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<blockquote data-quote="RamblinRed" data-source="post: 481753" data-attributes="member: 1776"><p>This is hardly a unique issue to GT. Both attendance and student attendance are down in college football and have been trending that way for 5 yrs now.</p><p>For the 2nd or 3rd straight year Saban has called out AL students for not showing up.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure there is a good answer here. I have a millennial daughter who graduated from a large state university and even there she and her friends would generally leave in the 3rd quarter and have been back for 1 game each season since graduating. Millennials in general don't care about college sports in general and college football in particular as much as previous generations and i'm not sure it is going to get better. Not only is attendance down, but TV viewing is down as well. </p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/02/13/college-football-attendance-sees-second-largest-decline-in-history/?utm_term=.2011e37d8623" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/02/13/college-football-attendance-sees-second-largest-decline-in-history/?utm_term=.2011e37d8623</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesports/2018/02/15/falling-student-attendance-college-football-games-real-concern-tv-blame" target="_blank">https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesports/2018/02/15/falling-student-attendance-college-football-games-real-concern-tv-blame</a></p><p></p><p>Also, in many ways the numbers are worse than shown as schools shows paid attendance vs actual attendance in their numbers and often include everything from the band to the person who sells you a hot dog. Actual attendance is much lower. For GT, it's announced attendance was 281K, it's actual attendance was 203K.</p><p><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-footballs-growing-problem-empty-seats-1535634001" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-footballs-growing-problem-empty-seats-1535634001</a></p><p></p><p>Now, saying screw TV and moving times to have fewer noon starts is simply unrealistic. First, as a member of the ACC, GT is bound to play at whatever time TV tells them to play. If a school chose to ignore that it would likely not only lose the TV money, but also be kicked out of the conference entirely. Given that the TV contract brings in close to 30MM per yr, where do you expect to make that up. Chances are you would make up less than 20% of that loss by changing the start times so it makes no sense for a school to even contemplate it.</p><p></p><p>I've thought for a few years that we are likely living in a little bit of a bubble in terms of college sports contracts. The TV contracts keep escalating, but both the in stadium and at home viewership continues to decline. At some point if that continues the bubble will have to burst - most likely in the form of entertainment entities paying less to conferences to show their sports.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RamblinRed, post: 481753, member: 1776"] This is hardly a unique issue to GT. Both attendance and student attendance are down in college football and have been trending that way for 5 yrs now. For the 2nd or 3rd straight year Saban has called out AL students for not showing up. I'm not sure there is a good answer here. I have a millennial daughter who graduated from a large state university and even there she and her friends would generally leave in the 3rd quarter and have been back for 1 game each season since graduating. Millennials in general don't care about college sports in general and college football in particular as much as previous generations and i'm not sure it is going to get better. Not only is attendance down, but TV viewing is down as well. [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/02/13/college-football-attendance-sees-second-largest-decline-in-history/?utm_term=.2011e37d8623[/URL] [URL]https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesports/2018/02/15/falling-student-attendance-college-football-games-real-concern-tv-blame[/URL] Also, in many ways the numbers are worse than shown as schools shows paid attendance vs actual attendance in their numbers and often include everything from the band to the person who sells you a hot dog. Actual attendance is much lower. For GT, it's announced attendance was 281K, it's actual attendance was 203K. [URL]https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-footballs-growing-problem-empty-seats-1535634001[/URL] Now, saying screw TV and moving times to have fewer noon starts is simply unrealistic. First, as a member of the ACC, GT is bound to play at whatever time TV tells them to play. If a school chose to ignore that it would likely not only lose the TV money, but also be kicked out of the conference entirely. Given that the TV contract brings in close to 30MM per yr, where do you expect to make that up. Chances are you would make up less than 20% of that loss by changing the start times so it makes no sense for a school to even contemplate it. I've thought for a few years that we are likely living in a little bit of a bubble in terms of college sports contracts. The TV contracts keep escalating, but both the in stadium and at home viewership continues to decline. At some point if that continues the bubble will have to burst - most likely in the form of entertainment entities paying less to conferences to show their sports. [/QUOTE]
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