Attendance

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:53 am

Man, I thought we had more than 14,500 there. I was thinking 18,000 or 19,000 at least.

Tech83 · Post by **Tech83** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:11 am

Presently.....

Wisconsin 30,307
Buffalo 14,227
Kent 12,297
EMU 14,525

For a current total of 71,356 ..... averaging out to 17,839 per game. Makes you want to see the AD schedule more big OC games in Cleveland.

Luckily the Miami football game is not Thanksgiving week. BG SHOULD get good student support for the game. It could be worse......... Miami's last home game is Friday, Nov. 24 .... the day after T-day. We will miss that game due to a family vacation, but luckily have someone who is taking our tickets.

Speaking of out-of-town "home" games, I would love to see BG play a few "home" hockey games around the state to market the program and peak interest in college Hockey. Troy, Ohio has Hobart Arena that holds 4,500. New ice, new seating, new sound system, upgraded concessions...... and managed by a BG grad. http://www.troyohio.gov/rec/arena.html It would be a great place for a BG-Miami or a BG- OSU game. The Dayton Bombers play one of their games there a year and get great attendance.

jacojdm · Post by **jacojdm** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:35 am

cowboyjoe wrote:Not too bad for a town that has only 30,000 people. Toledo has over 600,000 people and they only had 20,000 at their game last week.

Toledo has a shade over 300K. A population of 600K would put Toledo just behind Colmbus in terms of population.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:02 pm

BGSU33 wrote:Man, I thought we had more than 14,500 there. I was thinking 18,000 or 19,000 at least.

I'm proud to say I called it as "14,000" during the game.

The key is looking in the upper corners.

Anyway, this Bobcat fan is an idiot - but, then, in my experience, most of them are like lightweights who get beer muscles at the first sip of bourbon.

"Oooh, we beat Illinois, we rule."

"Scoreboard, MF."

Dr. Reality · Post by **Dr. Reality** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:32 pm

There were considerably more people at this game than the previous two games. Homecoming, of course, had something to do with that as did the weather. It was a perfect football day. The stands weren't "packed." there were plenty of empty seats, but fewer than in the previous two games. Of interest to me (I left towards the end of the third quarter) were the masses of people still outside the stadium tail-gaiting. That bothered me. ---- Finally, somebody said that Toledo wasn't doing any better in spite of that city's population of 600,000. It's probably not all that important, but the population of Toledo is less than half that. And it;s not a football oriented community.

ctowndown · Post by **ctowndown** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:50 pm

word on the street lately is that the clash did not count

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:52 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:I'm proud to say I called it as "14,000" during the game.

You and J4H can share that trip to Subway.

Zom · Post by **Zom** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:54 pm

They'll need $18.00 to make it worth their while.

60yearsofsicsic · Post by **60yearsofsicsic** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:27 pm

According to both the Vice President for Student Affairs and the Associate Dean of Students the Wisconsin game does not count. There are some grumbling through the administration that if we play a game away from the doyt we should be adding an extra game to the home schedule. We will have to average around 18,500 people at the next game to make this mark. However, even if put on probabtion we have 10 years to get off probabtion the rule was really put in place for team like Utah State and Temple to have complete ineptness out of Div I.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:30 pm

60yearsofsicsic wrote:According to both the Vice President for Student Affairs and the Associate Dean of Students the Wisconsin game does not count. There are some grumbling through the administration that if we play a game away from the doyt we should be adding an extra game to the home schedule. We will have to average around 18,500 people at the next game to make this mark. However, even if put on probabtion we have 10 years to get off probabtion the rule was really put in place for team like Utah State and Temple to have complete ineptness out of Div I.

If that is the case, I wonder where the misunderstanding came from? I still like and defend the game in Cleveland, but I would think if we knew all along we weren't going to count the Wisconsin game toward our attendance average, we would have made A LOT more noise about being f*cked out of the Boise State home game.

BGSUfalcons · Post by **BGSUfalcons** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:34 pm

Like I've written before, if this year's and last year's attendance numbers for the Doyt are accurate, then the numbers must have been inflated before.

BG should start counting attendance like FIU and some of our MAC friends.

60yearsofsicsic · Post by **60yearsofsicsic** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:35 pm

Yea news of this was very upsetting to me as well. The insituion is currently and will always be about making money before home attendance. I understand larger crowds at the Doty mean more money, but the Cleveland obviously made more money. Because of this fact not until there backs are completely up against the wall regarding the attendance rule they will be more interested in these type of neutral site games.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:43 pm

On a non-BG note, I wonder if Buffalo gets an exemption for this weekend, I hear there were only a couple hundred folks at that game today.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:00 pm

60yearsofsicsic wrote:According to both the Vice President for Student Affairs and the Associate Dean of Students the Wisconsin game does not count. There are some grumbling through the administration that if we play a game away from the doyt we should be adding an extra game to the home schedule. We will have to average around 18,500 people at the next game to make this mark. However, even if put on probabtion we have 10 years to get off probabtion the rule was really put in place for team like Utah State and Temple to have complete ineptness out of Div I.

Two quick things. AD says we broke even in Cleveland, didn't make big $. And, I'd be looking for a couple of stronger sources than those two on what counts as a home game.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:03 pm

ctowndown wrote:word on the street lately is that the clash did not count

It counts.

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

That won't be a problem this year as the Falcons play three home games in September, including the opener against Wisconsin at Cleveland Brown Stadium, which counts as a home contest for Bowling Green, Campbell said. The school is anticipating 30,000-40,000 for the Badgers.