I wish we also had records of season ticket and individual game prices. That affects attendance, esp. by groups.
For a Friday night game against OSU @ Stanford, end zone seats cost $18-35 while upper sideline costs $18-20.
For a Sunday game Stanford@OSU, end zone & upper sideline seats cost $9-16. [Oregon is sold out, so I couldn't get their face value prices.]
Stanford can adjust prices to increase attendance, if that was their goal.
Obviously, the best day for kids (& their parents) to show up is Sunday. Friday night may be second best (for younger kids; by high school, Friday night gets busy). Kids tend to have stuff happening on Saturday (sports, parties, extracurricular activities). Adults may have competing fan events (football, etc.) on the weekends & even weeknights. I don't think many Oregon fans have to choose between going to a pro game (fb, bb, ih, soccer, ...) and a college event. Indeed, I wonder how many hard-core sports fans in the Bay Area finds find their time & money all spent on pro sports, when, if they lived in an area without much pro-sports, they'd be at the college games. Indeed, the public awareness of the Bay Area college games is limited as the TV and newspapers pretty much only cover the pros. (Sharks started in 1991; Earthquakes in 1994)
I often notice how old the fans are at Maples. Some of that is certainly due to older people's lack of responsibilities for taking children to events or getting them to bed, as well as a higher percentage of those without work the next day.
In 1995, if you had to choose between watching a, say, 49ers game on TV or going to a college game, you could record the 49ers for later playback as you had to attend the college game if you wanted to see it at all. Now you might choose to record the college game and watch the 49ers live on TV, rather than attend either. (My brother-in-law, a Seahawks fan, flew from San Jose back to Washington the day of the 49ers-Seahawk game. I asked why he didn't want to stay & try to get tickets. "The best seat in the stadium is the one in front of my TV.")
As for me personally, I hadn't bought any season tickets until last year. I (still) find that various reasons (illness, out of town, competing events) have kept me from attending about half the WVB games for which I have tickets. That makes the season tickets a lot more expensive than face value (yeah, I could resell them, but that's a hassle). The same thing is true for the other person from work with whom I bought a pair of season WVB tickets. Same thing is true for the couple that sit next to us. Our seats have been empty when we're unable to attend.
For a Friday night game against OSU @ Stanford, end zone seats cost $18-35 while upper sideline costs $18-20.
For a Sunday game Stanford@OSU, end zone & upper sideline seats cost $9-16. [Oregon is sold out, so I couldn't get their face value prices.]
Stanford can adjust prices to increase attendance, if that was their goal.
Obviously, the best day for kids (& their parents) to show up is Sunday. Friday night may be second best (for younger kids; by high school, Friday night gets busy). Kids tend to have stuff happening on Saturday (sports, parties, extracurricular activities). Adults may have competing fan events (football, etc.) on the weekends & even weeknights. I don't think many Oregon fans have to choose between going to a pro game (fb, bb, ih, soccer, ...) and a college event. Indeed, I wonder how many hard-core sports fans in the Bay Area finds find their time & money all spent on pro sports, when, if they lived in an area without much pro-sports, they'd be at the college games. Indeed, the public awareness of the Bay Area college games is limited as the TV and newspapers pretty much only cover the pros. (Sharks started in 1991; Earthquakes in 1994)
I often notice how old the fans are at Maples. Some of that is certainly due to older people's lack of responsibilities for taking children to events or getting them to bed, as well as a higher percentage of those without work the next day.
In 1995, if you had to choose between watching a, say, 49ers game on TV or going to a college game, you could record the 49ers for later playback as you had to attend the college game if you wanted to see it at all. Now you might choose to record the college game and watch the 49ers live on TV, rather than attend either. (My brother-in-law, a Seahawks fan, flew from San Jose back to Washington the day of the 49ers-Seahawk game. I asked why he didn't want to stay & try to get tickets. "The best seat in the stadium is the one in front of my TV.")
As for me personally, I hadn't bought any season tickets until last year. I (still) find that various reasons (illness, out of town, competing events) have kept me from attending about half the WVB games for which I have tickets. That makes the season tickets a lot more expensive than face value (yeah, I could resell them, but that's a hassle). The same thing is true for the other person from work with whom I bought a pair of season WVB tickets. Same thing is true for the couple that sit next to us. Our seats have been empty when we're unable to attend.