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It's that time of year again.  For those of us interested in this kind of stuff, here's this season's attendance tracker.  The chart is starting to get a bit unwieldy, but I'll probably stick with this for the season.

At 3,451, somewhat disappointing on the attendance front as we experienced our lowest season-opener attendance number over the last 4 seasons and down 964 compared to the UNI game last year.  We have some ballers on this team and they are going to be fun to watch as they come together as a group.  Get to the Pit to see for yourself and GMG!

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1 hour ago, keith said:

It's that time of year again.  For those of us interested in this kind of stuff, here's this season's attendance tracker.  The chart is starting to get a bit unwieldy, but I'll probably stick with this for the season.

At 3,451, somewhat disappointing on the attendance front as we experienced our lowest season-opener attendance number over the last 4 seasons and down 964 compared to the UNI game last year.  We have some ballers on this team and they are going to be fun to watch as they come together as a group.  Get to the Pit to see for yourself and GMG!

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Thanks for doing this. It is appreciated!

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1 hour ago, CMJ said:

Not really a surprise given we were going against election night though.

Yes, there were only 11 Division I men's games scheduled last night for a reason.

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I'm excited and worried to see what attendance will look like this year. Home opener on Election Night gets an expected low result. A lot of games over the Break, including one the Monday of Thanksgiving Week and only two Saturday games all year. I'm curious what Game 2 will look like tomorrow against NAIA Wayland Baptist. Doesn't seem like there's been much marketing for basketball yet.

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As @Matt from A700 reported, 3,235 for Wayland Baptist.  Sure, it's a tough draw, but after two games in we are trending in the wrong direction and below last year's first two games against UNI and Omaha by a total of 1,262 or 631 attendees per game.

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Those games are tough drives on weeknights just to see meaningless opponents.   Tipoff on a Thursday night at 8:10pm, after the women's game, means getting home after 11:30 pm before a school/work day for many.   I know it's all just excuses for out of towners.  I was disappointed in the student turnout.

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On 11/8/2024 at 6:42 PM, NT80 said:

Those games are tough drives on weeknights just to see meaningless opponents.   Tipoff on a Thursday night at 8:10pm, after the women's game, means getting home after 11:30 pm before a school/work day for many.   I know it's all just excuses for out of towners.  I was disappointed in the student turnout.

Doesn't seem like there's been much marketing for anything since the Wyoming FB game to be honest.

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Not much to say other than hopefully we've found the bottom (attendance-wise and you know).  Regardless of who the opponent is, 2,690 is not good.  We still have our head above a 3K average, but not by a lot.  Second game in a row with fewer fans than the previous game.  Have the students already left for Thanksgiving break?  Texas Wesleyan was a tougher test than expected.  Are they better than people thought or.....?  Will fans come out for Oregon State?  We'll see.

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We are starting to cut into the deficit created by the first game compared to last year.  Now only down 8.72% in terms of average attendance.  Last night was the highest game 4 attendance of the last four years, but to be honest, I was a little disappointed it was only 3,292 for a "name" opponent (yes, even during Thanksgiving week).  November 25 was our earliest game 4, but a much stronger opponent.  The previous 3 years it was 12/4 (LSU Shreveport), 12/3 (Omaha) and 12/2 (Miss Valley State) respectively.  

I mentioned this during the in-game thread, but the ESPN+ broadcast sounds like the commentators are off site in a soundproof room or something.  Not hearing the crowd noise and the excitement in the arena really detracts from the game experience.  Need a better audio production.  I switched to the radio stream and it was much better from that perspective.  

 

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27 minutes ago, CMJ said:

I was hoping for a bigger crowd too honestly, but unfortunately it also wasn't much of a surprise we only had about 3300.

Well our perpetually underperforming football team gets all the promotion and human resources thrown at it while season is still underway, even when they don’t deserve it.

We didn’t promote this game heavily at all which is a shame. My oldest is going on a Denton ISD field trip for a women’s game next week which should be fun, but thought this was a missed opportunity to do a targeted promotion to families on Thanksgiving break, along with like a Denton Chamber Mixer pregame or something along those lines. Target the community with a great offer to see a quality opponent people have heard of since you know it’s going to be light on students. 

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1 hour ago, Green Lantern said:

thought this was a missed opportunity to do a targeted promotion to families on Thanksgiving break

This is a good point.  We live an hour away, so weeknight games are tough to get to.  We went last night because we’re on Thanksgiving break. Next time…

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