01-13-2017, 01:49 PM
Write Muir. CC everyone in ticket office. The tone-deafness is unacceptable. Instead of taking careful steps to fix attendance, they soaking you and other consistent ticket-holders for the ultimate want/get ($$$). Talk about putting the cart before the horse.
Let's not mince words: Empty seats are one of the biggest internal threats to Stanford football.
The new stadium was not supposed to decrease supply AND DEMAND of seats. But that's what's happened, despite Shaw's incredible run of success.
When Homecoming 2015 at Stanford Stadium looks pretty much identical to Homecoming 2007, there's a problem.
When you can't sell out the USC game (48k last year, officially) there's a problem.
When a you experience a giant difference in attendance from odd-numbered years (UCLA, UW, Oregon, Cal, Notre Dame and all their fans) to even-numbered ones (lesser marquee opponents), there's a problem.
Stanford's 2012 and 2016 featured November tilts against Oregon State. Both games kicked off at 12:30 p.m. Coming in, the 2012 team (7-2) had one fewer loss -- and three fewer recent Rose Bowl trips to its name -- than the 2016 version. Yet, attendance dropped from 47,127 to this year's "official" tally of 38,818.
These are first world, as top-tier of college football, problems. But they need addressing.
Let's not mince words: Empty seats are one of the biggest internal threats to Stanford football.
The new stadium was not supposed to decrease supply AND DEMAND of seats. But that's what's happened, despite Shaw's incredible run of success.
When Homecoming 2015 at Stanford Stadium looks pretty much identical to Homecoming 2007, there's a problem.
When you can't sell out the USC game (48k last year, officially) there's a problem.
When a you experience a giant difference in attendance from odd-numbered years (UCLA, UW, Oregon, Cal, Notre Dame and all their fans) to even-numbered ones (lesser marquee opponents), there's a problem.
Stanford's 2012 and 2016 featured November tilts against Oregon State. Both games kicked off at 12:30 p.m. Coming in, the 2012 team (7-2) had one fewer loss -- and three fewer recent Rose Bowl trips to its name -- than the 2016 version. Yet, attendance dropped from 47,127 to this year's "official" tally of 38,818.
These are first world, as top-tier of college football, problems. But they need addressing.
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Khalil Wilkes' fumble recovery against Oregon in 2012 is the greatest Stanford play nobody talks about.