11-27-2018, 09:02 AM
(11-27-2018, 07:39 AM)needle Wrote: I haven't been to any home games, but the numbers say that attendance at Stanford Stadium has gone very quickly from OK to borderline awful:
2016 home attendance
Kansas State - 46,147 - Sept. 2
USC - 48,763 - Sept. 17
Wash. State - 50,424 - Oct. 8
Colorado - 44,535 - Oct. 22 (Homecoming)
Oregon State - 38,813 - Nov. 5
Rice - 36,171 - Nov. 26
2018 home attendance
San Diego State - 40,913 - Aug. 31
USC - 42,856 - Sept. 8
UC Davis - 31,772 - Sept. 15
Utah - 37,244 - Oct. 6
Washington State - 39,596 - Oct. 27
Oregon State - 34,671 - Nov. 10 (Homecoming)
Numbers from Wikipedia, so please correct if there are any errors.
I chose 2016 to highlight the decreasing attendance when the opponent is the same. 2017 numbers were much better with Kal, UCLA, Oregon (a surprisingly big draw with 48.5 K in attendance) and ND at home.
Scary stuff if you're an AD, and I'm sure this has some effect on recruiting as well.
FYI, the Washington State game this year was Homecoming, not Oregon State. Still a 5K drop from Homecoming 2016 vs. Colorado, of course.