[StanUSwagU]

Y'all are overthinking this.

There are:

2.7 million people within half an hour drive of Stanford Stadium.

5.8 million people within an hour drive of Stanford Stadium.

9.0 million people within a two-hour drive of Stanford Stadium.

How do you get even half a percent of those people (30,000 would be a nice regular crowd) within an hour's drive to go to a handful of Stanford games every year?

Forget the excuses about alumni and they all move away. Market to the local population. (Start by stop hammering how awesome and elite and exclusive Stanford is and aren't you glad we wouldn't let the likes of you step foot in our hallowed halls.) Forget the "competition" with the team ten exits down 101 that plays on Sunday. It has been awhile since I looked at historic attendance records to hypothesize that the downsizing of Stanford Stadium was not going to cut people off from attending football games, and was I right about that, unfortunately. There was almost zero correlation between the Niners being good and Stanford attendance being bad. Different markets. 

How does Stanford make the football experience good enough that more than a handful of diehards willing to go no matter what, will go?  It goes beyond winning, because I remember watching a top 6 Stanford with Andrew Luck under center play Oregon State (winning 38-0) and barely anyone was there. The weather was fine that I recall. Sure. The last week in November so maybe college football fans simply don't exist in the Bay Area. And if that is the case, there really is no hope of generating the sort of enthusiasm SwagU is looking to generate.

It doesn't need to be Aggieland. Honestly, they seem sort of weird in a cultish way, although that band is awesome. Just 30,000 regulars or semi-regulars and a packed house when warranted.

Agree,

[StanUSwagU]

Y'all are overthinking this.

There are:

2.7 million people within half an hour drive of Stanford Stadium.

5.8 million people within an hour drive of Stanford Stadium.

9.0 million people within a two-hour drive of Stanford Stadium.

How do you get even half a percent of those people (30,000 would be a nice regular crowd) within an hour's drive to go to a handful of Stanford games every year?

Forget the excuses about alumni and they all move away. Market to the local population. (Start by stop hammering how awesome and elite and exclusive Stanford is and aren't you glad we wouldn't let the likes of you step foot in our hallowed halls.) Forget the "competition" with the team ten exits down 101 that plays on Sunday. It has been awhile since I looked at historic attendance records to hypothesize that the downsizing of Stanford Stadium was not going to cut people off from attending football games, and was I right about that, unfortunately. There was almost zero correlation between the Niners being good and Stanford attendance being bad. Different markets. 

How does Stanford make the football experience good enough that more than a handful of diehards willing to go no matter what, will go?  It goes beyond winning, because I remember watching a top 6 Stanford with Andrew Luck under center play Oregon State (winning 38-0) and barely anyone was there. The weather was fine that I recall. Sure. The last week in November so maybe college football fans simply don't exist in the Bay Area. And if that is the case, there really is no hope of generating the sort of enthusiasm SwagU is looking to generate.

It doesn't need to be Aggieland. Honestly, they seem sort of weird in a cultish way, although that band is awesome. Just 30,000 regulars or semi-regulars and a packed house when warranted.

Agree,