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Date Posted: 15:01:28 08/29/03 Fri
Author: Informed SCU Alum
Subject: Re: Life after Bronco football
In reply to: SCU Prof 's message, "Life after Bronco football" on 11:13:17 05/21/03 Wed

Dear �SCU Prof�:
I don�t know what you mean when you say that you�ve been at SCU for �a long long time,� but however long you have been at SCU, you must never have ventured into Buck Shaw Stadium to watch the Broncos play football there. (BTW, Buck Shaw was a FOOTBALL coach, not a soccer coach.) Perhaps if you had experienced Bronco football first hand, rather than just listening to (and regurgitating for us here) erroneous anecdotal evidence relative to its attendance figures, you might be better informed about just how popular and well-attended Bronco football games were before Father Locatelli euthanized the program in 1993.

For your information, according to statistics kept by the NCAA, over the 13 seasons from 1980 through and including 1992 (the last year SCU fielded a football team), the average home game at Buck Shaw Stadium (which �officially� seats 10,000 people for football when you include the portable bleachers) drew 5,286 fans. That�s the average, through the great seasons (8-2 in 1980 and 1985, and 7-4 in 1982, 1984, 1989 and 1990), the not so great seasons (2-8 in 1981, 4-7 in 1986 and 4-6 in 1992), and the others inbetween. Naturally, the team drew better in the �up� years than it did in the �down� years, and SCU had only four �down� years (one of which was 5-6 in 1991, which would have been a 6-5 season but for a 1 point loss to Sac St.) in that 13 year time span, which is pretty darned good by anybody�s standards. Since SCU typically played six home games a year (with rare exceptions), that�s an average of 31,716 fans per season drawn into Buck Shaw Stadium to watch Bronco football.

If you want to compare apples and oranges, which you seem compelled to do since you trumpeted what a �great job� Bronco basketball and soccer have been doing getting �more attention� since the death of Bronco football, you might want to try these numbers on for size: Over the 2002-2003 basketball season, in 15 home games, SCU men�s basketball drew a total of 19,253 fans into the �new and improved� Leavey Center, for an average of 1,284 fans per game. So, with two and a half times the opportunities to draw in fans (15 home dates versus 6), SCU Men�s basketball still came up 12,463 fans short of an �average� year�s home attendance for Bronco football. SCU women�s basketball had 12 home dates last season, and drew a total attendance of 5,887 fans, or 491 folks per game. I won�t bother to work the numbers for you on that one.

Maybe the next time you and your colleagues are discussing such things over lunch at the Adobe Lodge, you might just mention that SCU football brought the school a bit more attention than you previously had believed. If you do, lunch is on me!
--An �SCU Alum�

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