True cost of lack of attendance

#51
#51
The university has an average dollar spent calculation for each fan in attendance. Although 84k tickets were sold, they will also use their formula to calculate lost $ on the 40k fans that were not there.
 
#52
#52
I'm the op. not claiming anything. I think the $20 pp concessions/souvenirs sounds about right. so 20k empty seats unsold plus 45k * $20 is 1.9 million. assuming a firing/buyout, and similar numbers for the last 2 games, dooley gonna cost ut over $10 million the month of november when u include salary as well.
 
#53
#53
Me, my wife & boy for Troy game.
tickets 43.43 a piece with tax
two hot dogs & souvenier soda cup 18 dollars
one popcore & diet coke 10 dollars
Your math seems pretty right on
 
#54
#54
I guess natural attrition when they get to the point they can no longer pay Dooley's annual salary they will understand. As for me, I am holding on to my money until he's gone.That simple.
 
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BurnieVeazey said:
So I see where there were 60k estimated for Troy. Is $50 per person too conservative a figure to account for lost ticket sales and concessions (with factoring in some who paid for tickets but did not go)?

45,000 x $50 a ticket= 2.25 million lost revenue for ONE game. Is this number too high or too low you think?

Bringing in Gruden immediately (about a .0001% chance of this happening of course)=full capacity, 4.5 million additional revenue for remaining two home games.... safe assumption?
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There is absolutely no way to bring Gruden in and have him coach a game this year.

Also, there was always going to be a lower attendance for Troy than our remaining two conference games. So there will naturally be a bit of a boost in attendance just based on that fact.
 
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volquest86 said:
This is no joke of the attendance. I took this pic late bout 20 mins until kickoff..sad!
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That's how it always looks 20 minutes prior to kickoff lol. UT fans don't like to show up until halfway through the 1st quarter.

The saddest showing of all was the student section. It was pathetic.
 
#57
#57
A lot of the tickets were already sold through season ticket sales. Where they really lose money with low attendance is concessions. The local economy also takes a hit.
 
#58
#58
Attendance isn't as big a factor as it once was.

20 years ago it was a lot different. Not every game we played was on television and even if it was the average person had a 20" tv and it was much more fun to be there in person.

Today 60" + HD tv's are common, every game is on TV somewhere, and you can save the $4.00 a gallon fuel, $20 parking, hours of hassle driving and sitting on the road in traffic, beat the weather in your own living room, and do the 50 other things we all do on weekends these days like taking your kids to the soccer game, mow the grass, go to the hardware store get the widget to fix the what's it, and still make it home in time to see the game.

Right now every sport has the same problem. NASCAR at Bristol sold out for how many years until recently?

As it is now the TV revenue shared by the conference teams is keeping the University paid, fat, and happy. Buts in the seats are just a bonus.

40 years ago the University cared more about the local economic impact of the games a whole lot more than they do now for a ton of different reasons chief of which is it used to be controlled by local business people who were the trustees. Not so much now as it was years ago. The majority of the Trustees don't live within 100 miles of Knoxville.

I'm not sure that 100,000 seats today is as practical as it once was.
 
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Thrasher865 said:
That's how it always looks 20 minutes prior to kickoff lol. UT fans don't like to show up until halfway through the 1st quarter.

The saddest showing of all was the student section. It was pathetic.
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back in 2006 every home game i went to...cal, florida, lsu...the seats were filled almost an hr to kickoff! ppl actually showed up early to watch our team warmup! it was great to see that then....how things changed :no:
 
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VolsFanRJ said:
A lot of the tickets were already sold through season ticket sales. Where they really lose money with low attendance is concessions. The local economy also takes a hit.
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This ^. We decided to go to the game on Wed. Called and every hotel in the area had rooms. The front parking lot had about 30 cars in it and only about 10 of those were tailgating. Pathetic.
 
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