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Message: [QUOTE="JohnFSilver, post: 4210617, member: 1618"] Guys. For some reason, only in Connecticut is scanned tickets a thing. I think it goes back to Rentschler Field when they would announce 32000 and there were 18 in the building. For some reason, this pissed off press row. We have a weird dynamic here. Why is attendance a thing? For some people, it helps reinforce the narrative that UConn isn’t big time, or their fans are spiked front runners. I just never got into the fans aren’t in their seats early or UConn gooses the attendance figures. What does it matter? You think nfl sells out every game and has 100% attendance? Of course not . Also, scanned misses the band, support staff, media. and who knows if students get scanned in. Since they are not paid tixs, why would they be scanned? The notion that gampel was only 75% full is absurd. The key metric is not attendance, it is gate revenue. If you give tickets away for $5, I bet you could get Huge attendance. To me, the metric is how much revenue you brought in with the gate for that game and divide by number of available seats. That is what matters. If I go to a broadway play, is it before a half packed house at the nederlander theatre? Stupid. Edit: This is a good reminder that if UConn scanned 7500 tickets for Xavier, there is zero chance that it is 75% capacity. Perhaps that is not the metric that should use to determine capacity. That is objectively false. All that number represents is how many tickets were scanned. Not how many people were there. It is tickets scanned + non-scanned attendees= attendance. I had arguments for years over this. Most people like to say UConn is lying. There are industry standards for how to count, if a ticket is sold, and the person doesn’t show up does that count as a sold Seat? [/QUOTE]

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