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Many schools take a generous approach in compiling announced attendance, by including ushers, security guards and even the guy at the concession stand who sells you a Coke.

How can this be allowed?

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Technology is unfortunate, I would have wet my tickets and covered them in lead dust.

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Guys, don’t take this away from Joey. Without USF attendance to write about, all he has left is UCF stories and tweets about bands he watched in high school.

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3 minutes ago, USFBULL_08 said:

Many schools take a generous approach in compiling announced attendance, by including ushers, security guards and even the guy at the concession stand who sells you a Coke.

How can this be allowed?

Because how is anyone negatively affected? Who would regulate it and why would they bother? 

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20 minutes ago, BullsFanInTX said:

What the chart also reveals, believe it or not, is that USF fudges numbers the LEAST, out of all AAC schools, with the exception of Navy.  Every other school fudged announced attendance more than USF (UCF was not listed among the schools reported, so we don't know how they did).  Many schools had a much, much larger discrepancy between announced attendance and actual scanned tickets than USF did...many of them AAC schools.  Memphis, for example, claimed an announced attendance of 38K, yet only had 21K show up for games, less than USF had, and a much larger discrepancy.  ECU reported 38K announced yet had only 17K attend per game.  Here are the AAC numbers.

Navy - 100% (28K announced, 28K actual)

USF - 71% (31K announced, 22K actual)

UConn - 70% (20K announced, 14K actual)

Houston - 66% (28K announced, 18K actual)

Memphis - 54% (38K announced, 21K actual)

Cincinnati - 54% (28K announced, 15K actual)

ECU - 48% (38K announced, 17K actual)



 

I've always believed that, what I wrongly believed is the numbers were just not available for the rest of the college football world. The TBT should feel shame but they wont. 

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Because how is anyone negatively affected? Who would regulate it and why would they bother? 

The NCAA for one. However, we all know the only thing they care about is $$$$.

On a side note, with the things happening in MSU, OSU, PSU(Big Ten anyone), etc.. I'm becoming super thankful USF is trying to do things the right way. Even though it can be super frustrating. 

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The NCAA for one. However, we all know the only thing they care about is $$$$.

On a side note, with the things happening in MSU, OSU, PSU(Big Ten anyone), etc.. I'm becoming super thankful USF is trying to do things the right way. Even though it can be super frustrating. 

How is the NCAA affected by how an institution chooses to handle its reported attendance? The history of reporting attendance is littered with any and every possible way to inflate the attendance as people want to go to things that are popular and avoid things that aren’t. Counting any and every person that walks into an event no matter the reason they are there is a pretty common way to drive up numbers and not one person on the planet suffers as a result of it.

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How is the NCAA affected by how an institution chooses to handle its reported attendance? The history of reporting attendance is littered with any and every possible way to inflate the attendance as people want to go to things that are popular and avoid things that aren’t. Counting any and every person that walks into an event no matter the reason they are there is a pretty common way to drive up numbers and not one person on the planet suffers as a result of it.

Ok cool, lets just report sold out attendance for every home game next year. JK will skewer us in the papers, but we'll break all our attendance records. No one suffers!

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Ok cool, lets just report sold out attendance for every home game next year. JK will skewer us in the papers, but we'll break all our attendance records. No one suffers!

They really wouldn’t and if this article showed anything it’s that JK is absurd as we have all claimed for focusing on this issue. Now that more data is out there we aren’t any worse than anyone else, including other teams he has covered. This is a nonissue that the TBT has created for no ones benefit.

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Guys, don’t take this away from Joey. Without USF attendance to write about, all he has left is UCF stories and tweets about bands he watched in high school.

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Gators are down 9K season tickets from last year... that is all.

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