Topic: Predict attendance for first game against Miami..

[The E-Man]

With all the hype about us having a successful year, it will be interesting to see how our ticket sales increase. I'm predicting we will have at least 34k for the first game against a much hated Miami. It could be more, because our fans are hungry to return back to winning championships again..

[mxman870]

33,333.33  ???

[BerkshireHerdFan]

I think 34k  sounds about right if the weather is good. Bad weather we'll get 27k

[W0lfman]

we'll probably have 34, but announced will be 31. 

[GoHerd2010]

Night game + good weather =  well over 30,0000

Bad weather I'd say 27-28,000

[svherd]

Good weather - 31,849.

[FlyHawk98]

Good weather I'm going to say 34,486.

Bad weather I will say 28,792

[The Greenhouse Effect]

Even with all the hype a pornstar can muster while he pulls out his 38... ranking, I'd speculate around 25000 good weather and 23000 bad weather.

It's going to take some convincing before that band wagon fills in my humble opinion.

Ahia U.

[carolinaherdfan]

we'll probably have 34, but announced will be 31. 

I think Wolf nailed it right here.

[Carolina_Thor]

32K

[goherdies]

Announced will be 29k. Which will be pretty accurate. It cracks me up that people think a school would under report attendance. No reason to do that unless you were trying to hide money...

[Huffnagel]

30,000 max. But with the average Appalachian butt being wider than the 18" seat they're allotted, it will look like 34,000.

[2xBison]

Announced will be 29k. Which will be pretty accurate. It cracks me up that people think a school would under report attendance. No reason to do that unless you were trying to hide money...

eerfans on herd boards crack me up

[IM4DHERD]

Seriously, is there a history of under reporting?  I wonder why they would do that...

Does the Labor Day weekend and lack of students play into people's predictions?

[carolinaherdfan]

Announced will be 29k. Which will be pretty accurate. It cracks me up that people think a school would under report attendance. No reason to do that unless you were trying to hide money...

Herdies I have followed your team my entire life, and they are experts at doing this. Not to mention the entire MAC conference.

[SuperAnjario]

With good weather, way way way over 30k. 

[OHIO1804]

attendance for Ohio game was 33,436. Sounds like that may be a good O/U number for predictions.

[vandalia]

27,142

vandalia

[BHFIOHIO]

walk ups will more than make up for any slip in STs with us winning 4 out of every 5 games

[backontrack]

31,700 (as posted in my prediction for ALL home games on July 6)...

[BuyNtelos4]

Why would we under report tickets sold?  We are tax exe,pt?? Are we trying to hide money from the State anyway, so that they can't expect it to be allocated for certain things, or so that they will provide us with more state funds because they think we made 100,000 less than we actually did???!

[Gaylen]

Either 87,896 or 19. Not sure which. It could actually fall somewhere in between those numbers at around 34,067.

[Big City]

28,329 if it is a nice day.

Bad weather that number will take a serious nose dive.

[firstate]

20,000....heavy rain

[MarshallGrad]

we'll probably have 34, but announced will be 31. 

It usually goes the other direction: half empty announced as 25k.