Attendance figures and projections

[OSUFan]

The attendance figures for football games this season are as follows:

Florida Atlantic - 38,176
Texas Tech - 37,850
Sam Houston State - 41,139
KSU (Homecoming) - 41,725
Texas - 41,406
KU - 39,848

Average attendance - 40,024
Capacity as per the OSU football media guide - 44,700

Percentages towards capacity

Florida Atlantic - 85% full
Texas Tech - 84.6% full
Sam Houston State - 92% full
KSU (Homecoming) - 93% full
Texas - 92.6% full
KU - 89% full

Average capacity = 89.37%

So, next year the west endzone will be open adding approximately 16,000 seats but re-seating will reduce seating on the north and south sides. I'm going to say capacity will be 60,000 although I think it will be less once the re-seating is finished. So the question is how many fans will buy tickets in the west endzone for next season? Family Fun Zone tickets, ticket prices and how fans react to the re-seating will all be determining factors. Of course, it would help if OSU won the Insight.com Bowl and had a strong recruiting class.

Here are my projections:

Houston - 46,750
Missouri State - 44,850
Troy - 45,600
A&M - 49,500
Baylor - 44,820
ISU - 43,600
ou - 57,500

Average attendance - 47,517 (increase of 7,669)

I just don't see a major, major increase. In fact, I think the first season will see about a 4,000 season ticket increase but crowds will depend on opponents' fans and how OSU is doing. It may be embarrassing this first year seeing almost 15,000 ou fans in the stadium. Uggh.

Too high or low on estimates? What do you think?

[Lewis the Pike]

You were right on point about a bowl win will give momentum for ticket sales.

However, any kind of ticket price increase may have a more serious effect.

I agree Paperclips are a sellout. I think it would be in our best interest to make Baylor or Iowa State Homecoming, because I think aTm will be a near sellout anyway. And the Homecoming factor will give a bump to one of the "lesser" games.

[Boss 24]

I just can't see how more seats or even a bowl win will increase attendance. It's not like we're packing the place out every game. The only way to raise attendance is to WIN, and win a lot. The more wins you have the more people want to see you. Some may call it the bandwagon effect but even if it's die-hard Pokes that just haven't bought tickets before, we still have to win before they'll pony up the cash for the seats.

[Pokevette]

We had a Bowl win and great recruiting class going into this year, and our attendance for the first few games was as bad as it has been since the 1997 Nonconference season...

I'm not sure how another 7-6 season would help attendance all that much...

I've been saying for a while that I feared we were building an endzone for our opposing fans...

[bleedorange]

I've been saying for a while that I feared we were building an endzone for our opposing fans...

Then why didn't opposing fans fill the empty seats THIS year? Or the year before, or the year before?

I think all these ominous "we'll be overrun by the invading hordes" predictions are just wrong.

There is no way that we add 16K seats and visitors buy them all. No way.

There is no guarantee that Orange fans will fill them, but there is not any more evidence that the visitors will buy them either.

[Pokevette]

Then why didn't opposing fans fill the empty seats THIS year? Or the year before, or the year before?

Well, I think the "cheap" seats available to opposing fans were for the most part sold. The seats not sold this year were the high dollar, middle of the North side, and North suites/club seats.

I expect if we have a 60,000 seat stadium next year for Bedlam, at least one-third of those 60,000 will be wearing Crimson.

[SUPERMAN]

I expect if we have a 60,000 seat stadium next year for Bedlam, at least one-third of those 60,000 will be wearing Crimson.


Oh, SNAP!

:)

I hope you're wrong.

[bleedorange]

I expect if we have a 60,000 seat stadium next year for Bedlam, at least one-third of those 60,000 will be wearing Crimson.

And I think that's an apocolyptic prediction that's dead wrong. We'll see.

[Jonno]

The attendance figures for football games this season are as follows:

Florida Atlantic - 38,176
Texas Tech - 37,850
Sam Houston State - 41,139
KSU (Homecoming) - 41,725
Texas - 41,406
KU - 39,848

Average attendance - 40,024
Capacity as per the OSU football media guide - 44,700

Percentages towards capacity

Florida Atlantic - 85% full
Texas Tech - 84.6% full
Sam Houston State - 92% full
KSU (Homecoming) - 93% full
Texas - 92.6% full
KU - 89% full

Average capacity = 89.37%

So, next year the west endzone will be open adding approximately 16,000 seats but re-seating will reduce seating on the north and south sides. I'm going to say capacity will be 60,000 although I think it will be less once the re-seating is finished. So the question is how many fans will buy tickets in the west endzone for next season? Family Fun Zone tickets, ticket prices and how fans react to the re-seating will all be determining factors. Of course, it would help if OSU won the Insight.com Bowl and had a strong recruiting class.

Here are my projections:

Houston - 46,750
Missouri State - 44,850
Troy - 45,600
A&M - 49,500
Baylor - 44,820
ISU - 43,600
ou - 57,500

Average attendance - 47,517 (increase of 7,669) this would be an increase of 7,493

I just don't see a major, major increase. In fact, I think the first season will see about a 4,000 season ticket increase but crowds will depend on opponents' fans and how OSU is doing. It may be embarrassing this first year seeing almost 15,000 ou fans in the stadium. Uggh.

Too high or low on estimates? What do you think?

If your numbers come to fruition, it seems to me that a 19% increase in attendance could be seen as a major increase.

(47,517 - 40,024)/40,024 = 18.7%

I'd take it anyway.

[SUPERMAN]

I think its more realistic to expect a 5% or 10% increase. I dont think construction is keeping fans away its the build up for the past few seasons and then the let down losses last year to OU, KSU, TTU, and Houston and this year to Troy, UT and A&M. We need to schedule games so we easily win 7 games a year and maybe 8 or 9 if we get a upset or two. We schedule ourselves into scrapping for 6 and 7 wins. If we easily win 4 nonconference games then we should be playing every year for a good bowl, like Holiday or Alamo, and if God sees fit maybe the Fiesta. We are competing against some giant programs, OU, UT, A&M, & Nebraska.

[MarkOSU]

Well, I think the "cheap" seats available to opposing fans were for the most part sold. The seats not sold this year were the high dollar, middle of the North side, and North suites/club seats.

I expect if we have a 60,000 seat stadium next year for Bedlam, at least one-third of those 60,000 will be wearing Crimson.

DO you think the burger flippers can raise the cash to buy the ticket? Has Wal-mart increased their pay scale?:cool:

[Pokes4Life]

DO you think the burger flippers can raise the cash to buy the ticket? Has Wal-mart increased their pay scale?:cool:

I'm sure they'll just pull out a 2nd mortgage on their trailer home. ;)