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Who obsesses over spring "game" attendance?

DTP said:
If 10,000 people showed up, this was the most attended Miami spring game in my lifetime.

That said, UM ticket office dropped the ball here. Forcing people to preorder free tickets and then allowing them to get 6 tickets each was stupid. Supposedly, they gave away 21,000 tickets for a stadium with 19,000 capacity. I waited too long and the seats were “sold out”. Somehow traffic and parking issues kept more than half of ticket holders at home? Good thing we don’t have those issues during the season.
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Yep, they definitely dropped the ball on this one it seems. I mean, historically for me, free events have like a no show rate of 30-50%. I think that would be pretty close to most free events. They only did about 10.5% "overselling", so even though it was well attended like you said, that's just not enough to compensate for free event no shows IMO. Add in the parking and traffic disaster that was reported, could have been better.

But like you said, it was still well attended and at the end of the day this program is already light years ahead of where it was, not everything is going to go smooth. It's only going to keep getting better and better under Mario and Rad, and these other teams fans know it.
 
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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 highly doubt 13,000 people did a U-turn, I think the ticket office just bungled it as others have said. Anyway, who cares what those two have to say? I mean when someone is talking smack about your Spring game attendance, you take it as a compliment.
 
Attendance will never be Miami's forte. We need to accept it and it won't bother us when other fan bases try to use it against us.
 
puertorricane said:
Attendance will never be Miami's forte. We need to accept it and it won't bother us when other fan bases try to use it against us.
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Strong point.

Given South Florida's history of lackluster attendance for [insert team here], is there a realistic scenario where any team draws consistent "big" crowds?
 
Our spring game had higher attendance is somewhere between "our long snapper is higher rated" and "At least the recruit gave us a visit" on the measures of a program. All three are directly below "Our stadium has better churros."
 
Empirical Cane said:
Strong point.

Given South Florida's history of lackluster attendance for [insert team here], is there a realistic scenario where any team draws consistent "big" crowds?
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The Heat have earned their consistent sell-out status through decades of winning. Nobody else here can make that claim. The Dolphins still sell pretty well but if you go to a Dolphins game, especially against a division rival, 1/3 of the crowd is there to see the Jets, Patriots or Bills. The Marlins always suck and even during their two winning seasons, they really couldn't draw a crowd. The Panthers are always a tough draw because there's really only so many hockey fans in south Florida. Although, their attendance has been up recently since the team has been good.

Miami football will never have a full season of sold out games. It's the nature of the fanbase. There's probably about 30,000 REAL diehard fans in the area that go to games all the time but everyone else is just a casual. Even when the team is championship caliber, home games against weak opponents are half empty affairs. I'm pretty sure that the team has only averaged over 60,000 fans one season and that was in the Orange Bowl that had a 73,000 seat capacity. We had a couple seasons under Richt where we averaged around 55k and that's likely about as good as it's going to get for attendance in MIami.
 
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DTP said:
The Heat have earned their consistent sell-out status through decades of winning. Nobody else here can make that claim. The Dolphins still sell pretty well but if you go to a Dolphins game, especially against a division rival, 1/3 of the crowd is there to see the Jets, Patriots or Bills. The Marlins always suck and even during their two winning seasons, they really couldn't draw a crowd. The Panthers are always a tough draw because there's really only so many hockey fans in south Florida. Although, their attendance has been up recently since the team has been good.

Miami football will never have a full season of sold out games. It's the nature of the fanbase. There's probably about 30,000 REAL diehard fans in the area that go to games all the time but everyone else is just a casual. Even when the team is championship caliber, home games against weak opponents are half empty affairs. I'm pretty sure that the team has only averaged over 60,000 fans one season and that was in the Orange Bowl that had a 73,000 seat capacity. We had a couple seasons under Richt where we averaged around 55k and that's likely about as good as it's going to get for attendance in MIami.
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Pats and Bills, definitely. You're giving way too much credit to the Jets. I've been to nearly 30 home games vs. Jets and they've never approached a third. As they've sucked in recent years, it's been 10% most of the time. Totally normal for an nfl away representation.

Otherwise, excellent post. Spot on.
 
DTP said:
The Heat have earned their consistent sell-out status through decades of winning. Nobody else here can make that claim. The Dolphins still sell pretty well but if you go to a Dolphins game, especially against a division rival, 1/3 of the crowd is there to see the Jets, Patriots or Bills. The Marlins always suck and even during their two winning seasons, they really couldn't draw a crowd. The Panthers are always a tough draw because there's really only so many hockey fans in south Florida. Although, their attendance has been up recently since the team has been good.

Miami football will never have a full season of sold out games. It's the nature of the fanbase. There's probably about 30,000 REAL diehard fans in the area that go to games all the time but everyone else is just a casual. Even when the team is championship caliber, home games against weak opponents are half empty affairs. I'm pretty sure that the team has only averaged over 60,000 fans one season and that was in the Orange Bowl that had a 73,000 seat capacity. We had a couple seasons under Richt where we averaged around 55k and that's likely about as good as it's going to get for attendance in MIami.
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1990, 2000-2002 had really high attendance numbers.
 
Canes don't have the benefit of many away fans traveling, except vs. FSU.

That's down to geography and conference fanbases.
 
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