AAC Attendance

[Slasher]

So I was bored at work and crunched some numbers. Here's how the AAC stacked up this year for attendance. Shield your eyes from the bottom three.

#1 Memphis -- 12,089 (20 home games, 15,289 max)
#2 UConn -- 10,413 (17 home games, 15,564 max)
#3 Cincinnati -- 9,415 (17 home games, 13,176 max)
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#4 SMU -- 6,911 (16 home games, 7,303 max)
#5 Temple -- 6,373 (14 home games, 10,472 max)
#6 Tulsa -- 4,745 (15 home games, 6,524 max)
#7 UCF -- 4,515 (16 home games, 6,437 max)
#8 ECU -- 4,445 (16 home games, 5,212 max)
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#9 Houston -- 3,706 (18 home games, 7,918 max)
#10 USF -- 3,123 (18 home games, 4,859 max)
#11 Tulane -- 1,824 (16 home games, 3,600 max)

 

[BoatShow]

Even with their ever present attendance inflation that has gotta be one of the lowest averages for Memphis in a longgg time.

The atmosphere for our game their was eerily dead.

Something that is always fun to look at is a teams average attendance vs their UConn attendance. Typically the Huskies are worth a couple thousand extra seats.

 

[Slasher]

Even with their ever present attendance inflation that has gotta be one of the lowest averages for Memphis in a longgg time.

The atmosphere for our game their was eerily dead.

Something that is always fun to look at is a teams average attendance vs their UConn attendance. Typically the Huskies are worth a couple thousand extra seats.

If I have a chance this afternoon I'll do that, I have it broken down game but game, but I didn't put the opponent next to it.

 

[auror]

Presuming the max is a sell-out for almost all the teams, should also include average % of max for each to get a better feel for how the team is followed by the school. I guess ideally you'd go by capacity of each arena per game, since some teams (like UConn) play at different sized arenas.

 

[MattMang23]

Memphis played 20 home games!? That's usually an indicator of weak scheduling with a bunch of dates with creampuffs. They should be much better than their record if that's the case.

 

[Waquoit]

Presuming the max is a sell-out for almost all the teams, should also include average % of max for each to get a better feel for how the team is followed by the school. I guess ideally you'd go by capacity of each arena per game, since some teams (like UConn) play at different sized arenas.

That would make 12,707 the combined max for UConn giving us an 82% fill rate.

The entire league combined only had 13 sell-outs, 6 by UConn. 6 by SMU and 1 other.

 

[Afroabe224]

So what is more pathetic?
Tulane's 1,800 average in basketball OR Tulsa's 19k average in football?
#AmericanRising

 

[UConnNick]

So I was bored at work and crunched some numbers. Here's how the AAC stacked up this year for attendance. Shield your eyes from the bottom three.

#1 Memphis -- 12,089 (20 home games, 15,289 max)
#2 UConn -- 10,413 (17 home games, 15,564 max)
#3 Cincinnati -- 9,415 (17 home games, 13,176 max)
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#4 SMU -- 6,911 (16 home games, 7,303 max)
#5 Temple -- 6,373 (14 home games, 10,472 max)
#6 Tulsa -- 4,745 (15 home games, 6,524 max)
#7 UCF -- 4,515 (16 home games, 6,437 max)
#8 ECU -- 4,445 (16 home games, 5,212 max)
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#9 Houston -- 3,706 (18 home games, 7,918 max)
#10 USF -- 3,123 (18 home games, 4,859 max)
#11 Tulane -- 1,824 (16 home games, 3,600 max)

Don't know where you're getting your numbers from, but you're way off on some of them. The Sun Dome at USF seats 10,411, way more than you are showing. Hofheinz Pavilion, in the new seating configuration since the luxury suites were added in the late 1990's, seats 8,479. It used to seat 10,611, which ironically was pretty close to Gampel Pavilion at 10,167.

 

[sledog]

UC had only ~2/3 cap attendance? Boo.

 

[blue93]

UC had only ~2/3 cap attendance? Boo.

Depends who you ask. Some might say they had 5/3 attendance.

 

[KingOPancakes]

Don't know where you're getting your numbers from, but you're way off on some of them. The Sun Dome at USF seats 10,411, way more than you are showing. Hofheinz Pavilion, in the new seating configuration since the luxury suites were added in the late 1990's, seats 8,479. It used to seat 10,611, which ironically was pretty close to Gampel Pavilion at 10,167.

The "max" he listed isn't max capacity, it's the highest single game attendance of the season. At least that's how I interpreted it.

 

[kobe]

That would make 12,707 the combined max for UConn giving us an 82% fill rate.

