With Michigan State’s football team really struggling this
season, many of the difficulties with getting and keeping Spartan Stadium full
have been magnified.
Michigan State Associate Athletic Director Paul Schager said
that a typical game will have a no show rate somewhere in the teens percentage
wise.
With Michigan State's incredibly poor play this season, many
of these numbers will grow even higher.
“People leave early because they have plans to
go out that night, or they’re getting cold because it’s November and we know
it’s freezing up here. So you’re always going to have that because the stadiums
are so big, and the universities do try to make sure that the students who want
tickets get them, it means you’re going to have these fair weather
fans,” Said Dr. Heather Dichter, the Assistant Professor of Sports Management
at Western Michigan University.
Between the increasingly cooling weather for the later games
in the season, as well as the Spartans lack of success, attendance expectations
are lower than ever for the remaining games of the 2016 Spartan Football
Season.
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