First game in 2010 attendance predictions
Q21: What will the new capacity be once the project is completed?
The current seating capacity of the stadium is 107,501. The expansion will add 80+ suites and 3,000+ club seats. Though widening seats and aisles and adding seating for mobility impaired fans will result in the loss of some seats, the stadium capacity is projected to exceed 108,000 when the project is completed.
The all-time record is 112,118 vs tUOS in 2003. Behind that is 111,726 in 2003 vs ND.
We are losing seats due to widening seats, but can't suites bring in as many people as they want?
Have our band bring sit on the sidelines to bring X amount more people.
Says we'll exceed 108,000 but maybe it can exceed 109,000 and therefore get the total attendance over 113,000.
210,000.
OVER 9000!
...seriously, it'll be way over nine thousand...
what, 9000?!
I really have no idea how many will be there. It depends on who we play, the weather, and how well we do this year.
That being said I will guess 112,500.
Weather isn't a factor. College football teams calculate the attendance by taking all the tickets sold and adding the invited guests (media, band, players/coaches, etc). That's how we had a crowd "in excess of 100,000" for last year's Northwestern game. There were maybe 80,000 actually present at the game. (And for '95 Purdue, there weren't even that many - maybe 60K.)
I was at the purdue game when it was 5-0. There was NOONE there. I remember we got that safety from a slip in the endzone by the punter I believe.
Michigan calculates attendance based on turnstile clicks plus pass holders.
There were in fact more than 100,000 at the Northwestern game last year. But due to the weather, there were never more than 80k or so in the stands at any one time. Most were huddling under the eaves or one of the 10k staying in the bathroom.
I was there for 1995 Purdue. There were over 100k who went through the turnstiles. However, like the NW game of 2008, most fans either left early when it really started getting colder and the freezing rain and snow picked up or took refuge away from their seats. 60k is simply ridiculous. That game has reached the epic proportions of walking to school barefoot in the snow uphill both ways. And considering that it seems as if at least 220k M fans were in attendance at that game, 60k surely seems silly.
Michigan calculates attendance based on turnstile clicks plus pass holders.
Incorrect. We use the paid attendance, just like everyone else. Look it up if you don't believe me. There was a mini-outcry a few years back when the AD admitted it. We actually stopped using turnstile clicks in our official attendance count sometime back in the '80s.
I was there for 1995 Purdue. There were over 100k who went through the turnstiles.
If you honestly believe that 100,000 fans were in attendance that day, I think you've got the game mixed up with a different one. We've had bad weather for Purdue a few times (in '99, it rained pretty hard as well, and PU receivers couldn't catch anything), but '95 was on a completely different level. The stands were maybe 60% full at kickoff, and well under 50% in the second half. Huge numbers of people left at halftime. I vowed to stay to the bitter end, but late in the third quarter I couldn't stay any longer, either.
102,372.5
There will be one casualty at halftime causing the attendance to drop by .5.
Do midget or little people count as a whole person?
I'm only allowed to let in five percent black people. That means if there's 25 people here I get to let in one and a quarter black people. So I gotta hope there's a black midget in the crowd.
My wife is only 4'10" so does she count as only .5? If so, why do I have to pay full price for her ticket?
109,278.
On the dot.
and we could break 150,000*.
*not quite sure how many people Crisler holds
We should hold the spring game at MIS it can hold 137,000
MIS holds like 400,000!
show it in Crisler....and yost
108,436. Boom; Roasted.
I think we will have alot of people to come and check out the new look of the stadium but I don't think we will have enough of a marquee match up like the rivalry games of ND or OSU that are needed to break the attendance records.
all i know is that 2008 northwestern was the fucking coldest that i have ever been or remember being in my life. that stands were about 30% full and only the most hardcore of students were in the student section
I was one of them. It was absolutely fucking horrible.
Then I walked home. My home is next to Briarwood Mall.
one of the worst days ever
The attendance record will likely stand in perpetuity for one simple reason: The Athletic Department no longer puts the band on the field. When you look at the games for which records were set, it's often Notre Dame or Ohio State. Besides those games being huge games, before 2006 it meant the AD sold the seats the band normally sat in. That means there's a 400-person visiting band on the field level AND 400+ MMB folks on the field as well, and those 400 tickets then got sold. That's a pretty sizable swing. And the difference between, say, 111,700 and 112,100.
Do the visitors get to bring their full band?
I'll go low estimate : 102,123