Listen the younger folks complain about the students

Who's embarrassed by attendance?

The Marksman said:

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I think it's embarrassing to have 75% attendance for the #8 team in the country and you don't agree, that's fine

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^ This! Our 4 seats are filled every game!

VedderAg said:

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But I was told on the Georgia game thread that our attendance was bad and was better during the Gillespie and Turgeon years.

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the attendance appears almost on par with the best years of coaches we had who left us for schools more rabid about basketball

PhillipGarrett91 said:

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I think part of the problem is the number getting turned away for big games. Waiting outside just to be told at the gate that there's no room has gotta discourage students from coming in the future

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I was very disappointed in the turnout Saturday but this is a big problem that hasn't been addressed in almost a decade.

When we played Ben Simmons' LSU team when I was in school, hundreds, if not thousands, of students were turned away and many I knew just didn't want to commit to coming the rest of that season.

Seems like some sort of a distribution of student seats should happen a week beforehand so no one gets turned away on game day and if all the seats aren't spoken for sell them on the open market. There were at least 1000 unfilled seats on2nd deck east side ga section yesterday and at least a few hundred on the west side.

Seems like making students pay a cursory fee ($5-10) for committing to a seat a week in advance would yield better usage and then you could make them transferable for last minute changes in plans. Anything not sold a week before the game goes on sale to the general public - presumably for a bit higher price

That would be a good compromise between maintaining availability for students , eliminating people getting turned away, and optimizing attendance and revenue.

turge is not impressed

So you think that making students pay for tickets instead of going for free with a sports pass would incentivize them to come? I don't think it would work like that haha

No, i think that making them pay a nominal fee a week in advance to commit to coming to games would help with 2 other things including 1) would solve the getting turned away at the gate problem, 2) would allow uncommitted seats to be sold to non-students who want to come to the game .

If students don't want to come that's fine , don't pay and don't come . It could theoretically help with attendance and revenue by opening up unused seats. To me the athletic dept should be trying to optimize overall attendance and revenue .

There is also an argument to be made that the Athletic Dept should do a better job at marketing the games to the students but I'd argue someone that really is interested knows about the games.

If the students were consistently filling up the GA seats that they get with their sports passes then there's no problem to solve other than the getting turned away at the gate problem. They aren't.

Another way to solve the problem is reduce the number of seats set aside for students with sports passes and just sell those seats on the open market. I don't really think that's better than what I proposed . It's probably less complicated tho.

amateur gene ecologist said:

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But all the old people wanted to complain about the students not showing up! What will they do with their time now?

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My only complaint is not having students on the side behind the teams vs a bunch of olds and their grandkids sitting on their asses. And I'm an old, but not that old.