FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[faunch]

You do know that Carlton and St. Olaf are both in Northfield, right? Neither teams fans have to travel and they are huge rivals.

And despite the schools being less than 2 miles apart the game last season had a recorded attendance of 4,319 at Laird Stadium (where there is not charge for admission). Combined the enrollment of the two schools is about 8,000 meaning that it's likely barely 50% of the student bodies of both schools attended the game.

About 5,100 full-time undergraduates combined attend the two schools.

Nor sure where i came up with 8k???
My bad!

[OzJohnnie]

Why is the attendance so much higher at Carleton?

No band practice on that side of town.

[Texas Ole]

Why is the attendance so much higher at Carleton?

Free beer!  May have been other factors though with weather and other events on campus.

I get not many Oles attend games. I did. I enjoyed going to the games even during the down years. Sadly I live in Texas now and can't go to many games.

I doubt CC had an impact. If it was the NC possibly given the resources needed. We've hosted the stat championship and still played football those days. I could the request from the Vikings to host the game trying to get more events at their facility.  The Star in Frisco (Cowboys facility)hosts as many HS games as possible.

Still not a fan of moving the game. Hope Olaf still controls the broadcast feed. Huge fan of the quality of that feed.

[carletonknights]

Why is the attendance so much higher at Carleton?

We don't question statistics that suggest Carleton is better, we just accept them as indisputable truth and move on. But every Carleton-Olaf game @Olaf I remember was packed. Smaller stadium, sure. I will say, the last two times I returned for a home game I was very pleasantly surprised by the amount of students who were tailgating the game. I think actually winning games makes it easier to convince classmates, friends, neighbors to move their Saturday drinking across the street for a few hours.

I'll never forget, the year after we graduated, we came back for the game at St. Olaf. We were sipping our beer as we walked to the stadium when a female student yelled "Excuse me! This is a dry campus!"

[hazzben]

I'll never forget, the year after we graduated, we came back for the game at St. Olaf. We were sipping our beer as we walked to the stadium when a female student yelled "Excuse me! This is a dry campus!"

Sounds to me like she wasn't getting invited to many "dry" party's with the St. Olaf hockey team then. 

[Mister36]

Was on campus with the Mrs today and decided to stop by the field to see if the team was practicing yet...no luck, but field looks gorgeous and ready for football.

Just one month to kickoff.