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Digetydog wrote:BTW - Are we talking paid attendance or people in seat??

SFA 25,000
TAMU 37,000 - Cram them in there.
TCU 35,000 - See A&M Game.
Houston 22,000 - Couger High doesn't travel. SMU will be rebuilding record after difficult OOC schedule.
Memphis 20,000 - Memphis has less fans than Rice.
So.Miss 28,000 - team can travel, good game, should draw OK
Tulsa <20,000 - brutal date as many SMU students will be out of state for holidays.

In 2010, UH was SMU's 2nd highest attended game and highest conference game.
In 2008, UH was SMU's highest attended conference game.
In 2011, UH was UNT's highest attended game by far. And before you say it was their stadium opener (which helped), having multiple sections of only UH fans with UH fans in basically every section including some sections with large UH blocks definitely helped.

If we don't travel (questionable assertion), at a minimum we put more SMU butts in the seats.

With that said, as a Thursday game this year, that will probably keep down the UH travel some. It will also probably keep down some of the SMU fan attendance. I'll be there though.

BTW: If you're depending on opponent fans and opponents to draw SMU fans, you're not doing it right.

Bump.

My summer prediction for SFA was probably a bit optimistic. 23K for this Saturday seems about right.

24k

Don't forget 3000 aggies with season tickets who have the date of the aggy game wrong.

Shocked if more than 15,000.

I actually heard an SFA alumni ad on the radio today, imploring them to show up for the tailgate, so we might be pleasantly surprised by our Nacogdoches brethren.

After last weeks performance JJ should be happy if there are 5k in the stands.

tristatecoog wrote:Houston game on a Thursday night and on FSS hurts visiting fan attendance. 22-23K feels about right, depending upon the SMU record at the time.

yup. Would have been there on Saturday...

24k - all in white!

redpony wrote:After last weeks performance JJ should be happy if there are 5k in the stands.

No kidding. However season opener and family weekend typically are high since parents want to see a football game (even if it will most likely be bad)

SMU_Alumni11 wrote: parents want to see a football game (even if it will most likely be bad)

That's the spirit! SMU needs more enthusiastic fans like you!!

Bergermeister wrote:

SMU_Alumni11 wrote: parents want to see a football game (even if it will most likely be bad)

That's the spirit! SMU needs more enthusiastic fans like you!!

Haha not to sound pessimistic but if I remember last parent weekend was against Marshall and we were winning like 28-0 and it ended like 35-28 or something I was sick

I think we all expected a better turnout for that opener. Baylor game hurt, I think. At least we can look forward to 32k plus crows the next couple of weeks. Team needs to pick it up if we hope to draw well for CUSA games. I doubt Houston will have as strong a showing as they have had in recent years, given the way they have started their season

Charleston Pony wrote:I think we all expected a better turnout for that opener. Baylor game hurt, I think. At least we can look forward to 32k plus crows the next couple of weeks. Team needs to pick it up if we hope to draw well for CUSA games. I doubt Houston will have as strong a showing as they have had in recent years, given the way they have started their season

I agree I think we had an ok amount of student but we really need to get 100% of them including the graduate students (haha yeah right) to go to help out with lack of Dallas people. Hopefully if we get things going people in Dallas will pay attention. Kind of hoping cowboys suck so they have to come here... I think sadly NTCC had a better showing yesterday (relative to each other)

20k looked good last night.............