Bad Sign for 100,000 Streak
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:12 PM ^
?? They already sold 100k and they count paid attendance. Where's the threat?
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November 22nd, 2014 at 12:20 PM ^
Are you sure announced attendance is based on ticket sales? I've seen a lot of people on here say that but I'm not sure what the origin of that idea is.
I'm not going because I'm fairly sick (and I don't want to be sick over Thanksgiving due to being out in the wet and cold) but I'm going to make sure my ticket is scanned anyway.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:27 PM ^
All pro and college sports teams count tickets sold as "attendance". This is how the Pistons averaged 15,000 fans per game last season when anyone who went to games knew it was barely half that in the stands.
The only thing different about college football is that they also allow schools to count everyone in the press box and on the field, which is how you get above-capacity numbers a lot of times.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:11 PM ^
This is correct.
No threat, they'll get 100,000.
I wonder what the "add-in" is at Michigan. The "add-in" is the start number you have before one fan enters the stadium. It includes everyone from the players to media to concessions to housekeepers.
In all college sports you count these people, but for the smaller sports you can literally count them. For football and men's basketball (and probably hockey and women's basketball at UM), you have an "add in" number.
Take your add in number and add it to your number of ticket sales and you get your game attendance.
This is why women's basketball attendance can get ridiculous at some schools. There's more team personnel and support staff than actual fans in the stands at a lot of places.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:16 PM ^
The Purdue game in 94 or 95 had weather far worse than today. The stadium was barely half full. The announced attendance was over 100k. I think I and still trying to get warm from that game. It f'ing sucked it was so cold and wet and windy. The wind was blowing like snot.
Thanks for making me remember that as I get ready for threats suck fest.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
The way Michigan counts it's a "heads I win - tails you lose" accounting.
Buy a ticket but don't show up? YOU COUNT AS ATTENDING!
Don't have a ticket but get into stadium anyways (like the high school band members today)?
YOU COUNT AS ATTENDING!
Kinda hard to ever see the streak ever getting broken when you play both sides against the middle.
November 22nd, 2014 at 3:23 PM ^
Talk about a loose definition. In sports you an attend or not attend and still attend!
attend |əˈtend|
verb
1 [ with obj. ] be present at (an event, meeting, or function)
Long live the streak!!!
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:12 PM ^
They count tickets sold so it doesn't mean much.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:18 PM ^
If only two fans are in the stadium then it would seem to mean much
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:14 PM ^
My kids elementary school was giving away free tickets on Friday...
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:56 PM ^
I assume that deal was that they got the free tickets as long as the kids purchased two chocolate milks first...
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:17 PM ^
I was offered free tickets by three different people (one was for seats right above the tunnel). I live less than 35 miles from a2 and have a friend who lives one block from the stadium.
I chose to stay home and watch Dora with the kids.
Even two years ago this is an unthinkable decision. I mean -- I used to block off every home game and head to a2 for the whole day regardless of the weather.
I am clearly not alone. I really really hope next year rekindles our collective passion for the once solemn home game Saturday.
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November 22nd, 2014 at 12:21 PM ^
*SPOILER ALERT*
- Swiper gets admonished for pilfering.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:29 PM ^
Why'd you have to go and do that, pendejo?
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:34 PM ^
Also...
Backpack has a lot of things.
Dora and team do it. They did it! They did it!
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November 22nd, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
*SPOILER ALERT*
Hoke gets fired at end of the year
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:53 PM ^
Look out for the grumpy old troll who lives under the bridge
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November 22nd, 2014 at 12:17 PM ^
a lot of people will show up closer to game time
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:33 PM ^
How much?
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:20 PM ^
Everyone is waiting for the Quick Lane Bowl to show up in numbers. Trust me.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:23 PM ^
around the state. Easy decisions to stay home I think.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:27 PM ^
For the 100,000 time they count ticket sales as attendece
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November 22nd, 2014 at 12:51 PM ^
Wait... I have a question... how is attendance determined?
