Final: Louisiana 75, USM 61

[cajunref]

Those numbers are completely made up and arbitrary. There were nowhere near 3k in that place last night. The propaganda continues. And it continues to alienate the rest of our fanbase who would typically give basketball a shot.

EXACTLY!

[Million$Mullet]

Those numbers are completely made up and arbitrary. There were nowhere near 3k in that place last night. The propaganda continues. And it continues to alienate the rest of our fanbase who would typically give basketball a shot.

So we don’t go by tickets sold anymore? I know some people were saying there were more than the 20k announced at homecoming. Ain’t no way there were more than 13k there and I have pics to prove it. Baseball announces 4300 a game and there ain’t half of that most of the time. At this point who really gives a ____?

[RaginScotsman]

Those numbers are completely made up and arbitrary. There were nowhere near 3k in that place last night. The propaganda continues. And it continues to alienate the rest of our fanbase who would typically give basketball a shot.

So the people counting attendance for football and basketball have different philosophies

Better to overreport, I guess.

[zeppelincajun]

Those numbers are completely made up and arbitrary. There were nowhere near 3k in that place last night. The propaganda continues. And it continues to alienate the rest of our fanbase who would typically give basketball a shot.

I have no issues with reporting paid attendance. It's a good metric to see how many are willing to shell out dollars to support certain programs. Basketball has been stuck in mediocrity for years now, and tickets still sell at a very comparable rate to our peer programs. Nothing to write home about on the surface, but it does give me hope for if we ever decided to make a serious investment in the program (other than our continued overpayment of one man). Unlike football coming off the most successful run in program history and putting up numbers that are nationally embarrassing.

[ManAboutTown]

So we don’t go by tickets sold anymore? I know some people were saying there were more than the 20k announced at homecoming. Ain’t no way there were more than 13k there and I have pics to prove it. Baseball announces 4300 a game and there ain’t half of that most of the time. At this point who really gives a ____?

I'm sure they do go by tickets sold, but that really doesn't tell you anything as far as butts in seats. If company A buys 50 tickets and company B buys 50 tickets and 20 people use tickets combined, you're reporting 100 attendance with only 20 actually in the seats. Which happens regularly around here.

[CajunVic]

And students don’t buy tickets . . .

[HOUCajun]

I'm sure they do go by tickets sold, but that really doesn't tell you anything as far as butts in seats. If company A buys 50 tickets and company B buys 50 tickets and 20 people use tickets combined, you're reporting 100 attendance with only 20 actually in the seats. Which happens regularly around here.

Are we going to have the same conversation when the same thing happens at the Tigue or Lamson?

It seems to me reporting tickets sold plus students admitted is the best way to measure attendance.

[Million$Mullet]

I'm sure they do go by tickets sold, but that really doesn't tell you anything as far as butts in seats. If company A buys 50 tickets and company B buys 50 tickets and 20 people use tickets combined, you're reporting 100 attendance with only 20 actually in the seats. Which happens regularly around here.

I want that same energy for softball, baseball and football who all compete for postseason play yearly. I know it’s the cool thing to rag on basketball right now but you got nationally competitive diamond sports who do the same thing as basketball attendance wise. And let’s not even start with football attendance

[ULvictory]

I want that same energy for softball, baseball and football who all compete for postseason play yearly. I know it’s the cool thing to rag on basketball right now but you got nationally competitive diamond sports who do the same thing as basketball attendance wise. And let’s not even start with football attendance

The difference is that when I can count by hand the number of people on one side of the Cajundome as less than 300 people and I see the reported attendance of over 2500, there's a big difference between that and the diamond sports. Baseball may claim 4,300 in attendance but I am willing to bet it would be too much for me to count by hand the number of people sitting at The Tigue considering that there's a higher percentage of people actually there out of the tickets sold.

[Esqueleto]

The difference is that when I can count by hand the number of people on one side of the Cajundome as less than 300 people and I see the reported attendance of over 2500, there's a big difference between that and the diamond sports. Baseball may claim 4,300 in attendance but I am willing to bet it would be too much for me to count by hand the number of people sitting at The Tigue considering that there's a higher percentage of people actually there out of the tickets sold.

I don't remember many games last year that were half full for baseball