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    VeggieDog
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    College football heads in wrong direction with largest attendance drop in 34 years

    https://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...p-in-34-years/

    Major-college football experienced its largest per-game attendance drop in 34 years and second-largest ever, according to recently released NCAA figures.
    Attendance among the 129 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams in 2017 was down an average of 1,409 fans per game from 2016. That marked the largest drop since 1983 when average attendance declined 1,527 fans per game from 1982.
    The 2017 FBS average of 42,203 fans per game is the lowest since 1997.
    That average attendance drop marked the second-sharpest decline since the NCAA began keeping track of college football attendance in 1948. For the first time in history, average attendance declined nationally for four consecutive seasons.


    The 2017 numbers include FBS home games, neutral-site games, bowl games and the College Football Playoff.
    Since establishing an all-time high average attendance in 2008 (46,971), FBS attendance has slipped a record 10.1 percent over the last nine years.

    More at the link....

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    football in general is becoming less popular because of the brutality of the sport

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    newguy
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    More expensive to go, more options when watching game at home, people have less time for these kinds of things. It’s a bad position.

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    technology ruined it

    Too easy at home or wherever you are to get everything real time and FREE

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    coaches suck, players suck, officials suck

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    Why don't you post correct font?

    I feel like i'm trying to read the bottom line on an eye chart...............

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    Major-college football experienced its largest per-game attendance drop in 34 years and second-largest ever, according to recently released NCAA figures.


    Attendance among the 129 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams in 2017 was down an average of 1,409 fans per game from 2016. That marked the largest drop since 1983 when average attendance declined 1,527 fans per game from 1982.


    The 2017 FBS average of 42,203 fans per game is the lowest since 1997.


    That average attendance drop marked the second-sharpest decline since the NCAA began keeping track of college football attendance in 1948. For the first time in history, average attendance declined nationally for four consecutive seasons.


    The 2017 numbers include FBS home games, neutral-site games, bowl games and the College Football Playoff.


    Since establishing an all-time high average attendance in 2008 (46,971), FBS attendance has slipped a record 10.1 percent over the last nine years.

    More at the link....

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    psu increased

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    I think all these kiddy fukkers and crooked programs being outed everyday has a lot to do with it
    as anyone can get Anti establishent,pro student right's documentaries out to large audiences in cyberworld at minimum costs...........

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    Quote Originally Posted by newguy View Post
    More expensive to go, more options when watching game at home, people have less time for these kinds of things. It’s a bad position.
    One more thing: FCS teams keep moving up to FBS at a rate of about one per year. Coastal Carolina moved up this year and averaged 15,000 in home attendance,

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    Too easy to watch in the comfort of your own home. Not worth it to spend the time and money when you can watch it on the big screen at home with whatever snacks and drinks you want.

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    Kermit
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    College football isn't a real sport anyways.

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    Cheaper at home

    Empty seats now all over the place almost every sport nightly

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    Quote Originally Posted by newguy View Post
    More expensive to go, more options when watching game at home, people have less time for these kinds of things. It’s a bad position.
    This was the right answer.

    At my FCS alma mater, it was $5 for tickets, no matter which game back in the late 90s.

    Went back for homecoming 20 years later, $20 was the cheapest. And this team isn't good and never was.

    4X increase. And for what?

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    all ears for this one. preach

    Quote Originally Posted by Kermit View Post
    College football isn't a real sport anyways.

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    I think I went to one college football game all my life

    HS games even a rip off

    FUK THEM

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