ISU and Iowa among least fair-weather fans in America

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ICHawk24

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#3 and #4

https://sportsonmind.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/fairweathercfb/

Everyone knows that college football fans attend games less during losing seasons (for similar results for NFL, click here). But, let’s dive a little deeper into this effect, and see which teams and conferences are the biggest “fair-weathered” fans–if not for pure, unbridled interest, then to have potential ammunition for your next debate with a rival team fan.

Season attendance and win percentage were accumulated for each FBS team from 2007-2016 (courtesy of NCAA). On average, one loss equals a 507 person decrease in attendance (per game). This relationship is (gasp!) not too surprising, but it does help us better understand the exact size of the effect.
 
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somecyguy

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One question I have regarding gathering of the data. Was it counting tickets sold or butts in the seats? Because I have seen kinnick looking awfully empty as they announced another "sellout"
 

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Wow Pitt...thats hilarious.

And just think, they were pretty close to Big12 inclusion at one point.
 

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One question I have regarding gathering of the data. Was it counting tickets sold or butts in the seats? Because I have seen kinnick looking awfully empty as they announced another "sellout"

Not to mention CHA. Unless it's a NIT game of course.
 

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This is cool, thanks for sharing. Among the expansion candidates from last year all, it looks like all but cinci are in the top half.
 
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No, they don't exist. I should know I was there watching Iowa kick their ass.
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One question I have regarding gathering of the data. Was it counting tickets sold or butts in the seats? Because I have seen kinnick looking awfully empty as they announced another "sellout"

Nothing like your anecdotal story against 10 years of data. I thought you had a good engineering school.
 

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The OP started a thread that was actually complementary to Eastern Iowa CC and in less than 20 posts the Squawk dbags have turned it into a slam on attendance at Cyclone home FB games.

Someone needs to remind these jr high EICC fans that this is CYCLONEfanatic.
 
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