Otter wrote:If you want to accept their word on it, go ahead. They would never provide inflated numbers would they?
For my part, I go to every home game and I have not seen much improvement at all. They tend to "round up" and include promotional giveaways tix and no-shows in their figures. As an accountant, I am sure you are familiar with similar tricks
In fact, there have been games in the past few years (the improved years where JJ is "winning") when I could probably count the fans in the stands individually if I took the time.
Were you at the UTEP game? I was there. Beautiful Friday night at a very nice stadium - good performance and win, but embarrassingly low attendance.
Plus, a couple of games can skew these numbers (TCU last year), and JJ's first year set a nice low baseline that is easy to build on. We are at or near the bottom of C-USA and certainly not where we need to be or should be five years into the Orsini plan.
You're a heartbeat from a foe.
Take their word on it? I sit on the Mustang Club Board. I SEE THE [deleted] FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. SMU is audited numb nuts. KPMG is their auditor. I've read the [deleted] audit report.
I go to every home game and the occasional away game. Have done this for 10 years consecutive with rare exceptions. I have 10 tickets to every game, and they're all used.
No you couldn't. You continue with your petty baseless arguments.
Yes. The attendance, which is independently verified by the NCAA, only counts tickets scanned, not tickets purchased as this game was a near sellout, within 1000 tickets. Read up on the NCAA website on how they count it. This is why I think you're uninformed. You make claims and have no idea how the stats work.
I understand that TCU, Texas Tech, and others have helped the last couple years, and we won't have it this year, but, guess what, we played Tech here a few times over the last decade (filled the ford every time), and it didn't ever get our average over 20,000 for the year before, but our numbers do it now, so your statistical aberration theory is another bust.
