College Football Attendance

[Duckster]

The writer chose to ignore as did those he interviewed the skyrocketing ticket prices to support the facilities 'arms race'. It doesn't take much to price out fans, even die hard fans. I think the season ticket holding fans are taken for granted, especially at the perienel top ten programs, the thinking is the fans aren't going anywhere. Facts are those older fans dying off aren't being fully replaced by younger fans. Could be the culture, costs are becoming a big factor too.

[Policarp]

Why modern stadiums are all high speed wifi friendly. Need to adapt to clientel.

UL would be wise to make this a marketable strength

[CajunEXPRESS]

Miss State greatly aided their paid attendance. Even then only 28K and change.

https://hailstate.com/boxscore.aspx?...&path=football

[HoustonCajun]

I don't think it's a soccer vs football vs anything else thing. I think the coming generations just are not as interested in sports in general. I brought my two boys to Cajuns games every year from 3 years old on up and one of them runs cross country and takes MMA classes but otherwise has zero interest in sports, and the other likes sports, plays what he can, but never watches it on TV and can take it or leave it live. He likes to go to the games sometimes just for the event, but never really gets into it. They were exposed to it regularly, it just didn't take like it took for me. There is just more competition for their attention. It's not necessary a bad thing. There has been too much importance and emphasis put on athletes and sports in general in society for the last 30 years anyway....imo.

That's a good example of why we need to bowl in the NEZ and not play babysitter to a bunch of kids.

[CrazyCajun]

That's a good example of why we need to bowl in the NEZ and not play babysitter to a bunch of kids.

So it’s empty? It’s a reason to not bowl it in, we don’t need it. Attendance will only Keeo getting worse so you want to add more seats? In a non premium viewing area?

[MetryCajun]

That's a good example of why we need to bowl in the NEZ and not play babysitter to a bunch of kids.

It's actually a good example of why NEZ seats will never be needed. When I was a kid I watched the game. I also tried to get my kids to like football. They think it has too much dead time with too many rules. Go to a soccer game. Ball is called out of bounds. The other team picks it up and throws it in. In football they may deliberate for 5 minutes if the runners toe was out of bounds. It is tedious and simply does not help gain new fans. We don't mind it as much because we fell in love with the sport at a young age and have accepted the incremental changes to the sport. Increased Prices, endless commercial breaks, instant replay and convoluted rules have diluted interest in the game.
That said, most sports would love to have the attendance problems of football. Even with all its flaws it is still compelling when two evenly matched teams play.

[RaginFan2]

Miss State greatly aided their paid attendance. Even then only 28K and change.

https://hailstate.com/boxscore.aspx?...&path=football

That game was played in Ruston, not Starkville.

[Oiler]

So it's empty? It's a reason to not bowl it in, we don't need it. Attendance will only Keeo getting worse so you want to add more seats? In a non premium viewing area?

No, we definitely don't need to add capacity to our stadium. That ship sailed a long time ago, and we missed it. We should instead focus on making our stadium as state of the art, and with as many amenities as possible. If you look at what's going on with other G5 schools, 30K seat stadiums that are much more plush seem to be the trend.

[Million$Mullet]

That game was played in Ruston, not Starkville.

That’s what he was saying. The miss st game greatly added to their attendance total

[RaginFan2]

That’s what he was saying. The miss st game greatly added to their attendance total

Ok, missed that. Thanks for setting me straight.