Why does the TBT...

[BullsFanInTX]

So in other words every single team in the NCAA, MLB, NFL, NBA uses some type of fluffed up announced numbers.  Read the articles.  And every single other team gets that announced attendance reported in the paper.  Yet, the TBT insists on reporting the actual turnstile numbers as opposed to the common practice of only reporting the announced attendance.  Our attendance is bad.  But there's no reason to make it look worse than other programs, comparatively speaking, by using a different set of criteria than every other program.

[usfbullrider]

Doesn't TSA charge USF more if attendance dips? 

[BullsFanInTX]

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/11/26/2421776/kentucky-actual-attendance-numbers.html

Kentucky: Actual attendance numbers no longer available

Kentucky no longer keeps actual attendance figures for home football games after a Herald-Leader report showed that the number of tickets scanned for the Cats’ first six home games was much lower than the announced attendance.

When Kentucky was asked to provide the scanned attendance figure for the Samford game on Nov. 17, a UK spokesman said via email that those figures are no longer available.

“Since your request last time we no longer keep in-house records of actual attendance numbers,” Kentucky spokesman DeWayne Peevy said last week.

In response to the Herald-Leader’s original request, UK indicated that the scanned ticket figures come from Ticketmaster. Because the school no longer requests those figures, it won’t be subject to future open records requests.

“We still can ask for the numbers when needed but we no longer keep the reports on hand since we don’t use them to determine attendance,” Peevy responded via email. “We still use Ticketmaster scans but no longer keep the reports on file.”

The Herald-Leader’s report from the first six games showed a gap between announced and scanned attendance that ranged from 10,806 (Western Kentucky game) to 26,017 (Vanderbilt).

There are no NCAA or Southeastern Conference standards for how attendance is counted or reported. It is left up to each institution to determine its own numbers.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/11/26/2421776/kentucky-actual-attendance-numbers.html#storylink=cpy

[BullsFanInTX]

One theory is that those reporting the attendance saw what taking shots at USF whenever possible did for the career of a local porn stached "journalist". 

One reason most others schools' actual isn't reported is that it isn't made available. 

I understand most other schools actual attendance isn't made available.  So why do an apples to oranges comparison and report USF's actual attendance, when no one else does.  Why not do an apples to apples comparison (announced vs. announced).   

[2000bull]

I understand most other schools actual attendance isn't made available.  So why do an apples to oranges comparison and report USF's actual attendance, when no one else does.  Why not do an apples to apples comparison (announced vs. announced).   

don't they get the numbers from the TSA 

[snarling Bull]

Two fixes, winning and it wouldn't look so bad.

true 

[BullsFanInTX]

don't they get the numbers from the TSA 

Yes.  However they also get the announced attendance number that every single other program in the country uses.  But, yet choose to use the actual attendance in their reports.

[TexanMark]

Cuse has gone to real attendance this year...we are down 22%

 

 

[Mike Stuben]

I get so tired of USF being measured in a way not consistent with every other school in America. 

Game story should use USF's announced attendance number. If someone thinks the number is fraudulent, then they can do research and present their evidence of fraud (which there is none, I might add). 

At the end of the year if the beat writer wants to write a piece that compares announced attendance to butts in the seats, if it truly is newsworthy, then go ahead. 

[Paisa el Toro]

TBT hates us and wants us to give up football.

Yup, they're run by the Illuminati, whom all happen to be Gators and Seminoles.