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Can U get football fans back?
Gophers athletic director Mark Coyle said he firmly believes this year will see an increase in Gophers football attendance after some disappointing seasons at the ticket window, including an average of 37,914 fans per game in 2018, their lowest mark since 1992.
The most recent attendance data from the NCAA, from 2017, ranked the Gophers eighth in the Big Ten Conference with 310,506 fans at seven home games, an average of 44,358.
But that season, the distance between the Gophers and the seventh-ranked school, Iowa, was an additional 153,851 total fans for the Hawkeyes home games. That gap was larger than the gap between the Gophers and Northwestern, which had the lowest conference attendance with 250,969 fans.
How does Coyle feel about season ticket renewals this year?
“Our season ticket renewals are out and people have been renewing,” Coyle said. “We feel very confident that we’ll have an increase in ticket sales this year, based on a couple factors.
“Obviously again winning three of those final four games and the excitement that coach [P.J.] Fleck and his staff have brought with their recruiting classes the past couple of years, that has been a big jolt to our program. Also our home schedule next year, we feel like we’ve got a really good home schedule. We have Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn State — three home games right there that will generate a lot of interest. We’re trying to be creative and earn people back to TCF Bank Stadium.”
http://www.startribune.com/will-vikings-break-trend-and-draft-an-offensive-lineman/508852752/
Go Gophers!!
Can U get football fans back?
Gophers athletic director Mark Coyle said he firmly believes this year will see an increase in Gophers football attendance after some disappointing seasons at the ticket window, including an average of 37,914 fans per game in 2018, their lowest mark since 1992.
The most recent attendance data from the NCAA, from 2017, ranked the Gophers eighth in the Big Ten Conference with 310,506 fans at seven home games, an average of 44,358.
But that season, the distance between the Gophers and the seventh-ranked school, Iowa, was an additional 153,851 total fans for the Hawkeyes home games. That gap was larger than the gap between the Gophers and Northwestern, which had the lowest conference attendance with 250,969 fans.
How does Coyle feel about season ticket renewals this year?
“Our season ticket renewals are out and people have been renewing,” Coyle said. “We feel very confident that we’ll have an increase in ticket sales this year, based on a couple factors.
“Obviously again winning three of those final four games and the excitement that coach [P.J.] Fleck and his staff have brought with their recruiting classes the past couple of years, that has been a big jolt to our program. Also our home schedule next year, we feel like we’ve got a really good home schedule. We have Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn State — three home games right there that will generate a lot of interest. We’re trying to be creative and earn people back to TCF Bank Stadium.”
http://www.startribune.com/will-vikings-break-trend-and-draft-an-offensive-lineman/508852752/
Go Gophers!!