Week 3 Attendance

[Ivytalk]

4,843 at URI to watch Harvard's 41-10 win

[Ivytalk]

2,863 at Georgetown to see Dartmouth's win

[Ivytalk]

3,261 showed up in Providence to see Brown turn it over 5 times and lose to Bryant

[Ivytalk]

8,052 at Fordham to see the Rams beat Columbia in the Liberty Bowl. Not bad!

[Cocky]

JSU had 23,000+ against TSU. Couldnt remember the last 3 digits

[JSU02]

JSU had 23,000+ against TSU. Couldnt remember the last 3 digits
23,413.

[PAllen]

3,261 showed up in Providence to see Brown turn it over 5 times and lose to Bryant

That's just sad.

[Sitting Bull]

4,463 for the MAC showdown between Ball State and Eastern Michigan.

10,142 in cavernous Gilette Stadium for "FBS" UMass home opener against Clemson.

[iBOsbu]

7,072 at Stony Brook against UNH

[Beachdude]

10,311 at Coastal vs. Western Illinois

[PantherRob82]

4,463 for the MAC showdown between Ball State and Eastern Michigan.

10,142 in cavernous Gilette Stadium for "FBS" UMass home opener against Clemson.

Only 10K for Clemson?!

[bulldog10jw]

7343 in Hamilton for Yale and Colgate plus, I'm sure, a massive internet audience on Colgate channel 1.

[Bisonator]

19,044 to watch the "rivalry" revival at NDSU today. So much for a record. Guess we can put the "rivalry" to bed for another 4 years. xlolx

[ngineer]

6971 in Goodman for Lehigh v. Penn

[BigHouseClosedEnd]

Sold out 8700 at Robins Stadium for VMI @Richmond.

[Sitting Bull]

Only 10K for Clemson?!

Oops, make that Temple.

still......pathetic.

[Flames Fan 10]

a record setting 22,551 at Williams Stadium for Liberty's win over Montana.

[Sitting Bull]

41,881 in Charlottesville as the Tribe comes up just short, 35-29.

[ValleyTalk]

10,311 at Coastal vs. Western Illinois

If that was at Coastal, I hope the Sun Belt is excited with that attendance number. I mean they are #1 after all.

[Sly Fox]

That is the first time in Coastal's history that they have broken 10k for a home game. Seriously.

[Flames Fan 10]

thats coastal's all time record too. we doubled it, and still got passed over. i don't get it.

[BigHouseClosedEnd]

With all due respect, you really don't get it?

[Sycamore62]

6680 for SEMO at ISUb

[jmufan999]

18,000ish vs. Albany

[Demwai]

30,194 at A.W. Mumford Stadium in Baton Rouge, LA for Jackson State University vs Southern University.

[jmrepak]

That is the first time in Coastal's history that they have broken 10k for a home game. Seriously.
We broke the home record set last home coming of 10,19;. Next week we have family weekend which is already SRO and then we have Homecoming after that. We should have some big attendance games the next two weeks and honestly we can't hold more than 10,500 or 11,000 until the stadium expansion gets underway

[CHIP72]

6971 in Goodman for Lehigh v. Penn

CHIP72 (and one of his brothers) was part of that total.

[CHIP72]

A total of 9173 were in attendance for Princeton's 40-7 demolition of Lafayette.

At least three people (me, my brother, and a guy wearing a Columbia blue Houston Oilers Dan Pastorini jersey) attended both this game and the Penn/Lehigh game.

[SFA 93]

13,000 at Homer Bryce Stadium for SFA 14 vs. McNeese State 28

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPUe1B5UYAAnopj.jpg:large

[Pards Rule]

A total of 9173 were in attendance for Princeton's 40-7 demolition of Lafayette.

At least three people (me, my brother, and a guy wearing a Columbia blue Houston Oilers Dan Pastorini jersey) attended both this game and the Penn/Lehigh game.


I know your story but I would love to know Pastorini's story as to why he attended both. Chip, I'm embarrassed by the moribund effort yesterday. Note: yesterday was parent's day at Lafayette.

[Go Green]

2,863 at Georgetown to see Dartmouth's win

There were a lot more outside MSF. Georgetown used to be pretty permissive about "standing room" and letting people just come in around halftime. For whatever reason, they had extra security this time at the gate and around the stands. Not sure if there was an issue last year, or they were expecting trouble from Dartmouth fans or what...

[CHIP72]

I know your story but I would love to know Pastorini's story as to why he attended both. Chip, I'm embarrassed by the moribund effort yesterday. Note: yesterday was parent's day at Lafayette.

