2008 football attendance

Charleston Pony · Post by **Charleston Pony** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:45 pm

the "announced" attendance this year, after 13,020 reportedly watched the USM finale...was 118,681

that's an average of 19,780

thanks to TCU for bringing by far the largest audience of the season - 30,923 followed by Texas State - 22,218Conference games against Houston - 18,972 and Memphis - 18,224 were just below the season average.

Not sure how that compared to last season

Hopefully next year's product on the filed will allow attendance over 20k per game, but it won't be easy without TCU visiting and our hosting Rice instead of Houston. Will depend on Navy and UTEP games which should be well attended.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:48 pm

I'd say there were 4-5,000 SMU fans there.

docabel · Post by **docabel** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:52 pm

Anyone who was able to count 13K people in that stadium yesterday, can count the dollar bills in my pocket, because they could make me a millionare with those skills.

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:59 pm

As bad as it was, there were actually more people there than I had thought there would be. The west side was not too bad considering everything. Of course, the east side ws empty except for some yellow shirts. Many left early when the weather turned, but it was decidedly better than UCF last year. And no, there were not 13,000 there.

LA_Mustang · Post by **LA_Mustang** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:04 pm

I'm guessing 6,000 but I don't blame anyone who was not there

beamout2000 · Post by **beamout2000** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 5:25 pm

Too bad you have SFA instead of Texas State next year because we travel and they don't.

Charleston Pony · Post by **Charleston Pony** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:52 pm

beamout2000 wrote:Too bad you have SFA instead of Texas State next year because we travel and they don't.

Opening game with new optimism should bring out 20k for even SFA

deepellumfrog · Post by **deepellumfrog** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:16 pm

LA_Mustang wrote:I'm guessing 6,000 but I don't blame anyone who was not there

When they announced 13k and change, I just figured you were seeing how many people you could stuff in the luxury boxes.

CalallenStang · Post by **CalallenStang** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:33 pm

Charleston Pony wrote:
beamout2000 wrote:Too bad you have SFA instead of Texas State next year because we travel and they don't.

Opening game with new optimism should bring out 20k for even SFA

What new optimism?

Charleston Pony · Post by **Charleston Pony** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:03 pm

CalallenStang wrote:
Charleston Pony wrote:
beamout2000 wrote:Too bad you have SFA instead of Texas State next year because we travel and they don't.

Opening game with new optimism should bring out 20k for even SFA

What new optimism?

The optimism that EVERY new season brings. We will be running polls on this site after spring ball talking about how many wins, what bowl game SMU will play in, etc...and several will believe next year we win 7-8 games (depends on who subs for Missou) I understand that you are relatively new around here.

Sam I Am · Post by **Sam I Am** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:24 pm

Yes, hope springs eternal after the new recruits are signed in February. We'll convince ouselves that JJ has finally had a chance to get his kind of players for the team. Except we are in trouble if the coach has to press true freshman into the lineup. We will have a scoring offense, but where will the defense come from?

2008 football attendance

2008 football attendance

New recruits will inspire us too