Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

[WoolyBully]

Do attendance numbers - real or imagined - really matter in the grand scheme of things?

It seems to me that if everyone knows (wink-wink) that attendance numbers are inflated (if you wanna look thin, hang around fat people...Rodney Dangerfield) , of what value is the turnstile-tick count? If you're watching on television, you can pretty much gauge a well attended versus a sparsely attended game.  Is this nothing more than grist for the bulletin board pissing contests? 

It reminds me a lot of the highly-scientific studies used to gauge the exceptionally optimistic and incredibly positive economic impact of the new stadium, the new athletic complex, the choo-choo, etc. There comes a time when you just nod your head and say "Oh yeah". 

[Triple B]

1 minute ago, ArmyBull said:

A domed OCS would fix everything. 

BOOM!

[thatBULL]

This obviously has no place on a rumor and speculation thread, but how do we get the community to show up?  Being out of town I get to one or two games a year, but would contribute to helping get people in seats.  I understand that if you give people free or highly tickets you build behavior that leads to them expecting it and not purchasing at full price, but being such a young program we have to continue to build a base.

[Bull Matrix]

43 minutes ago, Triple B said:

So where was the actual attendance for the Beyonce concert in April published?

I believe it was. They had seats available they said 

[Bull Matrix]

10 minutes ago, ArmyBull said:

A domed OCS would fix everything. 

Actually it would have to be retractable as Rays are having a hard time with their domed stadium.

[CousinRicky]

16 minutes ago, WoolyBully said:

Do attendance numbers - real or imagined - really matter in the grand scheme of things?

It seems to me that if everyone knows (wink-wink) that attendance numbers are inflated (if you wanna look thin, hang around fat people...Rodney Dangerfield) , of what value is the turnstile-tick count? If you're watching on television, you can pretty much gauge a well attended versus a sparsely attended game.  Is this nothing more than grist for the bulletin board pissing contests? 

It reminds me a lot of the highly-scientific studies used to gauge the exceptionally optimistic and incredibly positive economic impact of the new stadium, the new athletic complex, the choo-choo, etc. There comes a time when you just nod your head and say "Oh yeah". 

In a conversation with a staffer I got the impression that tickets distributed means a lot. Butts in seats is good but the distributed number seems to be key.

[TallyBull]

30 minutes ago, WoolyBully said:

Do attendance numbers - real or imagined - really matter in the grand scheme of things?

It seems to me that if everyone knows (wink-wink) that attendance numbers are inflated (if you wanna look thin, hang around fat people...Rodney Dangerfield) , of what value is the turnstile-tick count? If you're watching on television, you can pretty much gauge a well attended versus a sparsely attended game.  Is this nothing more than grist for the bulletin board pissing contests? 

It reminds me a lot of the highly-scientific studies used to gauge the exceptionally optimistic and incredibly positive economic impact of the new stadium, the new athletic complex, the choo-choo, etc. There comes a time when you just nod your head and say "Oh yeah". 

^ Yup

[79 Bull]

28 minutes ago, thatBULL said:

This obviously has no place on a rumor and speculation thread, but how do we get the community to show up?  Being out of town I get to one or two games a year, but would contribute to helping get people in seats.  I understand that if you give people free or highly tickets you build behavior that leads to them expecting it and not purchasing at full price, but being such a young program we have to continue to build a base.

This.  The big question is how do we encourage people to use their tickets they've already received? 13,000 people who had tickets did not use them Saturday night.  Are these corporate sponsors who just see season tix as a donation and will only use their seats for FSU?  Are these students who applied for a free ticket and then did not show up?  Are they season ticket holders who know they can only show up for 3 or 4 games per year?  Were they HCPS employees who applied for free tickets and did not show up?  Are these FSU fans who bought season tickets and can't dump the rest of the package?  Was it the weather leading up to this game scaring people away?  The huge gap between distributed and actual has always puzzled me. 

[puc86]

39 minutes ago, thatBULL said:

This obviously has no place on a rumor and speculation thread, but how do we get the community to show up?  Being out of town I get to one or two games a year, but would contribute to helping get people in seats.  I understand that if you give people free or highly tickets you build behavior that leads to them expecting it and not purchasing at full price, but being such a young program we have to continue to build a base.

Get into the Big 12 and win on a regular basis. The rumor thread is the solution to your problem. We only pretend to care about the AAC because we have no choice but most people only care about the power five, if they care about college football at all (which is a whole other problem).

[JupiterBull]

2 hours ago, mark_my_words said:

Someone has a serious case of denial.

Likely because I recall him predicting "under good authority" or the like that Cincy & Memphis were in.

He's a Cincy homer, so I'd take anything he says with a grain of salt.