Week 9 Attendance

[Ivytalk]

6029 witnessed Harvard's rout of Dartmouth in crappy conditions. Weather probably reduced attendance there by 2/3.

[Bogus Megapardus]

Three people saw Bucknell at Lafayette. One left at halftime, and the other two were just looking for the puppet show.

[HaveFunKc]

App St win over GA Southern at The Rock in Boone, NC... 30,018

[Twentysix]

18886 saw NDSU become #1 in person.

[TTUEagles]

Over 18 K to see Tennessee TECH AT Jacksonville St. (21-14 TTU Wins!!! xsmileyclapx xthumbsupx- sorry, can't contain myself tonight!)

[BEAR]

10543 to see UCA play the first half. xlolx

[cruyf]

Watched the Nova Maine game and other than the chain gang, did not see anyone else but the players/coaches. Of course, the cameras were constantly covered with snow. Watched the Delaware Towson game. Saw about 5 people on the home side, band in the end zone and two sections of students.

[HailSzczur]

Watched the Nova Maine game and other than the chain gang, did not see anyone else but the players/coaches. Of course, the cameras were constantly covered with snow. Watched the Delaware Towson game. Saw about 5 people on the home side, band in the end zone and two sections of students.

I would say maybe 600 at the Nova Maine game. Around 400 on the home side and maybe 200 on away? If these aren't even close I'll blame the cold affecting my judgement. Still looking for a number, ESPN lists the attendance as N/A and the box score on the Villanova website says the attendance was 0. The Freshmen cheerleaders were there but the Varsity were not, and the band was also given the night off. I do know that by the 4th quarter I was one of 5 students left in the student section.

[superman7515]

NCAA Weekly Attendance FCS (http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2011/Internet/attendance/WKLYATTENDANCEFCS.HTML)

Sched Dt Home Opponent Attendance
29-OCT-11 Alabama St. Alabama A&M 66473
29-OCT-11 Appalachian St. Ga. Southern 30018
29-OCT-11 Montana Weber St. 25401
29-OCT-11 Old Dominion James Madison 19818
29-OCT-11 Jacksonville St. Tennessee Tech 18933
29-OCT-11 North Dakota St. UNI 18886
29-OCT-11 Norfolk St. N.C. A&T 18752
29-OCT-11 Prairie View Jackson St. 17743
29-OCT-11 Montana St. Idaho St. 16517
29-OCT-11 Southern U. Alcorn St. 15011
29-OCT-11 South Ala. Henderson St. 14692
29-OCT-11 N.C. Central Bethune-Cookman 12516
29-OCT-11 Missouri St. South Dakota St. 12312
29-OCT-11 Liberty Presbyterian 11673
29-OCT-11 Youngstown St. Western Ill. 11583
29-OCT-11 Citadel VMI 11184
29-OCT-11 Cal Poly South Dakota 10557
29-OCT-11 New Hampshire Rhode Island 10554
29-OCT-11 Central Ark. Southeastern La. 10543
29-OCT-11 Stephen F. Austin McNeese St. 10422
29-OCT-11 Savannah St. Hampton 10375
29-OCT-11 Chattanooga Furman 9239
29-OCT-11 Ark.-Pine Bluff Grambling 9202
29-OCT-11 Eastern Wash. Portland St. 9003
29-OCT-11 Richmond Massachusetts 8700
29-OCT-11 Wofford Elon 8611
29-OCT-11 Southern Ill. Illinois St. 8129
29-OCT-11 Towson Delaware 8122
29-OCT-11 Mississippi Val. Texas Southern 7839
29-OCT-11 Southern Utah UC Davis 7143
29-OCT-11 Sam Houston St. Lamar 6575
29-OCT-11 Samford Western Caro. 6317
29-OCT-11 Sacramento St. Northern Ariz. 6119
29-OCT-11 Harvard Dartmouth 6029
29-OCT-11 Gardner-Webb Charleston So. 5570
29-OCT-11 Austin Peay Eastern Ill. 5273
29-OCT-11 Princeton Cornell 5036
29-OCT-11 Davidson Campbell 4509
29-OCT-11 Colgate Lehigh 4218
29-OCT-11 Holy Cross Georgetown 3873
29-OCT-11 Lafayette Bucknell 3604
29-OCT-11 Murray St. Eastern Ky. 3466
29-OCT-11 Brown Penn 3403
29-OCT-11 Tenn.-Martin Southeast Mo. St. 3349
29-OCT-11 Northern Colo. North Dakota 3171
29-OCT-11 Delaware St. Morgan St. 2352
29-OCT-11 Stony Brook Coastal Caro. 1619
29-OCT-11 Robert Morris Sacred Heart 1514
29-OCT-11 Valparaiso Dayton 1243
29-OCT-11 Columbia Yale 1209
29-OCT-11 Howard South Carolina St. 1057
29-OCT-11 Monmouth Duquesne 1050
29-OCT-11 Wagner Albany (NY) 1012
29-OCT-11 Marist Drake 1000
29-OCT-11 Villanova Maine 1000
29-OCT-11 St. Francis (PA) Central Conn. St. 522

