The Magic Number is 1

mr. pony · Post by **mr. pony** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:56 am

Stallion wrote:12,000? my you are the optimist. Try 8,500 and about 4,000 in the 4th Quarter

Attendance isn't taken in the fourth quarter, Great Sage.

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:51 am

It is my understanding that in counting tickets, it is based also on the price of the ticket. It needs to be sold for a cetain % of list price to be counted as a "seat". I am sure those 100,000 FCA kids did not pay for their tickets. If they were give aways, the crowd was officially much smaller than announced on that basis alone.

BrianTinBigD · Post by **BrianTinBigD** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:56 am

The Magic price is $9 per ticket.

jtstang · Post by **jtstang** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:34 am

I am tired of trying to understand the NCAA attendance rules, they are so coinvoluted and do not appear to be enforced anyway, as SMU is still D-1 and not on double secret d-1AA probation. But whatever the rules, our attendance is dismal. Heck, even I missed this last debacle to attend an early Halloween party.

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:38 am

jtstang wrote:I am tired of trying to understand the NCAA attendance rules, they are so coinvoluted and do not appear to be enforced anyway, as SMU is still D-1 and not on double secret d-1AA probation. But whatever the rules, our attendance is dismal. Heck, even I missed this last debacle to attend an early Halloween party.

Are you out on bail?

SMU Football Blog · Post by **SMU Football Blog** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:54 am

Other than the way it looks, I don't care about attendance. No one has ever clearly articulated for me the actual rule or how it will be enforced.

And for those that care, the NCAA's website says that Saturday's attendance was 14,901.

At the end of the day, the NCAA doesn't have the resources or manpower to run an effective investigation of a secondary rules violation, much less audit the attendance of a college football team.

EastStang · Post by **EastStang** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:05 am

Unless of course you disrespect Native Americans, then you feel their wrath.

jtstang · Post by **jtstang** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:20 am

EastStang wrote:Unless of course you disrespect Native Americans, then you feel their wrath.

Unless you are known as the Seminoles and your fans have gone to all of the trouble to perfect the highly respectful Tomahawk Chop.

EastStang · Post by **EastStang** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:40 am

I did forget the Seminole exception, my apologies. Does that mean that the NCAA thinks the Seminoles were never really native Americans?

SMU Football Blog · Post by **SMU Football Blog** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:52 am

And don't forget the Illini

MustangStealth · Post by **MustangStealth** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:24 pm

SMU Football Blog wrote:And don't forget the Illini

They can always argue that it's actually "Il lini" which is Italian for "The linens"

EastStang · Post by **EastStang** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:20 pm

Actually, the Illini have to get rid of the Chief and come up with a new mascot. I know this because one of my partners is an Illini and he was beyond livid when he heard that the University was getting rid of the Chief. So apparently only a handful of schools got a pass, FSU being the most well known of them.

KnuckleStang · Post by **KnuckleStang** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:43 pm

Southeastern Oklahoma State SAVAGES had to change their name. That's probably the only one I agree with.

MustangStealth · Post by **MustangStealth** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:07 pm

KnuckleStang wrote:Southeastern Oklahoma State SAVAGES had to change their name. That's probably the only one I agree with.

They should have changed the picture to Macho Man Randy Savage. Then it would have been kosher.

cguru · Post by **cguru** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:15 pm

From what I've been told, attendance is based on the actual # of people there or the number of tickets sold, whichever is higher. Also, they can say any number they want to, as long as they can back it up with stubs or reports saying how many they sold.