FB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[sflzman]

that surprised me as well how linfields attendance was so low. linfield has a great sports tradition and I'm not sure if they still do but the Portland trail blazers training camp used to be at linfield. another big surprise is the d2 schools that underdrew our miaa schools. I have a family member who played on the first Minnesota morris team and he went back for his first ever game this year -homecoming and he said the atmosphere there was a lot of fun.

[Mr. Ypsi]

So Mr. Ypsi - I still want to know what you think!  Eastern Michigan outdrawing some of those fellow MAC schools??

I hadn't heard anything about that huge spike in attendance.  I've never attended a game where attendance was more than 3-4,000 (but it has been 2-3 years since I've gone).  They did get caught grossly inflating attendance a few years ago.  I hope that this figure is legit.

[formerd3db]

Yes, Mr. Ypsi, that is interesting.  I guess I'll have to go onto the Eastern Michigan website and review the box scores.  Like you, I hope those are legit figures and not padded, although if they are legit, that means Eastern did well compared to some of the other MAC teams who were better in the W-L column.  Maybe there is hope after all (for them and my alma mater! ).

[Raider 68]

MIAA Teams ranked in attendance  by % capacity...

Trine - 96% (4784/5000+)
Adrian - 71% (2120/3000)
Hope - 47% (2335/5000)
Kalamazoo - 38% (1148/3000)
Albion - 36% (1858/5114?)
Alma - 35% (1417/4000)
Olivet - N/A (611/?)

Any ideas on Olivet's max capacity?

Good stats for Trine and Adrian, but what has it been for the last 5 years?

[seventiesraider]

Hard to fathom that Heidelberg, playing in front of people in lawn chairs, outdrew Tiffin U. HU did ship in some temporaries, but the lawn chair thing was more fun.  Somewhat like Case Western, the best seats in the house are in an overlooking dorm.

[formerd3db]

Okay, Mr. Ypsi, here is the "scope" re: Eastern Michigan home attendance for 2010:
(games in order of the season)

Army (first game of the season)                                                     11,318
Central Michigan (always a bid draw-heated rivalry as you know) 20,348
Ohio (Homecoming)                                                                         16,753
Toledo (close by)                                                                             25,860
Northern Illinois (the MAC West Div champ, last game of the
                          season, by then EMU 2-9 - not good;
                          this is MIAA, CCIW attendance for
                          our "big" games)                                                   5,147
                                                                                    Total = 79, 426 for an average of 15,885


So they improved and better than some of the other MAC schools.   They did play Vanderbilt, Virginia, Ohio State for some big schools.  So we'll see what happens and what Ron English can eventually do.  At least they outdrew Ball State, Western Michiga, but I believe Kent State and Buffalo weren't too far behind them.  Again, IMO, the MAC schools should really be FCS classification.

[formerd3db]

seventies:

Yes, interesting as well, but as you say, that must have been fun with the lawn chairs.  Also, indeed, that is kind of neat at Case Western where those new dorms are, although I hope they get fans also to fill the stadium seats.  Also, at Tiffin and Findlay, they need to get those programs back "up to par" if they want to compete in the GLIAC for the title and/or just to survive, IMO. 

Raider68:

As I recall, Trine did well also in 2009, however, Adrian didn't do as well even with the stadium being new.  That is one thing I will tell you that even when Hope is down in the W-L as we have been the last 3 years, the town and community still really support it well.  Look at this year, we still had 2,335 per home game and about 4,000 for homecoming, but in really good years, we are in the over 3,000-4,000 range and if you have a title game, it is really big.  I'd have to go back and look at the box score for the Hope @ Adrian game for this past year in 2010, however, when we were there, the stadium was not that full, except for the Hope side which was entirely filled and even thought Adrian ended up pulling away and from us to win the game.  Anyway, interesting stats.

[seventiesraider]

PS: Keep moving your  finger down the list till you get to Akron: Average 10,100. A complete waste of a stadium. Local high schools could pull that many. (And by the way, I don't even believe they had that many)

Irony? In June Alcoholics Anonymous fills the place

[John 316]

Haven't been on for awhile......when catching up on the current topics........here is something to consider on the attendance issue.....let's see what happens with the predicted rise in gas prices this summer if people choose to attend or not........

