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Deep Creek
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What the hell. It is the off season. Seems like TV revenue is going up while butts in seats are going down. Question is...What can be done to get their butts back in the seats?
College football must innovate as FBS attendance dips for sixth straight year to lowest since 1996
Here are a few tidbits from the article.
College football must innovate as FBS attendance dips for sixth straight year to lowest since 1996
Here are a few tidbits from the article.
- In 2019, college football attendance hit a 24-year low according to the NCAA's official numbers. The FBS average of 41,477 per game is the game's lowest since 1996.
- The dichotomy is maddening. TV ratings continue to soar because it is increasingly easier to stay home. College football is the nation's second-most popular sport. But its attractiveness as a live event is slipping.
- Rutgers attendance is down 40 percent since joining the Big Ten in 2014. The addition of Maryland and Rutgers, though, added more media rights revenue.
- Then there one is one great attendance mysteries of the universe: Kansas led the country last season in attendance increase. The downtrodden Jayhawks averaged an increase of 14,451 per game -- from 19,424 in 2018 to 33,875.
- The moving target that are those key demographics increasingly aren't putting up with mediocre opponents. Del Conte noticed it last season when more than 110,000 fans crammed their way into Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium to watch the showdown with LSU. Del Conte said there was $2.5 million in concession revenue alone that day.