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Even Michigan Can Have a Disappointing Spring Game Crowd

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akaukswoosh

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Pick Six Previews ‏@PickSixPreviews 16m16 minutes ago
Verified that Michigan officially had 35k at their Spring Game -- a far cry from the Harbaugh-Hyped 60k that was floating around
 
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Kats23

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Yeah, but didn't it snow up in Michigan and was ridiculously cold? That kind of weather hit Lexington for the Spring Game, they might just cancel it.
 
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Grumpyolddawg said:
Hasn't attendance or lack of been an issue for Michigan during regular season too?
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Grumpyolddawg said:
Hasn't attendance or lack of been an issue for Michigan during regular season too?
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I thought it had been last year also but thought it was still above 100,000, build it and they will come.

But googling their attendance I found this surprising list from an article saying the SEC led the nation in attendance last year with an average of about 78,500, BIG 2nd at 66,100.

Here is the list form that article from 2015, actually a little hard for me to believe they had that many:

Michigan was the top college football draw, leading the country with 110,168 fans per home game in 2015. Ohio State (107,244), Texas A&M (103,622), LSU (102,004), Alabama (101,112), Tennessee (100,584), Penn State (99,799), Georgia (92,746), Florida (90,065) and Texas (90,035) round out the top ten.

Looks like UK and Vandy are dragging the SEC attendance down a great deal, and what some fail to realize (IMO) is that lots of seats available leads to higher attendance even with bad teams, and if Bama has 20,000 empty seats they still have 20,000 more fans there than UK when we have a sellout-----and I predict several for UK this year, we averaged over 67,000 our last "decent" team in 07------still didn't break even in the SEC.
 
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Grumpyolddawg

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jauk11 said:
I thought it had been last year also but thought it was still above 100,000, build it and they will come.

But googling their attendance I found this surprising list from an article saying the SEC led the nation in attendance last year with an average of about 78,500, BIG 2nd at 66,100.

Here is the list form that article from 2015, actually a little hard for me to believe they had that many:

Michigan was the top college football draw, leading the country with 110,168 fans per home game in 2015. Ohio State (107,244), Texas A&M (103,622), LSU (102,004), Alabama (101,112), Tennessee (100,584), Penn State (99,799), Georgia (92,746), Florida (90,065) and Texas (90,035) round out the top ten.

Looks like UK and Vandy are dragging the SEC attendance down a great deal, and what some fail to realize (IMO) is that lots of seats available leads to higher attendance even with bad teams, and if Bama has 20,000 empty seats they still have 20,000 more fans there than UK when we have a sellout-----and I predict several for UK this year, we averaged over 67,000 our last "decent" team in 07------still didn't break even in the SEC.
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I thought I read that Michigan had fallen way short of selling out some games, like 30Kshort, but that was probably when Hoke was there, Harbaugh has brought excitement back.
 
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