Duff Man Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Attendance is up during the non-conference portion of the home schedule. Non-conference average home attendance (includes games against non-D1 but not preseason exhibitions) 2011-12: 6730 (8 games) 2012-13: 6191 (11 games) 2013-14: 7302 (9 games) For reference, here's the overall avg attendance and A10 only numbers. Overall 2011-12: 7757 2012-13: 7673 A10 2011-12: 8784 2012-13: 9710 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Thats an impressive jump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 I think we are going to have trouble reaching the 9,700 number this year in conference. We've got a pretty boring home slate with only VCU, Dayton and maybe GW being attractive opponents. Of course, winning two on the road to start the conference and getting a massive winning streak and ranked would go a long way to drawing fans no matter who we are playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Was really impressed with the crowd for Yale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Was really impressed with the crowd for Yale. Me too. There were definitely factors that could have kept the fans at home, but 8,600+ was great to see. That Living Social deal is fantastic - I hope people are taking advantage of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duff Man Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 8388 turned out for the Bonnies. On one hand that's lower than any A10 game from last season...on the other hand the Bonnies have never drawn well...in both 2010 and 2012 they were the only A10 opponents to draw < 7k. For reference, last year's A10 home opener vs Umass drew 8462. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretty_ricky Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I thought we might have a bigger crowd coming into the week as a top 25 club Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Expect a big crowd for Fordham. Not many tickets available in my section which is typically half full on a good night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Expect a big crowd for Fordham. Not many tickets available in my section which is typically half full on a good night. I think they're also doing some alumni events for that one, which should help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretty_ricky Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 no football to compete with either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOSLU68 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I always watch the exit crowd and there were noticeably more 18-25 year tall males I told my wife it looked like we were drawing a top 25 jump on the bandwagon periphery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettFlight5 Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I'm glad I bought Fordham tickets back on Cyber Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlebill Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I always watch the exit crowd and there were noticeably more 18-25 year tall males I told my wife it looked like we were drawing a top 25 jump on the bandwagon periphery. College age guys at a college basketball game? How remarkable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOSLU68 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Fordham has to be the only team in A10 happy with George Mason. Yet we had very active crowd to watch and cheer S-A-i-N-T-L-O-U-i-S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duff Man Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 The 9265 who showed up for Fordham is up slightly from the 2012 Fordham crowd of 9173 (in the 2nd to last home game of the season). Next game is weeknight game against a tough but non-marquee Richmond team. Richmond traditionally has drawn less than the average A10 games (although not to the degree of the Bonnies). It'll probably end up somewhere between 8700-9200. Overall we're looking at steady growth, but we're still waiting for the watershed moment. It could potentially come against Richmond or George Mason (unlikely, but possible). Most likely VCU will be the first 10k crowd and then the next game vs GW (who could very well be nationally ranked by then) will hit 10k as well. Bottom line: Barring a collapse the season avg will be above 8000 for the first time in the Chaifetz era, with it probably ending up in the 8200-8300 range if the team keeps winning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duff Man Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 Next game is weeknight game against a tough but non-marquee Richmond team. Richmond traditionally has drawn less than the average A10 games (although not to the degree of the Bonnies). It'll probably end up somewhere between 8700-9200. 8,853 for Richmond Underwhelming total given the scarcity of tickets visibly available on TM.com - but right where I expected it to be following the last home game. Unlikely that we'll be able to beat last year's A10 average, but we're already above last year's season average (7673) with the largest projected attendance games still to come. 3 of the 5 remaining games should crack 10k (VCU, GW, Dayton). George Mason should draw 9200-9500. Duquesne might slip under 9k, but not by much - and could potentially draw > 9500 if things continue to go well or even > 10k in a dream scenario. A10 average projects to be 9300-9500 with a season average of 8200-8300. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 A10 average projects to be 9300-9500 with a season average of 8200-8300. An average like that would put SLU's attendance rank in the lows 50s among all NCAA Div I schools if last year's numbers hold. Also, #2 in the A10 behind Dayton and behind only Creighton, Marquette, Georgetown, and Xavier compared to Big East teams. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/Reports/attend/2013.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Pelican Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 8,853 for Richmond Underwhelming total given the scarcity of tickets visibly available on TM.com - but right where I expected it to be following the last home game. Unlikely that we'll be able to beat last year's A10 average, but we're already above last year's season average (7673) with the largest projected attendance games still to come. 3 of the 5 remaining games should crack 10k (VCU, GW, Dayton). George Mason should draw 9200-9500. Duquesne might slip under 9k, but not by much - and could potentially draw > 9500 if things continue to go well or even > 10k in a dream scenario. A10 average projects to be 9300-9500 with a season average of 8200-8300. Yeah, although the crowd was great, especially for a weeknight, I was expecting well over 9K from all the talk about scarce tickets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almaman Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 If we still had the go go economy we had before economic collapse we're still reeling or worse completing, all the league games would be sold out and the 3 predicted over 10k games would have decent secondary market going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonwich Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Speaking of income inequality , it has seemed like the blue seats have been more than 80% filled recently. Is this because corporate seat-sitters are bandwagon folks, or is it because there's been some sort of effort to get those folks to use their seats, or is it just because more people tend to go to Bills' games after Jan. 1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 An average like that would put SLU's attendance rank in the lows 50s among all NCAA Div I schools if last year's numbers hold. Also, #2 in the A10 behind Dayton and behind only Creighton, Marquette, Georgetown, and Xavier compared to Big East teams. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/Reports/attend/2013.pdf I have watched a lot of Georgetown games over the years. The attendance totals they give have to be for tickets distributed and not for actual people in the building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 An average like that would put SLU's attendance rank in the lows 50s among all NCAA Div I schools if last year's numbers hold. Also, #2 in the A10 behind Dayton and behind only Creighton, Marquette, Georgetown, and Xavier compared to Big East teams. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketball_RB/Reports/attend/2013.pdf I have watched a lot of Georgetown games over the years. The attendance totals they give have to be for tickets distributed and not for actual people in the building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Speaking of income inequality , it has seemed like the blue seats have been more than 80% filled recently. Is this because corporate seat-sitters are bandwagon folks, or is it because there's been some sort of effort to get those folks to use their seats, or is it just because more people tend to go to Bills' games after Jan. 1? I suspect its mostly the after Jan 1 effect. I find that most sports fans just don't care about college basketball until college football ends and some even wait until the NFL is done before they pay attention. With the Blues about to shut down for 3 weeks, the Bills will be the only game in town for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 It would be nice to crack the 8000s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 8,853 for Richmond Underwhelming total given the scarcity of tickets visibly available on TM.com - but right where I expected it to be following the last home game. Unlikely that we'll be able to beat last year's A10 average, but we're already above last year's season average (7673) with the largest projected attendance games still to come. 3 of the 5 remaining games should crack 10k (VCU, GW, Dayton). George Mason should draw 9200-9500. Duquesne might slip under 9k, but not by much - and could potentially draw > 9500 if things continue to go well or even > 10k in a dream scenario. A10 average projects to be 9300-9500 with a season average of 8200-8300. Looked like more there - but that is what the paper had - just checked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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