forums

Attendance...

CTCANE said:
Take a look of the OOC games we played back in the 90's and early 2000's when we were in the Big East. What happened to those? This year's home schedule is a snoozefest.
Click to expand...

This. Need to play better competition. It’s how this program was built.
 
Advertisement
DPCane said:
What quarter was this, because a lot off people cleared it after halftime
Click to expand...

Some people just came to see the band. Also, they saw the game was not really competitive. Plus, it was time to go to dinner.
 
DTP said:
Also, UM never averaged over 62k in attendance in the Orange Bowl even though capacity was over 73k. You would get 75k with the added bleachers for FSU and s week later there's be 30k for Rutgers. Go watch some of the old 2001 highlights. Huge sections of the stands are completely empty against Temple and some of the other garbage teams.
Click to expand...
This. It’s always been this way. Miami is an event city. Media will never understand that this isn’t Tuscaloosa, Lincoln, NE etc. Most casual fans would rather do something else than see us hang 60 on Bethune. However, that same casual fan is the clown who has the audacity to ask me if I have an extra FSU ticket.
 
Silver King said:
I was telling my son yesterday about the upper level restrooms in the OB - you get caught in a line there you were going to miss a lot. I missed one of the five NFL Passing Records Danny broke in the last Monday night game against Dallas one season. But man, I still loved the place. As a kid, saw Joe Namath there when he had the Fu Man Chu in a pre-season game they brought our undefeated Charlotte (Punta Gorda) Jr High "Hurricanes" to a game. He trotted over to a bunch of us on the rail after the game and an interview and asked, "What did you guys think of the game?". That was cool as heck.
Click to expand...
I remember getting my money taken in those restrooms when I was like 10. Learned to carry it in my sock after that. Played peewee football there for halftime show. Saw chuck foreman play there and canes up thru 84. Fins there when they were a real team. Great times at that place🙌🙌🙌 oh and Mike Irvin there was the Shiit!!! Every pass he caught was like the greatest catch in the history of man. He owned the stadium🙌🙌🙌
 
Man you guys showed out for them boys man!

I wish I could have made it down! But I’ll be down during UVA and VT. Been in the middle of a move from DC to Manhattan.

Show out this week for CMU as well canes fans!
 
DTP said:
Also, UM never averaged over 62k in attendance in the Orange Bowl even though capacity was over 73k. You would get 75k with the added bleachers for FSU and s week later there's be 30k for Rutgers. Go watch some of the old 2001 highlights. Huge sections of the stands are completely empty against Temple and some of the other garbage teams.
Click to expand...

They did in 2002.
 
ssvir said:
They shoot from the Miami side facing toward the visitor side.

The visitor side is in the sun all day.

Only ******** sit in the sun on the visitors side hence the empty look.
Click to expand...

Half or even a quarter of the stadium isn't the visitors section. Visiting teams, unless it's UF or FSU get ridiculously small allotments. So saying we shoot towards the visitors side is misleading as ****.

Attendance is what it is. For it to be even 30-35k, the camera side had to be standing room only with that many seats open on the other side and in the endzones.
 
Advertisement
There’s no doubt since the renovations that from a consistency standpoint this has been the best attendance since I’ve been going to games starting in the early 90’s. The floor for the worst games are much higher than what it was at the OB. Last games attendance was solid given the situation. The venue and staff are great and I think that really helps. Food needs a lot of work though.
 
SayWhat said:
Half or even a quarter of the stadium isn't the visitors section. Visiting teams, unless it's UF or FSU get ridiculously small allotments. So saying we shoot towards the visitors side is misleading as ****.

Attendance is what it is. For it to be even 30-35k, the camera side had to be standing room only with that many seats open on the other side and in the endzones.
Click to expand...

I honestly have no idea what you just said but I was at the game and there was a healthy attendance of both fans and students but nearly everyone was sitting in the shade. Probably 35k butts in seats for the 1h and 30k were in the shade.
 
miamifan007 said:
Def was no more than 40k
Click to expand...

Agreed. It was not larger than expected. We were all commenting how empty it was for a home opener. The regular season ticket holders always show up for the first game since it's been marked and anticipated for months. That's why caliber of opponent or won/loss record is not as relevant for that game. But they didn't do a good job at all of filing the optional seats.

I will say one thing...it was tremendously comfortable for a mid September game. Not oppressive at all. Unusually good air circulation in the upper deck and even an occasional nice cool breeze. I was shocked. Several of us were looking around wondering if something had been changed to the stadium, or if it were merely an unusually favorable set of circumstances including wind direction.
 
SayWhat said:
Half or even a quarter of the stadium isn't the visitors section. Visiting teams, unless it's UF or FSU get ridiculously small allotments. So saying we shoot towards the visitors side is misleading as ****.

Attendance is what it is. For it to be even 30-35k, the camera side had to be standing room only with that many seats open on the other side and in the endzones.
Click to expand...

You realize there's a visitor's sideline and a home sideline, right? It doesn't mean it's the visiting team's seating section, it's just the side the visiting team is on. And yes, there was an easy 35 thousand people there as most of the home sideline, endzone and upper deck were pretty full. If you've ever gone to a game at Hard Rock Stadium, you'd know the visitors sideline doesn't get shade and the seats on that side of the stadium bake in the sun. For a big game, people will deal with it. For a game like Bethune, they all move out of that section.
 
Advertisement
DTP said:
You realize there's a visitor's sideline and a home sideline, right? It doesn't mean it's the visiting team's seating section, it's just the side the visiting team is on. And yes, there was an easy 35 thousand people there as most of the home sideline, endzone and upper deck were pretty full. If you've ever gone to a game at Hard Rock Stadium, you'd know the visitors sideline doesn't get shade and the seats on that side of the stadium bake in the sun. For a big game, people will deal with it. For a game like Bethune, they all move out of that section.
Click to expand...

Yes, been there, but not since the remodel. Either way, 35k would be generous IMO, not that it matters. I get why people wouldn't show for BC.
 
edge3241 said:
There’s no doubt since the renovations that from a consistency standpoint this has been the best attendance since I’ve been going to games starting in the early 90’s. The floor for the worst games are much higher than what it was at the OB. Last games attendance was solid given the situation. The venue and staff are great and I think that really helps. Food needs a lot of work though.
Click to expand...

Yeah. A game against Bethune Cookman prior to the renovation would have maybe 10k there. Pleasantly surprised at the attendance last weekend.
 
Back
Top