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re: Predict the attendance
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:29 pm to tigerswin03
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:29 pm to tigerswin03
46,238.
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Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:31 pm to HollierThanThou
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Pushing over 30k and still steady. Keep going @LSUfball fans! Deadline 5pm for season ticket holders. Still have sideline available.
This was just tweeted by the ticket office. I should be able to get great seats at 6PM.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:33 pm to ShreveDad
More than UL-L
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:33 pm to ShreveDad
I think it gets to 55,000 or so
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:35 pm to austintiger76
60k 
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:37 pm to tigerswin03
Someone posted here that LSU was charging $75 per ticket. Is that true? How did LSU arrive at that figure? Was that the price that South Carolina was charging for the game?
That just seems kind of high-priced for a "charity" disaster relief game scheduled at the last minute.
That just seems kind of high-priced for a "charity" disaster relief game scheduled at the last minute.
This post was edited on 10/8/15 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 10/8/15 at 12:41 pm to TheDude321
South Carolina set the ticket prices.
Hanigriff said so far only 30K tickets had been sold.
Hanigriff said so far only 30K tickets had been sold.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 1:13 pm to OleBallCoach
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71,358
I was going with 67,852 but your number seems more legit
Posted on 10/8/15 at 1:49 pm to OleBallCoach
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71,358
I can't go , so ........
Posted on 10/8/15 at 1:54 pm to ApexTiger
60,000 tickets sold max. Your tickets between the 20's on both sides are corporate guys who all have other obligations already set. The upper decks will have very few people in them. That leaves the lower bowl... 60,000 tickets sold tops... I think they'll put the tickets on Groupon, Living Social and other sites and sell them at 50% off beginning Saturday morning... Times are different... If this had happened 30 years ago, the stadium would be rocking.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:06 pm to tigerswin03
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I'll guess around 70k
That would be a miracle. Attendance is likely to be very low for this game. Here are the reasons:
There are three main groups who are responsible for almost all ticket sales to any particular game: 1) Season ticket holders, 2) students and 3) visiting team fans. I believe LSU sells over 70,000 season tickets. Students are allocated about 15,000 tickets. Visiting teams are generally allotted about 7,500 tickets. Together, these groups purchase over 92,000 of the just over 102,000 tickets that can be sold to a given game.
Season ticket holders attendance at a particular game is driven by three primary incentives. First, they buy their tickets well before the season, so the tickets are already paid for, so they have an incentive to either go to the game or pass them off to someone else who will. Second, they are forced to buy tickets to a particular game in order to get tickets to all the other games. Finally, they must renew season tickets each year in order to retain their right to buy those tickets in future years. For this group, none of those incentives apply for this game. To buy a ticket for this game, they must pay additional money that they are not required to pay in order to maintain their tickets for this and future years.
Student tickets are allocated through a points ranking system based on seniority and attendance at designated "points" events in other sports throughout the year. This allocation process occurs before the season and students know from the beginning which games they will receive tickets to. I have no idea how student tickets are being allocated for this game, but regardless of how it works, it can't be done as effectively on three days' notice as it can be in preseason. Students are also incentivized to attend games to which they have tickets or risk losing ranking points. That almost certainly will not apply to this game.
Visiting schools fans' tickets are allocated by the visiting school by whatever process the school uses, but regardless of USC's allocation process, attendance at this game by USC fans is virtually certain to be next to nothing due to the circumstances in South Carolina right now and the short notice for making travel plans.
With these factors dramatically dragging down sales among the three groups responsible for over 92,000 of the 102,000 tickets for a normal game in Tiger Stadium, it would be beyond amazing if ticket sales reached 70% capacity (about 70,000) for this game. 50,000 would be a huge success, and anything close to 40,000 would be a very respectable showing. Given the fact that it's a day game and the opponent is not doing well this season, I will guess attendance will be in the 35,000-45,000 range.
This post was edited on 10/8/15 at 2:10 pm
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:12 pm to tigerswin03
I would say no more than 50,000. I'm sure lots of people already have plans/obligations.
I asked this on another thread, I was thinking that, since this is technically a South Carolina home game, will the NCAA just throw out the numbers when calculating attendance averages at the end of the season?
I asked this on another thread, I was thinking that, since this is technically a South Carolina home game, will the NCAA just throw out the numbers when calculating attendance averages at the end of the season?
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:13 pm to Nuts4LSU
I was thinking the same thing Nuts.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:15 pm to BillF
If SC is the home team, do we have to sit on the visitors side?
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:19 pm to tigerswin03
78,354
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:20 pm to Nuts4LSU
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I will guess attendance will be in the 35,000-45,000 range.
and that's the reason why I've decided to go to this game. I had a season ticket holder purchase 2 tickets for me on the 50. The less annoying LSU fans the better.
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:21 pm to tigerswin03
Do I need to drive in from Myrtle Beach, SC? Was so looking forward to this game. 
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:28 pm to Mahood
are there any limits on student tickets for this game? seems to me they'd be trying to do like the old days and pack the general admission....
Posted on 10/8/15 at 2:41 pm to vl100butch
THe tickets are priced like that so LSU can make money, they have to at least break even on this deal otherwise it costs LSU money to have this game. after public sales go on, I think they might offer some discounted options at last minute to drive a walk up crowd
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