{"id":3361,"date":"2011-12-13T23:28:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2011-12-13T23:28:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T04:28:04","slug":"jmu-outdraws-a-lot-of-crappy-fbs-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3361","title":{"rendered":"JMU Outdraws A Lot of Crappy FBS Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bridgeforth-stadium-crowd.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"3374\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=3374\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bridgeforth-stadium-crowd.jpg?fit=591%2C390\" data-orig-size=\"591,390\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bridgeforth stadium crowd\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bridgeforth-stadium-crowd.jpg?fit=300%2C197\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bridgeforth-stadium-crowd.jpg?fit=591%2C390\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3374\" title=\"bridgeforth stadium crowd\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bridgeforth-stadium-crowd.jpg?resize=591%2C390\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bridgeforth-stadium-crowd.jpg?w=591 591w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bridgeforth-stadium-crowd.jpg?resize=300%2C197 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>The NCAA released its final attendance figures for the 2011 college football season last Saturday. Like most things associated with NCAA bookkeeping, the numbers are a little suspect. Actually, they are flat out inflated. Accounting hijinks aside, JMU \u00a0had the second highest official average <a href=\"http:\/\/web1.ncaa.org\/mfb\/2011\/Internet\/attendance\/FCS_AVGATTENDANCE.pdf\">attendance in FCS<\/a>, finishing just behind Appalachian State. In fact, JMU&#8217;s average attendance of 25,002 was good enough to outdraw 46\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web1.ncaa.org\/mfb\/2011\/Internet\/attendance\/FBS_AVGATTENDANCE.pdf\">FBS teams<\/a>, including such traditional powers such as Duke, UNLV, Rice, and SMU. Of course by traditional powers, I actually mean recognizable schools that have terrible fan support.<\/p>\n<p>Other fun facts and miscellaneous notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JMU had a higher average attendance than all but one MAC school.<\/li>\n<li>MAC football sucks<\/li>\n<li>JMU drew 102% of capacity and App State drew 130%. Me thinks capacity is a made up number.<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Kentucky finished a mere 71 spots behind JMU.<\/li>\n<li>There seem to be a lot of directional universities on the FCS list.<\/li>\n<li>The MAC is the exception to the above. That conference is a directional school hotbed.<\/li>\n<li>3 of the 4 remaining schools in the FCS playoffs finished in the top 11 for attendance.<\/li>\n<li>JMU and Yale were the only schools in the top 10 with fewer than 6 home games. Montana had 8.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have no real point I&#8217;m trying to make other than showing that the inauguaral season in the new Bridgeforth Stadium was a great success attendance wise. Well, and to show that the MAC and other lower level FBS conferences might be a classification above FCS, they probably can&#8217;t be called a higher level. Give me the CAA and FCS playoffs over them any day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D3361&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA released its final attendance figures for the 2011 college football season last Saturday. Like most things associated with NCAA bookkeeping, the numbers are a little suspect. Actually, they are flat out inflated. Accounting hijinks aside, JMU \u00a0had the second highest official average attendance in FCS, finishing just behind Appalachian State. In fact, JMU&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[238,237,456],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5568,"url":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5568","url_meta":{"origin":3361,"position":0},"title":"Study Shows FCS Schools Struggle in Transition to FBS","date":"June 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As reported by Black Mountain News, a recent NCAA study highlights the struggles many FCS teams have had after transitioning to FBS. The study tracked 19 schools that made the move up between 1978 and 2010. 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