Dan Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote, in part:
>On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Debbie Somers wrote[, in part]:
>>                                   [...] the relative importance of
>> attendance is pretty high.
>
>Not at all for most Division I schools.  ...
 
At Maine, a D-I school of average size, ...
 
   17 home games * about 4,000 tickets per game * $12 per ticket
 
comes to about $800,000 attendance revenue per year, not counting
concessions.   This is of major importance (at Maine) by any measure.
 
cheers,
 
Wayne T. Smith                         Systems Group -- CAPS
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