*Note that Marist/Drake and Villanova/Maine weren't reported and are given the default 1,000

[poly51]

South Dakota @ Cal Poly 10557

[katstrapper]

Well the stats show there was 6,575 at the SHSU game, but I have a VERY hard time believing that. That stadium was pretty packed yesterday.

[HailSzczur]

NCAA Weekly Attendance FCS (http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2011/Internet/attendance/WKLYATTENDANCEFCS.HTML)
*Note that Marist/Drake and Villanova/Maine weren't reported and are given the default 1,000

Wow, that actually helps our attendance for the game. I guess that guy who was supposed to count didn't want to show up cause it was snowing.

[ur2k]

We claimed 8700 in the box score. Maybe more like 2000 since most stayed away b/c of the weather (pansies).

[BigApp]

29-OCT-11 St. Francis (PA) Central Conn. St. 522
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let's see 65 or so players for each team

130

Let's say 15 coaches and staff for each team

+30

Officials

+7

Chain gang

+4

stadium, staff and security

+50

media

+20

hmmmmmmmmm..xchinscratchx..were there ANY tickets sold to this game??

[TheBisonator]

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let's see 65 or so players for each team

130

Let's say 15 coaches and staff for each team

+30

Officials

+7

Chain gang

+4

stadium, staff and security

+50

media

+20

hmmmmmmmmm..xchinscratchx..were there ANY tickets sold to this game??

That's nothing. Back in 2008 on a dismal, dreary October Saturday in the F-M area, Minnesota State-Moorhead (a school across the river from NDSU) had a whole whopping 271 people show up to its game against the U of Mary out of Bismarck.

At that same time, NDSU had about 17,000 fans at the Fargodome to watch the Bison play Northern Iowa.

[Pards Rule]

NCAA Weekly Attendance FCS (http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2011/Internet/attendance/WKLYATTENDANCEFCS.HTML)

