Will We Eclipse 30,000 in Attendance for Cincy

[BleedsGreen33]

Doc says he's expecting a sellout.

Game 1 vs VMI: 23,875
Game 2 vs OHIO: 27,323

Last time UC came to Huntington 29,237

That game was back in 2008 and we were 3-2 going into that game.

 

[ohio herd]

no way we sell out. We should hit 30,000 if UC brings a few thousand

 

[BleedsGreen33]

no way we sell out. We should hit 30,000 if UC brings a few thousand

I agree. However this ticket office has 10 days to market the heck out of this game. They should be doing everything they can to sell tickets.

Cincy doesn't really have that much cache to have people blowing up the ticket office phones, but they're still a really good team with an above average name recognition.

We should come up with some good package deals.

 

[RhinoD]

No way we sell out... Cincinnati draws well at home but they don't traditionally travel well... That said, the way-to-early weather looks perfect at 84 and sunny.

I will say we get over the 30K mark at 32,789.

 

[The Real SamC]

A little under 30. If you watch the Reds on Fox Sports Ohio, there were ads all summer begging people to buy season tickets, which would have included "name" UCLA and UCF, for a team that was expected to be solid, for prices that would not cover a nice dinner at Outback. That should tell you how many fans it has, let alone those willing to drive three hours, to a part of the country many there look down upon. Parents, girlfriends, and a couple dozen superfans is all they will bring.

We have a team that has looked good, the game is not on real TV (facebook only), two weeks to market, the weather will still be good, 5:00 start means you don't have to devote all day to the venture, and there is really no can't miss "game of the century" on TV (Ohio State @ Nebraska that night is about the best, and this is not much).

I don't think most of the fan base thinks of Cincinnati as a true "step up" game like they did when we played Louisville, or Purdue.

 

[GoHerdMarshallYes]

Attendance is down everywhere.

I heard on SIRIUS when UCLA was playing SDSU...granted, its not a ridiculously big marquee name but a CA school nonetheless...UCLA was offering FOUR free tickets to all season ticket holders.
Basically handing out free tickets...for a bounce back game.
They got maybe 33,000 in UCLA's stadium.

UCLA has 30,000+ undergrads...plus a huge surrounding population in a big city.

MU will probably crack the 30,000 mark and could be close to full if they really market this game.

 

[GoHerdMarshallYes]

A little under 30. If you watch the Reds on Fox Sports Ohio, there were ads all summer begging people to buy season tickets, which would have included "name" UCLA and UCF, for a team that was expected to be solid, for prices that would not cover a nice dinner at Outback. That should tell you how many fans it has, let alone those willing to drive three hours, to a part of the country many there look down upon. Parents, girlfriends, and a couple dozen superfans is all they will bring.

We have a team that has looked good, the game is not on real TV (facebook only), two weeks to market, the weather will still be good, 5:00 start means you don't have to devote all day to the venture, and there is really no can't miss "game of the century" on TV (Ohio State @ Nebraska that night is about the best, and this is not much).

I don't think most of the fan base thinks of Cincinnati as a true "step up" game like they did when we played Louisville, or Purdue.

I gotta be honest...given the complaining about the team prior to...I did not think MU would have the crowd they did when MU last went to UC.
UC will probably travel well. Plenty of WV social connections, alumni, and family.

 

[RhinoD]

At the end of the day, it's our best home opponent of the season on a predicted picture-perfect Saturday evening... If we got 27k for Ohio and their 700 fans. We should be able to do 5k better for Cincinnati.

 

[herdalicious]

Same math always applies: MU maxes out at 28,000 fans. To sell out, you need the opposing team to bring about 10,000 - 12,000 fans to fill in the rest of the stadium. Source: 2007 vs. WVU, 2010 vs. WVU, 2016 vs Louisville

This game isn't going to spin the turnstiles for Marshall, and Cincinnati has little to no traveling fanbase. 28k

 

[BleedsGreen33]

Same math always applies: MU maxes out at 28,000 fans. To sell out, you need the opposing team to bring about 10,000 - 12,000 fans to fill in the rest of the stadium. Source: 2007 vs. WVU, 2010 vs. WVU, 2016 vs Louisville

This game isn't going to spin the turnstiles for Marshall, and Cincinnati has little to no traveling fanbase. 28k

How many did Purdue bring? Just curious.

