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Buckeye 2015 posted:
cabbagedad posted:

There are also attendance (and, therefore, facility capacity) requirements for D1 FBS schools.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/who-...ision-classification

 

The attendance "mandates" obviously aren't real serious.  I can assure you that there are MAC schools that haven't averaged anywhere close to 15,000 in any rolling 2 year period in a long time.  I guess maybe "tickets sold" is somehow calculated rather than actual butts in the stands for this number.  That can be the only way they are reaching 15K

Here’s your answer ...

"The Miami Student" reports an average of 10,000 tickets per football game were being bought by the school to keep it from falling out of the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly called Division I-A). The NCAA requires each school in the FBS to average at least 15,000 in actual or paid attendance per game.

https://www.abc15.com/news/nat...rs-stay-in-divisions

The av­er­age count of tick­ets scanned at home games—the num­ber of fans who ac­tu­ally show up—is about 71% of the at­ten­dance you see in a box score, ac­cord­ing to data from the 2017 sea­son col­lected by The Wall Street Jour­nal. In the Mid-Amer­i­can Con­fer­ence, with less-prom­inent programs like Cen­tral Mi­chigan and Toledo, teams’ scanned at­ten­dance num­bers were 45% of announced at­tendance.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/c...rticle_copyURL_share

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