Yep. You average about 30k and they average about 55k. Nearly double what you get. In fact their last home game compared to yours had more than 3 times the fans that you did. ISU has great fan support, one of the best in the country across the board. And this was a terrible season, their fans are dedicated and support the team even when they lose. Other fans could learn something by watching them.
Schedule[edit]
DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
August 317:00 PM#17 (
FCS)
Northern Iowa Jack Trice Stadium •
Ames, IACyclones.tv
L 20–28 56,800
[5]
September 145:00 PM
Iowa*Jack Trice Stadium • Ames, IA (
Battle for the Cy-Hawk Trophy)
FS1L 21–27 56,800
[6]
September 266:30 PMat
Tulsa Chapman Stadium •
Tulsa, OKFS1
W 38–21 20,137
[7]
October 36:30 PM
TexasJack Trice Stadium • Ames, IA
ESPNL 30–31 52,762
[8]
October 1211:00 AMat #21
Texas TechJones AT&T Stadium •
Lubbock, TXFS1
L 35–42 57,367
[9]
October 196:00 PMat #12
BaylorFloyd Casey Stadium •
Waco, TXESPNUL 7–71 46,825
[10]
October 2611:00 AM#13
Oklahoma StateJack Trice Stadium • Ames, IA
FSNL 27–58 56,800
[11]
November 22:30 PMat
Kansas StateBill Snyder Family Football Stadium •
Manhattan, KS (
Farmageddon)FS1
L 7–41 52,542
[12]
November 911:00 AM
TCU
Jack Trice Stadium • Ames, IAFSN
L 17–21 54,922
[13]
November 1611:00 AMat #17
OklahomaGaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium •
Norman, OKFS1
L 10–48 84,776
[14]
November 237:00 PM
KansasJack Trice Stadium • Ames, IAFS1
W 34–0 54,081
[15]
November 303:00 PMat
West VirginiaMountaineer Field •
Morgantown, WVFS1
W 52–44 3OT 33,735
[16]
Please understand two things when you rant on about UCONN football attendance:
1. UCONN just endured a MISERABLE 3-year period under a stone age head coach (hired by our old AD no longer at the University). NO attendance figures are going to look good at the end of a 3 year down cycle with an encore finale 3 win season;
2. As Upstater mentioned earlier, UCONN reports ACTUAL TICKETS SCANNED AT THE GATES. I have no idea if Iowa State does this or not. If they do, great. But as an example, Rutgers does not...they report tickets sold (most stadiums do). And they reported attendance of around 33K for their last game against USF (to gain bowl eligibility no less on the same day UCONN played Memphis) when actually only 17K showed up.
I don't dispute that UCONN is behind other programs across the country right now. But there are some serious misrepresentations of facts out there for whatever reason that seem to hurt UCONN. For instance, did you know that Oklahoma only sold about 1K more tickets through the school than UCONN sold through the school for their Fiesta Bowl matchup? But for some reason, misinformed people seem to think that UCONN only had 4K fans the U of Phoenix Stadium while giving the benefit of the doubt to OU fans that they had more than 6K. OU fans are given the benefit of the doubt that their fans have heard of StubHub (where tickets could be found for $20...MUCH cheaper than buying through the school) but UCONN fans haven't??
I also read your rant about coaching salaries being a barometer of dedication to football. I understand your point. Investing in football by bringing in talented coaches is just one barometer used to measure dedication to the football program. That said, UCONN is towards the top of the G5 schools. UCONN also increased its Assistant Coach salary pool with the Diaco hire. So while Diaco's $1.5M/yr salary is low compared to P5 schools, it's not that far off considering the HUGE disparity in TV revenue (and not that far behind Iowa State's Paul Rhodes at $1.8M/yr). The increased funding also comes at a time where, like you said, attendance dipped last year for the reasons I stated above. UCONN could have very easily hired another old retread and cut football funding after the disastrous Pasqualoni/DeLeone era and considering our God awful AAC affiliation, but didn't. Our current AD, Warde Manuel, knows that the Rent was packed with 40K sellouts every week for years pre-Pasqualoni. Our stadium is small but was built to be expanded...in fact, footings were already put in place when it was built in 2000 to support a quick expansion when UCONN gets tapped for a P5 invite. We understand that football is the driver in CR but the timing couldn't have been worse. UCONN was in a downswing with its football program at a time when LCC was in an upswing in theirs (after having a downswing and attendance issues of their own!).
Make no mistake about it, when UCONN decides to boost an athletic program, it does so in the right way. UCONN wants to improve football in the worst way and it will. Just like our countless other very successful athletic programs, football can and will be successful at UCONN. Step one was getting rid of the old coaching regime and bringing in one of the top assistant coaches in the country from one of the top (probably THE top) programs in the country. I know our short history isn't that impressive compared to other programs across the country, but scale back the layers and actually look at what the program has already accomplished in just one decade since moving to D-1 (pre Pasqualoni, of course). UCONN currently has more guys in the NFL than LCC, the Fruit, or sPitt. A testimony to our state-of-the-art facilities and commitment made to the program's D-1 upgrade. Now we just have to win on the field (again). When that happens, you will know that the huge improvement over 2013's attendance figures are real and solid (not manipulated) because, like I said, we report tickets scanned at the gate.
All UCONN fans ask for is fair representation out there...not misinformed regurgitation of statements made by agenda-motivated sports outlets. Is UCONN football down right now? Absolutely. Nobody is disputing that. All we ask for is that people outside of CT understand the why's involved and that the old regime responsible for the Pasqualoni hiring is out. Our current leaders and administration are completely dedicated towards improving football and it will.