Sched Dt Home Opponent Attendance
29-OCT-11 Alabama St. Alabama A&M 66473
29-OCT-11 Appalachian St. Ga. Southern 30018
29-OCT-11 Montana Weber St. 25401
29-OCT-11 Old Dominion James Madison 19818
29-OCT-11 Jacksonville St. Tennessee Tech 18933
29-OCT-11 North Dakota St. UNI 18886
29-OCT-11 Norfolk St. N.C. A&T 18752
29-OCT-11 Prairie View Jackson St. 17743
29-OCT-11 Montana St. Idaho St. 16517
29-OCT-11 Southern U. Alcorn St. 15011
29-OCT-11 South Ala. Henderson St. 14692
29-OCT-11 N.C. Central Bethune-Cookman 12516
29-OCT-11 Missouri St. South Dakota St. 12312
29-OCT-11 Liberty Presbyterian 11673
29-OCT-11 Youngstown St. Western Ill. 11583
29-OCT-11 Citadel VMI 11184
29-OCT-11 Cal Poly South Dakota 10557
29-OCT-11 New Hampshire Rhode Island 10554
29-OCT-11 Central Ark. Southeastern La. 10543
29-OCT-11 Stephen F. Austin McNeese St. 10422
29-OCT-11 Savannah St. Hampton 10375
29-OCT-11 Chattanooga Furman 9239
29-OCT-11 Ark.-Pine Bluff Grambling 9202
29-OCT-11 Eastern Wash. Portland St. 9003
29-OCT-11 Richmond Massachusetts 8700
29-OCT-11 Wofford Elon 8611
29-OCT-11 Southern Ill. Illinois St. 8129
29-OCT-11 Towson Delaware 8122
29-OCT-11 Mississippi Val. Texas Southern 7839
29-OCT-11 Southern Utah UC Davis 7143
29-OCT-11 Sam Houston St. Lamar 6575
29-OCT-11 Samford Western Caro. 6317
29-OCT-11 Sacramento St. Northern Ariz. 6119
29-OCT-11 Harvard Dartmouth 6029
29-OCT-11 Gardner-Webb Charleston So. 5570
29-OCT-11 Austin Peay Eastern Ill. 5273
29-OCT-11 Princeton Cornell 5036
29-OCT-11 Davidson Campbell 4509
29-OCT-11 Colgate Lehigh 4218
29-OCT-11 Holy Cross Georgetown 3873
29-OCT-11 Lafayette Bucknell 3604
29-OCT-11 Murray St. Eastern Ky. 3466
29-OCT-11 Brown Penn 3403
29-OCT-11 Tenn.-Martin Southeast Mo. St. 3349
29-OCT-11 Northern Colo. North Dakota 3171
29-OCT-11 Delaware St. Morgan St. 2352
29-OCT-11 Stony Brook Coastal Caro. 1619
29-OCT-11 Robert Morris Sacred Heart 1514
29-OCT-11 Valparaiso Dayton 1243
29-OCT-11 Columbia Yale 1209
29-OCT-11 Howard South Carolina St. 1057
29-OCT-11 Monmouth Duquesne 1050
29-OCT-11 Wagner Albany (NY) 1012
29-OCT-11 Marist Drake 1000
29-OCT-11 Villanova Maine 1000
29-OCT-11 St. Francis (PA) Central Conn. St. 522

*Note that Marist/Drake and Villanova/Maine weren't reported and are given the default 1,000

There was no way 3604 were in Fisher Stadium in Easton for the Snow Bout. I was there and I counted a mere 36 people on the Bucknell side. On our side I would say 150 maybe. Attendance is who shows up - where do they get these figures? It is a joke!

[Rekdiver]

30k was generous. I believe they count season tickets regardless if they show......quote is paid attendance. However that means a buch of people show up who have not been coming. I bleive we had about 27k but it was a beautiful cold day.

[Gringer1]

30k was generous. I believe they count season tickets regardless if they show......quote is paid attendance. However that means a buch of people show up who have not been coming. I bleive we had about 27k but it was a beautiful cold day.

I did expect more yosefs to be there. 27,000 is still a lot, but do you have any idea why the number was less than expected? It seemed like a perfect storm with GSU rolling into town with a #1 ranking after knocking ASU off that spot last year.

[superman7515]

There was no way 3604 were in Fisher Stadium in Easton for the Snow Bout. I was there and I counted a mere 36 people on the Bucknell side. On our side I would say 150 maybe. Attendance is who shows up - where do they get these figures? It is a joke!

NCAA attendance is not who shows up, it's tickets distributed. That's how teams like the directional Michigan schools get over 15k. You just give away 2-3k tickets and it counts, whether they ever had any intention of showing up or not.

