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Miami v. USF nearing sell-out

NoahPerez
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caneingville said:
So dumb. I will never understand why we are the only team that that gets **** on for this, when we consistently outperform so many big public schools despite being one of the smallest schools in all of D1.

Nebraska will keep touting their sellout streak even though their own fans laugh at how it’s faked because the tickets are all bought up by a couple key boosters to keep the streak going.

Florida brags about attendance in all sports, and is consistently caught lying and no one cares. Game 1 of this year was nowhere near a sellout (was maybe 75-80% full) but they bragged about the attendance being ~1500 over the Swamp’s actual capacity.

FSU just reduced their stadium’s capacity to a size on par with HRS because they weren’t even selling out back when they had their championship season in 2013, let alone in any of the years since. And even in our worst years, FSU doesn’t do that much better than us in attendance, especially when you consider that they are a large public university. And they don’t do better than us every year.

UCF has something like 60K students, and they’ve never once had better attendance than us, even in our down years.

I’m just really over it.
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I’m with you but also kind of enjoy the attendance criticisms. It means we’ve fixed a lot of other stuff.

It became a thing to criticize us about because we were kicking the **** out of everyone so it’s all they had
 
NoahPerez said:
9/12 (12:13pm update)
300 LEVEL
305- 9
314- 43
321- 6
323- 3
330- 71
331- 32
332 (non-alc)- 42
335- 62
336- 12
355- 1
356- 17
TOTAL: 298

200 LEVEL
out

100 LEVEL
out

66,793 - 298 = 66,495

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If you go look at the secondary market there are entire rows of empty seats in certain sections. Those seats were likely dumped by the University into the market. It ain't gonna be full.
 
hurricaneman said:
If you go look at the secondary market there are entire rows of empty seats in certain sections. Those seats were likely dumped by the University into the market. It ain't gonna be full.
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Also, bot accounts.

If you want cheaper than retail tickets, most of the time, waiting until a few hours before kickoff or any gametime for those batch drops is the way to go.
 
Trav said:
The attendance thing will always be an issue, The fact is UM is a small private university and the non-student/alumni fan base is pretty small. You're talking about a population that's a large percentage non native born. I don't mean just people from the Caribbean or South/Central America, but so many snowbirds/retirees, etc. It's not a huge percentage of them that become Canes fans.

And yea South Florida has a lot fair weather fans. But even when we're good they only consistently show up for the big games. In 2000 we were headed for an NC (no one knew the BCS would ***** us) and we had a crucial game against BC on or right around thanksgiving. Only 40K showed up. It wasn't an "event" like FSU or VT, both were sell-outs. In 2001 (the greatest team of al time) the attendance for the meh opponents sucked. I was at every home game and only Washington was a sellout. No other game was close. Even for Syracuse who was ranked it was only 50K tops. It really wasn't much different than 2006 or 2007 when we were sh*t.

Don't look at the historical official numbers because those only show tickets sold. I was there and I could tell you how many a$$es were in seats.
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I don’t think you are getting my point. I was at all those games too, as I was a UM student back in the 90s. But the “historical official numbers” are showing tickets sold for all teams, not just UM. Yet when the actual attendance figures are not matching, UM is the only one getting **** on for it. And our own fans don’t help the matter. I have degrees from three D1 schools, have been to games at plenty of other schools (I can’t even count how many games I’ve been to where the Swamp was empty), and I think it’s pathetic that our fans accept this crap. Our fanbase is not a fairweather fanbase, not any more so than any other fanbase. It’s simple math. We actually outkick our coverage.
 
JHallCanes said:
I’m with you but also kind of enjoy the attendance criticisms. It means we’ve fixed a lot of other stuff.

It became a thing to criticize us about because we were kicking the **** out of everyone so it’s all they had
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Eh, seems like the criticism got really big as social media got huge…which was right around the time everyone was boycotting Golden and donating to banner planes instead of the program. Bad timing for us to be sucking. 😕
 
caneingville said:
Eh, seems like the criticism got really big as social media got huge…which was right around the time everyone was boycotting Golden and donating to banner planes instead of the program. Bad timing for us to be sucking. 😕
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Attendance criticisms go back to the days of Usenet.
 
They announced 66,591, which obviously ridiculous... that's only a couple hundred less than Notre Dame. But it was pretty full, probably about 50k butts in seats, and I was impressed that most people stayed through the lightning delay. The student turnout was pitiful, they left 3 whole sections of the upper deck endzone empty.
 
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