our attendance is fourth in a nine team league. ruston (and moscow, idaho) are by far the two smallest towns in the league, so our per capita attendance is strong. and it coud be better with that schedule next year. we are slowly getting there.
Boise St-23,240; Hawaii-21,263; NMSt-20,773; Nicholls St-19,400; SJSU-15,324: Total 100,000, Avg 20,000. The even # of 100,000 is just one of those odd happenings. These stats came from each post game stats page.
http://www.latechsports.com/sports/m...otbl-2009.html
Like I said, I'll take that all day long!
And you know what DWAYNE??? TECH INCREASED ATTENDANCE BY 10.89% which killed every other university in the WAC. And that's during a "recession" in population poor N.Louisiana. EVERY OTHER WAC team actually LOST ATTENDANCE except BSU which gained by 1.5%.
http://www.obnug.com/2010/2/23/13227...es-plateau-for
LOUISIANA TECH WINS AGAIN!! We have a long way to go but we are growing in numbers and folks that care and want to be in Ruston on a Thur., Friday or Saturday and make it the "place to be" and that's what matters, even in the accounting field.
Last edited by TYLERTECHSAS; 03-21-2010 at 10:27 PM.
I bet they sold some corportate advertising and with each contract, they provided 500 or more tickets to each home contest. Throw in ten deals with Cox, Chase Bank, etc... and then you have 5,000 or so empty seats with the number being inflated by that same number as it will be listed as "tickets distributed/sold".
All good points. And if you consider that there are only 11k students at Tech and the city's population is only about 21k, an average of 20k in attendance with all the televised games we had last season is not too bad. I think we are on the right track and this year will be even better. I just hope Sonny is as good at getting fans to the games as Dooley was.
This year, we don't have any mid-week games or much TV to compete with either, so our attendance should be even better. What'd really make me happy is if our team is doing well enough that people actually come to that Nevada game at the end of the season, instead of us having that huge drop-off in attendance that we usually have then.