[Mountaineer]

I did expect more yosefs to be there. 27,000 is still a lot, but do you have any idea why the number was less than expected? It seemed like a perfect storm with GSU rolling into town with a #1 ranking after knocking ASU off that spot last year.

Because we have some sorry *** fans when there's even a hint of inclement weather. Cold? Forgetaboutit. I was amazed walking through Stadium Lot yesterday and seeing those big donor spots sitting empty. xsmhx

[Gringer1]

I was incredibly cold at the game yesterday (not as cold as the Delaware game was last year, but still unpleasant), but I didn't think that such weather would keep the home fans away. If you live within driving distance of the stadium, you should fairly used to the weather, right?

[MTfan4life]

That's nothing. Back in 2008 on a dismal, dreary October Saturday in the F-M area, Minnesota State-Moorhead (a school across the river from NDSU) had a whole whopping 271 people show up to its game against the U of Mary out of Bismarck.

At that same time, NDSU had about 17,000 fans at the Fargodome to watch the Bison play Northern Iowa.

MSUM is one of the weakest Division II Football programs. You can't really even compare their attendance to the 9 man football teams in the area. Getting a thousand people is like a major event. The weather wasn't that bad this weekend, and MSUM only had 400 people listed. They just don't really put up an effort. These schools are Division I schools.

[TheBisonator]

MSUM is one of the weakest Division II Football programs. You can't really even compare their attendance to the 9 man football teams in the area. Getting a thousand people is like a major event. The weather wasn't that bad this weekend, and MSUM only had 400 people listed. They just don't really put up an effort. These schools are Division I schools.

I remember one Saturday afternoon in the fall when the Bison were playing on the road later that evening anyway, I drove over to MSUM's stadium and stood by the fence and watched their game thru the fence. Talk about a 9-man high school type atmosphere. They put NOTHING into their FB program, facilities or overall experience at that school.

I used to take a few extra classes at MSU-Moorhead besides my NDSU courses. People there told me that students who are college sports fans on the MSUM campus just go to the Bison games instead, they don't even bother with the Dragons. A lot of them attend Concordia games instead of the MSUM games that are going on AT THE SAME TIME.

There are more student Bison fans on the MSUM campus than student Dragon fans.

[bojeta]

Maine has a really good team and Villanova has a lot of history! How do these two teams draw just 1000 fans???? For crying out loud.... the families alone probably made up half that number!!

[HailSzczur]

Maine has a really good team and Villanova has a lot of history! How do these two teams draw just 1000 fans???? For crying out loud.... the families alone probably made up half that number!!

Well Maine fans had about a 10 hour drive to get down here through the storm and back. At Nova we just haven't been drawing well at all and the snow did not help things. By the 4th quarter the student section was 5 students, it was pathetic.

This was the home side at the beginning of the second half:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/377249_2341307646920_1076808058_2614951_1596654424 _n.jpg
And part of the Maine side early in the game:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/303808_2341306246885_1076808058_2614944_1181088956 _n.jpg

[AppChicago]

I was incredibly cold at the game yesterday (not as cold as the Delaware game was last year, but still unpleasant), but I didn't think that such weather would keep the home fans away. If you live within driving distance of the stadium, you should fairly used to the weather, right?

Living driving distance away doesn't mean much. Charlotte's an hour and a half away and had a high into the sixties Saturday. Boone was 20 degrees cooler and most of the crowd sits in shadow. We were on the sunny east side and were still plenty chilly ( and my blood's not that thin).

That's not to excuse the fairweathers, but keep in mind that Boone's weather is not typical for the vast majority of fans. (Plus most of us showed up anyway.)

[bojeta]

Well Maine fans had about a 10 hour drive to get down here through the storm and back. At Nova we just haven't been drawing well at all and the snow did not help things. By the 4th quarter the student section was 5 students, it was pathetic.

