Green Wave wrote:sader24 wrote:I've been posting this for 20 years. This is my last time posting this. In 1996 we drew 3,500 total for Tulane-Syracuse for the last game. In 98 for the Houston game before La.Tech we drew a legitimate 27,000 people. Not inflated but legit. That's a 23,500 increase in 24 months. For the La.Tech game we drew 38K and 3K were La.Tech fans which means we went from 3500 in November of 96 to 35000 in November of 98. When you go from 3500 actual bodies to 27000 actual bodies in 12 months it should be celebrated not ridiculed. When you go from 3500 actual bodies to 35000 actual bodies in 24 months it should be studied.
inuendo, conjecture, and hear say.
Same old crap. Cant use numbers so make em up as you go.
28k. That was the average attendance for 1998. The rest is coulda shoulda woulda.
1999s first home game was 20K. It took all of one loss to bring the Wave attendance back down.
2003 opening game at home after Tulane had a winning record in the last 4 out 6 seasons, 28.9K
No where has Tulane proven that it can fill the Superdome unless it plays LSU. The Superdome has no home field advantage because its not home for Tulane and the venue is too big for the fan base.
Graph published in the Hullabaloo in 2010 for 2009 season:
Just a third of capacity. TOO BIG!
Interesting numbers.
This needs to be said, though: the program on that list who is the closest league counterpart to Tulane is Rice.
Now they have always played in their own stadium right on campus.
Has having that item helped them to field a consistent winner and if so then to what extent?
They have had a couple of ok seasons very recently, however for decades before Rice was typically not a winner and not even close.
Has having that item, therefore, kept a lot of people interested in their program in the times when they weren't winning and has it boosted up interest in the more recent times when they have had these ok seasons?
The available evidence does not seem to support that conclusion.
It's still fair to say that if the team doesn't win games people will not be chomping at the bit in large numbers to go and attend games.
If Tulane really does proceed with this project (again, I will believe it when I see it) at some point the novelty effect of it will wear off and even the most ardent proponents have to concede that the novelty can't last forever and then it all goes back to whether you win or you don't win.
If you think that if Tulane does manage to turn things around and win games people will still not be coming in large numbers, well, you might well be correct in that analysis. I'm not as optimistic as some. I contend that the program is going to have to prove it on the field and do a whole lot of proving before a lot of people will start to pay attention to it. We'll just have to see what happens. But what I believe very firmly is that if they don't turn it around on the field all of the smoke and mirrors and packaging and new stadia in the world aren't going to help the situation but in fact would only be a waste.
Tulane sports: small football stadium, very small basketball arena, w̶i̶n̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶g̶r̶a̶m̶s̶, h̶o̶n̶e̶s̶t̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ , but, hey, now there's tailgating.