11-02-2010, 10:25 AM
To paraphrase Willem Defoe in the Life Aquatic, I hear what you\'re saying, but I think you misjudge the crowd.
Even if Stanford were a rabid football school, the pure numbers don\'t add up for us. Figuring at least 50% of the graduating class leaves, and Stanford only has 1700 a class, we\'d need 60 years worth of graduating classes to fill the stadium, and that\'s presuming that every Stanford student is a potential season ticket holder.
No matter how popular we can make football amongst the Stanford fans, until we can somehow bring in large numbers of the community without Stanford ties, the stadium will only be full when we have lots of visiting students. I honestly can\'t think of a comparable football school with our demographic challenges, so 30k really is a pretty good turnout.
Even if Stanford were a rabid football school, the pure numbers don\'t add up for us. Figuring at least 50% of the graduating class leaves, and Stanford only has 1700 a class, we\'d need 60 years worth of graduating classes to fill the stadium, and that\'s presuming that every Stanford student is a potential season ticket holder.
No matter how popular we can make football amongst the Stanford fans, until we can somehow bring in large numbers of the community without Stanford ties, the stadium will only be full when we have lots of visiting students. I honestly can\'t think of a comparable football school with our demographic challenges, so 30k really is a pretty good turnout.