yeah but the upper bowl seemed fuller than last time vs duke, especially the east side.
The dook attendance was way overreported. I think many Homecoming alums stayed home and they counted them as there. There were maybe 25k at the dook game.
I think attendance was accurate, the duke game was crazy loud. The lower deck was mostly full and that alone has near 30K, so that plus spare change in the upper deck probably amounts to 33K or so.
That game was loud given the size of the crowd. Not loud like some of our other big ACC games where the stands were shaking for example FSU miracle & VT homecoming. Our stadium is 55k. I don't know the exact seat breakouts but let's say west upper and lower is 10k, same for east, north is 10k and south is 5k. For dook upper west was 20% for 2000, lower west was 60% for 6000, that's 8k fans. Double that for east and you're at 16k. North was 1/3 full for another 3k, then there's maybe 1k in south. dook was 20k turnout. Last night was probably 24-25k, basically half the seats were empty. The paid gate was 29k for Virginia. 80% of paid tickets showing is is pretty good these days.
I think had we played on saturday we would have had a better crowd too. Weather also impacts it.
What weather? It was a perfect night for football.
Yup. It was cold last night. If the team is doing well, folks will brave the cold. When the entire program is in shambles, not so much...
it was cold but y’all are acting like it was a snow day in buffalo or something. put on some jeans a hoodie and a beanie and the temperature was fine
And the flask. Don't forget the flask.
This is correct. The bigger issue here is that we've lost way more than the 5-6k fans per game that many including myself believed we had lost. It's probably close to 10k, maybe 12k. We probaby are losing $7-8M, could be as high as $10M in revenue annually due to the failed experiment. In stocks it's called trying to catch a falling knife, not a good move. We needed to hit the eject button at beginning of last year and cleared house. Batt is inheriting a huge mess and it will likely take him 5 years to unravel the damage that regime has done and get us on solid footing. To think just 4 years ago we were operating in the black & now we're probably sustaining close to if not exceeding double digit (>$10M) revenue losses coupled with a payroll that's about $6-8M/yr more. Pretty bleak.
That Pitt game a few weeks ago was also a pathetic crowd
I was there until the bloody end...it was cold, regardless of what the weather in Buffalo was.
