2023 attendance leaders.
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2023 attendance leaders.
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Re: 2023 attendance leaders.
Wow, capacity says 18,700 yet ~4000 less was their average. That’s surprising to me.
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Re: 2023 attendance leaders.
Looks about as expected. The top 4 programs plus the HBCUs and a Texas school.
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Re: 2023 attendance leaders.
Cue the “expand the stadium” crowd.
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Re: 2023 attendance leaders.
I'm all for expanding and think if money wasn't an option, it should be done. But I'm not big on adding 5,000 seats or something right now. I think scarcity is a good thing. Sure, MSU added a ton of seats with the EZ expansion, and sure, attendance grew to oversell the seats available, but at what point do we hit our ceiling? Is NDSU a cautionary tale? Yeah I think you could get 30k for Cat-gris but I like the idea of people having to scramble for tickets a little bit. I wish there was a cheap way to add 2,000 bleacher seats somewhere just to see what interest would be. Not arguing with you AFCAT, just thinking it over.

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Re: 2023 attendance leaders.
kennethnoisewater wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:50 pmI'm all for expanding and think if money wasn't an option, it should be done. But I'm not big on adding 5,000 seats or something right now. I think scarcity is a good thing. Sure, MSU added a ton of seats with the EZ expansion, and sure, attendance grew to oversell the seats available, but at what point do we hit our ceiling? Is NDSU a cautionary tale? Yeah I think you could get 30k for Cat-gris but I like the idea of people having to scramble for tickets a little bit. I wish there was a cheap way to add 2,000 bleacher seats somewhere just to see what interest would be. Not arguing with you AFCAT, just thinking it over.

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Re: 2023 attendance leaders.
Agreed. Other than Cat/Griz which would sell out at double or triple the current stadium capacity, I've never had any trouble at all buying extra tickets to MSU games through single-game ticket sales or the secondary market when I've needed them. Adding capacity would make the paid attendance numbers look better but I'm not sure if it's really needed in terms of people who want to come to games being able to buy tickets to do so.kennethnoisewater wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:50 pmI'm all for expanding and think if money wasn't an option, it should be done. But I'm not big on adding 5,000 seats or something right now. I think scarcity is a good thing. Sure, MSU added a ton of seats with the EZ expansion, and sure, attendance grew to oversell the seats available, but at what point do we hit our ceiling? Is NDSU a cautionary tale? Yeah I think you could get 30k for Cat-gris but I like the idea of people having to scramble for tickets a little bit. I wish there was a cheap way to add 2,000 bleacher seats somewhere just to see what interest would be. Not arguing with you AFCAT, just thinking it over.
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Re: 2023 attendance leaders.
Tarleton is poised to become a top 10 team sooner than later. They are putting the money into their program and want to be FBS soon too.
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Re: 2023 attendance leaders.
What is the capacity of the west side and the suites? Replicate that on the east side and wings on the north should get us into the low 20s I’d think?
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