge because the rest of us have no voice. so lets just get on with it, kick them to the curb and move on....with our own playoff sustem.

[OhioBobcat]

This just cracks me up, seeing BG listed in an article like this. Do you realize that Kent State’s increase in attendance this year (14,000) is more than BG’s actual attendance (13,900) this season??? Bwaaaaahhaaahhhaaa!

Enjoy I-AA!!!

[Rightupinthere]

This just cracks me up, seeing BG listed in an article like this. Do you realize that Kent State’s increase in attendance this year (14,000) is more than BG’s actual attendance (13,900) this season??? Bwaaaaahhaaahhhaaa!

Enjoy I-AA!!!

Please do not feed the incorrect, muzzy minded, and poorly read trolls.

Thank you.

The Middle Management.

[transfer2BGSU]

This just cracks me up, seeing BG listed in an article like this.

Better to be in an article like this than....

The New York Times, CNN, Today Show et al. for computer hacking.

-OR-

The Columbus Dispatch (with the AP picking up the story) regarding 6 day suspensions and study tables in the coaches office when a football player is arrested (the football player that hit the police horse, was he related to the UC basketball player?)

-OR-

The Chronicle of Higher Education for plagiarism with more than 30 students having been identified,

-OR-

ESPN, SI, USA Today et al. writing stories about the DUI the football coach received when he passed out in his car.


Just to name a few....

[bgsuman]

This just cracks me up, seeing BG listed in an article like this.

Better to be in an article like this than....

The New York Times, CNN, Today Show et al. for computer hacking.

-OR-

The Columbus Dispatch (with the AP picking up the story) regarding 6 day suspensions and study tables in the coaches office when a football player is arrested (the football player that hit the police horse, was he related to the UC basketball player?)

-OR-

The Chronicle of Higher Education for plagiarism with more than 30 students having been identified,

-OR-

ESPN, SI, USA Today et al. writing stories about the DUI the football coach received when he passed out in his car.


Just to name a few....

yeah really...

[BGGrad01]

I hate to say it because it kills our slim MAC championship chances, but...........GO KENT!!