Someone Had To Do It: Miami Attendance

[David321]

We all knew that the new expanded student section was far too ambitious. Ottos Army has been great the past two prior seasons but that was too big of an ask. Not to mention the last two games being in late November.

 

[orange79]

Your superstitious?

You're

 

[kcsu]

Have you looked around the ACC? No one is really packing it in sans Clemson. UL shows for a big game.

I know but 8-3 First time Miami in forever. Huge game of importance. Thanksgiving weekend
Just sayin

 

[FrancoPizza]

We are 8-3. Playing in the biggest game in years. Fan base is beyond weak

You are completely dismissing the previous 25 years. The fan base doesn’t wipe their hard drive every year before Labor Day. That’s not how this works. Our expectations are based on conditioning. 25 years doesn’t get erased overnight.

As far as in-season fan support- it’s all about momentum. We’ve stubbed our toe every single time we started to build it. This is not hard to understand.

 

[Trueblue25]

Hey, the Dutch founded much of New York state, basically from NYC up the Hudson to Albany!

They didnt discover the best part then!

 

[Trueblue25]

This will sell out

 

[JustPherU]

In years past, we would always say a coach who gets us to 8-9 wins consitently, we would put up a statue of him on campus. But I think it's a lot harder for the casuals to see how rare this season is. Hence why we have Wegmans gift cards and 2 for one fb/gtown deals in a 43k seat Dome

How about a statue for a coach that
Won a national championship
Played in 2 other championship games
Had 1 losing season in 47 years
Went to 34 NCAA Tournaments
Teams played in 5 Final Fours
Is the 2nd winningest coach in the history of men’s basketball.

 

[kcsu]

How about a statue for a coach that
Won a national championship
Played in 2 other championship games
Had 1 losing season in 47 years
Went to 34 NCAA Tournaments
Teams played in 5 Final Fours
Is the 2nd winningest coach in the history of men’s basketball.

And people actually question why we kept his successor in house.

 

[HRE Otto IV]

You are completely dismissing the previous 25 years. The fan base doesn’t wipe their hard drive every year before Labor Day. That’s not how this works. Our expectations are based on conditioning. 25 years doesn’t get erased overnight.

As far as in-season fan support- it’s all about momentum. We’ve stubbed our toe every single time we started to build it. This is not hard to understand.

I think 2022 killed things.

I was disappointed by the support for Louisville, Purdue, UVA to start to season and had given up home that we could get large crowds again. But then NC State, Notre Dame, FSU happened and restored my faith. Unfortunately we crapped the bed after NC State and now the fans are hesitant to come back.

2023 was disappointing and this year has been as well. Can't blame people though. But at least we know that it is still possible from 2022. It will just take proof before people buy in again.

 

[OrgTruckPat]

How about a statue for a coach that
Won a national championship
Played in 2 other championship games
Had 1 losing season in 47 years
Went to 34 NCAA Tournaments
Teams played in 5 Final Fours
Is the 2nd winningest coach in the history of men’s basketball.

Well, his name is on the court at least

 

[djorange1989]

I think 2022 killed things.

I was disappointed by the support for Louisville, Purdue, UVA to start to season and had given up home that we could get large crowds again. But then NC State, Notre Dame, FSU happened and restored my faith. Unfortunately we crapped the bed after NC State and now the fans are hesitant to come back.

2023 was disappointing and this year has been as well. Can't blame people though. But at least we know that it is still possible from 2022. It will just take proof before people buy in again.

This. Indiana has played crappy football for even longer than us, but guess what they have? An undergrad enrollment that is about 21,000 students higher than ours. They can more easily overcome the apathy/skepticism of the locals when there are that many students ready to jump on board and are now seeing sellouts this year, to use one example. And they are looking like a CFP participant so that helps too . We need to continue the success of this year for a while, we have a small margin for error because of the relatively small enrollment we have.

 

[Bulldog04]

It really stinks there’s no students. When they have filled that end zone it has added a completely different element to the game and the players really love running to that end zone after kick offs and everything. But I think Saturday will be loud loud like Miami hasn’t seen this year

 

[storange]

Hang On , Micron is coming, thousands of people with disposable income , ( I know ,it’s going to be several years )

 

[David321]

I think 2022 killed things.

I was disappointed by the support for Louisville, Purdue, UVA to start to season and had given up home that we could get large crowds again. But then NC State, Notre Dame, FSU happened and restored my faith. Unfortunately we crapped the bed after NC State and now the fans are hesitant to come back.

2023 was disappointing and this year has been as well. Can't blame people though. But at least we know that it is still possible from 2022. It will just take proof before people buy in again.

To our credit though NC State was a huge sold out game that we did win. But to your point, than ND and FSU happened. That Clemson game on the road changed everything.

