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Who obsesses over spring "game" attendance?

JeddTheFisch said:
1990, 2000-2002 had really high attendance numbers.
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Ok, I'm not sure how accurate these attendance numbers are but this is what I found:

Recent history's highest attendance averages:

2017 - 58,682
2018 - 61,469
2019 - 52,829

Older high attendance watermarks:

1990 - 62,096
1994 - 60,331
2000 - 58,430
2002 - 69,539
2003 - 58,135
2004 - 59,134

Two things to notice from the Orange Bowl days. Almost every high water attendance year was when we played FSU at home. 2003 was the only year we didn't have a home game against the Seminoles. Also an average of 46,162 people showed up to watch the greatest team ever play their home games in 2001. That's a lower average than the fighting Al Goldens in 2011.
 
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i saw hundreds of people standing up and a whoooole lot more that were inside in the cool that if they had been in the seats would have made it look a whooooole lot more to capacity and compared to the last few years when you could've shot a gun though the stands and not hit anyone this was a great crowd..
 
klineski96 said:
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My brother's and I drove down from Orlando.

Hit up Caneswear in the morning, went to the game, sat in the shade, watched a ton of recruits fill in the section next to us in the reserved seats.
Parking sucked but we knew it would. But there were more people there than I expected tbh.
Nice to finally see a legit coaching staff in place! It's been awhile!

Go Canes!
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I also drove down from Orlando, and I have the Monday Night Football reverse angle shot:
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Cajuncane said:
i saw hundreds of people standing up and a whoooole lot more that were inside in the cool that if they had been in the seats would have made it look a whooooole lot more to capacity and compared to the last few years when you could've shot a gun though the stands and not hit anyone this was a great crowd..
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Take a look at the picture I posted. There were a ton of people in that building in the NW corner of the stadium, and there were also a ton of people standing along the barricades in the SE and SW corners.
 
People support winning teams. FSU’s and Florida’s attendance were both trash last year. Just like ours, their numbers have are not truly attendance based. Who cares! The second we win and start selling out, everyone will say “we only sell out, because we win”. 😂 I only care about the opinions of other Canes. Some Canes 😂
 
DTP said:
Ok, I'm not sure how accurate these attendance numbers are but this is what I found:

Recent history's highest attendance averages:

2017 - 58,682
2018 - 61,469
2019 - 52,829

Older high attendance watermarks:

1990 - 62,096
1994 - 60,331
2000 - 58,430
2002 - 69,539
2003 - 58,135
2004 - 59,134

Two things to notice from the Orange Bowl days. Almost every high water attendance year was when we played FSU at home. 2003 was the only year we didn't have a home game against the Seminoles. Also an average of 46,162 people showed up to watch the greatest team ever play their home games in 2001. That's a lower average than the fighting Al Goldens in 2011.
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Fairly certain that Dee used turnstile numbers, while Beta Blake used "total tickets sold".

May not make a huge deal for the F$U game, but it will kill our average number for games like Bethune-Cookman.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Fairly certain that Dee used turnstile numbers, while Beta Blake used "total tickets sold".

May not make a huge deal for the F$U game, but it will kill our average number for games like Bethune-Cookman.
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In fairness, pretty much every stadium does attendance by number of tickets sold now. But yeah, there's probably 10,000 season ticket holders who don't show up to noon games against FCS teams that still get counted towards the attendance.
 
BTW I second how great that VIP area option was.

As others mentioned, that building in the NW corner had multiple levels with lots of a viewing and an outside deck area. Many folks stayed there through the entire game. You still needed a ticket to get in the Stadium, so imo, hundreds or more of 'seat holders' never even made it to their seats.

But for the $50 VIP option, we got great food options, unlimited wine/beer, tables to sit at, air conditioning to enjoy, a pavilion to stand outside, and a birds-eye view of the lower level Recruiting pavilion where we got to see stuff others probably couldn't.

Add to that, we got free BLUE lot parking, right next to the entrance, and that, evidently, was a friggin' godsend. Count me in for these type of VIP experiences in the future. Very very reasonable. We got our moneys worth. And was a very fun day.
 
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DTP said:
In fairness, pretty much every stadium does attendance by number of tickets sold now. But yeah, there's probably 10,000 season ticket holders who don't show up to noon games against FCS teams that still get counted towards the attendance.
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Yeah, and while I blame Beta Blake for a lot, and maybe this isn't all on him, you can still clearly see the deal between playing in the OB vs. playing in Joe Robbie. Maybe it's a change in methodology that occurred at the same time, I just think it's funny.

****, I went to a baseball game in 1999, I think it was Hank Aaron Day (or maybe Jackie Robinson? I think it was Hank). Was in the Arthur Andersen suite (yeah, THAT Arthur Andersen) and I got there about 15 minutes before game time. Freakin' stadium was almost empty. Regardless of the sport, it's just sad to see a bunch of empty seats in that place, it is sooooo big (or was).

I think they announced an attendance of around 11K for that baseball game, but even that was being generous.
 
Allabouttheu95 said:
I just don’t understand how we marketed as a sell out and than it looks like that. If it was truly the parking situations fault that caused it to look like that I know Mario is going to be livid.
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It was because UF and fsu took thousands of tickets that they never intended to use… so they could use the “empty stadium” talking point for the spring game.
 
The game is played on the field. No one loses a game just because there are empty seats
 
miamihurricane34 said:
They whole point was to farm everyone's email addresses so they can try to sell season tickets.
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I already have season tickets and I already have their ticket app on my phone. They already bombard my inbox with 20 emails a week. Lol
 
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