 

[Dorrej]

Same math always applies: MU maxes out at 28,000 fans. To sell out, you need the opposing team to bring about 10,000 - 12,000 fans to fill in the rest of the stadium. Source: 2007 vs. WVU, 2010 vs. WVU, 2016 vs Louisville

This game isn't going to spin the turnstiles for Marshall, and Cincinnati has little to no traveling fanbase. 28k

I don’t think we’re gonna come close to selling out but this argument is bogus. You’re telling me this has 10,000-12,000 Purdue fans. http://gigapixel.panoramas.com/marshall/football/20150906/

 

[bbneutralfan]

Bleeds you expect the Marshall athletic department to “market the heck” out of the Cincinnati game! I wish they would. Past history is against you. The athletic department should turn all marketing over to the College of Business marketing students period IMO. Surely they could/would do a better job as long as the athletic department approves. JMO

 

[BleedsGreen33]

Highest Attended Games Per Season

Year Total Date Opponent % of Capacity

1991 33,116 9-7-91 New Hampshire 118.27%(JCE Inagural Game)
1992 31,304 12-19-92 Youngstown St $ 104.35%(FCS National Championship)
1993 29,464 9-18-93 Georgia Southern 98.21%
1994 26,036 10-1-94 UTC 86.79%
1995 32,106 12-16-95 Montana $ 100.33%(FCS National Championship)
1996 30,052 12-21-96 Montana $ 93.91% (FCS National Championship)
1997 32,012 11-15-97 OHIO 100.04%
1998 33,204 10-3-98 Miami (OH) 103.76%
1999 30,203 10-14-99 Toldeo 94.38%
2000 30,419 11-11-00 Miami (OH) 80.01%
2001 32,034 9-29-01 BGSU 84.26%
2002 31,042 8-31-02 Appalachian St 81.65%
2003 33,537 10-11-03 Kent St* 88.21% (Homecoming)
2004 30,128 10-23-04 Buffalo* 79.24% (Homecoming)
2005 36,914 9-10-05 Kansas St 97.09%
2006 29,204 10-28-06 Memphis* 76.81% (Homecoming)
2007 40,383 9-8-07 WVU 106.22%
2008 29,237 10-03-08 Cincinnati 76.90%
2009 26,814 10-03-09 ECU* 70.53% (Homecoming)
2010 41,382 9-10-10 WVU 108.85%
2011 34,424 9-24-11 VT 90.54%
2012 33,436 9-15-12 OHIO 87.95%
2013 28,398 10-5-13 UTSA* 74.29% (Homecoming)
2014 31,710 09-13-14 OHIO 82.95%
2015 38,791 09-06-15 Purdue 101.48%
2016 40,592 09-24-16 Louisville 106.19%
2017 26,097 10-14-17 ODU* 68.27% (Homecoming)
2018 32,349 09-22-18 NCST 84.62%

***highlighted games are the sellouts

 

[herdalicious]

I'll stand corrected then, Purdue was an exception.

Hopefully this Saturday we'll be opening the season at home coming off a conference championship against a Big 10 team we were favored to beat.

 

[MarshallManiac]

The crowd should look good on TV but if it hits 30K i'll be surprised.

 

[W-S HerdFan]

I'll stand corrected then, Purdue was an exception.

Hopefully this Saturday we'll be opening the season at home coming off a conference championship against a Big 10 team we were favored to beat.

…….uhhhh, actually we have to go on the road to face B.Y.E. ….hope we don't get caught in their trap!!

 

[BleedsGreen33]

The crowd should look good on TV but if it hits 30K i'll be surprised.

