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    Attendance Concerns?

    Actually the drillers have always been well attended or at least since the 90s they had great attendance at the fair grounds.
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    Attendance Concerns?

    We'll see on zero week games, i think staff and administration will be the ones who have an issue with it. Especially with tighting budgets forcing schools to be more flexible in scheduling classes. Otherwise we might end up with schools playing games before classes start. True but i would hope...
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    Attendance Concerns?

    All due respect to Marshall Faulk, but that is two ranked teams. Both of those years have four. 2011 included 3 top ten teams in the first month. Last year was the best conference/division we have ever been in, and a solid New Mexico bowl team, a solid Cinnci, and a solid VT in the bowl game.
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    Attendance Concerns?

    Eh I dont see a lot of zero week games coming, those are often short weeks in the area school system. Also the kids often have an early Friday off when most schools will then play on Thurs night. I agree Thurs are a more sure thing to avoid conflict. But a school off friday of a fall break would...
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    Attendance Concerns?

    I am arguing for an opening home game change. 1) IF we play a FCS team we should play them for the first game. When they are the second home game attendance drops a couple thousand from previous FCS games that were the first game the previous year. 2) No matter who the opponent is we should...
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    Attendance Concerns?

    Junkie, the highest attendance bump trends towards the first game of the season regardless of opponent or day. So if we have an FCS game the opener in terms of attendance should be the first home game, its a 2-3 thousand bump. Weekday nights seem to do better (my theory is those aren't against...
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    Attendance Concerns?

    Junkie: we get some say, though not much, notice my reply was mostly about who we play. However I know non-conference is way more flexible. If I remember correctly we agreed to move the Minn game and got a lil extra cash for it. Mainly my point about the day was the home opener which we...
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    Attendance Concerns?

    That would effect our out area fans I think more. However I will grant that there have been a lot more games on regular tv lately and that may have an effect on our numbers. Its hard to confirm though as both Minn, Boise St, and some well attended Houston games were broadcast (before the AAC...
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    Attendance Concerns?

    Things I immediately noticed when looking at the data. 2011 and 2015 may have been the hardest schedules TU has ever had. While 2011 was mostly non-conference, last year our conference brought the wood. It is definitely a stronger league than anyone we have been in before. I chose 1996 because...
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    Attendance Concerns?

    Numbers that tell the tale: *1996* 4-7 OOC: #19 Iowa (27,800) @OU @Ok St. In conference: #18 BYU 34,600 Colo St (25,000) *1997* 2-9 No ranked opponents OOC: Missouri (40,000) @Iowa @Cinnci In conference two opponents 19,000 $1998$ 4-7 2No ranked opponents OOC: SW Missouri State...
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    Attendance Concerns?

    Actually how big a check we can write is directly related to our stadium size as it relates to revenue. Sorry to poke a giant hole in your theory but OU doesnt play TU for TU, it plays it for its Tulsa Alumni and fans. While OSU is more arguable the same is true for it as well. The reason the...
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    Attendance Concerns?

    Sorry Novocaine and Tutickets but if that was true we would have been near a sell out after our national televised, exciting win over Notre Dame. The truth is downsizing the stadium hurt us on home attendance and made your theory no longer valid. We wont get big name programs into our home...
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    ok magazine athletics/roughnecks/mls article

    Both men and women's programs at tu are brought up as a bridge and anchor for soccer in the region/state. Oru's get an honorable mentio
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    ok magazine athletics/roughnecks/mls article

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