My brother actually talked briefly at halftime with Pastorini when he went for a bathroom break. (Interestingly, Pastorini was the one who initiated the conversation, saying he saw him at the Penn/Lehigh game. Ironically, I saw Pastorini a couple sections away from us at the Princeton/Lafayette game - he sat maybe 30 feet from us at Penn/Lehigh - and said something to my brother about that during the 1st half.) According to my brother, Pastorini lives in the Reading area and came to the games because he could see two of them in one day. Pastorini also intends to attend both the Lehigh and Lafayette games two other times this season (I'd guess the two games on 10/3 are one of those times; the games that day have the same start times as yesterday's games.)

I suspect there are a decent number of people who attend the Lehigh Valley Division I-AA/FCS doubleheaders when Lehigh plays at 12:30 PM and Lafayette plays at 6 PM.

[PAllen]

I know your story but I would love to know Pastorini's story as to why he attended both. Chip, I'm embarrassed by the moribund effort yesterday. Note: yesterday was parent's day at Lafayette.

Why would Lafayette schedule a Parents weekend on an away game?

[Ivytalk]

There were a lot more outside MSF. Georgetown used to be pretty permissive about "standing room" and letting people just come in around halftime. For whatever reason, they had extra security this time at the gate and around the stands. Not sure if there was an issue last year, or they were expecting trouble from Dartmouth fans or what...
You never can tell, with that Winter Carnival reputation out there...:)

[Pards Rule]

Why would Lafayette schedule a Parents weekend on an away game?

They should have!

[Daytripper]

Full house of about 11,000 at Bowers to watch us lose. Student turnout was the best I have ever seen for a regular season game. Most of them won't be back, unfortunately.

[TTUEagles]

9,000 + for Mercer @ TTU

[Panther-State]

Apparently a packed house of 11K watched UNI tear Cal Poly apart in San Luis Obispo. Sounds like that was realistically closer to 6-7K at the start of the game and perhaps less than 5K by halftime.

[Red & Black]

10,924 was the official attendance for EWU's home opener against Montana State, although there were many more watching from the parking lots/hills overlooking the stadium.

[PAllen]

They should have!

Brain fart. How in the world do you only draw that many on Parent's weekend?

[Pards Rule]

Brain fart. How in the world do you only draw that many on Parent's weekend?

A moribund team. Plus a 6PM start with a lot of the parents taking their kids out to dinner then de-pard-ing for home after dinner. Once again, I hate "attendance" that isn't turnstile clicks but tickets sold. They ARE two different things.

[Seawolf97]

7072 for Stony Brook last night . Not bad also saw a lot of folks from UNH tailgating and in the stands that's great.

[RabidRabbit]

30,194 at A.W. Mumford Stadium in Baton Rouge, LA for Jackson State University vs Southern University.

Dang good crowd while Lsu playing Auburn on south side of Baton Rouge.

[Demwai]

Intense rivalry. This game could be played in a mudhole and the fans would show up for it. BTW...my Tigers got thumped by the Jaguars, 50-31.

[malibudude]

Apparently a packed house of 11K watched UNI tear Cal Poly apart in San Luis Obispo. Sounds like that was realistically closer to 6-7K at the start of the game and perhaps less than 5K by halftime.

It was full at the start. Students went drinking at half time. School starts tomorrow.

[The Yo Show]

YSU attendance was 17428 announced.

[Ivytalk]

16,057 in Ithaca to see Cornell's homecoming loss to Bucknell.

[Gangtackle11]

11779 @ Villanova. Parents weekend & Delaware is a good mix. May not have 11779 total the rest of the way. A shame. Good product on the field. No fans.

[eiu1999]

ISU@EIU 8104

[bulldog10jw]

16,057 in Ithaca to see Cornell's homecoming loss to Bucknell.

Nice.

[Franks Tanks]

Brain fart. How in the world do you only draw that many on Parent's weekend?

What are you talking about? Breaking 9k is a solid attendance number, even if it was parents weekend.

Maybe Lehigh should be worried about drawing more than 6,800 at your home opener. Lafayette by the way had about 1k more in the stands for ours 2 weeks ago. Also the max attendance at Goodman last year was 9,300 for the Fordham game.

[coastalalum]

That is the first time in Coastal's history that they have broken 10k for a home game. Seriously.


You're wrong. Seriously.

[clenz]

You're wrong. Seriously.
Yeah....it did happen twice last year at 10,100.....

Then there was games just over 5K

2013 saw just 2 games break 9K...and then a game with 3,005


I don't see any games at 10k before last year, so, at least they are trending the right direction.


