Attendance is an embarrassment

[Triple B]

8 hours ago, Bausfkid said:

It's a shame (regarding USF).  It's a great university with solid athletics that are competitive.  My passion never dies for USF.  

This we agree on. The media has totally ****** up a lot of people's minds when it comes to college sports.

[USFBulls727]

On 9/26/2017 at 8:38 PM, Bausfkid said:

Tampa is an apathetic city and not passionate about anything.  It's viewed as a place for old people and beach bums.  It's my home and I love it, but it is what it is.  

So if you're a P5 commisioner, and you know this about Tampa and our attendance problems, would you invite USF over the available G5 teams, such as BYU, Colorado State, Boise State, etc?

[NewEnglandBull]

49 minutes ago, USFBulls727 said:

So if you're a P5 commisioner, and you know this about Tampa and our attendance problems, would you invite USF over the available G5 teams, such as BYU, Colorado State, Boise State, etc?

 

Edited September 29, 2017 by NewEnglandBull

[Mama_Bull]

7 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Is the important metric attendance from a group of teams in a conference that are not viewed as notable? 

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bulls/think-attendance-will-hurt-usfs-big-12-bid-think-again/2287511

[USFBulls727]

2 hours ago, Mama_Bull said:

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bulls/think-attendance-will-hurt-usfs-big-12-bid-think-again/2287511

No doubt that moving into a bigger conference will help attendance, and we were once a good draw in the Big East, but I wonder how big a strike against us the fair-weather fan base is here. Tampa fans don't exactly stick with us through thick & thin, like say, BYU fans would with their team, and there is ample evidence of that now. Can't help but wonder how sustainable it would be to continue to field a team if we are left out of the next round of expansion, especially if UCF manages to get an invite. We can't draw a decent crowd despite being ranked, and the football program actually loses money, IIRC. If we can't draw a crowd now, or last year when we were fielding a very entertaining offense, then when exactly will that happen if there is no P5 invite?

[Gismo]

4 hours ago, USFBulls727 said:

No doubt that moving into a bigger conference will help attendance, and we were once a good draw in the Big East, but I wonder how big a strike against us the fair-weather fan base is here. Tampa fans don't exactly stick with us through thick & thin, like say, BYU fans would with their team, and there is ample evidence of that now. Can't help but wonder how sustainable it would be to continue to field a team if we are left out of the next round of expansion, especially if UCF manages to get an invite. We can't draw a decent crowd despite being ranked, and the football program actually loses money, IIRC. If we can't draw a crowd now, or last year when we were fielding a very entertaining offense, then when exactly will that happen if there is no P5 invite?

American gets better, TV ratings explode, and American teplaces the Big 12 in the P5? 

Edited September 29, 2017 by Gismo

[Triple B]

5 hours ago, USFBulls727 said:

No doubt that moving into a bigger conference will help attendance, and we were once a good draw in the Big East, but I wonder how big a strike against us the fair-weather fan base is here. Tampa fans don't exactly stick with us through thick & thin, like say, BYU fans would with their team, and there is ample evidence of that now. Can't help but wonder how sustainable it would be to continue to field a team if we are left out of the next round of expansion, especially if UCF manages to get an invite. We can't draw a decent crowd despite being ranked, and the football program actually loses money, IIRC. If we can't draw a crowd now, or last year when we were fielding a very entertaining offense, then when exactly will that happen if there is no P5 invite?

It's not going to happen if we don't get a P5 invite, at least not to the 2007 type levels. USF needs to recognize that and strategize that way. 

[pacificd]

How much does USF charge students for home football games? Just curious.

 

[Hem]

Not sure if it's been mentioned and I'm not going back 39 pages to see if anyone has said it, but those 4 game mobile ticket packages where you don't know your seats until game day were REALLY a great deal and we haven't had the chance to see how many people bought in on those (Stony Brook was the only game so far of the package I believe) UMass was another which was cancelled and the remaining 2 are Cincy and Houston. Hoping to see a spike in attendance from that at the Cincy game...guess we will see. 

[puc86]

2 minutes ago, Hem said:

Not sure if it's been mentioned and I'm not going back 39 pages to see if anyone has said it, but those 4 game mobile ticket packages where you don't know your seats until game day were REALLY a great deal and we haven't had the chance to see how many people bought in on those (Stony Brook was the only game so far of the package I believe) UMass was another which was cancelled and the remaining 2 are Cincy and Houston. Hoping to see a spike in attendance from that at the Cincy game...guess we will see. 

I think there were not many. Around the first week I looked at the package and added it to my cart the sequence of the item ids made it seem like they would be 70 somethingthed purchased.