"30,000 ... I thought we surpassed that greatly"

[NewsCopy]

When he heard attendance at Cajun Field for UL’s 49-35 win over New Mexico State last Saturday announced as 30,028, Ragin’ Cajuns coach Mark Hudspeth wasn’t buying it.

“If there’s one disappointment,” Hudspeth said after extolling all the virtues in UL’s win during his weekly media gathering Monday, “it was with our number clicker that they use at the gates when we were counting people coming in the door.

“Obviously it got stuck at 30,000-and-some-odd-number, and just didn’t keep ticking,” he added. “I thought we surpassed that greatly.”

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[Turbine]

The silliest quote in the article, because fans do not always show up and expecially corporate ticket sales do not always show up.

“We’ve always done it that way,” Dugas said. “Maybe you should do both … but, the thing is, our paid attendance is always so close to our actual attendance, because people who pay for tickets, they always show up.

“It’s not a situation where you are selling thousands of tickets to people who are not going to show up for our games.”

[Bigbuf]

The silliest quote in the article, because fans do not always show up and expecially corporate ticket sales do not always show up.

Yep...always wondered why when you ask if there are any seat in the chair back they say no....and there are ALWAYS empty seat in D and UD.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Some games corporate tickets probably do not reach 60% of sold to used.

Regardless we need to use a combination, counted for those that do not buy tickets, and sold for those that do. Clearly overstating has not been a problem for lots of teams, some of which I would rather not mention by name, I do not want to be seen as a bully.

[CockyCajun]

"We’ve always done it that way"

Grrrrr dude is clearly not paying attention.

[Big Buds]

Did anybody see the Wyoming game last night? At home vs. #16 Fresno State on a Saturday night and maybe had 15,000! We would have easily doubled that number.

[Louisiana84]

"We’ve always done it that way"

Grrrrr dude is clearly not paying attention.

We've USL'd ticket counting and distribution. When I compare attendance figures to attendance pictures from LTU-Ruston, Monroe@Monroe, and Tulane-New Orleans, I know that our numbers are inaccurate. Clearly, we've got 70,000 people at every one of our games.

#buttsintheseats

[CajunZ1]

Ok guys, so can we now put to bed this notion that we under-report attendance?

This article confirms that we as fans are not as accurate estimating attendance as electronic counters.

[Turbine]

Ok guys, so can we now put to bed this notion that we under-report attendance?

This article confirms that we as fans are not as accurate estimating attendance as electronic counters.

Quite the opposite, really.

Just based on the plethora of "I wasn't scanned" comments by a few who were paying attention to such things.

[HoustonCajun]

Ok guys, so can we now put to bed this notion that we under-report attendance?

This article confirms that we as fans are not as accurate estimating attendance as electronic counters.

There is no reason not to count tickets sold but unused in addition to actual attendance. If our game revenue is based on both, our attendance count should reflect that.

[Boomer]

OK maybe I can start a rumor----Say we actually collected money for a certain amount of season tickets (remember that ALL the seats were sold between the 20 yard lines or maybe even the 10 yard lines) now some of these seats were not sat in for some games----OK now the walk up gate comes into play and say that they are not all reported or that some are deliberately NOT SCANNED ---this would allow that the numbers could be diverted to keeping some walk up gate cause the non scanned evened that out!!!! OK total take is the season tickets and the non season ticket take ---the total attendance with the people in the stadium is much more with the students, the season tickets, and the walk ups!!!! Obviously I am kidding with all this but I would like to know the number of season tickets sold that did not occupy seats along with the people that did show up as all of this is revenue!!!! GEEE!

[Just1More]

I'm just under concerned about under reporting... if it occurs. Our number isn't off by more than 10% to 15%. Even with our "accurate" reporting, we're well above our contemporaries with their fabrications. Those that rate us for attendance aren't going to haggle about the gap we're haggling about. And in reality, we are benefiting financially and by our community support by our real attendance. That fact is astronomically more important. Other programs can lie about attendance, but their "reality" isn't helping them one bit.