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
I just sold my two sideline tickets (with seat cushions) for $2.70 each on StubHub. I was really hoping to attend and support the seniors but my wife said no because of the icy roads and otherwise miserable conditions.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:58 PM ^
to moving back from the Bay area? Just checking.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:32 PM ^
so that's 1....
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:32 PM ^
Drove by Pioneer on my way to my daughters bball game and that lot was barren. Both golf courses had hardly any tailgaters. Gonna be a lot of open seats today.
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November 22nd, 2014 at 12:48 PM ^
Honestly, I've never understood why people pay that much to park there.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:00 PM ^
As long as someone can walk any distance, you can just park on the other side of the Pioneer Woods on the street for free. And it's easier to get out and home after the game. My wife and I do that every game and save several hundred a year. There are also some places where you can tailgate.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:13 PM ^
I concur with both comments. However, given that both places are typically packed on game days but aren't today - a day where a "reasonable" person might want to park closer to the stadium - I think the stadium is gonna have a lot of empty seats. Unless of course everyone decided today was the day they were going to park further away and get their pre-Thanksgiving cardio workout in.
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November 22nd, 2014 at 12:34 PM ^
in my life that I have had tickets to a Michigan game and will not be attending. No one else wanted to go with me and I am not driving 2 hours to watch this game in that weather.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:42 PM ^
"thank you for being part of the largest crowd to be watching a football game today. today's attendance is xxx,xxx". Something close to that is announced during the fourth quarter.
EDIT: I think it's horseshit if they count all the tickets sold and not the number of people who actually attended.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:50 PM ^
The "Largest crowd watching a football game anywhere in America today" part isn't always said anymore. They've become more judicious about that.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:07 PM ^
Michigan isn't alone in this one. All schools count attendance by tickets sold and staff members at the game
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November 22nd, 2014 at 12:40 PM ^
Red wings always announce sold out game but empty seats in lower bowl always. Upper bowl is full. Upper bowl is where it's at!
November 22nd, 2014 at 2:56 PM ^
is that where they keep both of the turn tables and the microphone?
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:43 PM ^
Heading over right now. I94 is totally fine. People are just pansies.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:46 PM ^
When MGoBlog has literally dozens of unique posters talking about eating multiple seats, rumors of free tickets being handed out like it's a Detroit Rockers game in 1993, the students probably not putting up with freezing rain, thousands and thousands of seats left on the secondary market, thousands left from Athletics...
This just isn't going to look good. Just end the streak already if this is going to be laughably underattended. I know, I know, 100k sold and everything, but... There's not going to be any way to spin it this time, methinks.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:59 PM ^
The 100,000 streak is what's great about Michigan. It's paid attendance like 90 percent of other colleges report. There's probably 55K at MSU's game today and they'll report something like 72K.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:22 PM ^
But what is the real value of selling 100,000 tickets if they are practically being given away? If we paid fans to sit in the stadium would that be great also?
November 22nd, 2014 at 2:17 PM ^
I'm getting the sense you COULDN'T pay people to go today. I'm recording it and taking my kid to a movie. SAD, but I have high hopes for the movie ;-)
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:29 PM ^
It's a streak. Nothing more, nothing less. I'd argue that what's great about Michigan is being able to draw 100,000 without fudging the numbers, and we're not really doing a good job of that right now. Ergo, no more streak.
I couldn't care less about what Sparty does today--they've been half-selling their stadium for decades.
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:02 PM ^
They announced the attendance earier this year and almost got laughed out of the stadium.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:49 PM ^
Also, someone want to explain just what the hell this means? Maybe not the best day for Athletics to unveil some stupid promotion.
November 22nd, 2014 at 12:52 PM ^
"Novelis Inc. is an American industrial aluminum company, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States Novelis is a leading producer of rolled aluminum and the global leader in beverage can recycling."
I mean is that some serious brand synergy or what?
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:26 PM ^
Rolled aluminum? As in industrial smoothing? Mr. Kruger?
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:44 PM ^
Well, what do you expect the fans to do with the empty cans of Coke they got with their free UM tickets?
November 22nd, 2014 at 1:04 PM ^
Damn.
Just wow.