Cougar attendance?

[Loyal Coug]

I'm real curious to know (estimate?) how many fans were at the game. Clearly a lot, as shown in the postgame clips. Way cool of CML to go over and give them props. When you are watching an away game and you can hear OUR fans clearly over the TV, there are some bodies and vocal cords there.

Hope to get some opinions from those who were there. Or maybe we can get an aerial shot, and some Coug with nothing better to do can pull out Stanford Stadium's seating chart and do some math.

I've said this before and I will say it again - the Pac-12 should appreciate WSU for the way we travel. Granted it is hard for opposing fans to get to Pullman, but we boost the attendance and economy of every away team we play. Way more than we get.

Although that said, there were 26 charter planes at Pullman International for Oregon? If you have the bucks, Martin is probably the easiest place to get to. Where else can you land your plane and be at the stadium in 10 minutes?

 

[425cougfan]

I'm real curious to know (estimate?) how many fans were at the game. Clearly a lot, as shown in the postgame clips. Way cool of CML to go over and give them props. When you are watching an away game and you can hear OUR fans clearly over the TV, there are some bodies and vocal cords there.

Hope to get some opinions from those who were there. Or maybe we can get an aerial shot, and some Coug with nothing better to do can pull out Stanford Stadium's seating chart and do some math.

I've said this before and I will say it again - the Pac-12 should appreciate WSU for the way we travel. Granted it is hard for opposing fans to get to Pullman, but we boost the attendance and economy of every away team we play. Way more than we get.

Although that said, there were 26 charter planes at Pullman International for Oregon? If you have the bucks, Martin is probably the easiest place to get to. Where else can you land your plane and be at the stadium in 10 minutes?

Agree that we should get credit. Our alumni spread out more than any others, and just as that makes it tough to attend games in Pullman, it makes us have strong showings on the road.

As for the airport thing, I flew in once with some fairly big donor types from Yakima. Man, what a way to go. Really easy to get into that Yakima airport and grab the plane, then up in the air and over there in 45 minutes, an hour, or whatever it was. Cool scenery. Then the AD has students/staff who are waiting there at the airport to bring you over, drive right up by the suites entrance, and they drop you off right there. Just awesome. If you ever have several hundred grand laying around to get the plane and the suite, and to drop a hefty chunk of change to WSU each year, it's a good way to go.

 

[Wasichus]

I'm real curious to know (estimate?) how many fans were at the game. Clearly a lot, as shown in the postgame clips. Way cool of CML to go over and give them props. When you are watching an away game and you can hear OUR fans clearly over the TV, there are some bodies and vocal cords there.

Hope to get some opinions from those who were there. Or maybe we can get an aerial shot, and some Coug with nothing better to do can pull out Stanford Stadium's seating chart and do some math.

I've said this before and I will say it again - the Pac-12 should appreciate WSU for the way we travel. Granted it is hard for opposing fans to get to Pullman, but we boost the attendance and economy of every away team we play. Way more than we get.

Although that said, there were 26 charter planes at Pullman International for Oregon? If you have the bucks, Martin is probably the easiest place to get to. Where else can you land your plane and be at the stadium in 10 minutes?

I was there. Not in the official Coug section. My buddies and I were in the second level about the 40 yd line, on the Coug bench side. I think it was section 234, IIRC?

When we got to our seats there were quite a few Cougs around us. We all laughed and said we were sitting in the Coug section after all!

Rough estimate? Out of maybe 100 seats around us (in seats purchased online through Stanford season tix holders) there were at least 20-25 Cougs. And probably almost that many Stanford fans disguised as empty seats....for their Homecoming game, no less.

 

[YakiCoug]

I'm real curious to know (estimate?) how many fans were at the game. Clearly a lot, as shown in the postgame clips. Way cool of CML to go over and give them props. When you are watching an away game and you can hear OUR fans clearly over the TV, there are some bodies and vocal cords there.

Hope to get some opinions from those who were there. Or maybe we can get an aerial shot, and some Coug with nothing better to do can pull out Stanford Stadium's seating chart and do some math.

I've said this before and I will say it again - the Pac-12 should appreciate WSU for the way we travel. Granted it is hard for opposing fans to get to Pullman, but we boost the attendance and economy of every away team we play. Way more than we get.

Although that said, there were 26 charter planes at Pullman International for Oregon? If you have the bucks, Martin is probably the easiest place to get to. Where else can you land your plane and be at the stadium in 10 minutes?

Of the more than 39,000 said to be in the stands, it looked like 10,000 of them were Cougars. Some homecoming for Stanford.

 

[425cougfan]

Of the more than 39,000 said to be in the stands, it looked like 10,000 of them were Cougars. Some homecoming for Stanford.

One of Stanford's best moves was installing seats in cardinal color, so that even when empty, the stadium doesn't look ridiculously empty on TV or in person. The issues they have would be especially interesting if they still had old Stanford Stadium ... can't recall the exact capacity, but it was something like 85,000 seats. Would look ridiculous with the current degree of apathy.

Funny thing is that it seems like they hype the team pretty significantly around town. I'm in Palo Alto for business pretty often and there are billboards all over the place, ads at the airport (both SFO and SJC), etc. -- if anyone lives around there and wants to see what has been a pretty good product, it's right there. They've had good teams with some pretty exciting players, even though Shaw would usually tie an anchor to the offense.

If they regress at all, that place will be even more of a ghost town.

 

[Fab5Coug]

Of the more than 39,000 said to be in the stands, it looked like 10,000 of them were Cougars. Some homecoming for Stanford.

Is there a Pac12 fanbase that deserves a perennial winner LESS than Stanford fans?

Seriously, Shaw should quit and go to Oregon St where he'd, at least, be appreciated

 

[SaveFerris]

Is there a Pac12 fanbase that deserves a perennial winner LESS than Stanford fans?

Seriously, Shaw should quit and go to Oregon St where he'd, at least, be appreciated

Shaw has said Stanford is his dream job.