(10-14-2021, 10:16 AM)CTcard Wrote:(10-13-2021, 02:56 PM)Snorlax94 Wrote: I don't think this article necessarily applies to Stanford -- if this held true, the Pac-12 (the most evenly matched Power 5 conference where teams beat each other up every year) would have the highest attendance of the Power 5, but it has the lowest.
While it is hard to divine exactly what this study claimed to measure from the press article, it seems it is more along the lines of a given team will have higher attendance for games where the outcome is uncertain, not necessarily useful for a team to team comparison.
And, most years the Pac 12 has been 4th among Power 5 conferences in attendance, ahead of the ACC. That seems to be slipping lately and the Pac 12 was behind the ACC in 2018 and 2019.
(10-13-2021, 02:19 PM)Mick Wrote: I don't enjoy any game where I can leave at the end of the first quarter and know the outcome.
Well, I really enjoyed the 2016 Rose Bowl.
Yup, so did lot of us. 2015 was really the last great season. 2017 was good (not great). Even the 2015 Northwestern game wasn't a total downer: I was at the Mauna Kea Hotel at the time--not bad circumstances to watch a downer game at O-dark-thirty. In the years since then, it's been a challenge to get accustomed to a modest apartment after enjoying years in a penthouse suite. Once you've been to the mountain top...
I just wish I had more confidence in Shaw replenishing what he inherited. The evidence is, shall we say, discouraging.
Life is too short to waste on crap football.