It's a shame that it won't be on TV. Just CBS's Facebook.

 

[herdfan93]

Cincy is averaging around 36500 ~ so I'm thinking they may bring between 3000-4000. If so I'd peg attendance at around 33000~

 

[Denise Esole]

, and there is really no can't miss "game of the century" on TV (Ohio State @ Nebraska that night is about the best, and this is not much).
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#10 vs #19 is a bigger game. There are also
bigger games (#7 vs. #21) in the afternoon that wouldn’t allow somebody to go to the Marshall game.

How about less attempts at being an expert on every topic and more effort on accuracy?

Attendance is down everywhere.

I heard on SIRIUS when UCLA was playing SDSU...granted, its not a ridiculously big marquee name but a CA school nonetheless...UCLA was offering FOUR free tickets to all season ticket holders.
Basically handing out free tickets...for a bounce back game.
They got maybe 33,000 in UCLA's stadium.

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Im not sure if you’re confused or if that was justooorky written. The free tickets were for the Oklahoma vs. UCLA game. It was announced after the SDSU game.

It was done for two reasons:

1) To reward season ticket holders for staying with the program after another bad start to the season. It was a good-will gesture thanking fans and acknowledging that they expect better. Instead of making excuses, they accepted responsibility. Wouldn’t that be nice to hear out of Shewey after one championship in a decade in an awful conference?

2) Texas A&M took over the stadium when they went to UCLA. Not wanting a repeat, UCLA tried getting more of their fans to come to the game against Oklahoma since an analysis showed pre-sales at about a 50/50 split.

 

[GoHerdMarshallYes]

#10 vs #19 is a bigger game. There are also
bigger games (#7 vs. #21) in the afternoon that wouldn’t allow somebody to go to the Marshall game.

How about less attempts at being an expert on every topic and more effort on accuracy?



Im not sure if you’re confused or if that was justooorky written. The free tickets were for the Oklahoma vs. UCLA game. It was announced after the SDSU game.

It was done for two reasons:

1) To reward season ticket holders for staying with the program after another bad start to the season. It was a good-will gesture thanking fans and acknowledging that they expect better. Instead of making excuses, they accepted responsibility. Wouldn’t that be nice to hear out of Shewey after one championship in a decade in an awful conference?

2) Texas A&M took over the stadium when they went to UCLA. Not wanting a repeat, UCLA tried getting more of their fans to come to the game against Oklahoma since an analysis showed pre-sales at about a 50/50 split.

My bad Yags...had some elements mixed up.
If UCLA couldn't generate enough interest for Oklahoma...not sure if anything can save that program at this point.

 

[Name 3123]

My bad Yags...

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Who's Yags?

 

[Herd Insider]

Oh you can get great discounts at Marshall games! It’s very simple. All you have to do is to randomly go to herdzone, click about four to five links to get to “Promotions”, then between 4:00 AM to 6:00 AM on (fill in day), type in cincykellygreenonceandforall in the space provided. Then you will receive an email where you then type in your BG account #, password, ID, your mother’s maiden name, the city your father was born in and hit “send”. You will then be sent a coupon for $2 off the highest priced ticket if you respond within five minutes. See. Easy! SMH!

 

[mlblack16.]

I'll stand corrected then, Purdue was an exception.

Hopefully this Saturday we'll be opening the season at home coming off a conference championship against a Big 10 team we were favored to beat.

Well that's definitely NOT happening.







Cause we don't play this Saturday

 

[mlblack16.]

It's a shame that it won't be on TV. Just CBS's Facebook.

What do you mean CBS's Facebook?

 

[Herdmeister]

What do you mean CBS's Facebook?

Per Herdzone, Stadium Facebook. If you have the Facebook Watch App on your Firestick, it will be there. All 60 inches or so of it.

 

[mlblack16.]

Per Herdzone, Stadium Facebook. If you have the Facebook Watch App on your Firestick, it will be there. All 60 inches or so of it.

