10-23-2017, 10:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-23-2017, 11:38 AM by OutsiderFan.)
I don't think it's TV in a vacuum, but TV is most of the reason.Â
Not only do you get to see more games by not attending them, but you also don't have to pay upwards of $30/ticket and at least 5 hrs. of your day to attend. Attendance is down all over college football, and probably the NFL too, particularly for teams that aren't doing a lot of winning lately.
This trend has been going on for a long time. My uncle told me how his Sequoia High School team played at a near sold-out Stanford stadium in the early 1960's when Gary Beban was the QB. Apparently high school football was very big in the Bay Area back then. Stanford used to draw 60K+ when I was a season ticket holder from 1999-2001, and Big Games would routinely put 80K in seats for years.Â
Not only do you get to see more games by not attending them, but you also don't have to pay upwards of $30/ticket and at least 5 hrs. of your day to attend. Attendance is down all over college football, and probably the NFL too, particularly for teams that aren't doing a lot of winning lately.
This trend has been going on for a long time. My uncle told me how his Sequoia High School team played at a near sold-out Stanford stadium in the early 1960's when Gary Beban was the QB. Apparently high school football was very big in the Bay Area back then. Stanford used to draw 60K+ when I was a season ticket holder from 1999-2001, and Big Games would routinely put 80K in seats for years.Â