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Attendance for UCF?

Hoophound said:
What are your guesses for attendance for the UCF game? A good team is coming in for a Thursday night game just before Labor Day. How does it play out and why? I’m guessing 24,500 but fear worse. I’d love to see more but there’s just very little chance of that with kids not back at school yet and the holiday weekend distractions taking people elsewhere.

P.S. I plan to be there with two others but I’m not positive yet.
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First game of the season to open as a 23 point dog, makes selling tix difficult.
 
Student section year before last during the 2nd quarter.
 

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My official guess is 21,000 tix sold and maybe 18,000 thru the turnstyles. But who cares? It'll be a nice summer evening, the beer will taste exceptionally good, and we BY fanatics will have the binoculars out watching UConn's line play on both sides of the ball.

UConn should score enough that we should all take UConn and the points. I doubt that the D can get enough stops to actually win the game though. Final score? How about 28-42?
 
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rich1122 said:
This is good. LMAO

Furman could have more. They are playing Clemson. We are playing UMASS.
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Ever been to Furman? Close to the most beautiful campus in the nation.
 
Attendance will be 23,234. And honestly I am being optimistic. However as I have said I am done worrying about it and focusing on my own experience which is always fun.
 
RSTuthill said:
Student section year before last during the 2nd quarter.
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the student section is always filled the first weekend because they entice the freshman to go. I bet 60-70% of the people in that picture were freshman
 
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Hoophound said:
Seating chart looked more promising than that last week.
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Can't ever go off the seating chart. Remember BYU? It looked like a near sellout 4 days before the game. Then the school released about 18,000 tickets about 36 hour before kickoff.
 
Uggh. Hopefully, that was a lesson learned and not the case this time.
 
Hoophound said:
Uggh. Hopefully, that was a lesson learned and not the case this time.
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What lesson learned? Why do they have to "release" 18k tickets early if there are still 5 or 6k single games tickets they are trying to sell first?
 
rich1122 said:
This is good. LMAO

Furman could have more. They are playing Clemson. We are playing UMASS.
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They’re playing Clemson on the road and we play UMass a different day, but other than that it’s a solid anology.
 
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businesslawyer said:
What lesson learned? Why do they have to "release" 18k tickets early if there are still 5 or 6k single games tickets they are trying to sell first?
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Because more choice can induce more sales in a situation in which you have too many seats. They should just release them and always have a handful heavily discounted. If it results in selling a few extra tickets, its worth it. There really isn't any point in holding back in the age of online ordering and print at home tickets.

And....maybe just maybe, it can help the school and local media guilt a few more people into heading out to the game to help the cause. Honestly, we should be pleading with local sportscasters/writers to plug the game and how great tailgating etc. is.
 
Hoophound said:
Because more choice can induce more sales in a situation in which you have too many seats. They should just release them and always have a handful heavily discounted. If it results in selling a few extra tickets, its worth it. There really isn't any point in holding back in the age of online ordering and print at home tickets.

And....maybe just maybe, it can help the school and local media guilt a few more people into heading out to the game to help the cause. Honestly, we should be pleading with local sportscasters/writers to plug the game and how great tailgating etc. is.
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But you act like there is no reason to be holding them. They hold them so that someone who wants a season ticket last minute can get the seat before someone who wants them for one game.
 
businesslawyer said:
But you act like there is no reason to be holding them. They hold them so that someone who wants a season ticket last minute can get the seat before someone who wants them for one game.
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Is that a legitimate concern at this point? Honestly, I don’t know the answer. I presume they don’t sell too many more at this point.
 
Hoophound said:
Is that a legitimate concern at this point? Honestly, I don’t know the answer. I presume they don’t sell too many more at this point.
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They don't sell too many more. But until they are up against opening day, as long as they have single game tickets to sell (which they do), they are still trying to incentivize folks to buy season tickets and not one game tickets.
 
I think his point is 17,900 single game tickets probably hold more value than and shouldn't be held hostage for the 100 potential season packages sold up to 36 hours before kick off of opening night.
 
businesslawyer said:
But you act like there is no reason to be holding them. They hold them so that someone who wants a season ticket last minute can get the seat before someone who wants them for one game.
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And they try to move them through resellers and then get them back from the resellers.

The only reason anyone would care is if you want to count tickets remaining to estimate attendance.

The attendance is pretty much the same every game so I’m not sure the point of the exercise.
 
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whaler11 said:
And they try to move them through resellers and then get them back from the resellers.

The only reason anyone would care is if you want to count tickets remaining to estimate attendance.

The attendance is pretty much the same every game so I’m not sure the point of the exercise.
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That's my point. Why is someone self-important enough to think their ability to estimate the opening day crowd before showing up is greater than the school's strategy to maximize ticket sale revenue?
 
Already bought mine but are there any promo-code tickets this season?
 
businesslawyer said:
That's my point. Why is someone self-important enough to think their ability to estimate the opening day crowd before showing up is greater than the school's strategy to maximize ticket sale revenue?
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Self important? Sometimes you go out of your way to create drama under the guise of being the measured and rational party. I don’t want to know the numbers because I think I have some God given right to know. If you let the public know where ticket sales are for “their” team and try to rally them to fill the stadium, more might come.
 
24,500 for a night game and optimism with the program going forward, unlike some of the miserable people on here.
 
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