https://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Ticket...506041.php
I have to say I was stunned, and a little amused, by the fact that tickets for the championship game at Levi’s have plummeted so much. They’re going for hundreds under face value. Tickets seem to be cheaper than the Stanford Notre Dame game last year, And there are still four more days for the prices to keep dropping.
It’s as if the west coast apathy has infected the SEC and ACC. Lol
But seriously, I wonder if this is the canary in the coal mine moment for football. It seems like attendance has plummeted for all the bowls this year, it’s no longer just a story about Stanford and the pac 12.
I think the commissioners are going to have to start seriously rethinking their revenue and attendance plans for the next few years.
For my part, I suspect and I hope that the real problem is not a lack of interest in football, But a dramatic acceleration of the transition from in-person attendance to TV viewing. At my home, we had a great Sun Bowl viewing party, and people had a lot of fun despite the lack of scoring. My fan friends seem interested in watching the team year after year, just not so interested in going to the stadium.
But really, I wonder if this is the moment that in-person game attendance becomes recognized as a crisis across college football.
I have to say I was stunned, and a little amused, by the fact that tickets for the championship game at Levi’s have plummeted so much. They’re going for hundreds under face value. Tickets seem to be cheaper than the Stanford Notre Dame game last year, And there are still four more days for the prices to keep dropping.
It’s as if the west coast apathy has infected the SEC and ACC. Lol
But seriously, I wonder if this is the canary in the coal mine moment for football. It seems like attendance has plummeted for all the bowls this year, it’s no longer just a story about Stanford and the pac 12.
I think the commissioners are going to have to start seriously rethinking their revenue and attendance plans for the next few years.
For my part, I suspect and I hope that the real problem is not a lack of interest in football, But a dramatic acceleration of the transition from in-person attendance to TV viewing. At my home, we had a great Sun Bowl viewing party, and people had a lot of fun despite the lack of scoring. My fan friends seem interested in watching the team year after year, just not so interested in going to the stadium.
But really, I wonder if this is the moment that in-person game attendance becomes recognized as a crisis across college football.