[Matt Velazquez] Marquette ranks 21st in 2015-'16 men's basketball attendance

[jsglow]

Somebody call Joe True and get this settled.Let's come up with a bet that gets some coin to Blue $ Gold.

[Jay Bee]

I could care less about the numbers. Someone pulled 11,418 from somewhere and I could not care less. There were not fans in the end zones or the corners. They simply weren't there. It was a terribly attended game. Between the opponent, the lousy weather, and the day of week coupled with timing, people didn't show up. STHs didn't show up and sure as hell there weren't many walking up.

You can quibble about language all you like, but you weren't there. The BC looked more sparsely populated than some of the vacant buildings we have in the 53206. If you want to say there were 500 walk-ups there, then you're asserting more than 10% of the total attendance was walk-up purchases, because no matter what number Marquette spits out for sold tickets, there weren't more than 5,000 in the building.

You're completely misunderstanding the discussion and are talking about something completely different.

This has never been a discussion about how many people walked up and purchased tickets the day of that game.

This has never been about how many folks physically attended the game.

You're way out in left with your post. Waaaaaay off-topic.

[Spotcheck Billy]

The walk-up tickets are higher up in the corners and end zones. Quite simply, where the people were sitting to start the game were not in the seats that are available for walk-up purchase. Now some may have admittedly bought them and moved, but usually those moves are made after the tip and they at least start in the right section. Those sections were vacant, hence I am confident the number of walk-ups was minimal.

We had tickets in a $125 endzone section and we always sat in the center uppers to start the game. Why move after the tip? Only move if someone comes to the seats you borrowed, which actually never happened once last year, total waste of $ to buy ST in the center uppers until the BC gets crowded again.

[Jay Bee]

Somebody call Joe True and get this settled.Let's come up with a bet that gets some coin to Blue $ Gold.

Please do. Topper especially has such a bizarre and woefully simple methodology that can't be trusted.

brewcity77 and you are talking about things that don't matter in the discussion.

Topper says 11,618 is the STH number because that was paid attendance for the Grambling game.. obviously wrong. How wrong is he?

Could it be more than 500 wrong? OF COURSE!

There are many reasons why...
...but think of some potentially big-hitters. There are suites with different prices for different games. If purchased, they went into the 11,618... but they are not season tickets. Is the belief that no way would a business or consumer want to have a nicely-priced suite to a Wednesday basketball game because the opponent was so terrible? Of course not. That's stupid thinking. Some purchase suites to conduct business or reward clients and employees. How many times have people gone to a game with a business associate because, "well even though the team they're playing sucks, it's a suite and I want to talk to person A"? Not unusual at all.

Groupon and other specials may be in play, donations, ATI Club, etc. Is it a crazy idea to think some parents want to take their 5 year old to a Marquette game and that Wednesday looked like a good date and there were some seats on the aisle available when they looked before the season started and so they scooped them up? How shocking would that be? Not at all.

What is the number?

Don't know.

But those dismissing the idea that there's a chance that the number of non STH tickets was in the hundreds - or more - for Grambling - is simple-minded and an absolute tragedy, surely representative of the struggles this country faces and is a bigger concern than climate change.

We had tickets in a $125 endzone section and we always sat in the center uppers to start the game. Why move after the tip? Only move if someone comes to the seats you borrowed, which actually never happened once last year, total waste of $ to buy ST in the center uppers until the BC gets crowded again.

brewcity and common sense, as to this topic at least, don't overlap. His reasoning for something that hasn't even been a topic in this thread until he brought it up, is based on an assumption that everyone sits in their assigned seat, even if the building is less than one-third full. Guess he is just a moral fellow (and naive and wrong).

[mu_hilltopper]

But those dismissing the idea that there's a chance that the number of non STH tickets was in the hundreds - or more - for Grambling - is simple-minded and an absolute tragedy, surely representative of the struggles this country faces and is a bigger concern than climate change.

And the trolling award of the year goes to ...

[Dawson Rental]

But those dismissing the idea that there's a chance that the number of non STH tickets was in the hundreds - or more - for Grambling - is simple-minded and an absolute tragedy, surely representative of the struggles this country faces and is a bigger concern than climate change.