This was the home side at the beginning of the second half:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2341307646920&set=a.2144866536015.2122290.1076808058&type=1&theater
And part of the Maine side early in the game:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2341306246885&set=a.2144866536015.2122290.1076808058&type=1&theater

My bad... wasn't even thinking about the snow. Wouldn't stop me from attending though :)

[Sader87]

What the hell is a MSUM?

[ngineer]

NCAA Weekly Attendance FCS (http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/2011/Internet/attendance/WKLYATTENDANCEFCS.HTML)

Sched Dt Home Opponent Attendance
29-OCT-11 Alabama St. Alabama A&M 66473
29-OCT-11 Appalachian St. Ga. Southern 30018
29-OCT-11 Montana Weber St. 25401
29-OCT-11 Old Dominion James Madison 19818
29-OCT-11 Jacksonville St. Tennessee Tech 18933
29-OCT-11 North Dakota St. UNI 18886
29-OCT-11 Norfolk St. N.C. A&T 18752
29-OCT-11 Prairie View Jackson St. 17743
29-OCT-11 Montana St. Idaho St. 16517
29-OCT-11 Southern U. Alcorn St. 15011
29-OCT-11 South Ala. Henderson St. 14692
29-OCT-11 N.C. Central Bethune-Cookman 12516
29-OCT-11 Missouri St. South Dakota St. 12312
29-OCT-11 Liberty Presbyterian 11673
29-OCT-11 Youngstown St. Western Ill. 11583
29-OCT-11 Citadel VMI 11184
29-OCT-11 Cal Poly South Dakota 10557
29-OCT-11 New Hampshire Rhode Island 10554
29-OCT-11 Central Ark. Southeastern La. 10543
29-OCT-11 Stephen F. Austin McNeese St. 10422
29-OCT-11 Savannah St. Hampton 10375
29-OCT-11 Chattanooga Furman 9239
29-OCT-11 Ark.-Pine Bluff Grambling 9202
29-OCT-11 Eastern Wash. Portland St. 9003
29-OCT-11 Richmond Massachusetts 8700
29-OCT-11 Wofford Elon 8611
29-OCT-11 Southern Ill. Illinois St. 8129
29-OCT-11 Towson Delaware 8122
29-OCT-11 Mississippi Val. Texas Southern 7839
29-OCT-11 Southern Utah UC Davis 7143
29-OCT-11 Sam Houston St. Lamar 6575
29-OCT-11 Samford Western Caro. 6317
29-OCT-11 Sacramento St. Northern Ariz. 6119
29-OCT-11 Harvard Dartmouth 6029
29-OCT-11 Gardner-Webb Charleston So. 5570
29-OCT-11 Austin Peay Eastern Ill. 5273
29-OCT-11 Princeton Cornell 5036
29-OCT-11 Davidson Campbell 4509
29-OCT-11 Colgate Lehigh 4218
29-OCT-11 Holy Cross Georgetown 3873
29-OCT-11 Lafayette Bucknell 3604
29-OCT-11 Murray St. Eastern Ky. 3466
29-OCT-11 Brown Penn 3403
29-OCT-11 Tenn.-Martin Southeast Mo. St. 3349
29-OCT-11 Northern Colo. North Dakota 3171
29-OCT-11 Delaware St. Morgan St. 2352
29-OCT-11 Stony Brook Coastal Caro. 1619
29-OCT-11 Robert Morris Sacred Heart 1514
29-OCT-11 Valparaiso Dayton 1243
29-OCT-11 Columbia Yale 1209
29-OCT-11 Howard South Carolina St. 1057
29-OCT-11 Monmouth Duquesne 1050
29-OCT-11 Wagner Albany (NY) 1012
29-OCT-11 Marist Drake 1000
29-OCT-11 Villanova Maine 1000
29-OCT-11 St. Francis (PA) Central Conn. St. 522

*Note that Marist/Drake and Villanova/Maine weren't reported and are given the default 1,000

These are NOT attendance figures but "tickets purchased" figures. Nowhere near those amounts at either Colgate or Lafayette.