Yup, Facebook Watch on Fire stick is good to go. I'm also able to cast my phone screen to my big screen and it's not half bad that way, but then I can't use my phone during the game to participate in "Fire Doc" threads

 

[BleedsGreen33]

Per Herdzone, Stadium Facebook. If you have the Facebook Watch App on your Firestick, it will be there. All 60 inches or so of it.

Yup, Facebook Watch on Fire stick is good to go. I'm also able to cast my phone screen to my big screen and it's not half bad that way, but then I can't use my phone during the game to participate in "Fire Doc" threads

No it doesn't. Herdzone says the following

• THIS GAME WILL BE STREAMED ON CBS SPORTS FACEBOOK.

 

[Herdmeister]

No it doesn't. Herdzone says the following

• THIS GAME WILL BE STREAMED ON CBS SPORTS FACEBOOK.

Earlier it said. Stadium. Either way, Facebook Watch on Fire stick

 

[MarshallManiac]

It's a shame that it won't be on TV. Just CBS's Facebook.

That's true...I should've been more specific. That fact makes it a certainty that it will only be Marshall & UC fans watching...no casual viewers.

 

[The Real SamC]

My bad Yags...had some elements mixed up.
If UCLA couldn't generate enough interest for Oklahoma...not sure if anything can save that program at this point.

Never apologize, or for that matter, respond in any way to the mental defective's posts. Feeding a troll encourages trolling.

 

[BleedsGreen33]

Earlier it said. Stadium. Either way, Facebook Watch on Fire stick

If you have a Roku I believe there's a FB Video app on there too. I also have one on my Samsung tv.

 

[Denise Esbaums]

Never apologize, or for that matter, respond in any way to the mental defective's posts. Feeding a troll encourages trolling.

Nobody takes anything you say seriously, Samantha. Your posts are so void of any reasonability, so full of inaccuracies, and so blatantly biased, that you have been called out by numerous posters within the last couple of weeks for your absurdities.

Stop trying to paint my constant corrections of your posts as trolling. I'm far from the only one who calls out your asinine posts for their numerous lies, and your purposeful ignoring of that and claims that I am the only one who disagrees with you is your only attempt to save face to new posters whom may not be familiar with your bullshit.

 

[Obialo1kanobe]

Nobody takes anything you say seriously, Samantha. Your posts are so void of any reasonability, so full of inaccuracies, and so blatantly biased, that you have been called out by numerous posters within the last couple of weeks for your absurdities.

Stop trying to paint my constant corrections of your posts as trolling. I'm far from the only one who calls out your asinine posts for their numerous lies, and your purposeful ignoring of that and claims that I am the only one who disagrees with you is your only attempt to save face to new posters whom may not be familiar with your bullshit.

His way of hiding with his tail between his legs is to refer to it as feeding the trolls, so he acts like he doesn't need accountability for himself by not responding to trolls.

My question is, I see people booted for being overly sarcastic or having opinions that the mods might not agree with, yet Sammy is allowed to spew lies and nonsense with no repercussion. I would like that explained to me.

 

[ARandomHerdFan]

Never apologize, or for that matter, respond in any way to the mental defective's posts. Feeding a troll encourages trolling.

That’s the same reason I tell folks not to respond to you.

 

[Denise Esbaums]

My question is, I see people booted for being overly sarcastic or having opinions that the mods might not agree with, yet Sammy is allowed to spew lies and nonsense with no repercussion. I would like that explained to me.

You'll be fine as long as you don't mock one of the moderators after he posts your personal information in a thread in which he promised the next person who posts personal information would be banned. Then, when questioning him about violating his own rule, definitely hope that he doesn't say "That didn't count as posting personal information, because I didn't obtain the personal information that I posted about you from the Rivals sign-up process."

If the moderator makes that bogus claim, it leads to everyone laughing at him, mocking him, and calling him a hypocrite. He then will hold a grudge over you for the next two years, try to recruit other moderators to find reasons to ban you on the super-secret Facebook moderator page, and then repeatedly ban your names out of spite and humiliation.

