(05-05-2022 02:23 PM)Surbadger Wrote:  

(05-05-2022 02:00 PM)muherd34 Wrote:  Best crowd game I have ever been to at Marshall was when we played Kansas St. Place was rocking! Purdue and Wvu game comes in 2nd and 3rd.

The Purdue game was the best experience I've ever had at a Marshall game. The 2 Pick-sixes rocked the place. It was so hot that day too, but such a good game.

I ended up having heat exhaustion. After the game, we walked to St. Marks and I drank about a million glasses of water. Then felt so very tired after finally cooling down.

(05-04-2022 09:16 PM)High Country Student Wrote:  

(05-04-2022 09:15 PM)High Country Student Wrote:  

(05-04-2022 09:04 PM)THUNDERStruck73 Wrote:  Nobody is going to average 30K. That is crazy. Run the numbers. If we do 24+ it will be fantastic. Don't look at attendance as much as % of stadium filled. I hope we tear down the end zone erector set even though I love sitting behind the goal posts....24000 in a 30,000 seat stadium look so much better to espn than 24000 in a 39000 stadium. Remember people, we are FBS and not P5. Perception is everything.

I don’t disagree with the notion of maximizing your attendance in a stadium that doesn’t have way more seats than what you’re bringing in but I still think App will average over 30k in 2023 and it’s pretty hard to convince me otherwise. We averaged 29,389 this year against Elon, Marshall, Coastal, ULM, South Alabama, and Georgia Southern. We are trading Elon, ULM and South Alabama for Gardner Webb, ECU and a team from the west. The ECU game is a rivalry game. That should easily bump us over 30k. Not to mention two of our home games this year were on Thursday. We won’t have more than 2 Thursday games. Georgia Southern also only had 28,000 and that number could go up considering it was on Thanksgiving weekend this year.

Teams definitely need to be calculated though when expanding a stadium and make sure they’re consistently filling their stadium for multiple years before expanding and don’t expand too much too quickly.

We had to expand to roughly 40K to get into CUSA in 2005.

(05-04-2022 09:15 PM)High Country Student Wrote:  

(05-04-2022 09:04 PM)THUNDERStruck73 Wrote:  Nobody is going to average 30K. That is crazy. Run the numbers. If we do 24+ it will be fantastic. Don't look at attendance as much as % of stadium filled. I hope we tear down the end zone erector set even though I love sitting behind the goal posts....24000 in a 30,000 seat stadium look so much better to espn than 24000 in a 39000 stadium. Remember people, we are FBS and not P5. Perception is everything.

I don’t disagree with the notion of maximizing your attendance in a stadium that doesn’t have way more seats than what you’re bringing in but I still think App will average over 30k in 2023 and it’s pretty hard to convince me otherwise. We averaged 29,389 this year against Elon, Marshall, Coastal, ULM, South Alabama, and Georgia Southern. We are trading Elon, ULM and South Alabama for Gardner Webb, ECU and a team from the west. The ECU game is a rivalry game. That should easily bump us over 30k. Not to mention two of our home games this year were on Thursday. We won’t have more than 2 Thursday games. Georgia Southern also only had 28,000 and that number could go up considering it was on Thanksgiving weekend this year.

Yep. SOLID attendance. Fair enough.