Rupp Arena attendance Friday

Anon1768287303

Sophomore
Jan 13, 2026
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Why would people go? I feel like most will be getting rested for a day of tailgating our winning sport, football.
It's not hard to figure out at all. Different people have different tastes. Some people don't care as much about football as others. They may prefer basketball. It's not a knock on football, just a matter of preference.
 

Ukdaddy98

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Jan 15, 2026
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It will be noticeably low attendance.

I think this is finally the year fans just stop coming to games. The program isn’t elite and hasn’t been for several years now. The product is incredibly boring and many are unhappy with our mediocrity. It’s been building and started with Cal mailing it in the last handful of years but has extended under Pope. This program, the winningest in the history of the sport, is becoming an afterthought.
Barring this team morphing into something unexpectedly awesome, this is the year it shows with the empires.

12-13 k Friday night

at most
 

fisherscatfan

All-Conference
Jan 17, 2010
1,272
2,917
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It’s a Friday night throw away game which means it was easy for people who normally can’t go to buy tickets. Those folks are showing up. The question is will the season ticket holders bail?
 

Blueworld_3.0

Heisman
Sep 23, 2008
14,136
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I haven't watched a game yet this year. Certainly not going to pay to watch in person. FYI, I used to go regularly, attend the SEC-T and when we used to go to FF's I would go. The damage that has been done to UK basketball in the last 8 years is incalculable.
 

moses1uk

All-Conference
Jun 16, 2005
1,217
2,245
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Friday night game hosting Northern Arizona. Coming off an embarrassing 20 point loss. Is the Rupp/general public crowd as down on this team and coach as the rest of us? We may get time half capacity at best.
So you’re not smart to even know most tickets are sold weeks in advance .
 

kfwa

All-Conference
Oct 12, 2014
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given his buyout, I wonder if fan attendance would even play a role in the decision

its not like they don't know the fans are fed up.
 

MegaBlue05

Heisman
Mar 8, 2014
11,263
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They’ll be about 17K there. The upper end zones and corners will be empty. The lower arena will be full.

It will be about the same as most November cupcakes for the last 6-8 years. The people who actually go to games tend to show up in thick and thin and aren’t as fair weather as this board and social media posters in general.
 
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