Lynah Attendance

[stereax]

So try bringing some of your own and grab some extra Sun's and IJ's if you can.

Copy that. I'm usually at trivia on Thursday nights at Ithaca Bakery, so I think I can nick a good stack from there, plus the law school tends to have a bunch of Suns floating around that nobody uses...

Reminds me - for anyone on campus, I'm fairly sure the Dairy Bar has a bunch of newspapers too.

[BearLover]

Lots of empty seats last night even though the team hadn't been home in a long time. Listed attendance 3,762 but it looked emptier than that. Maybe you can chalk 50 of those to basketball, but you still need to find 500+ more fans for a sellout. Hopefully tonight is a sellout...

[ugarte]

Lots of empty seats last night even though the team hadn't been home in a long time. Listed attendance 3,762 but it looked emptier than that. Maybe you can chalk 50 of those to basketball, but you still need to find 500+ more fans for a sellout. Hopefully tonight is a sellout...

watch the bball highlights from last night's win over Yale on ESPN and tell me if you still think hockey only lost 50 people to a competent basketball team. big red basketball improving in the last 20 years has probably been bad for hockey attendance. for students who didn't come in a hockey fans it's more accessible and the fans don't have the chants but do have energy.

[upprdeck]

no tickets on cornellbigred.com for the game now.  there were a 1-200 earlier in the week.

[BearLover]

Lots of empty seats last night even though the team hadn't been home in a long time. Listed attendance 3,762 but it looked emptier than that. Maybe you can chalk 50 of those to basketball, but you still need to find 500+ more fans for a sellout. Hopefully tonight is a sellout...

watch the bball highlights from last night's win over Yale on ESPN and tell me if you still think hockey only lost 50 people to a competent basketball team. big red basketball improving in the last 20 years has probably been bad for hockey attendance. for students who didn't come in a hockey fans it's more accessible and the fans don't have the chants but do have energy.

I watched much of the game live, Newman wasn't that full and I just don't think there's much crossover between hockey and basketball fans. Your last point about accessibility for not-yet-hockey-fans is fair though.

[chimpfood]

As one of the people that missed the first for basketball there were probably 100-200 of us. And it will be the same today. Nothing to panic about, just big games for basketball.

[stereax]

As usual, C was only half full. I suspect a good amount of STMs just don't show up... wish there was something like, if you're at the door at 7 and X amount of seats aren't full, they could sell those X tickets. I get why it isn't a thing (people run late, go between sports, etc), but it'd help.

[BearLover]

As usual, C was only half full. I suspect a good amount of STMs just don't show up... wish there was something like, if you're at the door at 7 and X amount of seats aren't full, they could sell those X tickets. I get why it isn't a thing (people run late, go between sports, etc), but it'd help.

Yeah, all the student sections except B looked half full, all the sections behind the StL goal looked half full...even later in the game, long after basketball ended. Yikes

[BearLover]

Can someone explain how the listed attendance for last night's game at Dartmouth is 5,195 in an arena that seats 3,500? If you watch the highlights, it looks as full as any Cornell game this season.

[Iceberg]

Can someone explain how the listed attendance for last night's game at Dartmouth is 5,195 in an arena that seats 3,500? If you watch the highlights, it looks as full as any Cornell game this season.

Who knows. But that Princeton game is the only one that Dartmouth students show up for because of the tennis ball tradition they have. And then it being senior night on top of that

[marty]

Can someone explain how the listed attendance for last night's game at Dartmouth is 5,195 in an arena that seats 3,500? If you watch the highlights, it looks as full as any Cornell game this season.

I'll get right on it.  I'll DM my inside source at Hanover. 

[BearLover]

Can someone explain how the listed attendance for last night's game at Dartmouth is 5,195 in an arena that seats 3,500? If you watch the highlights, it looks as full as any Cornell game this season.

I'll get right on it.  I'll DM my inside source at Hanover. 

Epic post dude

[Dafatone]

Can someone explain how the listed attendance for last night's game at Dartmouth is 5,195 in an arena that seats 3,500? If you watch the highlights, it looks as full as any Cornell game this season.

Something something wall street accounting.

[Will]

Can someone explain how the listed attendance for last night's game at Dartmouth is 5,195 in an arena that seats 3,500? If you watch the highlights, it looks as full as any Cornell game this season.

In the event that this question was more about the 'how' than the 'why', my recollection of Thompson Arena (last visit some 15+ years ago!) is that it has a concourse and railing that laps the entire rink.  Fitting ~1700 SRO people seems plausible (if perhaps unwise for fire code reasons) if it's an otherwise slow night in Hanover.

[upprdeck]

having 1700+ SRO packed in would seem to pretty close to a fire code issue.   Are those concourses huge?