The entire league combined only had 13 sell-outs, 6 by UConn. 6 by SMU and 1 other.

Cincinnati had 3 sellouts. UConn, SMU and Iowa State. I think Butler was around 12,000 too.

 

[Leebo]

UC had only ~2/3 cap attendance? Boo.

If by UC you mean UConn and not Cincinnati, it's not possible for every game to be in the 15000 range because of Gampel.

 

[tcf15]

Just out of curiosity...

Gampel Attendance (max: 10,167)

• Maine: 10,167 (100%)
• UNH: 9,047 (89%)
• Furman: 8,190 (81%)
• Ohio State: 10,167 (100%)
• Memphis: 9,409 (93%)
• East Carolina: 9,307 (92%)
• Tulsa: 10,167 (100%)
• Houston: 9,667 (95%)
• UCF: 10,167 (100%)

Average: 9,587 (94%)
OOC Average: 9,393 (92%)
AAC Average: 9,743 (96%)​

XL Attendance (max: 15,564)

• Sacred Heart: 8,563 (55%)
• UMass-Lowell: 9,848 (63%)
• CCSU: 7,123 (46%)
• Temple: 11,319 (73%)
• Tulane: 9,516 (61%)
• Georgetown: 15,564 (100%)
• Cincinnati: 13,242 (85%)
• SMU: 15,564 (100%)

Average: 11,342 (73%)
OOC Average: 10,275 (66%)
AAC Average: 12,410 (80%)​

 

[Waquoit]

Cincinnati had 3 sellouts. UConn, SMU and Iowa State. I think Butler was around 12,000 too.

Impossible. I got my info from Joe D. Not that I was listening to the show, I was waiting for the traffic report.

 

[Slasher]

Don't know where you're getting your numbers from, but you're way off on some of them. The Sun Dome at USF seats 10,411, way more than you are showing. Hofheinz Pavilion, in the new seating configuration since the luxury suites were added in the late 1990's, seats 8,479. It used to seat 10,611, which ironically was pretty close to Gampel Pavilion at 10,167.

The max is the max that team had for a game. Not the capacity of the arena. Big difference.

 

[Slasher]

The "max" he listed isn't max capacity, it's the highest single game attendance of the season. At least that's how I interpreted it.

Correct.

 

[Slasher]

So what is more pathetic?
Tulane's 1,800 average in basketball OR Tulsa's 19k average in football?
#AmericanRising

What's more amazing is they had a game with 962. You can count that by hand.

 

[Chief00]

Just out of curiosity...

Gampel Attendance (max: 10,167)

• Maine: 10,167 (100%)
• UNH: 9,047 (89%)
• Furman: 8,190 (81%)
• Ohio State: 10,167 (100%)
• Memphis: 9,409 (93%)
• East Carolina: 9,307 (92%)
• Tulsa: 10,167 (100%)
• Houston: 9,667 (95%)
• UCF: 10,167 (100%)

Average: 9,587 (94%)
OOC Average: 9,393 (92%)
AAC Average: 9,743 (96%)​

XL Attendance (max: 15,564)

• Sacred Heart: 8,563 (55%)
• UMass-Lowell: 9,848 (63%)
• CCSU: 7,123 (46%)
• Temple: 11,319 (73%)
• Tulane: 9,516 (61%)
• Georgetown: 15,564 (100%)
• Cincinnati: 13,242 (85%)
• SMU: 15,564 (100%)

Average: 11,342 (73%)
OOC Average: 10,275 (66%)
AAC Average: 12,410 (80%)​

Interesting and thanks. To me what this shows is we have a season ticket base and beyond that if we play a good team we either sellout or get close regardless of location. The formula that included cream puffs no longer works economically or RPI wise. That needs to change.

 

[August_West]

Interesting and thanks. To me what this shows is we have a season ticket base and beyond that if we play a good team we either sellout or get close regardless of location. The formula that included cream puffs no longer works economically or RPI wise. That needs to change.

Co-ed first night sets a bad tone for attendance.

 

[auror]

Interesting and thanks. To me what this shows is we have a season ticket base and beyond that if we play a good team we either sellout or get close regardless of location. The formula that included cream puffs no longer works economically or RPI wise. That needs to change.

The way it worked economically was that we paid those teams to come here, so that we get extra home games. And as you noted, we sell tickets fine to those games and we get to keep more money that way. That's the way the economics of "buy games" works. You can't just get higher level schools to forfeit a home game and come to you. Home and homes work, but if you fill your schedule with them then you are scheduling less home games in the long run, which equals less $.