"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.