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Falcon Commander wrote:"It's a great question," Christopher said. "I've never given it a second thought."

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Little about NCAA bylaw 20.9.7.3 is clear. Its past is shrouded in mystery, its language full of the legalese that fills the pages of the NCAA rulebook. Not even every athletic director fully understands where the rule came from, and some question why it exists at all. Football is the only sport the NCAA sets a minimum attendance mark for and failing to meet the standard triggers some of the harshest penalties the organization has at its disposal.

Simply, the rule says that at least once in a two-year rolling period, each FBS member must have an average attendance of at least 15,000 at its home games. The first time a school comes up short of the minimum, it enters a 10-year probationary period. If the rule is violated again during the next 10 years, the school receives a one-year bowl ban. If its attendance is still beneath the threshold, the school is dropped to the Football Championship Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-AA.

With schools facing perhaps the harshest penalty since the NCAA gave the death penalty to Southern Methodist, forcing its 1987 season to be cancelled, it would seem to be in their best interest to understand the rule. But Kent State athletic director Joel Nielsen and Bowling Green athletic director Greg Christopher both admitted to unfamiliarity regarding the rule.

"I don't know where the number came from or how it was devised," Nielsen said. "I've had my head down just trying to sell tickets."

"It's a great question," Christopher said. "I've never given it a second thought."

Falcon Commander wrote:Plus, it was noted that BG missed attendance figures in 2009 and 2010.

factman wrote:Drago.....Drago......Drago........with another AD, we might make the attendance figure!!

I could name you 5-10 people right now, that don't go to games, either because of him or his policies.