Congrats to CCU on finally figuring out how to get people to show up for a game!

[BluBengal07]

16,057 in Ithaca to see Cornell's homecoming loss to Bucknell.

homecoming already? interesting.

[bulldog10jw]

homecoming already? interesting.

It was homecoming at Colgate, too. Must be to avoid the October snow in upstate NY.

[SENOREIDA]

Yeah....it did happen twice last year at 10,100.....

Then there was games just over 5K

2013 saw just 2 games break 9K...and then a game with 3,005


I don't see any games at 10k before last year, so, at least they are trending the right direction.


Congrats to CCU on finally figuring out how to get people to show up for a game!
Also doesn't help when you play in a small stadium. I believe we will see 100% capacity crowds when we finish the stadium expansion.

[clenz]

Also doesn't help when you play in a small stadium. I believe we will see 100% capacity crowds when we finish the stadium expansion.
So, there is a belief that CCU will have no issue drawing 20k in 2 years, when they've had crowds of 3k and 5k in the last two seasons?

Even with the small stadium CCU isn't averaging 100%

To put it in perspective it's like me believing UNI could build a 30k seat stadium and fill it based on averaging ~14k in a 16k stadium.

[jmrepak]

So, there is a belief that CCU will have no issue drawing 20k in 2 years, when they've had crowds of 3k and 5k in the last two seasons?

Even with the small stadium CCU isn't averaging 100%
I think we will see a nice uptick in attendance as the games become more exciting, we have a better fan experience in the stadium and we get a larger visiting crowd than 2-300. That doesn't just mean better opponents. It means a bigger game day budget with more pre-game activities, more advertising, more fan involvement/cheering/yelling, better audio and video displays, better marching band, pyrotechnics during the game, building traditions, etc. I don't know if we start seeing capacity crowds for another 3-5 years after the addition is complete, but I do think we will get there. Most people set their attendance records on nights with big events like Homecoming or Family Weekend. This week was neither and ticket sales were weak heading into the start of last week. We had a huge demand for student tickets and a large walk-up crowd that pushed out somewhere near 5000 tickets in 10 days including students. We also had a lot of first time fans that talked about how much they enjoyed it afterwards. We are steadily building our fan base and starting to see a lot of excitement around the community about the team and the school.

[813Jag]

Dang good crowd while Lsu playing Auburn on south side of Baton Rouge.
I'm more amazed at the turnout for a 5 pm start. I'm happy about the sellout. Usually we'll still draw well with a big game at home when LSU has one too.

[PantherRob82]

It was full at the start. Students went drinking at half time. School starts tomorrow.

They showed empty stands in the end zone at kickoff. Do those not count?

[clenz]

They showed empty stands in the end zone at kickoff. Do those not count?
Yeah...that place looked about 60% full at kick off on TV with wide shots of all of the stands

[UIWWildthing]

5,682 saw Towson beat Holy Cross 29-26 at Johnny U Stadium

[coastalalum]

So, there is a belief that CCU will have no issue drawing 20k in 2 years, when they've had crowds of 3k and 5k in the last two seasons?

Even with the small stadium CCU isn't averaging 100%

To put it in perspective it's like me believing UNI could build a 30k seat stadium and fill it based on averaging ~14k in a 16k stadium.


You keep referencing 3K and 5K. Those 2 games were the first round of the playoffs the Saturday after Thanksgiving with very few students in town. That weekend is sparsely attended by pretty much everyone not named NDSU, Montana and maybe a of couple others.

The fact is, 7100 is the smallest home crowd of any regular season game in the last couple of years. And the norm is more in the 8,500-10,000 range. I won't dare dispute that this is certainly still a far cry from 20K, but to keep harping on those 3K and 5K figures just isn't telling the whole story.

[tomq04]

10,924 was the official attendance for EWU's home opener against Montana State, although there were many more watching from the parking lots/hills overlooking the stadium.

Announced as 5th highest attendance. This was the first game since the SDSU playoff game in 2013 for me, the atmosphere was amazing and the small town of Cheney was alive like I have never seen. Excited to take my boy to another game in the future!

[GAD]

I'm more amazed at the turnout for a 5 pm start. I'm happy about the sellout. Usually we'll still draw well with a big game at home when LSU has one too.
We had 7pm starts for a reason that sun on the east side can be brutal. LSU doesn't really affect our attendance

[OldKat95]

Announced as 5th highest attendance. This was the first game since the SDSU playoff game in 2013 for me, the atmosphere was amazing and the small town of Cheney was alive like I have never seen. Excited to take my boy to another game in the future!
What's the status on stadium expansion project?