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Zero Sh*ts Given

Dude said:
I know attendance has been an issue for years... but looking around college football its hard to understand how we can ever compete with Ohio St., Alabama, Georgia, Clemson etc. when we cant sell out a home opener after Covid restrictions or pack the house 3 out of 6 games a year... maybe 70% the other 3. But what stings the most is that there seems to be zero plan to fix this AND zero sh*ts given. To me that pretty much sums up our Athletic Department... Zero Sh*ts Given.
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Dude, I've sat in far more half empty stadiums in the OB and Joe Robbie than I have in full stadiums over the years. National championship seasons included. It's been that way in Miami for as long as I can remember.

Go Canes!!
 
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What are you talking about “zero sh*ts given”?

This thread is proof y’all give a sh*t about every little thing under the South Florida sun.

We’re a bad quarter away from half of y’all saying “we need more coaches who smoke! Ole Schnelly smoked a pipe, so did Sebastian! Look what it did for us, we’ve sucked ever since!”
 
If you think UM football attendance is bad, try going to a UM basketball game. We play in an 8k seat arena on campus and most nights it's MAYBE 25% full. It's embarrassing.
 
Dude said:
I know attendance has been an issue for years... but looking around college football its hard to understand how we can ever compete with Ohio St., Alabama, Georgia, Clemson etc. when we cant sell out a home opener after Covid restrictions or pack the house 3 out of 6 games a year... maybe 70% the other 3. But what stings the most is that there seems to be zero plan to fix this AND zero sh*ts given. To me that pretty much sums up our Athletic Department... Zero Sh*ts Given.
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The schools you named, and you can add in PSU, Michigan, UTenn, and others, have exactly jack **** to do in those areas other than the football game. It really isn't complicated to see.
 
rok said:
90% of our home games have almost no one in the endzone upperdeck. They should consider tarps.

ASU drastically reduced the capacity of their stadium to avoid giant swaths of empty seats.
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I've been saying this. They need to put tarps where the upper endzone is. An open it up for the bigger games like FSU, ND or a another big ACC game.
 
Tennessee, coming off a 3-7 year, had 82,000 people attend the game vs Pittsburgh.

Alabama had 95,000 people show up for Mercer.

Oklahoma had 87,000 people for Western Carolina.

These people have absolutely nothing to do. You can think it's cool that they can fill those giant stadiums for meaningless games, I think it's sad. We are a small private school with a lot of alumni from up North in an area full of Miami, UF, and FSU fans. And it's South Florida.
 
We actually do halfway decent considering 1) Miami is famous for having some of the worst fair-weather fans in the country 2) it is a small private university 3) it is a big city.
I don't think you can do anything to address it other than the team winning and being exciting. Remember the ND game? That was 65k fans.

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Good link to put things in perspective. We actually do halfway decent all things considered.
 
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IndayArtHauz said:
What are you talking about “zero sh*ts given”?

This thread is proof y’all give a sh*t about every little thing under the South Florida sun.

We’re a bad quarter away from half of y’all saying “we need more coaches who smoke! Ole Schnelly smoked a pipe, so did Sebastian! Look what it did for us, we’ve sucked ever since!”
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I'm the biggest Sebastian's Pipe supporter on the board. Huge mistake.
 
Jesus. every team in SFL struggles with attendance issues and that's not even taking into account a small alumni base that isn't local, small student pop, and a ton of grads from other places that live in SFL. it'll be a struggle to get close to a full house for every game outside of the big ones no matter how good the team is
 
hoops156 said:
Jesus. every team in SFL struggles with attendance issues and that's not even taking into account a small alumni base that isn't local, small student pop, and a ton of grads from other places that live in SFL. it'll be a struggle to get close to a full house for every game outside of the big ones no matter how good the team is
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It's an even sillier conversation considering our current product.
 
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Hurracanes said:
It averaged 65k in 2002 but carry on.
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So the solution is to be the defending national champs every year, as well as hosting F$U and VaTech in the same season, every season.

Yep, that makes sense. Easy fix.

Attendance in both 2001 and 2003 was not nearly as good. But, yeah, one outlier year every 40 years should be enough to prove that Miami can fill the stadium...

I hate attendance smack more than just about anyone, but I'm not going to pretend that 2002 was typical or sustainable.
 
Just can't fight it, there's always been more to do in Miami: Jai Alai, Coral Castle, Bill fishing, Dominos in the park, the Art Deco tour of the beach, Greyhound racing, nude beaches, every type of South American restaurant, A Hooters with an autographed picture of Manny Noriega, Joe's Stone Crab, "Biscayne Bay, we're the Cuban gentleman sleep all day," Ben Aronoff's old Dynatune boat yard, Versace Mansion, Big Al Capone's house, the Ponies, Peacocks in the streets, fish swimming in the streets ( according to Al Gore), Jamaican Cricket, the exotic horse meat trade, and the occasional **** fight. College football just can't compete with that much vying for your entertainment dollar.

 
r0fl_57omp7 said:
We actually do halfway decent considering 1) Miami is famous for having some of the worst fair-weather fans in the country 2) it is a small private university 3) it is a big city.
I don't think you can do anything to address it other than the team winning and being exciting. Remember the ND game? That was 65k fans.

collegefootballnews.com

College Football Attendance 5-Year Average For Every School

Why does attendance matter so much? For college football – far more than the pro sports – the ticket revenue and the money generated from having fans in the stands means everything to m…
collegefootballnews.com collegefootballnews.com
Good link to put things in perspective. We actually do halfway decent all things considered.
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This is the trick with Miami. Some fans desperately want what other programs seem to have. I get it. I do too. Who wouldn't want what OSU has.

But things are better than the image sold that we only have 5K fans in the crowd every game.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
So the solution is to be the defending national champs every year, as well as hosting F$U and VaTech in the same season, every season.

Yep, that makes sense. Easy fix.

Attendance in both 2001 and 2003 was not nearly as good. But, yeah, one outlier year every 40 years should be enough to prove that Miami can fill the stadium...

I hate attendance smack more than just about anyone, but I'm not going to pretend that 2002 was typical or sustainable.
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A lot of people don't know this, but we actually sell a lot of season tickets for a CFB program, and a TON relative to the size of the school.

I believe this peaked in 1990 at 57,000. I think 1990 had pretty good attendance numbers, though rarely full (lots of figures in the 50,000, but still lower than the # of season tickets sold).

If we were at that level of a program, we'd have better attendance.

However, we'd still get 750 for a high noon vs. Central Connecticut.
 
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