[ngineer]

Well Maine fans had about a 10 hour drive to get down here through the storm and back. At Nova we just haven't been drawing well at all and the snow did not help things. By the 4th quarter the student section was 5 students, it was pathetic.

This was the home side at the beginning of the second half:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2341307646920&set=a.2144866536015.2122290.1076808058&type=1&theater
And part of the Maine side early in the game:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2341306246885&set=a.2144866536015.2122290.1076808058&type=1&theater

And 'nova wants to to "big time"?

[Squealofthepig]

NCAA attendance is not who shows up, it's tickets distributed. That's how teams like the directional Michigan schools get over 15k. You just give away 2-3k tickets and it counts, whether they ever had any intention of showing up or not.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this would really only be a difference for teams that traditionally don't have support, letting lower-attendance programs save face while still giving pretty good numbers for the larger programs; I would be shocked if any of the numbers for App, NDSU or Montana in particular were artificially inflated by such means.

That being said... I think about two/thirds of the Griz fans did some extra-long tailgating at halftime versus Weber; even from Sentinel it looked like Wa-Griz was somewhat empty in the fourth quarter.

[Squealofthepig]

Well Maine fans had about a 10 hour drive to get down here through the storm and back. At Nova we just haven't been drawing well at all and the snow did not help things. By the 4th quarter the student section was 5 students, it was pathetic.

This was the home side at the beginning of the second half:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2341307646920&set=a.2144866536015.2122290.1076808058&type=1&theater
And part of the Maine side early in the game:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2341306246885&set=a.2144866536015.2122290.1076808058&type=1&theater

Your /img stuff is missing a .jpg or .gif or something, just as an FYI.

While it's true 'Nova games seem to draw poorly, especially in the snow (I was aghast two years ago when the Nova stadium was almost empty in a playoff game in the snow), I will say they travel well for the national championships - Nova had almost as many fans in Chatty as Montana did that year.

[AppStsGr8]

I was incredibly cold at the game yesterday (not as cold as the Delaware game was last year, but still unpleasant), but I didn't think that such weather would keep the home fans away. If you live within driving distance of the stadium, you should fairly used to the weather, right?


Living driving distance away doesn't mean much. Charlotte's an hour and a half away and had a high into the sixties Saturday. Boone was 20 degrees cooler and most of the crowd sits in shadow. We were on the sunny east side and were still plenty chilly ( and my blood's not that thin).

That's not to excuse the fairweathers, but keep in mind that Boone's weather is not typical for the vast majority of fans. (Plus most of us showed up anyway.)

You're correct, AppChicago. In my two hour drive to Boone I go from 2500 feet above sea level down to 1500 at Old Fort, back to 4400 at Banner Elk, and down to 3333 at KBS. Those elevation changes make all the difference in the world in amount and type of precipitation.

I can understand folks not tailgating as long on Saturday with the wind and snow. It didn't slow us up much, if any. I can also understand grass seat folks not showing up or staying to sit on the hill. I'm just glad it wasn't too cold. The GaSo fans around me wouldn't have made it to half time if it had been any colder.

[JSUBison]

NCAA attendance is not who shows up, it's tickets distributed. That's how teams like the directional Michigan schools get over 15k. You just give away 2-3k tickets and it counts, whether they ever had any intention of showing up or not.

I've been keeping an eye on eastern michigan attendance this year, just because it's so horrible. They are averaging 4620 over 4 games this year as reported on the NCAA website, and I've seen the box scores on ESPN which also show the same thing. If that attendance number has the give aways already built into it, what a pathetic school, fanbase and administration up there.

[superman7515]

It is usually every other year. They only have to reach a 15k average once every two years to maintain FBS status. Next season, you'll see a lot of 15,204 and 15,301 games, haha.