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Bowl Game Attendance Continues Slide

By 11W Staff - 31 December 2012
6 Comments
- Football

Simple fix, really. (usatoday.com)

Source usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bowls/2012/12/30/college-football-bowl...

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Comments

AndyVance on 31 Dec 2012 - 10:09am #

The since-redacted 2010 Sugar Bowl was my first Bowl experience... it was such a great experience that frankly I'm surprised Florida hasn't sold more of its tickets.

Overlooking the poor, poor state of the economy - and the additional uncertainty this year for a variety of political reasons that do not need to be discussed - likely make this season an outlier.

That said, it is clear there are too many games to sustain a sound supply/demand balance. Perhaps the Bowl committees and their sponsors are assuming that you don't make money every year, but in the years when you get a homerun matchup, you make enough money to cover up the "trough" years...

penult on 31 Dec 2012 - 12:00pm #

The bowls always make money. If tickets go unsold the schools eat most of that loss.

johnblairgobucks on 31 Dec 2012 - 10:37am #

when teams like Bowling Green and San Jose State don't come close to selling 50% of their tickets for home games during conference play, it's safe to assume that they won't sell alot of tickets when paired together, in a neutral site stadium 2,000 and 500 miles away from their fan base strong points, 2 days after Christmas.

IBLEEDSCARLETANDGRAY on 31 Dec 2012 - 11:54am #

While growing up I always thought the bowl games were a reward for an above average season (minimum of 8 wins). 6-6 (and in Georgia Tech's case 6-7) teams probably shouldnt be awarded (yeah, I know i'm talking about 2011 OSU, too). I also associated bowl games with warmer climates because that, too, was supposed to be a reward. Remember the episode of "Coach" when Minnesota State played in the Valley Forge Bowl in a snowstorm? That was meant to be a joke of how low a ladder rung that bowl was. That's what we're seeing now.

Fanbases aside, nobody is going to fork out $50 a ticket to go watch two 6-6 teams in a blizzard. The NFL are the only ones who can get away with that.

"Sherman ran an option play right through the south" - Greatest.Civil.War.Analogy.Ever

cajunbuckeye on 1 Jan 2013 - 1:02am #

I'm going to personally raise the attendance of the Sugar Bowl by six. Let's go Louisville!!

An angry fan...rooting for an angry team...led by angry coaches

Brutus Greyshield on 1 Jan 2013 - 11:26am #

All they have to do is figure out a way to play the forthcoming playoff games on the campuses of the higher ranked teams, and their problems would be solved.