[Beeg_Dawg]

Attendance is now much worse for day games. People are doing other things during the day. I go one way or another, but the stands have more people at night.

I know that with the TV money this random start time won't change, but IMHO that random start time is greatly accelerating the already extant loss of interest in attending college football games. Attendance would be going down anyway as football (at least on the "west coast") just doesn't have the interest it once did. It doesn't take much for people who aren't all that interested anyway to decide it is just too hard to attend. Add to that the relatively high cost of attending the games, especially if travel is involved, and people simply won't go.

Hit the nail on the head for us.  We used to purchase plane tickets and make travel plans well in advance, taking advantage of discounts for early booking.  It's $1400-$1500 for us to attend a game.  We won't be attending any games this year.  10 years ago we made every home game and I would occasionally catch an away game.   My granddaughters turn nasty after their usual 9:00 bedtime, so the 8 PM start doesn't work for them.

I'm still very interested in Stanford football, but I am at the point I will save the ticket and travel money and watch from home.

[Beeg_Dawg]

Attendance is now much worse for day games. People are doing other things during the day. I go one way or another, but the stands have more people at night.

I know that with the TV money this random start time won't change, but IMHO that random start time is greatly accelerating the already extant loss of interest in attending college football games. Attendance would be going down anyway as football (at least on the "west coast") just doesn't have the interest it once did. It doesn't take much for people who aren't all that interested anyway to decide it is just too hard to attend. Add to that the relatively high cost of attending the games, especially if travel is involved, and people simply won't go.

Hit the nail on the head for us.  We used to purchase plane tickets and make travel plans well in advance, taking advantage of discounts for early booking.  It's $1400-$1500 for us to attend a game.  We won't be attending any games this year.  10 years ago we made every home game and I would occasionally catch an away game.   My granddaughters turn nasty after their usual 9:00 bedtime, so the 8 PM start doesn't work for them.

I'm still very interested in Stanford football, but I am at the point I will save the ticket and travel money and watch from home.