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In 2019, college football attendance hit a 24 year low according to the NCAA's
official numbers. The FBS average of 41,477 per game was the lowest since
1996. This marked the eighth time in nine years there has been an overall
national decline.

Average 2019 Attendance by Conference

SEC - 72,723 (lowest since 2000)
Big Ten - 65,065 (lowest since 1993)
Big 12 - 57,467
ACC - 48,243 (lowest since 1999)
Pac 12 - 46,080 (lowest since 1978)
AAC - 29,232
MWC - 23,232 (lowest in history)
CUSA - 18,929 (2nd lowest in history)
SunBelt - 18,342 (+5.5%)
MAC - 15,530

*Raise the damn ticket prices on fans
*Give the damn coaches higher salaries
*Pay the damn players a salary plus their scholarship
*Build damn facilities out the ass
*Add more damn sports for women

Lot to unpack here....love to here your comments.
 

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Typical in our digital age. Less people going to the movies, less people going anywhere outdoors it seems. Michigan has 42% less deer hunters than 30 years ago. Less fishing licenses, etc.
TV packages are where the money is for college sports.
 

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Ticket prices have encourage a lot of people to stay home and enjoy the games on
TV. Several of my friends who have had Bama season tickets for 25-30 years have
not renewed. StubHub offers some game prices on regular individual tickets for key
games last year. Prices were offered on August 23 for these games. Fees and shipping
not included.

Notre Dame @ Georgia, Sept. 21, Cheapest ticket $410
LSU @ Texas, Sept. 7, Cheapest ticket $312
Oklahoma vs Texas, Oct. 12, $280
Nebraska @ Colorado, Sept. 7, $244
Florida vs Miami, Aug. 24, $236
Iowa @ Iowa State, Sept. 14, $220
Montana @ Montana State, Nov. 23, $217
Alabama @ Auburn, Nov. 30, $216
USC @ Notre Dame, Oct. 12, $205
Ohio State @ Michigan, Nov. 30, $201

Add gas, parking, food, beverage and the average fan is getting hosed for good games.
Big Boy football has just gotten too expensive for many of today's fans.
 

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Yeah, tickets are not cheap. In 2018 at three weeks before the Ohio State/Mich. game ticket prices tracked by TicketIQ had them at an avg of $932, higher than the SEC Championship game at $820. So timing helps too!
Nebraska at Colorado was $270, what a waste!

You could have watched Rutgers seven home games for a total of $200.
If you like a cold wind off of Lake Michigan in late November Minn. at Northwestern was $6. More money for long underwear!
Ohio State has B-deck, last four row seating at $176 for next falls Mich. game. Sure it is the nose-bleed section.
Ohio State season tickets at $702 for reserved seating, $851 for box or club seating.
 

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Wait until the results of attendance at college football games are in after the 2020 season when the virus pandemic is gone, there will be lingering apprehension by many not to joint large crowds at football games. If I were a betting man (ha) my wager would be on attendance being down next year,,,,,maybe way down..........
 

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Buddy called me a while back and said I never thought I would see an Iron Bowl ticket for Ala/Aub this past year be $75 the day of the game but yet an Auburn / Ky basketball game at AU was $220 for a standing room only ticket
 

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Buddy called me a while back and said I never thought I would see an Iron Bowl ticket for Ala/Aub this past year be $75 the day of the game but yet an Auburn / Ky basketball game at AU was $220 for a standing room only ticket

Bruce Pearl has done a nice job of creating interest in the basketball program. Winning does that. Contrast what
Pearl is paid and what Kentucky's John Calipari is paid and you have a $7.1 million difference. Kentucky's coach
at $9.7 million is the highest in the country. Pearl's $2.6 million salary (2018-2019) is at the lower end of SEC
coaches. Auburn pays it football coach $7.0 million a year. Maybe Pearl deserves a raise??
 

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Bruce Pearl has done a nice job of creating interest in the basketball program. Winning does that. Contrast what
Pearl is paid and what Kentucky's John Calipari is paid and you have a $7.1 million difference. Kentucky's coach
at $9.7 million is the highest in the country. Pearl's $2.6 million salary (2018-2019) is at the lower end of SEC
coaches. Auburn pays it football coach $7.0 million a year. Maybe Pearl deserves a raise??

