The Florida Classic between Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman returned to the top of the HBCU football heap this year despite having its lowest attendance in a decade. With Black college football attendance down across the board, with the exception of South Carolina State, the Florida Classic outpaced the pervious attendance champ the Magic City Classic between Alabama A&M and Alabama State by over 4,000 fans.59, 418 fans made their way through the Florida Classic turnstiles while 55,322 fans attended the Magic City. The Bayou Classic was a close third on the 2009 HBCU attendance chart with 53,618 fans in attendance.
This year's Florida Classic attendance was the third lowest in the games' 12 year run in Orlando. Overall attendance was down by 13,940 from 2003 where attendance peaked at 73,358.
Are we pricing ourselves out of the market? If we lower home game & Florida Classic tickets, do you think our attendance would increase? I just find it troublesome that we charge $30.00 for Homecoming. According to published reports, homecoming attendance was down this year. We may need to lower our ticket prices to $20.00 and get 30,000 fans in Bragg as opposed to charging $30.00 and drawing only 17,000. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about lowering the prices,especially the season ticket prices for the family packs...also, if FAMU would advertise and promote the season ticket packages early(like in March/April)we could increase the numbers....
ReplyDeleteDespite that, you see that a Classic is not a classic without FAMU!!!
The Florida Classic has always been in my #1 spot....
ReplyDelete...Goooooooo Rattlers !!!!!!!!
Who are the AD applicants and finalists? I can't find anything.
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