re: Student fan attendance is a nationwide problem

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wut? i don't give two shits if someone else has a so called better "school size ratio" than us. all i know is week in and week out, our student section is basically full regardless of opponent and regardless of start time

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Well you've been going on a rant from a study that says nationwide student attendance is on the decline, yet didn't mention aTm. Another fan mentioned he wasn't impressed by the student section in the multiple games he went to over the past few years, and gets blasted by multiple fans for stating his observations. This thread proves much of my point.

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so the fact that we sell out the aloted student tickets ever year, and every week people show up to the game regardless of opponent, is all because we have a large student body? the point we are making isn't that our student section is so large, but its because every week, regardless of the opponent, we have at least 95% of allotted tickets sold. that's what we are talking about. we aren't talking about the size, we are saying that while other places are being affected by a dwindling student section, we aren't having that problem

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A. Pretty much all the SEC schools sell out their student section for most games. Some struggle with smaller games. The study was a nation wide study though.
B. You kept going on and on about the 30K number, but when compared to student size, it isn't all that impressive. Auburn's student section is right at 60% of student body size. Does that mean that Auburn students are better fans? Impossible to say, but just because you have a large number, doesn't make it necessarily more impressive or indicative of better fans.