mothersodear
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Thanks to fans of other schools for increased attendance. They got free tickets.
I don't dispute that one. Wasn't student attendance almost non-existent last season? This season, we had big weekend games and some momentum from two big home wins. I think that one is probably right. Doesn't mean much though.
Yep, the Saturday afternoon home games really helped attendance numbers this season. The weeknight games were still pretty low. ACC scheduling was kind from that perspective.
The 'big' attendance increase is not really that big. Using the numbers from the Wake Forest site for 2013 total attendance was 153,831, while last year, as posted here was 131,651, for an increase of 22,066 or 16.7% increase.
But this year we had one extra home game, plus and extra ACC 'marquee' game (i.e. CP3 retirement) and two non-conf marque games (SH, X) that we didn't last year.
Extra ACC game (non-marque) 10,157
CP3 retirement our only sell out, which would have drawn a non-marque crowd: 4,016
Two marque non-conf games, compared to the other 5 non-marque: 4,203
So scheduling increased our attendance by 18,376, leaving us with true apples to apples increase of 3,609 or 2.8% over last year.
Ron can chirp all he wants about attendance this year, but we played more big names at home, had an extra ACC game and made a special event out of CP3's retirement. Of course non of this takes into account the actual price paid for tickets since apparently a lot were given away.
What we really need to do is go through the entire interview like they do with politicians and have the 'truth police' analyze the statements.
I'm pretty sure women's basketball has done that.
Another year of this and your purchase of a women's game ticket will get you free admission to the men's game that follows.
I told them that it's good to know that we'd have the best conditioned team in the ACC and that maybe we could win the ACC if there was a competition on a ropes course and not the basketball court.