The (attendance) numbers don't lie [Ehrlick]

[MrTitleist]

UNLV and SDSU are stadiums not owned by the school, nor reside on the campus of the school. At least, I think that's true about UNLV and whether UNLV owns the stadium.

 

[fromolwyoming]

UNLV and SDSU are stadiums not owned by the school, nor reside on the campus of the school. At least, I think that's true about UNLV and whether UNLV owns the stadium.

UNLV does own Sam Boyd stadium, it's just out in the middle of the desert.

 

[MrTitleist]

Yup, you're right.

 

[whyoh]

I've never been in a college stadium that allowed beer sales.. that didn't seem to steer people away, nor did people need the extra help getting a little twisted.

Sam Boyd Stadium (UNLV) does.

Pretty sure csu does too

 

[COS Cowboy]

The Sheep sell beer too.

 

[Cuttslam]

Here is a link. There is a lot more teams than I thought.http://www.marketplace.org/topics/l...can-selling-beer-help-college-fans-drink-less

 

[Cornpoke]

Plain and simple. We could be the Clemson of the west. Much smaller than Laramie and comparable surrounding populated cities and distances. 80k+ stadium! No excuses. Build the culture and they will come. I grew up in SEC territory, I know how it works.

 

[wyofan4life5]

MSU bobcats didnt even sell out their second home playoff game this year

 

[WyoBrandX]

Serve beer in the stadium. Run a few busses from the remote parking lots around town to save some people some walking time if they want to get drunk at the game. Get cabs running from the remote parking lots to hotels.

If the game isn't sold out 24 hours before, start auctioning off tickets online for cheap - starting at a few bucks a piece. I'm sure that might motivate quite a few people to make the drive when they don't have to pay $40 for a ticket.

Say you have a family of 4 - it will probably cost you $120 to attend a game - just in ticket costs alone. Not very family friendly in that manner.

 

[Bryoming]

There's no way those numbers include scanned student ID's. I buy that those are scanned tickets (with both of mine being at every game, FWIW), but there's no way it counts unpaid student entries.

 

[cowboyz]

Plain and simple. We could be the Clemson of the west. Much smaller than Laramie and comparable surrounding populated cities and distances. 80k+ stadium! No excuses. Build the culture and they will come. I grew up in SEC territory, I know how it works.

Not a perfect example, South Carolina is almost 10 times the population of Wyoming, much better weather and millions within a couple hours drive of Clemson. But you're right, build the culture, win and we'll fill the stadium. Hell, we're not trying to get 80K, just 30k.

 

[Wyovanian]

There's no way those numbers include scanned student ID's. I buy that those are scanned tickets (with both of mine being at every game, FWIW), but there's no way it counts unpaid student entries.

Agreed. There's something missing in those scanned numbers. From where I was at the game, I got to see just about everyone there, even the ones indoors. There was approximately enough people there to fill the east side if you moved everyone to one side. That's about 13,500.