So if none of those things happen, you shouldn't worry about being banned.

 

[Obialo1kanobe]

You'll be fine as long as you don't mock one of the moderators after he posts your personal information in a thread in which he promised the next person who posts personal information would be banned. Then, when questioning him about violating his own rule, definitely hope that he doesn't say "That didn't count as posting personal information, because I didn't obtain the personal information that I posted about you from the Rivals sign-up process."

If the moderator makes that bogus claim, it leads to everyone laughing at him, mocking him, and calling him a hypocrite. He then will hold a grudge over you for the next two years, try to recruit other moderators to find reasons to ban you on the super-secret Facebook moderator page, and then repeatedly ban your names out of spite and humiliation.

So if none of those things happen, you shouldn't worry about being banned.

I actually don't care about being banned, my life will be ok. I frankly think it's childish to ban people unless there are extreme circumstances. I think banning people makes the person who did it look like they have a severe inferiority complex.

That being said, since people do get banned for various reason, I would think posting false information and constantly making Marshall fans look bad would be a reason at the top of their list, yet Sam remains free to roam the fields of fools. I just wanted an explanation.

 

[Pioneer_PA]

Highest Attended Games Per Season

Year Total Date Opponent % of Capacity

1991 33,116 9-7-91 New Hampshire 118.27%(JCE Inagural Game)
1992 31,304 12-19-92 Youngstown St $ 104.35%(FCS National Championship)
1993 29,464 9-18-93 Georgia Southern 98.21%
1994 26,036 10-1-94 UTC 86.79%
1995 32,106 12-16-95 Montana $ 100.33%(FCS National Championship)
1996 30,052 12-21-96 Montana $ 93.91% (FCS National Championship)
1997 32,012 11-15-97 OHIO 100.04%
1998 33,204 10-3-98 Miami (OH) 103.76%
1999 30,203 10-14-99 Toldeo 94.38%
2000 30,419 11-11-00 Miami (OH) 80.01%
2001 32,034 9-29-01 BGSU 84.26%
2002 31,042 8-31-02 Appalachian St 81.65%
2003 33,537 10-11-03 Kent St* 88.21% (Homecoming)
2004 30,128 10-23-04 Buffalo* 79.24% (Homecoming)
2005 36,914 9-10-05 Kansas St 97.09%
2006 29,204 10-28-06 Memphis* 76.81% (Homecoming)
2007 40,383 9-8-07 WVU 106.22%
2008 29,237 10-03-08 Cincinnati 76.90%
2009 26,814 10-03-09 ECU* 70.53% (Homecoming)
2010 41,382 9-10-10 WVU 108.85%
2011 34,424 9-24-11 VT 90.54%
2012 33,436 9-15-12 OHIO 87.95%
2013 28,398 10-5-13 UTSA* 74.29% (Homecoming)
2014 31,710 09-13-14 OHIO 82.95%
2015 38,791 09-06-15 Purdue 101.48%
2016 40,592 09-24-16 Louisville 106.19%
2017 26,097 10-14-17 ODU* 68.27% (Homecoming)
2018 32,349 09-22-18 NCST 84.62%

***highlighted games are the sellouts

Marshall’s seating capacity was 28,000 from 1991-1994, then 30,000 from 1995-1999, then to the current 38,019 from 2000-2012, then to 38,227 from 2013-present. That will change a few of your above numbers.

 

[ohio herd]

Marshall’s seating capacity was 28,000 from 1991-1994, then 30,000 from 1995-1999, then to the current 38,019 from 2000-2012, then to 38,227 from 2013-present. That will change a few of your above numbers.

I think he based those numbers on the seating capacity when the games were played

 

[Pioneer_PA]

I think he based those numbers on the seating capacity when the games were played

The percentage of capacity doesn’t match up.

 

[Ninegate]

That’s the same reason I tell folks not to respond to you.

Thank you.....the ultimate Troll. Sammy C. Throwing out the chum like Chief Brody.