Despite a so-so record for the past 10 years or so, the UW reports the highest increase in home attendance in D1 football with an average attendance of 68,769. Seattle is comparable to the Bay Area in terms of its attractions and competing events. And the weather can be pretty miserable in the fall especially in an outdoor stadium. So the fact that they get so many fans paying premium dollars is surprising. And with the hiring of Peterson, fan enthusiasm should go up even more. How does our attendance compare over the past 10 years especially during the better JT seasons? How can we make attending games more attractive?

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/huskyfootball/2014/03/21/huskies-report-season-ticket-renewal-rate-of-about-85-percent/

tenplay;842295422 said:

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Despite a so-so record for the past 10 years or so, the UW reports the highest increase in home attendance in D1 football with an average attendance of 68,769. Seattle is comparable to the Bay Area in terms of its attractions and competing events. And the weather can be pretty miserable in the fall especially in an outdoor stadium. So the fact that they get so many fans paying premium dollars is surprising. And with the hiring of Peterson, fan enthusiasm should go up even more. How does our attendance compare over the past 10 years especially during the better JT seasons? How can we make attending games more attractive?

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/huskyfootball/2014/03/21/huskies-report-season-ticket-renewal-rate-of-about-85-percent/

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Xenophobia rules in Seattle ... and dawgie fans are not the best and brightest. They are truly fan(atic)s and I hope Cal fans would NEVER emulate their "devotion". They long for a return to the days of the Cheatin' Don.

49,329 in 2013 down 11.7%. Closer to 55,000- I'd estimate-in Tedford's salad years.

Starting in 2012, the capacity of CMS was lowered to about 63,000. (It previously was about 72,000, which included Tedford's years).

tenplay;842295422 said:

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Despite a so-so record for the past 10 years or so, the UW reports the highest increase in home attendance in D1 football with an average attendance of 68,769. Seattle is comparable to the Bay Area in terms of its attractions and competing events. And the weather can be pretty miserable in the fall especially in an outdoor stadium. So the fact that they get so many fans paying premium dollars is surprising. And with the hiring of Peterson, fan enthusiasm should go up even more. How does our attendance compare over the past 10 years especially during the better JT seasons? How can we make attending games more attractive?

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/huskyfootball/2014/03/21/huskies-report-season-ticket-renewal-rate-of-about-85-percent/

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Huskies have an advantage. Good size metro area and less competition for those dollars:

Seattle has one MLB team-Bay Area has two.
Seattle has one NFL team-Bay Area has two.
Seattle has no NBA team-Bay Area has one.
Seattle has no NHL team-Bay Area has one.
Seattle has one D1 Football program-Bay Area has three.

It's not the same.

One thing that jumps out is that there is a good ROI on paying a football coach $4-5 million vs 2 if he delivers.

GB54;842295426 said:

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49,329 in 2013 down 11.7%. Closer to 55,000- I'd estimate-in Tedford's salad years.

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Here's data I have culled from various sources (mostly from calbears.com) over the past several seasons on attendance at Cal Memorial.

........ AVG. .... No. of
[U]YEAR[/U] [U]ATTEND.[/U] [U]Games[/U] [U]Record, sellouts if any; (Bowl game)[/U]
2001 33,433 ... 6 ..... 1-10, 1 road sellout; Holmoe's last season
2002 37,103 ... 7 ..... 7-5, 2 road sellouts; Tedford's first season
2003 38,693 ... 6 ..... 8-6, 2 road sellouts (Insight Bowl)
2004 64,019 ... 5 ..... 10-2, 1 home sellout, 1 road sellout (Holiday Bowl)
2005 60,377 ... 6 ..... 8-4, 1 home sellout, 2 road sellouts (Las Vegas Bowl)
2006 64,318 ... 7 ..... 10-3, 3 home sellouts (Holiday Bowl)
2007 63,136 ... 6 ..... 7-6, 2 home sellouts, 2 road sellouts (Armed Forces Bowl)
2008 61,634 ... 7 ..... 9-4, 1 road sellout (Emerald Bowl)
2009 59,472 ... 6 ..... 8-5, 1 home sellout, 3 road sellouts (Poinsettia Bowl)
2010 57,873 ... 7 ..... 5-7, no sellouts, last season at Cal Memorial pre-renovation
2011 37,857 ... 5 ..... 7-6, home games at AT&T Park, 2 road sellouts (Holiday Bowl)
2012 55,876 ... 7 ..... 3-9, 1 home sellout, 2 road sellouts, 1st season at post-renovation Cal Memorial Stadium
2013 49,329 ... 7 ..... 1-11, 1 home sellout, 2 road sellouts; Dykes' 1st season

Thanks, Fiat. Even a better run than I thought under Tedford. That's 10-15,000 people times 6 games times avg price per ticket=conservatively over $2million plus concessions lost last year vs baseline.

FiatSlug;842295484 said:

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Here's data I have culled from various sources (mostly from calbears.com) over the past several seasons on attendance at Cal Memorial.

