Attendance Understand!!!!

[KeeprOFtheHous]

For those of you who keep thinking about the NCAA and their attendance requirements, name the last school droped from 1a becuase of this rule??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????i am guessing you can think and cant find one. they wil not drop akron even if we averaged 10K per game for the next 5 years, it wont happen.

[RowdyZip]

um...yeah. it could happen. the rules have recently changed, much to the chagrin of us and other "mid majors." You're right though, it wouldnt happen for at least 3 years...hopefully by then we'll have a new stadium comin...

[ziptrumpet87]

If I read the rules right, that may be part of the reason they said the new stadium would be 25k (30k seat stadium = must avg 15k attendance, under 30k seats the rule would not apply) and expandable to 40k or whatever. If you get to the point where you need to expand, the 15k attendance requirement is moot.

[Wally B]

Must this topic go on FOREVER??????? The rules have changed twice.Originally you had to average 15,000 in paid attendance. Akron wqas the first school to move up to D1a and the city of Akron garunteed attendance by purchasing enough tickets to meet the quota. Problem. Some schools got lazy and relied upon this. Akron could have possibly been guilty in that as well.Rules were changed to butts in seats to counteract this trend at the lower levels of D1a. It worked and renewed efforts to increase attendance.Problem..... See thanksgiving day game 2005.Rule change back. Rules were once again amended to state that it was paid attendance. NO i repeat NO D1a school will have a problem meeting this requirement.+