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They now count only "butts in the seats". Ticket sales no longer count because of mass purchases by sponsors and corporations, which once padded attendance records.
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They now count only "butts in the seats". Ticket sales no longer count because of mass purchases by sponsors and corporations, which once padded attendance records.

Exactly! Butts in the seats are what they use. Not tickets sold.
Publix Supermarkets and Balestero(sp) Realty would bail us out again if that were the case.
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It bothers me that the NCAA counts only people through the turnstyles, but they allow crazy promotions such as UAB's free tickets in the newspaper. Yes, UAB inserts tickets in the Birmingham papers!

UAB has also distributed free tickets via its Web site. When Memphis fans discovered this promo, they got themselves all the tickets they wanted in Birmingham, courtesy of UAB. The Blazers looked bad.

I seem to remember UCF having some major corporate sponsors over the years, significantly padding attendance in Orlando.

Some schools schedule "home" games in cities where their larger opponents have more fans, all for attendance. It's a disgrace. FAU could always play Miami in Joe Robbie Stadium and call it a "home" game.

Even Troy has had some help in the past. HealthSouth (now-indicted CEO Richard Scrushy) bought tickets. Movie Gallery might have even helped before it paid $5 million for stadium naming rights.

Troy folks once worried about meeting the attendance requirements. But so far, the adage "Build it and they will come" has proven true. Troy's smallest crowd has been a little over 20,000 - in a town of 15,000 people. There hasn't been a sellout yet (Missouri on a crummy-for-sales Thursday and Marshall in 2003 were close), but there is hope for year year's FAU game. It is Homecoming and the crowd should be big and loud. The Trojans will need it and the Owls will feel it.

I hope FAU keeps winning because Troy seems to only play well in uphill battles. I'm still smarting from that stolen TD that would have beaten LSU on Saturday.



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UAB was allowed to do that w/o a violation? Hmmmmm.

Hopefully FAU will be on a one game win streak when we visit Troy the following week.

What actually happened with that Troy TD callback vs LSU? Speaking non partisan of course.. ;)
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The SEC refs really stunk, as they did against Troy at South Carolina (21-7 SC win … same guys who did the Tenn.-UF game).

They failed to call numerous fouls against LSU, including for blatant interference, and a clearly out of bounds hit on our freshman QB.

On one play, which would have resulted in a first down and continued drive, their D-back lept over our tright end's back to bat down a pass. He was on our receiver's back when the ball arrived.

On the ripped off TD, Troy was driving late in the game and D.T. McDowell hit Jason Samples on a beautiful strike in the left rear corner of the EZ - a pro-like play. Troy went up on LSU 23-17 (before the PAT)!

Then the flags were seen. They called Troy for illegal motion on a play where the tight end shifts into the backfield and the receiver moves up onto the line - done everywhere on a weekly basis and done several times on Saturday by LSU without any flags flying.

They took the points off the board. Troy struggled on three straight plays, then kicked a FG to go ahead 20-17 with around 5 minutes to play.

On the next series, LSU got a rare mismatch (receiver versus one of Troy's LBs) and scored on a long pass (only successful one in the game for LSU). Troy tried another comback but ran out of time.

Troy got four turnovers from LSU and gave up none. Troy allowed only about 56 yards rushing. The Troy D is one of the best in the country and is keeping the team alive.

The bright spot is the highly touted QB recruit seems to be getting in sync and will be great. Hopefully in two weeks!
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