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Post by reevo on Oct 18, 2018 15:11:40 GMT -6
For debate:
NIU needed to buy back $273,619 worth of tickets to hit NCAA attendance requirements College football is a great sport but, while everybody is playing the same game between the lines, what happens off the field is hardly a bastion of equality. For every time Michigan packs the Big House or Alabama sells out Bryant Denny Stadium, there are other schools — chiefly at the Group of Five level, but not always — who are just struggling to get by in the booming business college athletics has become. Which leads us to another form of #MACtion that is far less exciting than the midweek games you’re used to seeing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays: buying tickets to meet NCAA attendance minimums. As detailed by student newspaper Northern Star, Northern Illinois announced their home attendance for the 2017 season at 67,748, but an audit obtained by the paper showed that scanned tickets totaled only 44,084 in the same time period. With six home games, that latter figure would have put the school below the NCAA’s FBS attendance threshold of 15,000 per home game. The end result? NIU had to purchase 56,345 tickets for a whopping $273,619 in order to comply with the regulations and hit the minimum number of paid tickets for each home game. “I’d garner if you did research on [on ticket buy backs], you would probably find 100 percent ratio where schools our size or in our conference do something similar to what we do,” athletic director Sean Frazier said.
Man, not sure D-1 football is worth this crap.
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Post by cardfan on Oct 18, 2018 15:25:30 GMT -6
And niu was in a BCs bowl just a few years ago. It did.... nothing... for that program, apparently.
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Post by 00hmh on Oct 18, 2018 16:27:33 GMT -6
Another reason to somehow get the tailgaters through turnstiles.
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Post by david75bsu on Oct 18, 2018 17:41:12 GMT -6
Another reason to somehow get the tailgaters through turnstiles. No, another reason to play at the 1AA level.
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Post by bsu0 on Oct 18, 2018 19:15:43 GMT -6
I hate to read that kind of talk but I am afraid it's coming to that eventually.
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Post by universityjim on Oct 18, 2018 20:05:46 GMT -6
I think it's a reason for the NCAA to drop attendance requirements. The game is played on the field not in the stands.
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Post by lmills72 on Oct 18, 2018 20:44:50 GMT -6
Well, if the game was just football, sure. But the game is also money, and in that respect ticket sales and TV viewership float a lotta folks boats.
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Post by calpoly on Oct 19, 2018 7:55:57 GMT -6
I think it's a reason for the NCAA to drop attendance requirements. The game is played on the field not in the stands. I thought the requirements were dropped??
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Post by universityjim on Oct 19, 2018 7:57:16 GMT -6
I think it's a reason for the NCAA to drop attendance requirements. The game is played on the field not in the stands. I thought the requirements were dropped?? I thought they were too, but this thread is suggesting otherwise.
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Post by DickHunsaker on Oct 19, 2018 8:06:29 GMT -6
I don't think we've hit the minimum since 2013
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Post by universityjim on Oct 19, 2018 8:25:44 GMT -6
It still exists in the 2018-2019 NCAA Bylaws
20.9.9.3 Football-Attendance Requirements. [FBS] Once every two years on a rolling basis, the institution shall average at least 15,000 in actual or paid attendance for all home football games. (Revised: 4/25/02 effective 8/1/04, 4/28/05 effective 8/1/05)
We were 7000+ in 2016 and 9000+ in 2017. I don't know what waiver we get but their must be something.
Attendance at NCAA football games is dropping like a rock, not just here. Maybe we could get Nick Saban to go after out students about their attendance at home football games.
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Oct 19, 2018 8:47:11 GMT -6
Why go to a game when you can watch it at home in comfort, with no tailgate restrictions, getting as drunk and as obnoxious as you want?
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Post by universityjim on Oct 19, 2018 8:56:40 GMT -6
Watching on TV can not compare to the experience of attending in person. Especially on mid-week November games when it is 35 degrees and raining.
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Post by redbirdman on Oct 19, 2018 9:46:27 GMT -6
The Best thing the MAC could do for us fans is limit the playing on ESPN to only 2 games a wk x 6 which means 12 games. Your on TV twice once @ home & once on the road. Schools attendence & the communities benefit from the weekend games. It also should be enough to keep the dollar amount from ESPN.
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Post by cedarpointer on Oct 19, 2018 11:04:15 GMT -6
I'm for the conference going to FCS. It's a level playing field. There is no opportunity at this level especially after what happened to UCF. Too many hands in the pockets and will only get worse once they legalize sports betting on a larger scale.
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