........ AVG. .... No. of
[U]YEAR[/U] [U]ATTEND.[/U] [U]Games[/U] [U]Record, sellouts if any; (Bowl game)[/U]
2001 33,433 ... 6 ..... 1-10, 1 road sellout; Holmoe's last season
2002 37,103 ... 7 ..... 7-5, 2 road sellouts; Tedford's first season
2003 38,693 ... 6 ..... 8-6, 2 road sellouts (Insight Bowl)
2004 64,019 ... 5 ..... 10-2, 1 home sellout, 1 road sellout (Holiday Bowl)
2005 60,377 ... 6 ..... 8-4, 1 home sellout, 2 road sellouts (Las Vegas Bowl)
2006 64,318 ... 7 ..... 10-3, 3 home sellouts (Holiday Bowl)
2007 63,136 ... 6 ..... 7-6, 2 home sellouts, 2 road sellouts (Armed Forces Bowl)
2008 61,634 ... 7 ..... 9-4, 1 road sellout (Emerald Bowl)
2009 59,472 ... 6 ..... 8-5, 1 home sellout, 3 road sellouts (Poinsettia Bowl)
2010 57,873 ... 7 ..... 5-7, no sellouts, last season at Cal Memorial pre-renovation
2011 37,857 ... 5 ..... 7-6, home games at AT&T Park, 2 road sellouts (Holiday Bowl)
2012 55,876 ... 7 ..... 3-9, 1 home sellout, 2 road sellouts, 1st season at post-renovation Cal Memorial Stadium
2013 49,329 ... 7 ..... 1-11, 1 home sellout, 2 road sellouts; Dykes' 1st season

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trending down after 2006

Fuskies were set up to have a huge increase this past year:

Several years of mediocre teams and their old stadium. Then...

Better team coinciding with their renovated stadium.

It'd be like if we had opened the renovated CMS after 10 years of crappy teams and then all of a sudden, that year, we had a good team. Attendance would have exploded.

Hey, why didn't we think to have a good team when the "new" CMS opened?!?

SonOfCalVa;842295553 said:

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trending down after 2006

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And still a hell of a lot more than we had before Tedford's arrival, and after his firing.

tenplay;842295422 said:

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Despite a so-so record for the past 10 years or so, the UW reports the highest increase in home attendance in D1 football with an average attendance of 68,769. Seattle is comparable to the Bay Area in terms of its attractions and competing events. And the weather can be pretty miserable in the fall especially in an outdoor stadium. So the fact that they get so many fans paying premium dollars is surprising. And with the hiring of Peterson, fan enthusiasm should go up even more. How does our attendance compare over the past 10 years especially during the better JT seasons? How can we make attending games more attractive?

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/huskyfootball/2014/03/21/huskies-report-season-ticket-renewal-rate-of-about-85-percent/

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I think there's only one thing that can be done: win.

We were averaging in the 60s under Tedford. With Memorial's new capacity, that's averaging a sellout. If we start winning, the fans will return. If we don't, attendance will continue to go plummet.

Given that the above is true, I really wish the marketing department would give up their delusions of grandeur and quit ****ing with the gameday program. End the piped in music and bring the on-field presentations under control. Yes, I know, vain hopes.

Serious question -- how did our 2013 attendance compare with that of other teams who failed to defeat a single D-1 opponent?

How did it compare with 2008 Washington (0 wins)? Or to 2006 Stanfurd (1-11 -- defeated UW)? These would be more telling comparisons.

You can't compare our attendance the last few seasons with that of respectable football teams. We haven't fielded a respectable product for quite a while now. But my sense is that we probably still had more fans in attendance than when stanfurd or UW failed to field a respectable product.

And just wait for the 2014 figures . . .

Doesn't Seattle also have a super popular soccer team?

Are you talking about the first-half attendance totals of each game, or the second half?

The red people or the blue ones?

Was there a decrease, or increase, as the season went on?

What affect does weather, or interesting game times for TV have?
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Need to WIN this year. No more lame-blame.

Chances are better.

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SonOfCalVa;842295553 said:

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trending down after 2006

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This board has a Bayesian. I like it.

The Duke!;842295601 said:

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Serious question -- how did our 2013 attendance compare with that of other teams who failed to defeat a single D-1 opponent?

How did it compare with 2008 Washington (0 wins)? Or to 2006 Stanfurd (1-11 -- defeated UW)? These would be more telling comparisons.

You can't compare our attendance the last few seasons with that of respectable football teams. We haven't fielded a respectable product for quite a while now. But my sense is that we probably still had more fans in attendance than when stanfurd or UW failed to field a respectable product.

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For comparison, during their 0-12 season in 2008, Washington had 7 home games and averaged 63,640 in attendance. That's comparable to what we achieved in the best of the Tedford years, and a helluva lot better than we've achieved in other years.

During their 1-11 season in 2006, Stanford had 5 home games and averaged 41,742 in attendance. That's a level we're now, unfortunately, approaching at Cal.