Miami OH and what attendance to expect next week

Submitted by Zoltanrules on

MIami OH in a nutshell is worse than Eastern Michigan and is a game that wouldn't be attractive even if UM's season was promising. Miami is coming off a 2013, ranking dead last in offense for Div 1, and losing 17 straight! Last week they rushed for 60 yards, losing to Eastern Kentucky giving them their first victory over an FBS team since 1985!

Couple this horrific opponent (we will win BIG) with a 3:30 start time (wasting one's whole day) and what we saw yesterday, what kind of crowd numbers do you expect to see (not "ticket sales")?

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ijohnb

September 7th, 2014 at 2:57 PM ^

but I bet you that the attendance next week will be startling to see. I do not think the stadium will be 80 percent full. Last night may have a lasting effect on the program. It came at a particularly bad time. People needed a reason to invest or reinvest themselves in michigan football and the exact opposite happened. I could see us drawing under 100000 for Big ten games this year.

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teamort2

September 7th, 2014 at 5:27 PM ^

After spending 440 dollars on tickets and not allowing my wife to give her ticket up to said  Daughter, who is a huge ND fan, some things you just cant fix.  I have no more go blue in me.

 

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Shop Smart Sho…

September 7th, 2014 at 2:29 PM ^

I don't know if I'll be making the 4 hour drive for the game.  Hard to justify it at this point, and I'm not sure I can find someone to go.  I might be tempted to try and sell them.  Think anyone would pay for 1 to get 2?

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beedub93

September 7th, 2014 at 2:32 PM ^

away. Attendance will be embarrassing and I expect a rousing chorus of booing. RR lost me after the '10 msu game and Hoke lost me last night. Same with Mattison. Last night left me feeling like Michigan's best days are behind her.

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switch26

September 7th, 2014 at 3:04 PM ^

There was a heavy group of people around us last year during that game that booed borges to  be fired thru the whole game as well..

 

I lost borges completely in that game last year, and last night i lost Hoke and my angst towards mattison is growing..

 

Although we only gave up 280 some total yards, and they barely had any rushing yards..  

 

They just have no way to put pressure on a spread type QB and it is becoming pathetic to see game after game

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Nothsa

September 7th, 2014 at 8:50 PM ^

Ball State. BSU is actually pretty good. Their head coach is Pete Lembo. He has gone 26-14 in three-plus years in Muncie. That's a very successful record for a Ball State coach, as we know. In 13+ years as a head coach, Lembo is 114-50. That is, his teams have won substantially more games than they've lost. Most major-conference athletic directors will tell you that this is an important criterion when you're hiring a coach from MAC and MAC-like conference.

All academic of course, but interesting to consider.

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Felix.M.Blue

September 7th, 2014 at 9:57 PM ^

Carr's teams got booed going into the half before, RR's teams got booed at times, last year there were so boos. It's nothing new.

I don't like to hear them directed towards the players but it happens.

I agree it's usually not directed at the players unless your name is John Navarre. Sometimes there were bad plays but at times I almost wished he would have pulled a Marcus Hall to some of them.

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bleu

September 7th, 2014 at 2:47 PM ^

I don't really get the Mattison hatred. We were missing two DBs and held them to 282 yards. First score aided by PI calls, second or third score on nearly unguardable catch. Field goal was off turnover, negative yard 'drive' and kick for three. I think they had 80 total yards in second half. Obviously not good but offense and special teams did not help the defense stop points from going up.

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MJ14

September 7th, 2014 at 2:32 PM ^

If anyone wants to give me a ticket, I'll show up. I'm sure the attendance will be lower than normal but I bet there's still more than 100,000 there. 

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snarling wolverine

September 7th, 2014 at 2:42 PM ^

The announced attendance is not an actual count of all the people in the stadium.  College football, like everywhere else, uses tickets sold to calculate attendance.  CFB has one added twist of allowing the people who get press or field passes to count as well.  

Given that we had an official attendance  of 106,811 last week, we should still be over 100K Saturday - unless we sold a ton of one-off tickets to App State, which I doubt.

 

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LSAClassOf2000

September 7th, 2014 at 2:42 PM ^

I would imagine that attendance is not affected terribly by the results of the ND game, at least very little aside from the normal things that prevent people from going to a given game. That being said, I would expect that this game doesn't have the highest attendance, but I think it is more because it is a MAC opponent, and one that's awful on paper at that. We've talked about things like this before, but the demand for Michigan tickets has been rather inelastic even in the not-so-spectacular periods and the after not-so-spectacular losses. 

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Jimmyisgod

September 7th, 2014 at 2:42 PM ^

95,000 could show up and it'd still be reported as 100k plus. I think the season is not lost, but if we start to lose more the 100k streak could officially come to an end. Terrible home schedule with a potentially terrible team.

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DaBoss90

September 7th, 2014 at 2:47 PM ^

Can't imagine not going to a game, regardless of the record or the opponent. Sorry to disappoint y'all with my lack of angst. I'll pick up my son at his apartment (senior music major), go to Brown Jug for lunch, go to the step show at Revelli, and follow the band to the game. I won't boo no matter what, and will absorb the best atmosphere anywhere. We'll have a beer afterwards and I will appreciate the opportunity to share the experience.

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rob f

September 7th, 2014 at 3:05 PM ^

with my kids and almost-6-yrs-old granddaughter.  It's my grandaughter's 2nd trip to The Big House (she took in her first game last fall) and she's been counting off the days, all fired-up about going.  At such an innocent age, her expectations are for a great time with Grandpa and cheering for Michigan with all her heart and soul!   Without a doubt, we'll all enjoy the game.

I expect 10000-15000 empty seats and plenty of leg room, though.  Stubhub has close to 4500 tickets for the Miami game available, tons of them for $35 or less, and I wouldn't be surprised to see even more tickets dumped onto the website over the next few days.

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BlueinLansing

September 7th, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^

there are people out there who will gladly take someone's tickets and make their first, or rare trip to Ann Arbor for a game.   I could give my tickets to friends or family for every game for 10 years and still not cover everybody.

 

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Bando Calrissian

September 7th, 2014 at 3:16 PM ^

The AD was literally giving away tickets to ASU. They'll do the same as much as they need to for Miami to get the stadium looking full. You can bet on it. That being said, I don't see next week as being the problem--there's probably still enough good will and optimism to hold it over. 

Now, if we look like shit against Miami, win or lose... Scores of Utah tickets will be available for a song.

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