Pearl signed a new contract almost a year ago.

He was paid $3.8 million this year making him the 11th highest BB coach in the country. Still a huge disparity between him and Calipari.
 

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I went to the UF at Kentucky game and paid $100 for my seat (upper deck, close to the 50). Place was packed.


I also went to two NFL games last year (Pats at Baltimore, and Pats at Cincy) and paid $150 & $125 - decent, but not great seats at the Ravens game, really good seats at the Bengals stadium.

It's out of control. I don't know how a young family could afford more than one game a season: a husband, wife, and two kids would cost at least $300 for tickets, plus parking & concessions - and if they don't live local, gas & hotel.

I flew to Cincy, paid for two nights hotel, uber to/from the airport, plus concessions.

Baltimore does the 'affordable' concessions deal - beers are around $6, pizza is around $5, soda is $2, water is $2, etc. But Cincy was full price ($12 beer, $10 for a pizza, $5 for a soda, etc).
 

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College sports are now almost as expensive as professional sports. Outrageous and the players dont get paid.
 

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Probably will be 0 this season.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is still formulating a plan to reopen Florida’s economy, said on Saturday he does not envision movie theaters or bars opening any time soon — or allowing sporting events with fans until “far in the future.”
 

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As most have said,i am in total agreement with the cost of going to any sports event and deal with all the mayhem,its just better to stay home in the living room watching sports,etc..anymore is the way to go,...If Any Game i Would Go See Its The PIRATES Only
 

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Interesting to see this season , if there is one a forward of how fans go to games

shoulder to shoulder in every stadium

I ain’t skeered

stand against the “new norm”. Don’t be brainwashed
 

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pretty much everything mentioned..........

local live and/or "leave your house" events have gone down in popularity...... too much to do on internet or in front of TV.... and when i say "live events", the person's comment on hunting and fishing licences being down is completely consistent with this.

FBS teams need to get rid of cupcake games........ i remember student at georgia said she'd sell me 2 season tix games. one was New Mexico State LOL... the whole idea of being undefeated is silly. SEC-undefeated and clemson-undefeated is not near the same thing anyway.
 

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there might be a season but there won't be 10's of thousands of fans.

i'd say no fans. but maybe they reward 5,000 key boosters or something like that.

i think there will be season. maybe not 100% as the schedule was made but i'd say not completely different either.
 

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In 2019, college football attendance hit a 24 year low according to the NCAA's
official numbers. The FBS average of 41,477 per game was the lowest since
1996. This marked the eighth time in nine years there has been an overall
national decline.

Average 2019 Attendance by Conference

SEC - 72,723 (lowest since 2000)
Big Ten - 65,065 (lowest since 1993)
Big 12 - 57,467
ACC - 48,243 (lowest since 1999)
Pac 12 - 46,080 (lowest since 1978)
AAC - 29,232
MWC - 23,232 (lowest in history)
CUSA - 18,929 (2nd lowest in history)
SunBelt - 18,342 (+5.5%)
MAC - 15,530

*Raise the damn ticket prices on fans
*Give the damn coaches higher salaries
*Pay the damn players a salary plus their scholarship
*Build damn facilities out the ass
*Add more damn sports for women

Lot to unpack here....love to here your comments.


I think for the bigger schools....cupcake games suck. I know it's a distribution of wealth, but they suck to watch. Wonder what the stat line of the blue bloods vs the lesser programs of the conference
 
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I think for the bigger schools....cupcake games suck. I know it's a distribution of wealth, but they suck to watch. Wonder what the stat line of the blue bloods vs the lesser programs of the conference

I think the first game of the season is ok to play a cupcake school as the fans are excited about their first tailgate in 10 months.

At many schools, the tailgate is more important than the actual game.

When the SEC plays a cupcake school in November, i always call that the "family game". Thats the game where you bring your young kids or when you give your tickets to a friend or business associate who never gets to go to games.

Its funny, i was in Orlando with my family last sep/oct when UCF was playing UCONN. I was going to buy 4 tix of stub hub but my kids didnt want to go since it was a 42 pt spread and didnt want to watch a blowout. I was 100% fine with it as it saved me easily $300
 

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