How many people do you think were in the stadium?
They announced 57,418 but I think there was anywhere from 60,000 to 70,000. The stadium holds 110,000 and both sidelines and the north endzone were full except for the top 20 rows of the north endzone. The south endzone was decently filled up too.
The sidelines were certainly not full. Lots of spaces in prime sections.
If you sat in one of these fairly crowded sections like we did yesterday, you'd know that people are pretty spread out compared to a normal home football game. It might look full at first glance or on TV, but it really isn't even close to full. I'd say the reported crowd number was pretty accurate. I will say though it was the biggest spring game crowd I can remember seeing.
People were so spread out in the prime sections that each row was 1/3 of capacity.
Absolutely no way there were 70k.
1. Why do you take these things so damn personally?
2. It wasn't even close. Those late Dave Brandon games were more like 73,000 M fans...as mentioned, this was a bunch of people who were spread out, without a visiting team/staff/admin, and without visiting team fans.
Give everyone their 22" seat and everyone would've been talking about how no one goes to the spring game, attendance numbers are down, yada...yada.
April 16th, 2017 at 12:51 PM ^
jesus h christ, curb the righteousness
57,000 sounds about accurate.
For the first half, the endzones were pretty filled. People left later on.
What stadium were you in? Yes, there were more fans there than most spring games. But, it was at most 15-20% of the number that sit there normally during home football games.
There were people filling up the upper rung of the South endzone below the scoreboard at the very top.
62,528. And I'm sticking to it.
the siamese twins count as 2 and not one. 62,529!
Lets be honest, in 2014... Brandon n co were doing their best fudging of the numbers to keep the streak alive.
April 16th, 2017 at 11:58 AM ^
Less staff, less tickets sold, and you don't have a visiting team with their players, fans, admin...
Not sure if everyone realizes, but EVERY single person is estimated in those attendance numbers. From a random housekeeper to Jabrill Peppers, they're trying to count EVERYONE.
You also have to look at the suites.
...but the main thing is tickets sold and season ticket holders. ALL schools "assume" that anyone who purchased a ticket is actually in the stadium/arena.
This is why if you look at women's basketball season ticket sales you'll laugh...because a lot of mid-majors give you WBB season tickets if you buy MBB season tickets. It's a "perk."
So for Michigan Stadium, there's always a baseline number based on the team, stadium employees, etc.
But for regular season games, you're counting every ticket sold, visiting teams, band(s), visiting admin, etc.
This is why we never dipped under 100,000 in the Brandon saga. Because the tickets were sold (or given out to students)...people just chose not to show up for games. For good reason.
at least 12
My initial response was "who gives a fuck" then I remembered it was Easter and changed my post.
The new kinder, gentler mGrowOld........
/s
Or was it just general admission seating? My guess is the latter, in which case people would not have been sitting packed close together. Sections that looked full would not have had as many people as they would for a real game.
Quite a few
those full-ish looking midfield rows that hold, what 25 seats each? have about 12-18 people in them.
I think even 50k is a stretch.
Still the best crowd I've ever seen there & I think it's fantastic for the players, the fans, & the recuits; but the dick-comparison-attendence-number mania has got to stop.
April 16th, 2017 at 10:18 AM ^
April 16th, 2017 at 11:40 AM ^
Give or take about 3-9000.