re: This Tiger Stadium problem was years in the making (long)

This is a issue across college football, you can claim that others schools don't have this issue and unless you've personally been to these games no one will believe you.

The real issue with fans not going to the game isn't cost. Before the game tickets were cheap (30-40 bucks) but the convenience of staying at home. With every game on TV now, what is the point of going to a game?

I can stay at home, drink all day, and enjoy myself rather than wake up early, fight traffic getting to stadium, sit in the heat all day, deal with drunk idiots at the stadium, and then fight traffic on way home while coming down from a buzz.


Alabama game will be a packed house because everyone wants to let their friends know they went to the game, and then other games (Furman for example) LSU fans will stay at home and watch it on SECTV or ESPN2 and enjoy their Saturday.

/rant

College Football Attendance down 3% first month

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Declining student attendance is an illness that has been spreading for years nationwide. But now it has hit the Southeastern Conference, home to college football's best teams and supposedly its most fervent fans, giving athletics officials reason to fret about future ticket sales and fundraising.

As it turns out, Georgia students left empty 39% of their designated sections of Sanford Stadium over the last four seasons, according to school records of student-ticket scans. Despite their allocation of about 18,000 seats, the number of students at games between 2009 and 2012 never exceeded 15,000.

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Attendance issues hit Georgia

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So does the entire game, based on recent numbers. Those numbers suggest the gold rush that has been college football for most of the last 30 years has peaked. Average FBS attendance in 2012 was the game's lowest in nine years, according to research by AL.com. Bowl attendance is down slightly, at least in the last two years. Even then, the Sugar Bowl (Florida-Louisville) experienced its lowest attendance since 1939.

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Oregon will give free food to students who stay for the entire game, provided the Ducks score 40 points or more. Seriously? We need to be enticed by free food to watch a football game? frick, I need a drink.

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Read more at https://totalfratmove.com/declining-student-attendance-at-college-football-games-sweeps-the-nation/#ZxqJIJMtEoDV7hIq.99

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Fifty-six percent of the FBS schools reported fewer fans in 2012 than the previous season. Some of those dips were very minor, but others saw huge chunks of fans disappear. Eight BCS schools experienced attendance declines of 10 percent or greater from 2011: Kentucky (17 percent); Maryland (15 percent); Stanford (13 percent); and Cincinnati, Wake Forest, Pittsburgh, North Carolina and Colorado (10 percent each). Five of the nation’s top 20 attendance leaders experienced noticeable declines, led by 5-percent drops at Penn State and Tennessee

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