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Stallion wrote:Paid or Total including visiting bands?

Tickets distributed.

Thanks for the update!

It is obvious that besides a small group of passionate football fans and financial supporters that SMU football should be at a much smaller level because of the fan support. I would say somewhere between Abilene Christian, Tulane and Rice. It has nothing to do with being able to compete, it has to do with number of fans. And there is nothing wrong with that. We can still win national championships. Harvard plays at the FCS level and had 9 National Championships at the highest level in football before moving down. Maybe it is best to not put such an emphasis on a sport. Look at the total number of students attending SMU and where they are from. Does a polo player from California, a cricket player from India, a soccer player from China, Korea or Pakistan really care about football especially if they return to their native country and probably won't be coming back for any football games. SMU doesn't recruit all-around students from around Texas and regional states who have an appreciation for being an all-around student and these people will be the future alumni.

so maybe 12,000 or so SMU fans-after deducting bands and very nice and surprising MSU showing. About what I thought pre-game. Actually probably there was less because obviously some season ticket holders who were distributed tickets passed

SMU would never play at a lower level of competition. We'd close up shop before we'd ever entertan such a thing.

ghost wrote:It is obvious that besides a small group of passionate football fans and financial supporters that SMU football should be at a much smaller level because of the fan support. I would say somewhere between Abilene Christian, Tulane and Rice. It has nothing to do with being able to compete, it has to do with number of fans. And there is nothing wrong with that. We can still win national championships. Harvard plays at the FCS level and had 9 National Championships at the highest level in football before moving down. Maybe it is best to not put such an emphasis on a sport. Look at the total number of students attending SMU and where they are from. Does a polo player from California, a cricket player from India, a soccer player from China, Korea or Pakistan really care about football especially if they return to their native country and probably won't be coming back for any football games. SMU doesn't recruit all-around students from around Texas and regional states who have an appreciation for being an all-around student and these people will be the future alumni.

Gross.

TCU sold over 32K season tickets so obviously a lot of them didn't show up.

Hope Rutgers game gets into mid-20s.

Weather should be great, but it will depend heavily on whether or not we beat TCU. A loss and we don't sniff 20k, I fear.
Hoping for a 2:00 game due to the ASU-ND game that night in Tarrant County.

Sadly I don't think beating tcu away will bring more fans to the stadium. I think it will be similar to the Ucf game while back which I blame the early in the day game for that. I think these late games we get more than we expected. I just think the average Dallas person does t want to burn to a crisp watching "smu" football, however I think they an tolerate later games when it's cool outside.

SMU_Alumni11 wrote:Sadly I don't think beating tcu away will bring more fans to the stadium. I think it will be similar to the Ucf game while back which I blame the early in the day game for that. I think these late games we get more than we expected. I just think the average Dallas person does t want to burn to a crisp watching "smu" football, however I think they an tolerate later games when it's cool outside.

That + the Rangers playoff game that day. There's a reason there were a lot more tickets sold than tickets distributed.

I think the attendance at Rutgers will be decent since it is our first conference game.

Distributed seems to include sold and comped for students, faculty and staff. Does it also include tickets given to local churches or businesses? I know that the key is to work out low group rates in those cases.

The crowd for Rutgers will be the same as Montana State. Possibly worse if its the dreaded 11AM kickoff.

StallionsModelT wrote:The crowd for Rutgers will be the same as Montana State. Possibly worse if its the dreaded 11AM kickoff.

It will probably be at 7pm.

If its a night game I could see it being close to 20K.