Probably, considering Utah is in the 83rd percentile nationally for public

May 27, 2020
2:52:44pm

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schools and there is more demand for Utah's tickets (when factoring ticket availability), but there's no way to know for sure exactly what the delta is between BYU's reported tickets sold and the actual scanned tickets.

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Alright, who's been cooking their books?

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

5/27/20 9:35am

Scanned percentage, per WSJ:

Gustav

5/27/20 9:37am

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Abe Froman

5/27/20 10:27am

Wow. Utah and Clemson grossly overestimating less than others.

cougsareforreal

5/27/20 10:39am

Utah has the 80th highest scanned percentage of 96 teams reporting.

Scratch

5/27/20 10:47am

BYU only reports actual attendance

Gustav

5/27/20 10:55am

HA! That's hilarious. What is this based on? Can you support that claim?

Scratch

5/27/20 11:05am

It's well known that BYU takes that approach

Gustav

5/27/20 11:44am

Not a chance.

Scratch

5/27/20 12:06pm

I assure you, it is BYU's approach

Gustav

5/27/20 12:09pm

It's not. Period. It's completely insane to argue otherwise when the Daily

Scratch

5/27/20 12:14pm

Right, because BYU is known for doing everything the same way as others . . .

Gustav

5/27/20 12:40pm

BYU tries to make itself look as good as possible. Just like other schools.

Scratch

5/27/20 12:49pm

BYU comes by it's good looks naturally. Silly Ute.

PJMort

5/27/20 12:53pm

BYU has never been that concerned with looking good

Gustav

5/27/20 1:04pm

LOL. Sure it does, certainly when it doesn't play into religious issues. And

Scratch

5/27/20 1:10pm

Again, do you believe that BYU, with some crappy start times, bad weather, and

Scratch

5/27/20 1:16pm

Most things are different at BYU

Gustav

5/27/20 1:26pm

As evidenced by all of the people on this board, who are generally pretty

Scratch

5/27/20 1:41pm

So do you want to hear something amazing? I went back and looked at a couple of

Scratch

5/27/20 3:36pm

Let’s see the articles.

pilot17

5/27/20 12:45pm

RE: Let’s see the articles.

displacedute

5/27/20 12:54pm

That's speaking of "schools" generally

Gustav

5/27/20 1:03pm

No...I do know that BYU does report actual attendance. They may also report

boogers

5/27/20 2:04pm

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Abe Froman

5/27/20 11:05am

BYU reports the same way. Everyone does. No one reports tickets scanned.

Scratch

5/27/20 11:06am

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Abe Froman

5/27/20 1:22pm

It's not cooking the books to report tickets sold. That's just how it's done.

Scratch

5/27/20 1:29pm

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Abe Froman

5/27/20 2:44pm

Probably, considering Utah is in the 83rd percentile nationally for public

Scratch

5/27/20 2:52pm

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Abe Froman

5/27/20 6:33pm

I never said I knew how big the difference is for BYU between tickets sold and

Scratch

5/27/20 7:00pm

and now for the rest of the story ... how many actual fans does each represent?

ManicBlue

5/27/20 11:11am

*crickets

ManicBlue

5/27/20 1:45pm

Sorry, I didn't respond to your unintelligible question.

Scratch

5/27/20 1:52pm

or you just can't do the math? Forgot you are a ute.

ManicBlue

5/27/20 1:57pm

I'd be happy to do the math if the question were coherent and the numbers are

Scratch

5/27/20 2:24pm

Here you go ...

ManicBlue

5/27/20 4:09pm

Depends on what you mean. The WSJ article already has the number you seem to be

Scratch

5/27/20 4:18pm

I know their fans are crap, but you can't actually COUNT crap as attendance .

Cougarclaw

5/27/20 9:38am

RE: Alright, who's been cooking their books?

mobius

5/27/20 9:41am

One of those things gives away all the unsold tickets for free.

BYUtka

5/27/20 9:42am

LOL.

Scratch

5/27/20 9:48am

RE: Alright, who's been cooking their books?

displacedute

5/27/20 9:47am

It's not jealousy, it's just amusement at the lengths people will go to falsify records

Indy Coug

5/27/20 9:48am

Maybe time for some . . .

