Great attendance for MAC this week

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:20 am

Here's a look at the rounded figures for the six MAC home games this weekend:

UCF - 32,000
Buffalo - 29,000
NIU - 28,000
BG - 23,000
KSU - 17,500
Akron - 17,000

UK Peregrine · Post by **UK Peregrine** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:05 am

Very nice figures, but let's not include UCF. I can't stand even seeing the Golden Knights name on this list. Congrats to everyone else in the MAC that had nice home showings. Hopefully this can be followed up by a couple of wins now.

rollalong94 · Post by **rollalong94** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:13 am

The top 3 on that list benefitted from having a big name school in town and/or an intrastate school.
I think it's impressive that we got 23,000 for a 1-AA school. I hope we'll do better, though.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:27 am

We are in uncharted territory.

The comparison that comes to my mind is 1995. BGSU was coming off a fantastic 1994 season that a school record for attendance (despite the absence of Toledo). Exactly 22,222 showed up for a Thursday night opener against Louisiana Tech.

Ryan Henry threw six interceptions and the Falcons lost 28-21. Despite a win the next week at Missouri, the wheels began coming off. We could have set another school attendance record that season. Instead, we were seeing the start of a six-year decline.

I see Saturday night much like that Louisiana Tech game. Except that we won.

If the Falcons do well on this road trip, we could come close to selling out homecoming, and we should certainly sell out the Marshall game.

The only down side to this schedule is we have something like three home games in a row in November. That might be asking a lot of fans, to show up at Perry Stadium three weeks in a row, especially with the risk of bad weather.

But I still think we could set a school record this year... again, without Toledo on the schedule.

CapitalFalcon · Post by **CapitalFalcon** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:01 pm

I think just the opposite...If we roll through the next 3 away games, homecoming will be huge. If we only have 1 loss by the tie that three game home stand hits, we'll have NO PROBLEM getting butts in the seats...and there is no reason why that can't happen. GO BG!

FalconKing · Post by **FalconKing** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:51 pm

I agree....if we manage to run the table till the late homestand, we'll probably be in the Top 25 and students can't ignore that. Let's not get too carried away though.....NIU is the first hurdle.

BGSUfanatUT · Post by **BGSUfanatUT** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:44 pm

Schadenfreude wrote:We are in uncharted territory.

The comparison that comes to my mind is 1995. BGSU was coming off a fantastic 1994 season that a school record for attendance (despite the absence of Toledo). Exactly 22,222 showed up for a Thursday night opener against Louisiana Tech.

Ryan Henry threw six interceptions and the Falcons lost 28-21. Despite a win the next week at Missouri, the wheels began coming off. We could have set another school attendance record that season. Instead, we were seeing the start of a six-year decline.

I see Saturday night much like that Louisiana Tech game. Except that we won.

If the Falcons do well on this road trip, we could come close to selling out homecoming, and we should certainly sell out the Marshall game.

The only down side to this schedule is we have something like three home games in a row in November. That might be asking a lot of fans, to show up at Perry Stadium three weeks in a row, especially with the risk of bad weather.

But I still think we could set a school record this year... again, without Toledo on the schedule.

...without toledo OR NIU, OR Miami..... that would be huge.