National Attendance - USF in Top 40

[Guest nybullsfan]

only if we weren't one of the ones getting "reduced" LOL

[Guest hm101]

eventually its bound to happen. after all, dont the majority of mid-majors aspire to make it to a big six? and dont the majority of FCS schools aspire to make it to a mid-major? eventually there will be little or no room at the top. the only way out is to directly boot out schools from the big six, the FBS, or simply remove the AQ status from conferences, and have the 5 or 6 remaining conferences reorganized.

(on a side note id like to point out that even if the big ten successfully poaches a school from the big east, that might not be so devastating. the current BCS format allows for up to 7 AQ conferences. Theyd have to do some serious damage to threaten the Big Easts AQ status. if the schools' performance on the field stays the same or improves, we can keep selling tickets, and we dont get decimated by a raid, we should be fine (and if we dont settle for a BS, low-quality school if expansion is necessary).)

[Jamie]

It would be more fair to rank the attendance based on the percentage of the stadium that was full. Oregon could probably sell thousands more tickets than they do, but they choose not to add on to their stadium. And there are a lot of teams (even BCS conference teams) that have stadiums that are too small to beat USF's average even if they are completely full. How many more tickets do you think Cincinnati could have sold this year if they didn't play in that little shoebox of a stadium?

Not that USF's attendance is a problem. Just wanted to make that clear, too.

[Guest nybullsfan]

It would be more fair to rank the attendance based on the percentage of the stadium that was full. Oregon could probably sell thousands more tickets than they do, but they choose not to add on to their stadium. And there are a lot of teams (even BCS conference teams) that have stadiums that are too small to beat USF's average even if they are completely full. How many more tickets do you think Cincinnati could have sold this year if they didn't play in that little shoebox of a stadium?

Not that USF's attendance is a problem. Just wanted to make that clear, too.

About 30,000 per sold-out game - if they wanted to - since the Bengals stadium holds 65K and Nippert only holds 35K. Kelly wanted them to build a new 15K addition at Nippert, don't know if it'll happen now though. Paul Brown Stadium is only about a 10-15 minute drive from campus.

The really weird thing is... Florida only has 12 colleges / universities playing NCAA/NAIA football, while California has 22, Texas has 34, and Ohio has 41!!