10-30-2012, 04:29 PM
There are a lot of season ticket holders that likely were not going to show up for Washington State even if the Giants were not in the World Series.
Stanford has very few undergrad alums living in the immediate area, so the Stanford AD relies upon locals fond of football to fill the house. It is a very tough challenge. Wazzu vs Stanford is just not going to be a big enough draw even for those that have purchased season tickets. It was an easy miss for a casual fan or for people with low cost family plan tickets and there was no real hope of a walk up crowd.
The stadium holds ~50K. The AD says it sold ~40K for the game. I would guess that there were 20,000 people in the stands, and that is probably too generous. The student section had empty sections, the GA areas were wide open, and the corners were empty. And there were quite a number of empty seats on the shady sideline too.
Oregon State historically is also not a game that all season ticket holders plan to attend, so it will be interesting to see what happens on November 10th.
My guess is that the AD will announce attendance of 43K. I would also guess 30,000 will actually appear and that will include 4,000 Beaver fans. If the Beavers had won in Seattle then I would have guessed sales of 47K or even 48K fueled by Beaver fans driving down to see their top 10 team's last big challenge before the Ducks.
My guess is the next sellout at Stanford Stadium will be on Nov 30th, 2012. ;)
Stanford has very few undergrad alums living in the immediate area, so the Stanford AD relies upon locals fond of football to fill the house. It is a very tough challenge. Wazzu vs Stanford is just not going to be a big enough draw even for those that have purchased season tickets. It was an easy miss for a casual fan or for people with low cost family plan tickets and there was no real hope of a walk up crowd.
The stadium holds ~50K. The AD says it sold ~40K for the game. I would guess that there were 20,000 people in the stands, and that is probably too generous. The student section had empty sections, the GA areas were wide open, and the corners were empty. And there were quite a number of empty seats on the shady sideline too.
Oregon State historically is also not a game that all season ticket holders plan to attend, so it will be interesting to see what happens on November 10th.
My guess is that the AD will announce attendance of 43K. I would also guess 30,000 will actually appear and that will include 4,000 Beaver fans. If the Beavers had won in Seattle then I would have guessed sales of 47K or even 48K fueled by Beaver fans driving down to see their top 10 team's last big challenge before the Ducks.
My guess is the next sellout at Stanford Stadium will be on Nov 30th, 2012. ;)