Northwestern State at Louisiana Attendance Predictions

[Esqueleto]

The problem is the scanners. After 2 attempts to scan my tickets, I was told to just go in. I'm sure they're not scanning at least 5%.

[zephyr]

My take on it was student side was about 3/4 full. Pretty good

End zone was about 1/3 full. Not great

Home side(including upper deck) was about 65%

Then you have your 500 on the grass and probably another 1500 at concession or restroom, etc.

If someone knows the capacity of the respective sides of the stadium I'd be curious to know. End zone must be around 7000

I can say that from my view of the student side from my seats, it looked more than 75% full, at least in the first half and the endzone looked more than 1/3 full, especially with the people standing on the rail above them. I went to the North Endzone at half to get my son and looked at the homeside and again, it looked more than 65%. 65%? You are saying it looked a tad more than half full? I've got to say that it did seem a little light in the britches when they announced the attendance since I thought it would be closer to 29,000.

[zephyr]

What stinks is that I believe most of these other schools over report grossly. When we say we had 27k, we had 27k!

Ulm's 20k
https://m.facebook.com/universitylou...pe=1&source=42

It appears this picture could have been taken at kickoff? If so, I'm sure we all know that our homeside fills up pretty much after kickoff (which I don't understand). If this is the time it was taken, I would suggest looking at it midway through first quarter to get a true gauge.

[CrazyCajun]

I don't see 11k empty seats

[ManAboutTown]

It appears some of us were at different games. CDs picture is halftime or kickoff. Which is never a correct representation. It also doesn't show the hill nor the common areas.
Even in that picture, there are not 11k empty. Btw, how are we accounting for YRC club members? My son was not "scanned" when we walked in..

[Just1More]

Unfortunately, we have a historical counting shortage. And many are using the past counts as references. So, they'll argue they agree with the under count. The other "empty seat" issue that keeps puzzling people is that our end zones are large sweeps, and they weren't originally counted in our 31k stadium capacity. People look on both sides and see empty seats, but don't understand that when you take that large end zone sweep, condense it into the stand sections, it fills the voids pretty fast. And the people constantly on their feet milling around the stadium is always another 1500 easy. The count is off. We under estimate.

[HoustonCajun]

Unfortunately, we have a historical counting shortage. And many are using the past counts as references. So, they'll argue they agree with the under count. The other "empty seat" issue that keeps puzzling people is that our end zones are large sweeps, and they weren't originally counted in our 31k stadium capacity. People look on both sides and see empty seats, but don't understand that when you take that large end zone sweep, condense it into the stand sections, it fills the voids pretty fast. And the people constantly on their feet milling around the stadium is always another 1500 easy. The count is off. We under estimate.

We need to hire the counter from Tulane. We would be averaging about 35,000 - 40,000 a game.

[cajunhawk]

Seeing the pictures of the upper deck...we under reported. Tickets sold plus students. This is not rocket science and it gives us a cushion if the weather gets bad.

[Boomer]

Seeing the pictures of the upper deck...we under reported. Tickets sold plus students. This is not rocket science and it gives us a cushion if the weather gets bad.

---But C-Hawk they still miss the students coming in or do according to anecdotal reports---but yes the tickets would do a great service and as usual makes sense!!!

[cajunhawk]

---But C-Hawk they still miss the students coming in or do according to anecdotal reports---but yes the tickets would do a great service and as usual makes sense!!!

Easy fix...make students come in through one gate...have someone with a clicker. Analog doesn't break.