 

[richmondcuse03]

The ticketmaster map doesn't look bad at all for 2 days out. I'm not expecting a sell out but it should be pretty packed without significant gaps.

IMO the biggest red flag that could hurt is the entire block of resale seats in the 200s. Whichever broker SU sold those tickets to should be flagged and not allowed to renew. Pure malpractice on their part.

Yea, I noticed that whole section was resale so it had to be a broker situation. Not sure what the goal is there for this game but it's ugly.

 

[BomberOrange]

You are completely dismissing the previous 25 years. The fan base doesn’t wipe their hard drive every year before Labor Day. That’s not how this works. Our expectations are based on conditioning. 25 years doesn’t get erased overnight.

As far as in-season fan support- it’s all about momentum. We’ve stubbed our toe every single time we started to build it. This is not hard to understand.

if you didn’t wipe your hard drive clean this year, you don’t know anything about sports. new coach, a TON of new faces. This is nothing like the last 23 years, save the few good seasons. And next year people will have to wipe it clean again because our schedule is so hard that 6-6 will be successful.

 

[BomberOrange]

This. Indiana has played crappy football for even longer than us, but guess what they have? An undergrad enrollment that is about 21,000 students higher than ours. They can more easily overcome the apathy/skepticism of the locals when there are that many students ready to jump on board and are now seeing sellouts this year, to use one example. And they are looking like a CFP participant so that helps too . We need to continue the success of this year for a while, we have a small margin for error because of the relatively small enrollment we have.

Yeah and the fact that they are within the Indianapolis metro area which has 2.1 million people, which doesn’t hurt.

 

[CanadianSU]

We are 8-3. Playing in the biggest game in years. Fan base is beyond weak

For what it’s worth I agree… but everyone is waiting for them to drop a deuce this week. That’s the perception right now, Cuse cannot win let alone compete in a big game. Time to change that.

 

[OrangeTarheel]

I keep hoping someone will post an updated actual seating map for this game …

A couple things I haven’t seen mentioned … people have way more “entertainment” options than they did 20 years ago. Smartphones gave us all stupid stuff to keep us occupied. As a general rule I don’t think folks enjoy going out as much as they used to but I don’t think it’s an issue of money, tickets aren’t THAT much. A Netflix account is probably the cost of a ticket.

Attendance at all manner of gatherings, and gathering places, is down significantly over the past two decades. We see the effects with our attendance but it’s also a general issue (with some significant exceptions).

 

[richmondcuse03]

My very unscientific quick estimate puts us at roughly 1800-2k tickets remaining in upper deck.

Probably less than 125 in lower bowl. And then a clear 200 section of broker tickets in the 200s. Plus the resale market.

I think we could have a technical sell out but it won’t be completely full. Probably depends in part on the weather but wouldn’t be surprising to see 2k tickets go before saturday. It’s just what happens with resale.

 

[OrgTruckPat]

My very unscientific quick estimate puts us at roughly 1800-2k tickets remaining in upper deck.

Probably less than 125 in lower bowl. And then a clear 200 section of broker tickets in the 200s. Plus the resale market.

I think we could have a technical sell out but it won’t be completely full. Probably depends in part on the weather but wouldn’t be surprising to see 2k tickets go before saturday. It’s just what happens with resale.

There are easilly a couple thousand seats left. The $62 price tag for a seat in the last row of 300s is not going to sell for singles. I know it's the dynamic pricing thing but still. It's the same seat that is the $99 season ticket. We all say how good a value seasons are.

Gonna be tough to hit 40k, but maybe.

 

[richmondcuse03]

There are easilly a couple thousand seats left. The $62 price tag for a seat in the last row of 300s is not going to sell for singles. I know it's the dynamic pricing thing but still. Ot's the same seat that is the $99 season ticket. We all say how good a value seasons are.

Gonna be tough to hit 40k, but maybe.

Prices will drop. They already are a bit and resale is coming down.

I think we will come close to an official sell out but actual butts in seats will be about 40k.

 

[qdawgg]

When you lose to Stanford that stops momentum, dasher is right by a thousand percent

Yes, that’s exactly why fans don’t show up. But it’s not because of the loss, it’s because they’re losers and just looking for any convenient excuse to complain. Not going to see the best QB we’ve had since McNabb in a season we have 8 wins against a top 10 team and not going because of 1 game is beyond stupid and immature.

 

[kcsu]

Prices will drop. They already are a bit and resale is coming down.

I think we will come close to an official sell out but actual butts in seats will be about 40k.

40k is ok. It will look great and be rocking

 

[OrgTruckPat]

Prices will drop. They already are a bit and resale is coming down.

I think we will come close to an official sell out but actual butts in seats will be about 40k.

Yeah the resale prices are just stupid. Can the ppl reselling their seats not see the lack of demand, most of them are outrageous. Hopefully they come down and ppl buy them