I know @TigerCruise brought it up in the other thread, but it’s worth having its own thread.
Half of the reason football attendance has been down over the past handful of years is because honestly, most of the games on the schedule aren’t worth going to.
You get 2 patsy G5 games that no one cares about (and somehow still manage to lose every so often).
You get a FCS game that no one cares about (I understand they are a necessary evil).
Every other year you might have a decent P5 OOC game.
Every other year you have home games against Vanderbilt and Kentucky. Those games should be easy wins, and when they’re not it’s an embarrassing loss. Not exactly at the top of anyone’s list to attend.
And then every other year you have a game the day after Thanksgiving, when there’s absolutely no students there, except the foreign exchange kids who don’t care about football. Plus Arkansas has been hot dogshit the last few years.
Next year the only 2 home games worth going to will be Georgia and Kentucky (since it’s homecoming).
If we’re going to play bad OOC teams, they should at least be bad teams we care about. People care more about rivalries than automatic wins.
I know I for one gave up my season tickets a few years ago specifically for this reason, and have just been doing 3 games a year instead. And there are many more like me. Just look at the tailgate lots. They’re a ghost of what they used to be.
The only way you’re going to keep the attendance from continuing to plummet is if the schedule every year looks something like this:
Week 1: Illinois (at Busch Stadium)
Home OOC game 1: FCS
Home OOC game 2: G5
Home SEC game 1
Home SEC game 2
Home SEC game 3
Home SEC game 4
Black Friday: kansas (at Arrowhead)
This way most years you’ll have still 6 games at Faurot and 8 games in the state. Yeah you’ll still have the same issue with the FCS, G5, and bottom feeder SEC teams. But at least you can count on 5 games that are worth buying a ticket for every year. (And by worth buying a ticket I mean spending the money instead of watching on the 70” while bbqing with friends).
Hopefully the AD wakes up soon.
Half of the reason football attendance has been down over the past handful of years is because honestly, most of the games on the schedule aren’t worth going to.
You get 2 patsy G5 games that no one cares about (and somehow still manage to lose every so often).
You get a FCS game that no one cares about (I understand they are a necessary evil).
Every other year you might have a decent P5 OOC game.
Every other year you have home games against Vanderbilt and Kentucky. Those games should be easy wins, and when they’re not it’s an embarrassing loss. Not exactly at the top of anyone’s list to attend.
And then every other year you have a game the day after Thanksgiving, when there’s absolutely no students there, except the foreign exchange kids who don’t care about football. Plus Arkansas has been hot dogshit the last few years.
Next year the only 2 home games worth going to will be Georgia and Kentucky (since it’s homecoming).
If we’re going to play bad OOC teams, they should at least be bad teams we care about. People care more about rivalries than automatic wins.
I know I for one gave up my season tickets a few years ago specifically for this reason, and have just been doing 3 games a year instead. And there are many more like me. Just look at the tailgate lots. They’re a ghost of what they used to be.
The only way you’re going to keep the attendance from continuing to plummet is if the schedule every year looks something like this:
Week 1: Illinois (at Busch Stadium)
Home OOC game 1: FCS
Home OOC game 2: G5
Home SEC game 1
Home SEC game 2
Home SEC game 3
Home SEC game 4
Black Friday: kansas (at Arrowhead)
This way most years you’ll have still 6 games at Faurot and 8 games in the state. Yeah you’ll still have the same issue with the FCS, G5, and bottom feeder SEC teams. But at least you can count on 5 games that are worth buying a ticket for every year. (And by worth buying a ticket I mean spending the money instead of watching on the 70” while bbqing with friends).
Hopefully the AD wakes up soon.
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