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Bradley Attendance

Bradley still ahead of multiple teams from the Big East, Pac 10, ACC, and SEC. And ahead of 2 of the Final Four teams.
 
This shows a couple things. The sales staff and marketing team did a good job. The people in Peoria will buy tickets. Season ticket sales were strong.

However since Bradley doesn't release actual attendance numbers, these figures don't represent actual people in the Civic Center. It is no secret we had alot of empty seats for several games. Much lower than announced figures. Blame the weather. Blame the start time. Blame the team play/record. Blame Bush. :roll: Lots of reasons. If the NCAA kept figures for no shows we would rank high on that list as well.
 
BuB said:
This shows a couple things. The sales staff and marketing team did a good job. The people in Peoria will buy tickets. Season ticket sales were strong.

However since Bradley doesn't release actual attendance numbers, these figures don't represent actual people in the Civic Center. It is no secret we had alot of empty seats for several games. Much lower than announced figures. Blame the weather. Blame the start time. Blame the team play/record. Blame Bush. :roll: Lots of reasons. If the NCAA kept figures for no shows we would rank high on that list as well.
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honest question.

are we the only school that does this? everyone makes it sound like we are.
 
Future Walk-On said:
honest question.

are we the only school that does this? everyone makes it sound like we are.
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I don't really know but if I had to guess I would say that other schools report the same numbers (tickets sold) as we do.

I don't know what everyone else is saying. I just know we had alot of reasons for alot of people not to show up this season. Other schools have their own reasons not to show up. They could be different than ours.
 
I think you are right, most schools report tickets sold. There were some games this past winter when terrible weather caused thousands of no-shows at usually sold out arenas like Creighton and Wichita State, yet their official attendance for those games was about the same as all their other home games.
 
Future Walk-On said:
then we shouldn't have to bring this up like we are cheating right?
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There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in. - Friedrich Hebbel

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. - Ziggy

For some reason, some people like to accentuate the negative.
 
Da Coach said:
I think you are right, most schools report tickets sold. There were some games this past winter when terrible weather caused thousands of no-shows at usually sold out arenas like Creighton and Wichita State, yet their official attendance for those games was about the same as all their other home games.
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I agree with DA Coach that most if not all schools release the actual attendance.

But the fact is you can feel no shows when you are at the games. I personally dont care about WSU's no shows...

Only about ours, and preventing them as much as possible.
 
srw said:
I agree with DA Coach that most if not all schools release the actual attendance.

But the fact is you can feel no shows when you are at the games. I personally dont care about WSU's no shows...

Only about ours, and preventing them as much as possible.
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Okay, I'm not sure I quite get what your point is. But the fact of the matter is that no shows or not, and down attendance due to whatever factors, for what may be our worst season in decades we still did pretty darn good in our attendance. And assuming last year was the worst team we will see in awhile, our already solid attendance has nowhere to go but up.
 
Pro sports teams report tickets sold, not butts in the seats. College teams do the same, this isn't even a topic worth debating.

What's encouraging to me is that during our worst season in quite some time, we still are #56 in attendance. Imagine if we start winning? Peoria and BU is a sleeping mid major giant that could have triple the following of a Gonzaga or Butler if we'd ever win consistently.
 
Bravesfan said:
Okay, I'm not sure I quite get what your point is. But the fact of the matter is that no shows or not, and down attendance due to whatever factors, for what may be our worst season in decades we still did pretty darn good in our attendance. And assuming last year was the worst team we will see in awhile, our already solid attendance has nowhere to go but up.
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Agreed:!:

ancona flash

Pro sports teams report tickets sold, not butts in the seats. College teams do the same, this isn't even a topic worth debating.

What's encouraging to me is that during our worst season in quite some time, we still are #56 in attendance. Imagine if we start winning? Peoria and BU is a sleeping mid major giant that could have triple the following of a Gonzaga or Butler if we'd ever win consistently.

i know IF we could
 
Here's something that could boost attendance.....different than the event a couple weeks ago with just the cheerleaders...

I was just reading about this being done at Saint Louis ---
this past weekend they had a Billiken Men's Basketball FanFest
http://www.slubillikens.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/042311aab.html

They billed it as....
"The family-friendly event is free and open to the public and runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m."

the coaches, players, and everyone was there and it was well attended and generated a multipage thread talking about it on their boards...
it definitely had its intended purpose and generated some off-season interest and hype for basketball.....

I hope our staff considers something like this where the basketball players are there to meet with fans and help generate renewed fan interest....
 
Dick Versace was good at getting his players involved in the community. I can still see the mass of humanity coming over the top of the Cedar St bridge from the East Peoria side when he had the "Race with Versace."
 
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