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Posted: 11/10/2013 11:51 PM
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Here's the attendance numbers for the MAC home games this weekend. CMU and BGSU did not publish their numbers. According to the Akron board this was their largest crowd ever for a game before New Year's and the second largest student turnout in the Dambrot era. Last year Ohio averaged 6,010 in non conference home games with a high of 12,194 in the opener against Portland and a low of 4,087 against Hampton.

11,162- Ohio
4,217- Akron
3,971- Toledo
2,677- Eastern Michigan
2,240- Kent State
1,060- Northern Illinois
N/A- Central Michigan
N/A- Bowling Green
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Posted: 11/11/2013 12:06 PM
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Wait, EMU actually had 2600+ in the building?   Are we sure that's real?
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Posted: 11/11/2013 1:09 PM
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The guy who makes the popcorn had to actually make a second batch. It's the hardest he's worked since Earl Boykins.
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Posted: 11/11/2013 1:43 PM
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OUr attendance was larger than the next three largest MAC attendances combined (10,865).
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Posted: 11/11/2013 2:28 PM
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OU_Country wrote:expand_more
Wait, EMU actually had 2600+ in the building?   Are we sure that's real?

 

They had the game at noon Friday and brought in local school kids as a field trip.

That is pretty much the ceiling for their program. If they can start shuttling in 2nd graders from the UP then the MAC has truly struck gold.

Until Akron builds a real arena Ohio's attendance is going to be out of the MAC's realm in Men's hoops. The atmosphere in the Convo the past couple years has had a major feel the last couple years. You always got that feel walking into the building, but credit athletics for upping the pregame introductions... Top-notch.

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Posted: 11/11/2013 4:56 PM
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OU_Country wrote:expand_more
Wait, EMU actually had 2600+ in the building?   Are we sure that's real?


Only if you are sure we had 11K+ in the Convo. 
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Posted: 11/11/2013 5:39 PM
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MedinaCat wrote:expand_more
Wait, EMU actually had 2600+ in the building?   Are we sure that's real?


Only if you are sure we had 11K+ in the Convo. 

I was at the game, there is no way there were 11k there. I would guess in the 7500 range, which is still good but there was nowhere near 11k there

 
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Posted: 11/11/2013 5:51 PM
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I thought actual folks in seats was about 9500.  About 2000 no shows.  Much more than 7500 in building.
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Jeff McKinney wrote:expand_more
I thought actual folks in seats was about 9500.  About 2000 no shows.  Much more than 7500 in building.


Because I knew this would be a topic,  I looked at the open space at the top, and counted approximately 75-100 empty per section at the top. With 22 or so sections, that's about 2000 unsolds. Which is capacity(13K) -2000 or so gets you the 11k figure. Then no-shows I'm sure put the actual a bit under 10k.

If I would not have done the *fuzzy* math, I would have guessed 9000 or so. Great turnout.
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Posted: 11/11/2013 8:44 PM
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Does anyone have upper and lower bowl seating numbers? I couldn't find that breakdown on the athletic website. The lower section was sold out and there weren't that many empty seats. Eyeballing the upper section, I saw  1/3rd to over 1/2  of seats filled, depending on the section. My guess is they may have slightly broken 10k.
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mcbin wrote:expand_more
I thought actual folks in seats was about 9500.  About 2000 no shows.  Much more than 7500 in building.


Because I knew this would be a topic,  I looked at the open space at the top, and counted approximately 75-100 empty per section at the top. With 22 or so sections, that's about 2000 unsolds. Which is capacity(13K) -2000 or so gets you the 11k figure. Then no-shows I'm sure put the actual a bit under 10k.

If I would not have done the *fuzzy* math, I would have guessed 9000 or so. Great turnout.

I did the same thing.  Just looking, I estimated around 9K.  Doing an estimate based on upper bowl empty seats and guestimate of no-shows my calculations were around 9.5K in the building.  

Question..When the tickets are scanned is it merely to verify a valid ticket or is there an actual count of tickets used for the game.  I know that I have my 4 tickets for every game but they are not always used.  I assume that the announced attendance counts all 4 of my tickets for every game.  Am I correct?



 
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Posted: 11/11/2013 8:51 PM
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How many does the lower bowl seat?
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Posted: 11/11/2013 11:21 PM
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Typical rule of thumb for announcing attendance is to add about 10-20%.  When you get closer to a sell out the numbers become a little more real since you can't add that one.
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Posted: 11/12/2013 12:38 AM
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bobcat2nc wrote:expand_more
Question..When the tickets are scanned is it merely to verify a valid ticket or is there an actual count of tickets used for the game.  I know that I have my 4 tickets for every game but they are not always used.  I assume that the announced attendance counts all 4 of my tickets for every game.  Am I correct?


I've asked this before and was told that the scanners just verify the ticket...they don't use them for any sort of count. The attendance is really just the number of seats that were sold for the game, plus the number of students that come.

Saturday's number seemed about right to me...the student side was full right up to the last couple rows. With this game that had some of the discounted tickets, you probably have a high number of no-shows (or groups that bought more tickets than they really need).
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Posted: 11/12/2013 8:03 AM
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When I was getting my grad degree at Xavier they inflated the numbers all the time. The ticket guy would announce the number over the radio, then the marketing guy would decide what number to give to the sports information guy. It's never an exact count, but it's usually close.
Last Edited: 11/12/2013 8:04:07 AM by GoCats105
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