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50,787 attendance is biggest exaggeration ever

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On the attendance note, it used to be cool knowing you were at a game and the actual butts in seats set a new attendance record.

With the new way of counting attendance, how does that come into play if it's the most ever in attendance? Is that just ticket sales or actual butts in seats when the place is packed?
 
killacane said:
While I agree, the amount of people watching inside the club level and at bars throughout the stadium are not seen on TV.
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I remember the first UM home game that I attended at that stadium, it was against 2008 UNC game.
It was 15-30 minutes before kickoff and folks were hanging out at the bars inside the concourse, some were laying out on
those big wooden chairs reading newspapers, relaxing.
Meanwhile, we have our team running out of the tunnel, band playing, etc....it was the lamest college football atmosphere
that I ever witnessed.
What a joke.
 
It's based on ticket sales, not people in the seats. Still, one of the better crowds this year. I had to ask some guy to get out of our seats and that hasn't happened since F$U last year.

MiamiJoe said:
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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It's a goddam crime anyone shows up. These simple minded selfish ******** are going to maintain the UM coaching nightmare by showing up and supporting.
 
We're factoring local tv audience into the attendance figures. It's how Flake used to average 4000 people to Maine hockey games.
 
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canesrdynamite said:
The Franchise said:
Concourse fan here. Concourse was packed 3 deep everywhere.
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I missed a huge hit and fumble recovery against OU while out in the concourse. There were so many **** people out there I thought I had plenty of time til 2nd half.

I blame all you ****'s.
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There might have been 60K at the game. There were at least 30K of us in the concourse. Nothing beats going to a game and standing in a hallway watching the game on a small tv.
 
people are not stupid......they can see

anyway who cares


come monday after the rape things will be aligned
 
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felix said:
It's based on ticket sales, not people in the seats. Still, one of the better crowds this year. I had to ask some guy to get out of our seats and that hasn't happened since F$U last year.
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I agree. The crowd was larger than my expectation. I would estimate at least 42,000. People sat down not far from me, assuming those seats would not be used. They were chastised by the female usher and scampered away.

I left my house late, expecting not much of a crowd. I was very surprised when I was forced to park all the way on the cement in the orange lot, at the edge of the property toward Calder. I don't remember the last time I was forced to park on the cement, as opposed to on the grass in the standard area much closer to the stadium.

Obviously this doesn't jive with conventional wisdom or this thread. It took me 2 hours to arrive back in the Kendall area after the game ended. There were so many aggressive driving idiots on NW 27th Avenue alongside the stadium that there was one major accident after another in both directions after the game, forcing lane closures and prompting the need for emergency vehicles. It felt like Los Angeles traffic from my college years. Maddening.

When I arrived at a party that night, people who were there all afternoon and had watched the game on TV had the same impression depicted in this thread, that there was virtually nobody there. I was baffled. It wasn't anything close to a packed house but certainly average by our recent Sun Life standards, if not above average. In that regard I'm not surprised by the official announcement at all. I haven't watched the taped TV version yet.
 
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