Below are photos from the Alabama versus WSU matchup on 12/17/2013. At #11 at time of play, we were the second highest ranked team to visit their morgue... err... sorry, "Coleman Coliseum" during the 2013-2014 season. The season immediately preceding, Alabama had finished second in the SEC.
The 'official' attendance at the game below? Try not to laugh, but 9918, or a claimed 2/3rds full. Yeah... uh, huh.
While their paid attendance is roughly equivalent to ours, their actual butts-in-seats is a long, longs ways from that number. According to information posted by @Art Bunch: earlier today in this very thread (post #1488), Alabama has never come CLOSE to averaging full capacity in Coleman Coliseum. Their highest season average was in 1991, and they were still nearly 3,000 short. In the best MBB season in their history - an E8 in 2004 - they were roughly 6,000 seats short of capacity on average. The very next season after the E8 - 3,500 short.
Any Bama fan who is arguing that a winning product will produce butts-in-seats is either willfully ignorant, or just stupid.
The 'official' attendance at the game below? Try not to laugh, but 9918, or a claimed 2/3rds full. Yeah... uh, huh.
While their paid attendance is roughly equivalent to ours, their actual butts-in-seats is a long, longs ways from that number. According to information posted by @Art Bunch: earlier today in this very thread (post #1488), Alabama has never come CLOSE to averaging full capacity in Coleman Coliseum. Their highest season average was in 1991, and they were still nearly 3,000 short. In the best MBB season in their history - an E8 in 2004 - they were roughly 6,000 seats short of capacity on average. The very next season after the E8 - 3,500 short.
Any Bama fan who is arguing that a winning product will produce butts-in-seats is either willfully ignorant, or just stupid.
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