Gustav

5/27/20 9:50am

RE: It's not jealousy, it's just amusement at the lengths people will go to

displacedute

5/27/20 9:51am

Lol. Take a look at the stadium capacities. Besides KS and UO (which are larger), Rice Eccles is WAYYY smaller

letthewookieewin

5/27/20 9:57am

It is even less impressive to have to lie about filling a 45k stadium.

thirdgencoug

5/27/20 10:03am

RE: Lol. Take a look at the stadium capacities. Besides KS and UO (which are

displacedute

5/27/20 10:05am

RE: Lol. Take a look at the stadium capacities. Besides KS and UO (which are

Fatalplacebo

5/27/20 10:14am

Jealous that you get 10K less fans?

ochobeeguy

5/27/20 10:07am

RE: Jealous that you get 10K less fans?

displacedute

5/27/20 10:14am

RE: Jealous that you get 10K less fans?

ochobeeguy

5/27/20 11:24am

RE: Jealous that you get 10K less fans?

displacedute

5/27/20 12:43pm

Wow, that’s the equivalent of stuffing a rolled up sock in your pants. Pathetic

Zaphod

5/27/20 10:08am

Utah boarding a flight through the "Actual Attendance, Not Announced" zone

Gustav

5/27/20 10:11am

What are you saying? Everyone reports tickets sold, not tickets scanned.

Scratch

5/27/20 10:34am

The Utes stuff the sock down the back of their pants though

mwcoug

5/27/20 10:14am

This was one of my dad’s favorite jokes! “The potato goes in the front”.

mvtoro

5/27/20 11:04am

Doesn’t their stadium hold like 15K? My high school team had more attendees

zerome4sooners

5/27/20 11:01am

BYU should pretend that LES has the same capacity that Utah pretends RES has.

TailgateU

5/27/20 11:04am

This is what "sold out" looks like.

wiscougarfan

5/27/20 11:10am

Last year I had a client who purchased a sponsorship with the U.

MaxxPower

5/27/20 12:01pm

6 of the 10 are Red color scheme schools FWIW.

BamaCoug

5/27/20 12:12pm

It's so lame to me that "tickets sold" is how they determine this

Resurgens

5/27/20 1:53pm

Utah sucks so bad.

TheWoodman

5/27/20 3:19pm

This is such a silly thing for Utah to be so proud of and to spend so much time lying about. It's hilarious

YIsForBrigham

5/27/20 6:19pm

Lying. LOL. So there’s no such thing as a sell-out in sports. BYU used to report

Scratch

5/27/20 7:03pm

Look at all these yewts getting so butthurt 😂 snowflakes

bornbyu93

5/27/20 11:52pm

BYU reports actual attendance

Gustav

5/28/20 9:25am

RE: BYU reports actual attendance

Scratch

5/28/20 9:31am

You can deny it as many times as you want. Doesn't change BYU's approach.

Gustav

5/28/20 9:36am

Can you answer those questions I posed? You understand that your position is

Scratch

5/28/20 9:52am

BYU also, for example, actually enforces its honor code, unlike most schools

Gustav

5/28/20 9:56am

LOL. And how is that in any way applicable here?

Scratch

5/28/20 10:01am

Because, and perhaps you dont get this, BYU does things differently

Gustav

5/28/20 10:09am

They do some things differently and some things the same. The numbers BYU

Scratch

5/28/20 10:18am

Here, take a look at this one. This is the box score for the BYU-Gonzaga

Scratch

5/28/20 10:25am

Actually the student section used an overflow area they don't sell tickets for t

puntersarepeople

5/28/20 10:54am

So no tickets sold and not counted. The bottom line is that reporting attendance

Scratch

5/28/20 10:55am

Why are you so obsessed with this?

Gustav

5/28/20 11:00am

Dude...

Jacob4thejazz

5/28/20 11:17am

People made some ridiculous statements criticizing the U for reporting

Scratch

5/28/20 11:29am

The smaller the stadium the easier it is to sell out.

GilbertAZCougar

5/28/20 12:17am

Silly thread. EVERYONE counts tickets sold. BYU has had 10s of thousands

ALUF 1990

5/28/20 5:49am

What a ridiculous thread. Everyone who follows college football knows that

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