Eagle Insider: From the Desk of Tom Kleinlein (Alcohol / Kickoff times / Attendance)

[GSU08]

why do you people gaf about how our attendance is calculated? Us announcing a loser to actual attending instead of inflating the numbers doesn't make us look bad to the average college football fan. At most, it creates some forum banter, but outside of that, who actually cares on if our attendance is listed as 18k or 20k? What actual difference does it make? Zero, it makes zero difference. If we went 12-0, would anyone actually give a damn about our attendance numbers? No. They would not

[gsudarlin]

The entire athletic dept does pretty much and this is nothing new. They've been reading this site for 20+ years. When I was first introduced to Danny Reed, he already knew my board handle lol.

I know for a fact Danny does NOT read the board, but he obviously reals to people who do lol

As far as all these questions they are addressing, they were all pretty much asked and answered during the radio show a few weeks ago when different staffers filled in for Chad. so it's not necessarily that TK reads the board, but could simply be that 'he' wanted to elaborate on some of those answers and makes sure everyone had access to them since they keep getting asked over and over and over

[CJAK]

We can scream "do right" all we want, but that won't stop us from being relegated to being a slightly cooler version of VSU.

We better learn to play that game the way the rules are laid out. Not the way we wish they were.

Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching. Sounds like our villainous AD and our program is trying to have some integrity.

Let’s not turn this into something bigger than it is. I would rather have 17k and report 17k than have 2k and announce 23k.

[GSU08]

Its a very big deal.

Big deal to recruits (who probably really do think they will play in front of larger crowds at Gag.)

Its a huge deal to sponsors (who will sometimes throw big money at a school they never even visit) based on fraudulent numbers. (Do you really think corporate sponsors spend time traveling to several stadiums? No. The bigger ones do not.)

Just because it’s not a big deal to you doesn’t mean it’s not a big deal to us. We need to take advantage of every single opportunity. Gag is gonna be the next App if we sleepwalk on stuff like attendance numbers and beer sales.

do you really think the recruits that came to the ULL game went online, looked at attendance and went "Oh man.... I thought it was 2k more than that. You know what, I'm going somewhere else". That's stupid.

[eaglewraith]

So you are saying they are intentionally scheduling the games at times that less people will show up? That make tons of sense. Maybe, just maybe, "they" know something those of us on a messageboard don't?

Well it ain't to beat the weather this weekend, or it would be moved to a way different time.

And it ain't the fair cause that's next week.

And average temp at this time is warmer than it's going to be at 3pm this weeekend so it ain't that.

So I'm open to suggestions.

UGA playing at 6 is the only logical explanation, but even Gast isn't afraid of that since they're kicking off at 7 and they're actually putting out announcements that they're running short on tickets, therefore elevating their demand through scarcity. As it stands, we'll never have that issue at Georgia Southern because we decided that it's going to be impossible to announce a 20k+ crowd now.

[CJAK]

Be careful what you wish for.

We don’t complete better against these clowns, and our reported 2k might be an actual 2k.

I would never want my alma mater to sacrifice integrity over something as silly as reported attendance. Those other schools are a joke and I don’t want us to be a part of the punchline.

[Klak]

Since 2010:



Or to put it another way:



That's an average difference of 3,693 people. So for those 20 early games X 3,693 extra tickets = 73,860 tickets sales lost.

[KJ Eagle]

Its a very big deal.

Big deal to recruits (who probably really do think they will play in front of larger crowds at Gag.)

Its a huge deal to sponsors (who will sometimes throw big money at a school they never even visit) based on fraudulent numbers. (Do you really think corporate sponsors spend time traveling to several stadiums? No. The bigger ones do not.)

Just because it’s not a big deal to you doesn’t mean it’s not a big deal to us. We need to take advantage of every single opportunity. Gag is gonna be the next App if we sleepwalk on stuff like attendance numbers and beer sales.

So what you're saying is we should LIE to all of these recruits and sponsors that are interested in GS?!? Yeah, that makes a ton of sense. "Hey Mr Chick-Fil-A, we have 50,000 people come to our games, you should send us bags and bags full of money". Besides, recruits that are looking to come here WILL visit and will actually see how many people are in the seats. Same thing with sponsors. Do you honestly think that someone is going to spend good money to sponsor a stadium or a part of a stadium without visiting that stadium?

The "because they are doing it" excuse is not a good enough one to make us lie.

[KJ Eagle]

Be careful what you wish for.

We don’t complete better against these clowns, and our reported 2k might be an actual 2k.

You just don't have any grasp of reality do you?

[GATAlac El Dorado]

Its a very big deal.

Big deal to recruits (who probably really do think they will play in front of larger crowds at Gag.)

Its a huge deal to sponsors (who will sometimes throw big money at a school they never even visit) based on fraudulent numbers. (Do you really think corporate sponsors spend time traveling to several stadiums? No. The bigger ones do not.)

Just because it’s not a big deal to you doesn’t mean it’s not a big deal to us. We need to take advantage of every single opportunity. Gag is gonna be the next App if we sleepwalk on stuff like attendance numbers and beer sales.

Recruits make visits and will be influenced by what their eyes tell them. Sponsors ain’t as stupid as you think, either.