Sounds like the BCS and NCAA are hoping that the new College Football Playoffs that start in 2014 will help attendances. Strength of schedule being a main reason to include schools in the playoffs should generate better games. Gang of Five rankings with money paid to the conferences should help attendance with more emphasis being placed on play.
Surprising that in last two years North Carolina and Wake Forest attendance is down 10%. Kentucky down 17%. Yet Arkansas State and Troy attendance up quite a bit. It's all on the following chart.

Some may have missed this article four months ago:
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/...seaso.html

In my opinion it could hurt attendance of teams making the playoffs. Those games will be expensive. A lot of people won't pay to see a semifinal in case their team makes the championship game. For those that do go to the semifinal, can they afford to go to the national championship the next week? Will this carry over into the regular season any? That remains to be seen. I don't think it will affect it negatively in terms of regular season ticket holders. And for our schools and our ticket prices I don't think it'd negatively affect us. But for the bigger schools it could hurt their walk-up sales... I'm not sure.

Rabid fans will do anything to go probably. Would think the playoffs would really take off with 8 or 16 team playoffs.
They have gold here if they do it right. It will hurt playing each week though. Would be great to have 16 teams start
with 8 playing on Friday and 8 on Saturday. Would seem like Basketball madness. People would take off from work. BCS should be able to get great exposure for four games each day.

(05-04-2013 02:39 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Sounds like the BCS and NCAA are hoping that the new College Football Playoffs that start in 2014 will help attendances. Strength of schedule being a main reason to include schools in the playoffs should generate better games. Gang of Five rankings with money paid to the conferences should help attendance with more emphasis being placed on play.
Surprising that in last two years North Carolina and Wake Forest attendance is down 10%. Kentucky down 17%. Yet Arkansas State and Troy attendance up quite a bit. It's all on the following chart.

Some may have missed this article four months ago:
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/...seaso.html

One thing about Strength of Schedule is that instead of two strong teams both beating a patsy...you have one of the strong teams LOSING.

Does a victory over a patsy encourage more attendance the rest of the year or does the loss to a strong team encourage more attendance the rest of the year?

Somebody's dreams are going to be over a lot earlier in the seasons than before.

You also have fewer conferences with more teams. That means fewer opportunities for a program to get a conference championship to boast of and fewer rings to hand out in the world.

Everyone in a fan base always assumes that their team will win. But with a conference of 14, 16, or 20+ there will be teams that never sniff a title in their new conference where they had a chance to do so in the smaller conferences. That lack of championships will be corrosive to attendance as the years tick by.

With the advent of the Big Network showing every game in Hi-Def it's a lot easier for people to stay at home and watch than drive a couple of hours to see the game in person.

(05-04-2013 03:08 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(05-04-2013 02:39 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  Sounds like the BCS and NCAA are hoping that the new College Football Playoffs that start in 2014 will help attendances. Strength of schedule being a main reason to include schools in the playoffs should generate better games. Gang of Five rankings with money paid to the conferences should help attendance with more emphasis being placed on play.
Surprising that in last two years North Carolina and Wake Forest attendance is down 10%. Kentucky down 17%. Yet Arkansas State and Troy attendance up quite a bit. It's all on the following chart.

Some may have missed this article four months ago:
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/...seaso.html

One thing about Strength of Schedule is that instead of two strong teams both beating a patsy...you have one of the strong teams LOSING.

Does a victory over a patsy encourage more attendance the rest of the year or does the loss to a strong team encourage more attendance the rest of the year?

Somebody's dreams are going to be over a lot earlier in the seasons than before.

You also have fewer conferences with more teams. That means fewer opportunities for a program to get a conference championship to boast of and fewer rings to hand out in the world.

Everyone in a fan base always assumes that their team will win. But with a conference of 14, 16, or 20+ there will be teams that never sniff a title in their new conference where they had a chance to do so in the smaller conferences. That lack of championships will be corrosive to attendance as the years tick by.

With the advent of the Big Network showing every game in Hi-Def it's a lot easier for people to stay at home and watch than drive a couple of hours to see the game in person.

Believe Louisiana was addressing that along with other schools doing stadium upgrades. Believe there was mention of larger boards, and the article addressed showing multiple replays of last plays at the stadium. Wonder when all stadiums will have TV/computer screens on the back of the seats in front of them where you can just scroll to see what you want. Would think food and drink vendors or some system would follow. Seems to be the big thing to want them to drive to stadiums instead of watching on television. Some stadiums are putting in vibrating seats that go off when your teams scores a touchdown.

Is the Big 10 Network showing all games though? Thought it was just select games.

Troy's attendance really went up this year because we had great home games this year. Mississippi State and Navy coming to Troy really helped that. Not to mention Louisiana coming to Troy assisted in that. But our home schedule this upcoming season really sucks. I expect we will see a drop in attendance this year.

(05-04-2013 02:55 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  In my opinion it could hurt attendance of teams making the playoffs. Those games will be expensive. A lot of people won't pay to see a semifinal in case their team makes the championship game. For those that do go to the semifinal, can they afford to go to the national championship the next week? Will this carry over into the regular season any? That remains to be seen. I don't think it will affect it negatively in terms of regular season ticket holders. And for our schools and our ticket prices I don't think it'd negatively affect us. But for the bigger schools it could hurt their walk-up sales... I'm not sure.

as a long time steeler fan you don't skip the first playoff game so you can afford the championship game. you might lose and if you win you still have to get the tickets.