Increase in soccer attendance???

[TennZip]

     the main web page...features an article by the relatively new associate AD for Marketing.    47% increase in men's soccer attendance????

   

   I have highlighted in bold.....the men's soccer words from Seth McFall.    While his words are encouraging, I do not agree with his math.   See my calculations...below.    

In coordination with our ticket office, our fall sport ad campaign was launched with the intent to create awareness of our home events, while executing engaging content that would entice the user to interact with our materials.  Our coordinated attack with group sales and digital ads, Akron Athletics saw increases in all three of our Fall Olympic sports.  Men's Soccer saw a 69% increase in group sales, as well as a 47% increase in game attendance.

 

https://gozips.com/news/2024/1/24/general-message-from-the-ad-contributing-series-seth-mcfall

 

Actual attendance from box scores...on schedules

2022  regular season home games

 

VCU 1,488   wright st 1,418   mich st 1,411    ohio state   2.237   Duq   1,209    NIU  1,222   BGSU 1,129

cleve st  1,419    chicago st   938    west mich   1,477

 

attendance of 13,948    10 regular season home games   

average of 1,394.8 per home game

 

2023 regular season home games

Niag    1,174    Vermont 1,618   S. Ind  1,198   long Island 1,691    FIU   1,302   Providence  2,042    Notre Dame   2,535

Seton H  1,831   N. KY  1,965   DePaul  1,743    Cleve St   855    Marquette   1,590

 

attendance of 19,544 for regular season home games     12 regular season home games

average of 1,628.667 per home game

 

1,628.667 per game is better than 1,394.8 per game

 

but it is a % increase of 16.767% per game

 

where do Seth MCfall and Charles Guthrie get their 47% increase in game attendance

 

 

at first, I thought that they might have done total attendance...even though that is unfair.......because 2023 is 12 home games

and 2022 is 10 home games

 

even if they are that unlogical, 19,544 total attendance for 12 games is a 40.1 % increase over 13,948 for 10 games

 

 

I can't come up with a 47% increase

 

   even If I include the 2022 post season attendance....., I can't come up with their wonderful % increase figures

 

the weather must have been awful for the 2022 post season games????

mac title game in 2022 ...they show attendance of only 942 in Akron

2nd round ncaa tournament game in 2022...they show attendace of only 586 in Akron for the game against Pitt

 

if you add those 2 games to the 10 regular season games, you get 15,476 attendance for 12 games

that is avg. attendance of 1,289.667 per game

so 1,628.667 in 2023 is an increase of 26.29% per game

 

 

 

47% increase alleged by McFall and Guthrie.....does not agree with the facts

 

and if you look close, the move from the MAC to the Big East.......was responsible for a large portion of the attendance increase

rather than anything done by McFall and Guthrie

 

MAC league games in 2022

NIU   1,222    BGSU   1,129   Chicago   938   WMU   1,477

attendance of 4,766 for league games...avg. attendance of 1,194.5

 

Big East League games in 2023

Prov   2,042   Seton Hall 1,831    DePaul 1,743   Marquette  1,590

attendance of 7,206 for league games...avg. attendance of 1,801.5 for big east games

51.2% increase in attendance for league games

 

better competition....accounted for the better attendance.

 

I am glad that the athletic department....is trying to do new informative articles.....but I feel like I am being misled by Guthrie and McFall "new math"

 

[Reslife4Life]

Yes, the 2022 postseason games had awful weather. The game against Pitt was the worst game I have ever stood through, that includes the 2018 game against Rider. I'm assuming one of the numbers is tickets sold and one is actual scanned in tickets. One of those two isn't made public and I'm guessing that is where they got the 47% increase

[fknbuflobo]

43 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Yes, the 2022 postseason games had awful weather. The game against Pitt was the worst game I have ever stood through, that includes the 2018 game against Rider. I'm assuming one of the numbers is tickets sold and one is actual scanned in tickets. One of those two isn't made public and I'm guessing that is where they got the 47% increase

Forgive me for not addressing the central point.  That 2022 Pitt NCAAT match was both very cold AND miserable.  

[zippy-claws]

On 1/24/2024 at 2:24 PM, TennZip said:

 the main web page...features an article by the relatively new associate AD for Marketing.    47% increase in men's soccer attendance????

 

This is totally outrageous.  Total BS.  Granted, I was in FL most of the season, but still made it to 5 home matches while visiting family, and there was absolutely no increase in attendance, at best it was equal?  I do say though that Women's soccer seemed to have a better attendance, although slightly, than in past seasons at the 5 matches we attended as well.  Thank you TennZip for calling this out.  At this rate Mr. McFall and AD Guthrie will have us at 15,000 per game attendance for football in 2024!  😆

[TennZip]

I still think that AD Guthrie is comparing total attendance for 12 home games in 2023......vs. 10 regular season home games in 2022.

    McFall and Guthrie need to stop trying to snow us....

 

Women's attendance was better....when you look at the box scores

2022

YSU    250  ; Niagara  202  ; Kent St 273  ; E. Mich 218 ; BG   294  ; CMU  322 ; Toledo  407  ; Ohio    246

 

8 games ...total attendance of 2,212 ...avg. attendance of 276.5

 

2023 -  games 6 to 8 this  year.....were much higher than the first 5...that is encouraging

Rob Morris  142  ;  Dayton  442 ; Boston 395 ; Buffalo 318 ;  NIU 238  ; W. Mich 705 ; Ball St 662 ; Miami 719 ; Ohio  319

 

9 games...total attendance of 3,940  ...avg. attendance of 437.8

 

437.8 in 2023 is 58.3% improvement over 276.5 in 2022....