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50,787 attendance is biggest exaggeration ever

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It is amazing to look at crowd on TV and then see the announced attendance. I guess they just reverse count and count empty seats. We are showing by major absence of regular fans how much money program is losing
 
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Appeared to be mid/high 30's, and after back to back losses, I was expecting less peeps. Think they're still in the habit of announcing paid.
 
That would only mean there were approximately 15k empty seat, that's laughable. Before anyone says the side the game cameras are on is where most of the fans are, I get it that there's more, but the blimp shots showed the entire thing.

It is what it is though. If we were steamrolling teams, there would've been at least 25k more in the stands today with VT as the opponent. We'll never win any attendance awards, but it's worse now game to game than I've ever seen it in my 30 years of going to games or watching from out of state. Start winning, people will show more.
 
This was the worst crowd I've seen in a while. (The student section was emptier than I'd ever seen it before.) I would honestly be surprised if we had even half of their 50k claim.
 
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These are the same people that extended Golden into Bolivian and gave him way to much money. So you would expect that they can't count.
 
While I agree, the amount of people watching inside the club level and at bars throughout the stadium are not seen on TV.
 
canedoit said:
Appeared to be mid/high 30's, and after back to back losses, I was expecting less peeps. Think they're still in the habit of announcing paid.
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The NCAA has a rule for calculating attendance - I have posted it numerous times. It is mainly just tickets sold, but there are sub-exceptions. $1 tix for employee appreciation day or whatever wouldn't count based on the number sold - only those who go to the game with that ticket can be counted. The rule is the same for students who do not pay for tickets.

I have no idea why people are so fascinated by attendance.
 
DapperSlapper said:
canedoit said:
Appeared to be mid/high 30's, and after back to back losses, I was expecting less peeps. Think they're still in the habit of announcing paid.
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The NCAA has a rule for calculating attendance - I have posted it numerous times. It is mainly just tickets sold, but there are sub-exceptions. $1 tix for employee appreciation day or whatever wouldn't count based on the number sold - only those who go to the game with that ticket can be counted. The rule is the same for students who do not pay for tickets.

I have no idea why people are so fascinated by attendance.
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I was there, NO WAY it was even close to 50k. It was literally half empty, the worst I've been to.
 
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Very very typical South Florida mentality.

I passed the remote parking, it was literally empty. They had majority even closed off.

The regular parking had empty spots all over the place...30 minutes before the game.

Valet? It was full. Barely able to get my car parked by them.

So very Miami.
 
DapperSlapper said:
canedoit said:
Appeared to be mid/high 30's, and after back to back losses, I was expecting less peeps. Think they're still in the habit of announcing paid.
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The NCAA has a rule for calculating attendance - I have posted it numerous times. It is mainly just tickets sold, but there are sub-exceptions. $1 tix for employee appreciation day or whatever wouldn't count based on the number sold - only those who go to the game with that ticket can be counted. The rule is the same for students who do not pay for tickets.

I have no idea why people are so fascinated by attendance.
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People are fascinated by attendance numbers because of the discrepancy between what is announced and what they see (actual). Years ago attendance was mostly a turnstyle count. Announced attendance pretty much matched what was in the building. There was no fascination with attendance then because it was basically what you see is what you got. If people would get their heads around the fact that attendance doesn't mean what it used to, we could all ignore it. But, when they use some new meaning of the word "attendance" it is confusing to many.

As you stated, the NCAA has rules for calculating attendance. And those rules almost guarantee a significant discrepancy between actual/announced that we see regularly at UM home games. All it really means though is that a lot of people who have purchased tickets don't show up at the stadium for whatever reason. They are still counted in the attendance.

Here is the link to FIU's example of attendance calculation/reporting
 
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I was at the game 32,000 or so there, I parked at 3:10PM and got within 100 yards of the NW entrance, a good 3500 or so VT fans, not as loud as the Nebraska fans
 
Dingaan1828 said:
DapperSlapper said:
canedoit said:
Appeared to be mid/high 30's, and after back to back losses, I was expecting less peeps. Think they're still in the habit of announcing paid.
Click to expand...

The NCAA has a rule for calculating attendance - I have posted it numerous times. It is mainly just tickets sold, but there are sub-exceptions. $1 tix for employee appreciation day or whatever wouldn't count based on the number sold - only those who go to the game with that ticket can be counted. The rule is the same for students who do not pay for tickets.

I have no idea why people are so fascinated by attendance.
Click to expand...

People are fascinated by attendance numbers because of the discrepancy between what is announced and what they see (actual). Years ago attendance was mostly a turnstyle count. Announced attendance pretty much matched what was in the building. There was no fascination with attendance then because it was basically what you see is what you got. If people would get their heads around the fact that attendance doesn't mean what it used to, we could all ignore it. But, when they use some new meaning of the word "attendance" it is confusing to many.

As you stated, the NCAA has rules for calculating attendance. And those rules almost guarantee a significant discrepancy between actual/announced that we see regularly at UM home games. All it really means though is that a lot of people who have purchased tickets don't show up at the stadium for whatever reason. They are still counted in the attendance.

Here is the link to FIU's example of attendance calculation/reporting
Click to expand...

One person on the board pays attention...
 
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