[sflzman]

MIAA Teams ranked in attendance  by % capacity...

Trine - 96% (4784/5000+)
Adrian - 71% (2120/3000)
Hope - 47% (2335/5000)
Kalamazoo - 38% (1148/3000)
Albion - 36% (1858/5114?)
Alma - 35% (1417/4000)
Olivet - N/A (611/?)

Any ideas on Olivet's max capacity?

Good stats for Trine and Adrian, but what has it been for the last 5 years?

Adrian

2010: 2120/3000 - 71%
2009: 2016/3000 - 67%
2008: 2225/3000 - 74%
2007: 2235/3000 - 75%
2006: 2400/3000 - 80%

Trine/Tri-State (I don't know the old capacity of Trine's stadium, but for my stat purposes I will leave it at 5000)

2010: 4784/5000 - 96%
2009: 3352/5000 - 67%
2008: 3737/5000 - 75%
2007: 2917/5000 - 58%
2006: 0930/5000 - 17%

[Raider 68]

sflzman,

Thanks for the historical attendance stats for Trine and Adrian! Adrian has been consistent and Trine has really grown! +k

[formerd3db]

For those who might be interested, since we had discussed some of this and coaching changes during the recent U of Michigan search.  I have been searching the last 3-4 weeks to try and find where former U of Mich/Central Mich/Detroit Lions/Miami (FL) QB coach Scot Loeffler ended up after Urban Meyer's staff disbanded when Meyer retired a couple of months ago.  Loeffler had interviewed for the OC position at LSU under Les Miles, however, that went to the former head coach at Louisville.  I hadn't been able to locate any info until today.  I found that Loeffler has been hired at the Offensive Coordinator/QB coach at DI Temple University in the MAC.  New Head Coach Steve Addazio, who was one of the coordinators at Miami (FL) under Meyer and with Loeffler (and who has been an assistant at several other big DI schools including Nortre Dame and also a DIII school in Conn at the beginning of his career), has hired several of his former colleagues on that staff from Miami.  Temple was improved this year, including in attendance and in a quick review of their non-conf schedule, they have some pretty big games scheduled, including Virginia and Penn State.  They also just signed an agreement for a 3 year series with Nortre Dame. 

As I mentioned before, I personally would have liked to see Loeffler rehired at his alma mater Michigan as he has done a great job in coaching some big time QB's (Brady, Griese and Tebow).  However, I think that he will be a great asse to Temple and the new staff there has a great opportunity to improve Temples program even more - I tend to thing they will and potentially eventaully get it back to the next level similar to how Cinninnati has done the past decade or so.  Time will tell.  Anyway, just thought some of you might be interested to hear about this.

[John 316]

MIAA Teams ranked in attendance  by % capacity...

Trine - 96% (4784/5000+)
Adrian - 71% (2120/3000)
Hope - 47% (2335/5000)
Kalamazoo - 38% (1148/3000)
Albion - 36% (1858/5114?)
Alma - 35% (1417/4000)
Olivet - N/A (611/?)

Any ideas on Olivet's max capacity?

Good stats for Trine and Adrian, but what has it been for the last 5 years?

Adrian

2010: 2120/3000 - 71%
2009: 2016/3000 - 67%
2008: 2225/3000 - 74%
2007: 2235/3000 - 75%
2006: 2400/3000 - 80%

Trine/Tri-State (I don't know the old capacity of Trine's stadium, but for my stat purposes I will leave it at 5000)

2010: 4784/5000 - 96%
2009: 3352/5000 - 67%
2008: 3737/5000 - 75%
2007: 2917/5000 - 58%
2006: 0930/5000 - 17%


Any percentages for when Trine was at an away game. Sometimes it seems Trine had more spectators at the away game than the home field did.

[John 316]

Sorry about that post.......Here it is again.

Are there any percentages as to when Trine was at an away game?........in some cases it seemed like Trine had more people at the away game than the home field team did.

[Raider 68]

Sorry about that post.......Here it is again.

Are there any percentages as to when Trine was at an away game?........in some cases it seemed like Trine had more people at the away game than the home field team did.

Do not have Trine numbers, but many of the conference leading teams draw well at away games especially those that are in the playoffs each year!