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Hilltop wrote:

ontheedgeofmyseat wrote:looked VERY WEAK on TV.......

I believe that is mostly because the cameras face the visitor side. The home side looked very full from my vantage point though.

agreed. lots more on the west side than normal.

Hilltop wrote:

ontheedgeofmyseat wrote:looked VERY WEAK on TV.......

I believe that is mostly because the cameras face the visitor side. The home side looked very full from my vantage point though.

I have been on here for a long time and not flaming but i was shocked. I would guess the visitor side early in the 3rd qtr was maybe 20% full based on tv coverage and the endzone was basically empty. If i had to guess based on tv, i would thing there were at most 14k - 16k if the home side was full. As mentioned above, it looked really bad on tv.

Do most camera mounts face the visitor side in most stadiums? Maybe we can switch that with the lights. That seems like a recipe for disappointment in CUSA. Top team, no conflicts, or not. The West side was 80% full though.

SMUer wrote:Do most camera mounts face the visitor side in most stadiums? Maybe we can switch that with the lights. That seems like a recipe for disappointment in CUSA. Top team, no conflicts, or not. The West side was 80% full though.

yes as mrydel was discussing before the game, cameras face the away side so that the midfield logo looks "right side up"

Actually, the cameras always face east because of the sun.

As I said in the other thread, look at frog attendance. Using them as a baseline, we can expect to get to 27K if we get top 25 and then can get to 30 if we churn out some 10 win seasons. Attendance will bump up a bit as well if we upgrade opponents, that is how we get to 40K.

40-33. shoulda been a blow out. Not a flame. Just sayin. Big city attendance is always gonna be circumstantial. You couldve gone to any number of Texas Rangers games in August and September and concluded fan support sucked. Today was a bad showing but when you have more butts in seats for the NW State game, as we did, that tells you there were alot of negative circumstantial factors at work today.

Hoop Fan wrote:40-33. shoulda been a blow out. Not a flame. Just sayin. Big city attendance is always gonna be circumstantial. You couldve gone to any number of Texas Rangers games in August and September and concluded fan support sucked. Today was a bad showing but when you have more butts in seats for the NW State game, as we did, that tells you there were alot of negative circumstantial factors at work today.

Very true.

Relax folks. The second the Rangers made the post season, let alone before they had a game tonight, attendance was going to suffer. The Dallas sports fan is distracted. And we are still a long way from reclaiming the interest of our grads for the 1990s and 2000s.

How about some more threads on the quality of the teams performance. We whupped them.

I do NOT think it helps our stadium attendance to have the home games televised locally. I know many older alums that would just as soon stay at home and watch the game than try to find a parking spot on our campus! Also, SMU's student body, like TCU's, consists of 54%+ of women. I hate to say it but girls do not show up in the numbers that guys do. And you can forget female alums. My wife hasn't attended a game in years and could care less!

Mustangsabu wrote:Relax folks. The second the Rangers made the post season, let alone before they had a game tonight, attendance was going to suffer. The Dallas sports fan is distracted. And we are still a long way from reclaiming the interest of our grads for the 1990s and 2000s.

How about some more threads on the quality of the teams performance. We whupped them.

Yes..thank you!

Ponymon wrote:I do NOT think it helps our stadium attendance to have the home games televised locally. I know many older alums that would just as soon stay at home and watch the game than try to find a parking spot on our campus! Also, SMU's student body, like TCU's, consists of 54%+ of women. I hate to say it but girls do not show up in the numbers that guys do. And you can forget female alums. My wife hasn't attended a game in years and could care less!

Most colleges especially nowaday are 50%+ females.

dickey1331 wrote:

Ponymon wrote:I do NOT think it helps our stadium attendance to have the home games televised locally. I know many older alums that would just as soon stay at home and watch the game than try to find a parking spot on our campus! Also, SMU's student body, like TCU's, consists of 54%+ of women. I hate to say it but girls do not show up in the numbers that guys do. And you can forget female alums. My wife hasn't attended a game in years and could care less!

Most colleges especially nowaday are 50%+ females.

Yeah, but at a smaller school it makes MUCH more of a difference!

Most pathetic crowd I've ever seen at a smu game. Our players don't deserve that at all.

You must not have been to many Thanksgiving weekend games...2500...3000?

Ponymon wrote:I do NOT think it helps our stadium attendance to have the home games televised locally. I know many older alums that would just as soon stay at home and watch the game than try to find a parking spot on our campus! Also, SMU's student body, like TCU's, consists of 54%+ of women. I hate to say it but girls do not show up in the numbers that guys do. And you can forget female alums. My wife hasn't attended a game in years and could care less!

Not an excuse, just a market that needs to be addressed and included. Almost all colleges small and large are 50%+ women. The BLVD does a fairly good job of getting lots of female students that may otherwise be disinterested in football to come out to the BLVD on game day. Getting any of our students (male or female) from the BLVD to the stadium and to stay for the whole game is a completely different story.