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Silenoz wrote:Conference Montanas

This sounds about right.

I'd like to say the Big Sky, but I suspect that the right answer might be either the CAA or the SoCon. Perhaps Ivy, but the lower tier schools there might skew the numbers down significantly.

Probably the SWAC.

Shouldnt FCS attendance be somewhere in the 20k's on average?Especially if FBS attendance is around 50k on average?

Who says FBS attendance averages 50K? That might be true at a few schools, but if the directional Michigans and directional Louisianas average 50K, I'll eat my hat.

I couldn't find the avg. attendance figures for 2011 (and I'm not calculating it), but here's the 2010 numbers:

01. SWAC: 14,605
02. Southern: 13,101
03. Colonial: 11,205
04. MVFC: 10,982
05. MEAC: 10,930
06. Big Sky: 9,769
07. Ivy League: 9,613
08. Southland: 9,083
09. Ohio Valley: 8,308
10. Great West: 7,984
11. Big South: 6,879
12. Patriot: 5,295
13. Pioneer: 3,051

∞∞∞ wrote:I couldn't find the avg. attendance figures for 2011 (and I'm not calculating it), but here's the 2010 numbers:

03. Colonial: 11,205

JMU's increase along with replacing URI with GaSt should move the CAA higher.

89Hen wrote:

∞∞∞ wrote:I couldn't find the avg. attendance figures for 2011 (and I'm not calculating it), but here's the 2010 numbers:

03. Colonial: 11,205

JMU's increase along with replacing URI with GaSt should move the CAA higher.

Old Dominion is probably not in that 2010 number either.

MVFC's is up in 2011, guaranteed

lakesbison wrote:MVFC's is up in 2011, guaranteed

oh yeah and who's going. to be providing the bump?

in fact, it.looks like USD is goiNg to bring it down, if anything

SoCon is surprisingly good even considering ASU probably bumps up the average at couple of thousand. 5 schools with enrollment around 4000 or lower in the heart of SEC and ACC football country.

89Hen wrote:

∞∞∞ wrote:I couldn't find the avg. attendance figures for 2011 (and I'm not calculating it), but here's the 2010 numbers:

03. Colonial: 11,205

JMU's increase along with replacing URI with GaSt should move the CAA higher.

For the 2011, the CAA's avg. attendance was at 11,757 which is an increase of 552. I'm not gonna calculate every conference for 2011, but of the top 4 conferences, it was:

1. Southern: 12,172
2. Colonial: 11,757
3. MVFC: 11,228
4. Big Sky: 10,281

OL FU wrote:SoCon is surprisingly good even considering ASU probably bumps up the average at couple of thousand. 5 schools with enrollment around 4000 or lower in the heart of SEC and ACC football country.

That made me laugh. Of course I was looking at it from an Old North State point of view so I'll give you Clumpson

∞∞∞ wrote:

89Hen wrote: JMU's increase along with replacing URI with GaSt should move the CAA higher.

For the 2011, the CAA's avg. attendance was at 11,757 which is an increase of 552. I'm not gonna calculate every conference for 2011, but of the top 4 conferences, it was:

1. Southern: 12,172
2. Colonial: 11,757
3. MVFC: 11,228
4. Big Sky: 10,281

Socon? Wow! I wonder will the Big Sky attendance go up or down now that there's 13 teams.

∞∞∞ wrote:

89Hen wrote: JMU's increase along with replacing URI with GaSt should move the CAA higher.

For the 2011, the CAA's avg. attendance was at 11,757 which is an increase of 552. I'm not gonna calculate every conference for 2011, but of the top 4 conferences, it was:

1. Southern: 12,172
2. Colonial: 11,757
3. MVFC: 11,228
4. Big Sky: 10,281

Not to nitpick, but these numbers are not quite right. You summed the averages of the 11 CAA schools and divided by 11. If you weighted the number of games, the CAA average is a little higher. Take the Accum Attendance and divide by the number of games.

CAA Flagship wrote:

∞∞∞ wrote: For the 2011, the CAA's avg. attendance was at 11,757 which is an increase of 552. I'm not gonna calculate every conference for 2011, but of the top 4 conferences, it was:

1. Southern: 12,172
2. Colonial: 11,757
3. MVFC: 11,228
4. Big Sky: 10,281

Not to nitpick, but these numbers are not quite right. You summed the averages of the 11 CAA schools and divided by 11. If you weighted the number of games, the CAA average is a little higher. Take the Accum Attendance and divide by the number of games.

Thanks for the clarification, Poindexter.

93henfan wrote:

CAA Flagship wrote: Not to nitpick, but these numbers are not quite right. You summed the averages of the 11 CAA schools and divided by 11. If you weighted the number of games, the CAA average is a little higher. Take the Accum Attendance and divide by the number of games.

Thanks for the clarification, Poindexter.

Just because you are hungry doesn't mean you have to take it out on me.

proasu89 wrote:

OL FU wrote:SoCon is surprisingly good even considering ASU probably bumps up the average at couple of thousand. 5 schools with enrollment around 4000 or lower in the heart of SEC and ACC football country.

That made me laugh. Of course I was looking at it from an Old North State point of view so I'll give you Clumpson

I know I know but yes. But if you add the NC ACC Schools together they draw pretty good.


Clemson is right down the road from us and Wofford. Not that we really compete, but if they weren't their we would pick up some of our own alma mater who have abandoned us along with some general football fans.

In the 2011 season, the CAA played 60 home games with a reported total attendance of 727478, for an average home attendance of 12124.

The CAA played 68 away games in 2011, with a reported total attendance of 1062858, for an average attendance of 15630.

The teams represented include the following programs with Home and Away attendance for games:

Towson 7/8949- 5/15158
ODU 7/19818 - 6/10912
Maine 5/5803 - 8/14451
New Hamp 5/7525 - 7/12817
UD 6/19018 - 5/13714
JMU 5/25002 - 8/17418
W&M 5/11014 - 6/16215
RI 5/4715 - 6/16505
Villanova 5-9898 - 5/16230
RU 6/8700 - 5/21273
UMass 4/10004 - 7/17860

Note: Attendance was not reported for one Villanova game, and UMass away stats include one neutral site game.

∞∞∞ wrote:

89Hen wrote: JMU's increase along with replacing URI with GaSt should move the CAA higher.

For the 2011, the CAA's avg. attendance was at 11,757 which is an increase of 552. I'm not gonna calculate every conference for 2011, but of the top 4 conferences, it was:

1. Southern: 12,172
2. Colonial: 11,757
3. MVFC: 11,228
4. Big Sky: 10,281

Not sure where you got your number for the CAA, but I just went to each school and reviewed their official stats for the 2011 season.

The combined attendance for 168 CAA games (all opponents, home and away) was 1,790,336, for an average attendance (for all games) of 13,987.

If you total just CAA venues/games, the average attendance is 12,124 (60 games and 727478 total attendance).

So the SWAC fell that dramatically this year to not even make the top 4?

Sly Fox wrote:So the SWAC fell that dramatically this year to not even make the top 4?

The Swac is NOT FCS. They are 1-AA

BlackFalkin wrote:

Sly Fox wrote:So the SWAC fell that dramatically this year to not even make the top 4?

The Swac is NOT FCS. They are 1-AA