Counting Attendance

irs · Post by **irs** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:09 am

How is attendance counted - is it by tickets sold or those actually through the gate? We have East side chair backs for 5 years and rarely are they all filled, but they are sold out.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:20 am

irs wrote:How is attendance counted - is it by tickets sold or those actually through the gate? We have East side chair backs for 5 years and rarely are they all filled, but they are sold out.

Students, if they aren't charged admission at the gate, are counted based on whether or not they show up.

As for the rest of the stadium, schools can either choose to count butts in seats or count tickets sold at a certain fraction of the top price. That's the way I understand the NCAA's rules, anyway.

We may be taking the butts-in-seats approach -- and I say that based on the fact that faculty and staff were offered free tickets last weekend.

Can you change approaches for each game during a season? I wouldn't think so, but I don't know.

Buffalo has taken the other approach. They reported 29,000 for their opener with Temple, but a lot of that was corporations buying tickets inexpensively and than distributing them as promotions or whatever. Maybe 16,000 or 17,000 actually showed up.

BGSUFootballFan · Post by **BGSUFootballFan** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:46 am

I dont like that rule then. UB's attendance should have been 17,000 then, if thats how many they got to show up. Also it needs to be calculated the same way by every school, every week. I dont like all of the variances!

mk455 · Post by **mk455** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:21 am

what happens for people that come in after half-time when they arent even checking for tickets/student ids at the gates?

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:57 am

mk455 wrote:what happens for people that come in after half-time when they arent even checking for tickets/student ids at the gates?

They get ridiculed on message boards.

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:10 am

mk455 wrote:what happens for people that come in after half-time when they arent even checking for tickets/student ids at the gates?

They're named Falconboy.

(Sorry, had to be said.)

JoeFalcon · Post by **JoeFalcon** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:19 am

irs wrote:We have East side chair backs

Wasn't that a notorious New York City gang from the late 1980's?

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:20 pm

BGSUFootballFan wrote:I dont like that rule then. UB's attendance should have been 17,000 then, if thats how many they got to show up. Also it needs to be calculated the same way by every school, every week. I dont like all of the variances!

I'm for whatever makes it easier for MAC programs like ours to stay in I-A. Meaning: We disagree.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:21 pm

mk455 wrote:what happens for people that come in after half-time when they arent even checking for tickets/student ids at the gates?

They aren't counted.

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