Attendance

[RacerJoeD]

Its always tough for scheduling. Harder to get Saturday games on TV, harder to get decent officials, and you want a good product on TV. You need a compelling story which is where the rivalry comes in.

[Kyle_Saluki_17]

Drake getting over 4,000, Bradley over 6,000, Murray and SIU seem to be getting close to 6000+ consistently. Crowds seem pretty decent right now for the league being “down”. I’m pretty sure Indiana State pulled in over 5,000 against SIU at their place. Good to see!

[BCPanther]

UNI continues to do our standard 3500-4500. I suspect Bradley and Belmont will both sell out or come close. I'd say Drake too but an 8:00 Wednesday night tip doesn't typically go over great here, I'd expect 5000-5500 that night.

Listed McLeod Capacity is now 6497 with removing some seats for a new party/suite/private gathering area.

[DUBulldog]

UNI continues to do our standard 3500-4500. I suspect Bradley and Belmont will both sell out or come close. I'd say Drake too but an 8:00 Wednesday night tip doesn't typically go over great here, I'd expect 5000-5500 that night.

Listed McLeod Capacity is now 6497 with removing some seats for a new party/suite/private gathering area.

Knapp Center capacity is also down after the lower seating was redone over the summer. Previously was about 7100, now about 6500. They are redoing the upper level this coming summer, and capacity will be reduced again. I'm guessing about 6000 when they are all done.

Anyway, got an e-mail today from Drake that said the entire lower bowl is sold out for the UNI game. Interesting that they are selling GA tickets for more $$$ than previous games.

[BigMacAttack]

Conference Attendance thru 1/25/23 from the MVC stats

MVC Attendance
Team Home Average
Southern Ill. 6-32246 5374
Murray St. 5-26356 5271
Evansville 6-29646 4941
Bradley 6-29214 4869
Indiana St. 5-19965 3993
UNI 6-20307 3385
Drake 6-20129 3355
Illinois St. 5-15959 3192
Missouri St. 6-19003 3167
Belmont 5-11288 2258
UIC 5-8472 1694
Valparaiso 5-7162 1432

[AcesAces]

Conference Attendance thru 1/25/23 from the MVC stats

MVC Attendance
Team Home Average
Southern Ill. 6-32246 5374
Murray St. 5-26356 5271
Evansville 6-29646 4941
Bradley 6-29214 4869
Indiana St. 5-19965 3993
UNI 6-20307 3385
Drake 6-20129 3355
Illinois St. 5-15959 3192
Missouri St. 6-19003 3167
Belmont 5-11288 2258
UIC 5-8472 1694
Valparaiso 5-7162 1432

UE must be paying people to attend games. This is the worst team in program history during the worst era in program history, yet they still get good crowds.

[tdawgs87]

SIU is not happy with the Valley office on scheduling . We are the only league school to have only ONE Saturday home conference game where EVERY other school in the league as at least THREE Saturday games and four school's have five home Saturday games. Not sure how this can be justified ? SIU does have 3 Sunday games but those don't tend to draw as well, and even with those it still leaves them short on weekend games. So, it maybe hard for SIU to continue to lead the Valley in home attendance, but of course if they keep winning that will sure help.

[BCPanther]

SIU is not happy with the Valley office on scheduling . We are the only league school to have only ONE Saturday home conference game where EVERY other school in the league as at least THREE Saturday games and four school's have five home Saturday games. Not sure how this can be justified ? SIU does have 3 Sunday games but those don't tend to draw as well, and even with those it still leaves them short on weekend games. So, it maybe hard for SIU to continue to lead the Valley in home attendance, but of course if they keep winning that will sure help.

Your anger is misplaced. That's TV's call Plus there are huge advantages to playing Sunday in terms of officiating.

[BCPanther]

Conference Attendance thru 1/25/23 from the MVC stats

MVC Attendance
Team Home Average
Southern Ill. 6-32246 5374
Murray St. 5-26356 5271
Evansville 6-29646 4941
Bradley 6-29214 4869
Indiana St. 5-19965 3993
UNI 6-20307 3385
Drake 6-20129 3355
Illinois St. 5-15959 3192
Missouri St. 6-19003 3167
Belmont 5-11288 2258
UIC 5-8472 1694
Valparaiso 5-7162 1432

I need one compelling reason why Valpo is in this league. I can't find one.

Had we added Murray at the time we still would've gotten Belmont eventually and we could still be a 10 team league. The Valpo add was so bad that it's literally costing us all money.

[tdawgs87]

SIU is not happy with the Valley office on scheduling . We are the only league school to have only ONE Saturday home conference game where EVERY other school in the league as at least THREE Saturday games and four school's have five home Saturday games. Not sure how this can be justified ? SIU does have 3 Sunday games but those don't tend to draw as well, and even with those it still leaves them short on weekend games. So, it maybe hard for SIU to continue to lead the Valley in home attendance, but of course if they keep winning that will sure help.

Your anger is misplaced. That's TV's call Plus there are huge advantages to playing Sunday in terms of officiating.

Please explain that ? So, SIU doesn't get to play at home as much on weekends because TV doesn't want them to ? And SIU fans should be happy because they will get better officials? Only the game with Missouri State was scheduled for TV when the schedule came out. One game I can buy but come on this doesn't make sense. The other three games were either scheduled for Espn3 or Espn+ with an option for the wildcard game but no guarantee that it would be broadcast on any of the regular ESPN networks.