I was on the road, so was not able to update the attendance tracker until this morning.
4,032 attended the game against Tulsa. This was our 4th game of the season with at least 4K in attendance and 3rd game in a row with greater than four thousand in attendance. We are still well below last year with a deficit of 716 or 17.45% on average over the 14 home games so far this season. Two more home games (one more than last year) to go. By the accounts I read, the Mavs night was a success, so kudos to the AD for pulling that off.
There seems to be some on-going chatter in the social media circles about college basketball attendance, the AAC attendance and our attendance in particular. The general theme is we're down, but so is everyone else that's not a blue blood, so it's all good. Personally, I don't subscribe to that perspective. There's an old saying that goes something like, that which ceases to grow, soon withers and dies. I don't think anyone is expecting 10,000 people to all of a sudden fill the Super Pit, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect some year-over-year percentage growth in attendance as a measuring stick for the performance of the AD, especially given the recent success of the team and the growth in overall university enrollment.
From the 22-23 season to the 23-24 season, we saw a 10.1% increase in average attendance. A good portion of that was helped by the 7,239 that showed up for the SMU game. We didn't have one of those this year. So, another 10% growth this year wasn't going to be in the cards, but is 1, 2, 3 or 5% YoY growth too much to ask for? We can't grow for ever and would plateau at some point, but I think better OOC scheduling this year and consistent promotion (especially during our annual lull period), would have gone a long way of at least holding serve compared to last year instead of the drop-off we are witnessing. My 2 cents.
Ladies are playing Yale this morning at UTA at 10am. This is Yale's first game of their season.
Game started 0-0 until the bottom of the 3rd, when NT warmed up the bats.
Now 10-0 after 3.
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