Let'sGoHawks! Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 Anyone have official attendance? If not, how about an estimate. I was there, it was awesome. Crowd got very loud when it counted in the 4th. What a game! Quote
SiouxperDave Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 Anyone have official attendance? Quote
farce poobah Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 Pitt St drew just over 10,000 ... Quote
Jamestown Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 Disappointing attendance for all of the statewide print and media advertising by UND billing the huge rematch. The UND game had 8,200 and the Pitt. St. game had 10,000 + so without a doubt the Sioux will be in the "jungle" next Saturday in Kansas. Quote
SiouxMeNow Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 Disappointing attendance for all of the statewide print and media advertising by UND billing the huge rematch. The UND game had 8,200 and the Pitt. St. game had 10,000 + so without a doubt the Sioux will be in the "jungle" next Saturday in Kansas. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> were you there?? if not, why not?? It was less than i hoped but considering the Holiday weekend - they were great!!! I'm sure the fans were just about as beat as the players after the game...GREAT NOISE - especially LATE!! They definately helped!!! GO SIOUX!! Quote
siouxyeahyeah Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 I also thought the crowd looked larger than 8200...I would have guessed close to 10,000. 4800 empty seats in the Al? Where??? Either way, the 8 false start penalties on GVSU were made possible by the 8200 in attendance. I'd rather have 8200 screaming their lungs out on each defensive down than 13000 sitting on their butts eating dippin dots the whole game, but that's just me. Great noise, Sioux fans!! Quote
PCM Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 (edited) I agree. 8,200 seems low to me, too. The only places I saw large numbers of open seats were on the extreme north and south ends of the EAST side. I was thinking of moving to that side at half time if better seats were available, but there were none that I could see. Edited November 28, 2004 by PCM Quote
UND92,96 Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 I have been to every game played at the Alerus, and can generally predict the crowd size within about 500. This is the second or third time that the actual size of the crowd was probably about 2000 more than the announced crowd. The other times being the UC-Davis game in 2001 and the NDSU game in 2003. I guarantee that there were more than 10,000 people there yesterday. Quote
Let'sGoHawks! Posted November 28, 2004 Author Posted November 28, 2004 It seemed to me there were more than 8222 there. There were empty seats strewn about, as well as the end sections...but over 4000 empty seats? Doesn't seem possible. There were even a few hundred standing on the ends too, not in their seats that they purchased. Whatever the actual number was, we were a loud bunch, and I was exhausted after the game. Hopefully we can win down at Pitt. Anyone going??? Quote
huskies679 Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 I have been to "The Jungle" and the Alerus Center. Crowd noise the Alerus wins hands down. Atmosptere PSU wins because they have some great tailgating and pregame traditions. But the crowd noise will (should) not disrupt UND. As Sid Hartman says, "just win baby". Good luck UND! Quote
all4Sioux Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 I have been to every game played at the Alerus, and can generally predict the crowd size within about 500. This is the second or third time that the actual size of the crowd was probably about 2000 more than the announced crowd. The other times being the UC-Davis game in 2001 and the NDSU game in 2003. I guarantee that there were more than 10,000 people there yesterday. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have been to all the games in the Alerus also, there had to be many more fans than the 8200 they listed (10,000 seems about right). There were more fans than I expected and it was in the top 3-4 for noise. I was surprised at how few GVSU fans were there, I know they usually travel well, but there didn't seem to be more than 200 yesterday. We are looking forward to the Jungle! Quote
bigmrg74 Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 It was mostly the Holidays mostly that kept a lot of the GVSU fans from coming. *Is hanging out with your family all weekend more important than football? If its anything like mine, NO!* There probably would have about 600 of us if we had played this game a week before, or if somebody in the GVSU AD had gotten off their butt and organized a fan bus or a another charter plane perhaps. Anyways, It was an amazing game guys. No Matter what the attendance was at the game, it certainly was a hell of a lot louder than what 50,000 plus at the Big House was. I can safely say that this was the first road game I've been to where us GVSU fans have been clearly out shouted by the home fans. And other than a few bad apples, you guys where pretty good to us anyways. Putting GVSU fans next to the students is just simply not a smart idea, but the Alerus people where on top of it all. Good job guys. Quote
Diggler Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 Putting GVSU fans next to the students is just simply not a smart idea, but the Alerus people where on top of it all. Good job guys. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well that is your guy's fault. You could've been where visiting fans usually are put, but you had to complain and force UND to obey the NC$$ rules. Last year I remember the North Alabama fans were behind us because I remember them showering us with all that confetti and crap. Then we made our own confetti and threw it at them. Why couldn't UND put the GVSU fans there again? They are seats between the 30's. Quote
UND-GARY Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 It seemed like there was more than 8,200 to me also. I talked to a person in the athletic department Friday afternoon and they said that there was a little over 8,000 tickets sold at that time and were counting on a decent walkup also, like usual. Makes me wonder how only 8,200 were there? Quote
RD17 Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 There's no way there were only 8200 fans at that game. My internal crowd estimating device had it pegged at 10,271 fans. Quote
spfreak Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 I don't know how reliable of a source Swygman is but he said during the bb game on friday night that they had sold over 13,000 tickets sold at that point (that seemed a little excessive) but there were at least 10,000 there and man it was loud as I remember in a while there. Quote
teamsioux Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 Yeah, no doubt doubt the count hit 10,000+.....the Bison pad their counts by 5-7,000, UND subtract 2-3,000! Quote
kicker31098 Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 It seemed to me there were more than 8222 there. Quote
UND-1 Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 This may seem a little unrealistic to some but I really believe it has something to do with it. The NCAA takes their portion of the gate for all the NCAA Playoff games. So what UND does is reduces the number of people who attended the game and by stating that as the official number, that is what the NCAA takes from the gate. Therefore, if there was 1,000 more tickets sold than that, UND gets the profits from those tickets, without sharing. Just one man's theory. Quote
UND Fan Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 This may seem a little unrealistic to some but I really believe it has something to do with it. Quote
UND92,96 Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 I think what happened is that all spectators who weren't UND students, children or senior citizens ($18 per ticket) counted as one spectator. Children and seniors ($11 per ticket) counted as 11/18ths of a spectator, and UND students ($5 per ticket) counted as 5/18ths of a spectator. Quote
UND Fan Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 I think what happened is that all spectators who weren't UND students, children or senior citizens ($18 per ticket) counted as one spectator. Children and seniors ($11 per ticket) counted as 11/18ths of a spectator, and UND students ($5 per ticket) counted as 5/18ths of a spectator. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That is quite possible - quite stupid, but quite possible! Quote
UND-1 Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 I think what happened is that all spectators who weren't UND students, children or senior citizens ($18 per ticket) counted as one spectator. Children and seniors ($11 per ticket) counted as 11/18ths of a spectator, and UND students ($5 per ticket) counted as 5/18ths of a spectator. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I never thought of it that way! Quote
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