last night discussed elsewhere the attendance and said I thought it would be about 30K, IIRC and and about 15k for each
here's an article on vandy attendance woes. Those clowns have no room to be criticizing any other program, especially when those folks have the benefit of huge traveling $ec fan bases and a large number of Nashville based non-vandy $ec fans who buy season tickets only when their school is on the vandy home schedule..
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...Vanderbilt drew 30,304 fans for its home opener against South Carolina.
To put that number in context, the 2015 home opener against Western Kentucky -- a Conference USA team -- drew 30,307. The 2014 home opener against Temple drew 31,731. The 2013 home opener, like Thursday’s home opener a Southeastern Conference game (against Ole Miss), drew a capacity crowd of 40,350.
And not only was the crowd the smallest for a home opener since 2011 (when a Vanderbilt team coming off a 2-10 season hosted FCS foe Elon), but compared to the Temple and Western Kentucky games of the last two years, it was considerably heavier on opposing fans. The only thing that the White-Out that Vanderbilt planned for the home opener accomplished was making the number of South Carolina fans in the stadium even more obvious.....
I think MT wins 28-24. The crowd is 50% Blue Raider if the attendance is 30K or lower and any increase in attendance above that is all Middle Tennessee.
To provide evidence of and to perfectly illustrate vandy's problems, from just a couple of years ago, an aerial photo of the vandy stadium with a georgia visiting crowd.
and here's a photo from about nine or ten years ago...
here's an article on vandy attendance woes. Those clowns have no room to be criticizing any other program, especially when those folks have the benefit of huge traveling $ec fan bases and a large number of Nashville based non-vandy $ec fans who buy season tickets only when their school is on the vandy home schedule..
excerpt:
...Vanderbilt drew 30,304 fans for its home opener against South Carolina.
To put that number in context, the 2015 home opener against Western Kentucky -- a Conference USA team -- drew 30,307. The 2014 home opener against Temple drew 31,731. The 2013 home opener, like Thursday’s home opener a Southeastern Conference game (against Ole Miss), drew a capacity crowd of 40,350.
And not only was the crowd the smallest for a home opener since 2011 (when a Vanderbilt team coming off a 2-10 season hosted FCS foe Elon), but compared to the Temple and Western Kentucky games of the last two years, it was considerably heavier on opposing fans. The only thing that the White-Out that Vanderbilt planned for the home opener accomplished was making the number of South Carolina fans in the stadium even more obvious.....
I think MT wins 28-24. The crowd is 50% Blue Raider if the attendance is 30K or lower and any increase in attendance above that is all Middle Tennessee.
To provide evidence of and to perfectly illustrate vandy's problems, from just a couple of years ago, an aerial photo of the vandy stadium with a georgia visiting crowd.
and here's a photo from about nine or ten years ago...
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