Empty seats?

I noticed that too. The weather is fairly crappy and the team did seem fairly dominant in the first half; but seems like an awful lot empty seats for a team playing a night game, against a top 25 team, and still a good shot at making the playoffs.
 
Very common all over the country in college football this year. It's the economy more than anything else.
 
Weather is awful.

They have a higher average attendance the last few years than Iowa. Remember, they have a bigger stadium by 5-7,000.
 
OttoWagonhurst said:
Weather is awful.

They have a higher average attendance the last few years than Iowa. Remember, they have a bigger stadium by 5-7,000.
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Spartan staduim capacity is listed at 75,005, compared to Kinnick 70,585 (4,420 difference). Is the average based on % of capacity of number of tickets sold?
 
Just won a rose bowl and playing a top 25 team, no excuses.

with that said I know damtonio had tried to build a program using KFs style but I wanna now mock his program. Terrific D, but an O that scores.
 
Maybe they all read the Ameer Abdullah for Heisman hype, complete with the AA batteries sent to Heisman voters, and thought their team didn't have a chance.
 
Eda said:
Spartan staduim capacity is listed at 75,005, compared to Kinnick 70,585 (4,420 difference). Is the average based on % of capacity of number of tickets sold?
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They would still be ahead either way. Iowa has one sellout out of 3 games and is averaging about 66K this year. Making fun of teams with strong attendance like MSU is just dumb.
 
The stadium was pretty full at kickoff and probably through the first half.

27-3 lead will make people want to get into the warmth and drink a warm wine or cold beer
 
My son was at MSU vs hawks in 2012. He said it was early october, wet, warmer than yesterday but he said it was pretty packed.

But even though it was a close game as you remember some fans just left the game.

I call those fans the wine and cheese crowd.

I and 3 buddies went to see Fry's hawks clobber jNW around 1983 or so of course there were 20,000 Iowa fans but many NW fans pulled out their little picnic basket in the stands and their cheese and crackers and drink. They ate their picnic and left by early in second half.

Of course Iowa had a lot to do with that by clobbering the cats.
 
I recorded game on tivo and noticed the game did not get over until 4 hours 6 minutes into the recording. I first started to notice the length of the game around the 2:40 mark in the recording and that was only half way through the 3rd quarter. It was a long game.

These games are way too long. The need to be over in 2.5 hours, otherwise they just start to drag.

Same problem I was going to watch the end of Rut-mich live and turned game on around 8:40pm and the second half had just started! I was expecting it to be about 4 minutes left in the game.

They desperately need to speed up these games, both for fans at the game and on tv.
 
Maybe their beer lines were too long in the concession areas, or the nighttime tailgating in 43 degree drizzle was just too enticing to leave?
 
guffus said:
I recorded game on tivo and noticed the game did not get over until 4 hours 6 minutes into the recording. I first started to notice the length of the game around the 2:40 mark in the recording and that was only half way through the 3rd quarter. It was a long game.

These games are way too long. The need to be over in 2.5 hours, otherwise they just start to drag.

Same problem I was going to watch the end of Rut-mich live and turned game on around 8:40pm and the second half had just started! I was expecting it to be about 4 minutes left in the game.

They desperately need to speed up these games, both for fans at the game and on tv.
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You realize the reason the game takes long is BECAUSE OF TV, right?

I went to a freaking ESPN 3 game last night and it was the same thing. Between guys laying on the ground, because they are tired, to the little guy in the headset telling the refs when they can start the game again, it just makes you start thinking about other things you could be doing.

College football will kill itself with its greed. From pricing tickets like it's pro-football, to selling their soul to ESPN, it's gonna start turning fans off.

I heard that some CFB teams visited MLS stadiums to see how they have been good about growing their sport and increasing their fan base.

Here's a hint. With MLS you have a 45 minute half with a couple minutes of stoppage time, a 15 minute half and another 45 minute half with stoppage time and the game is over win, lose, or draw. If a player comes off the field the team has to play down a player until that player can get back on the field or he is replaced with another player (which means the first player cannot return to play). I go to soccer matches and KNOW when I will be home. I go to football games and have NO idea.

One thing American Football could do to speed things up is to stop making an incomplete pass be a stop clocking play. Perhaps they could go to the first down rule during the last two minutes of each half and stop the clock for resetting the ball and then start it back up again. With today's pass heavy offenses it really doesn't make sense to treat a pass so differently from a run anymore. Have a guy with a replacement ball at the LOS marker. If a pass is thrown downfield and is incomplete, toss that ball to the sideline and have the guy at the LOS marker toss in a new ball. If teams want to run quicker plays, they can have receivers downfield leave the field of play and send new guys in. Teams would still be working at their normal pace, its just more time would be ticking off the clock. We don't need to have the game clock stopped as guys jog back to the huddle or LOS.
 
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