(08-23-2016 10:07 AM)JCGSU Wrote: (08-22-2016 10:30 AM)trueeagle98 Wrote: GS 21450. The midweek games kill attendance. Plus no big pic games. Hoping for more, but could easily be less.
It will be way less than that IMO, this schedule absolutley sucks. Our only big draw will be the openor. App is on a Thurs, we will easily lose 5K that would have come on a Sat game for that one. Probably the same for UL that is on a Thurs now...
We have Troy, ULM and Sav St for Sat games and Troy is a dumb 1PM start. No disrespect to those teams but ULM and Troy were not conference contenders. Will are not going to even meet last years season ticket sales.
Our admin is chasing pennies and losing dollars with this type of scheduling. Only hope to salvage this season is getting a bump late by beating GT and or Ole Miss. GT 60/40, cheating Ole Miss 80/20. Ole Miss with that brutal schedule might pull a South Carolina and just give up by the end of the season if it all crashes down.
My gut tells me 17K and kinda hoping so, so the admin gets a clue.
Not gonna happen, IMO. I think we will hover around 20,000.
Sav St.: 23,000, New Coach + opening day.
ULM: 19,000, Fall Family Weekend and first home conference game on a Saturday.
App: 24,000, This is the almost the attendance of our 2014 Thursday game against App. It's also the first home game in over a MONTH and if both teams get off to a hot start the attendance will increase.
ULL: 19,500, This will partially depend on our record after the October gauntlet. It's a Thursday, BUT it's also homecoming. So numbers wont be as low as Thursday Night against Troy 2014 (18,300) but they wont be as high as normal homecoming numbers. 2nd half attendance will drop to about 10,000, unless the game is close.
Troy: 17,000, Attendance will definitely suffer for this game. It's the last game of the season, if we have locked up bowl eligibility then there will be a lot of disinterest from fans. What keeps this from being a 15-16k game are the 2,000 or so people who are from out of town that haven't been able to catch a home Saturday game since ULM on September 17.