The Official USD to D-I Smack Thread

[jackmd]

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SUPERBUNNY, your post implies you were at the USD game since you were counting those 1 out of 5 empty seats.

I was shocked when I read the attendance figure in the Argus because I would have bet you $20 that the attendance was at least 8500 from what I witnessed at the game. The students actually overflowed the west stands and they had to arrange for overflow seating on the east stands.

I am not saying the Dome was at capacity or overflowing, but there was a pretty decent crowd, especially since it was Labor Day weekend and the competition was less than compelling.

I tuned in to listen to Warren Swain (I think thats his name) and it sounded like 750 people and several crickets. Maybe the microphones don't transmit crowd noise well. I've got a lot of friends who are Udot fans and none of them went to the game.

[rational thought]

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SUPERBUNNY, your post implies you were at the USD game since you were counting those 1 out of 5 empty seats.

I was shocked when I read the attendance figure in the Argus because I would have bet you $20 that the attendance was at least 8500 from what I witnessed at the game. The students actually overflowed the west stands and they had to arrange for overflow seating on the east stands.

I am not saying the Dome was at capacity or overflowing, but there was a pretty decent crowd, especially since it was Labor Day weekend and the competition was less than compelling.

Did you employ the tactics of the Chinese at the Olympics...computer animation.

[Yote53]

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SUPERBUNNY, your post implies you were at the USD game since you were counting those 1 out of 5 empty seats.

I was shocked when I read the attendance figure in the Argus because I would have bet you $20 that the attendance was at least 8500 from what I witnessed at the game. The students actually overflowed the west stands and they had to arrange for overflow seating on the east stands.

I am not saying the Dome was at capacity or overflowing, but there was a pretty decent crowd, especially since it was Labor Day weekend and the competition was less than compelling.

[SUPERBUNNY]

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It really is said that USD's numbers are so laughably off. With 7,800 in the stands there should only be 1 in 5 seats empty. That wasn't even close to the case.

In South Dakota, there's SDSU and then there's not exactly.

USD Coyotes, South Dakota's JV Team!

SUPERBUNNY

[launcher46]

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7,800 or so at the Dome, according to USD. That means there were somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people there. Take away the usual USD freebie quotient and probably 1,500 to 3,000 were paying customers.

7,800 isn't bad. What does that place hold 9,000? Maybe 10,000 if they let people stand in every nook and cranny of that big time stadium.

[SturgisJeff]

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Okay school has started or will start shortly and where is the U-dumps mens basketball schedule? Did they not get enough teams scheduled? Are they keeping it a secret so as to avoid the inevitable and expected ridicule? Inquiring minds want to know. Oh and what a successful start to their first game as a FCS in football. A leaping victory over an NAIA school as their website calls it.

[UTH]

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That's the dumbest post I have seen here in a long time, and just isn't supported by the facts.

Any Bison fans care to comment on whether there were 16,000-plus at the Dakota Marker game? Our ticket office uses these new-fangled turnstiles to actually count the people who come in. And here's the cool thing. If people have a ticket to an SDSU athletic event, they paid for it. We're not giving tickets away to boost attendance. Check the Regents' site for gate receipts from last year. Wasn't even close.

16,000 would be the bare minimum. It beat seating capacity, that's for absolute sure. The section I was in had people packing in, nice and tight. People were standing along the sidelines and in the corners behind the endzones. It was the best outdoor gameday atmosphere I've experienced in a very long time.

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[JimmyJack]

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Since the dump is considered Cough-Lin Alumni you were definately right about that. In the Dakotadome there were probably at least 2K paying but probably not really 7,500+ in attandance.

At the real dump in Brookings they count misquitos and flies which really ups the attandance by hundreds of thousands.

That's the dumbest post I have seen here in a long time, and just isn't supported by the facts.

Any Bison fans care to comment on whether there were 16,000-plus at the Dakota Marker game? Our ticket office uses these new-fangled turnstiles to actually count the people who come in. And here's the cool thing. If people have a ticket to an SDSU athletic event, they paid for it. We're not giving tickets away to boost attendance. Check the Regents' site for gate receipts from last year. Wasn't even close.

[Nidaros]

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Since the dump is considered Cough-Lin Alumni you were definately right about that. In the Dakotadome there were probably at least 2K paying but probably not really 7,500+ in attandance.

At the real dump in Brookings they count misquitos and flies which really ups the attandance by hundreds of thousands.

I am giving you rep points out of pity. I really dont want to see that little red square on the right side of your posts.

[jackrabit1]

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Ah, that wunderfel USD edjekashun at wirk!

[Coyote_Fan]

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I'd bet a large sum of money that there were not more than 2000 paying customers in the dump last night.

Since the dump is considered Cough-Lin Alumni you were definately right about that. In the Dakotadome there were probably at least 2K paying but probably not really 7,500+ in attandance.

At the real dump in Brookings they count misquitos and flies which really ups the attandance by hundreds of thousands.

[sfjacksfan99]

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Using coyote math, does this mean there's going to be about 25k at CAS Saturday?

[jackmd]

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I'd bet a large sum of money that there were not more than 2000 paying customers in the dump last night.

[1bunnies]

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7,800 or so at the Dome, according to USD. That means there were somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people there. Take away the usual USD freebie quotient and probably 1,500 to 3,000 were paying customers.

Most likely less than a few hundred who really care.

[JimmyJack]

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7,800 or so at the Dome, according to USD. That means there were somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people there. Take away the usual USD freebie quotient and probably 1,500 to 3,000 were paying customers.