Author: Chris Ford
Week 8 NCAA Basketball Attendance: Highs and Lows
Christmas break: time for neutral sites, which help inflate the attendance numbers a bit. But for those schools that aren’t major enough to play in a neutral site rivalry type game, it is hard to draw a crowd. This is reflected in the poor attendance numbers at the bottom of the pile this week. Number…
When every baseball team will run out of uniform numbers
Last week, the Red Sox announced that they would be retiring Wade Boggs’ number 26. This will be the 9th retired number in the Red Sox organization (10 if you include the league-wide retirement of Jackie Robinson’s #42), and the 5th retirement since 2000. With that, two questions are begged: 1) Are MLB teams retiring numbers…
NCAA Basketball Attendance highs and lows, Week 7
It’s Finals season and winter break in the college world, so this is always one of the worst attendance weeks of the year. This year is no different, with a season record for most games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans. Number of games drawing fewer than 1,000 fans: 46 The lowest 3 attended games? 3. Bethune-Cookman…
The Case for Donald Trump as Purdue Athletic Director
It’s Friday, we’re not in the mood to do anything serious because Christmas, so let’s take a look at something a little bit out there. The case for Donald Trump to become the next Athletic Director for Purdue University. In short: How to Make Purdue Great Again. Because, why not? We’ll look at the main…
Best and worst of the 2015 NCAA Football season: statistics for all 128 teams
Your team is the best! Your team is the worst! You may experience these swings mid-game during the season, but I took some time this week to figure out what every single one of the 128 FBS teams is ranked first at, and what they’re ranked last at. To clarify, if you are ranked first,…
NCAA Basketball attendance highs and lows: Week 6
We’ve moved into basketball season, and the funky competitions have been put to rest. From here on out, most teams are playing at home, or in a relatively large neutral site (see: Crossroads Classic). So let’s take a look at last week’s attendance in NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball, shall we? As always, numbers are…
A look at the lowest attended NCAA Basketball games this year
Early season NCAA Basketball is strange. You have tournaments with some of the biggest names in the game playing in 3,000 seat gyms that normally host high school basketball, while others play in NBA arenas that are 4-5x the size of their home court. Anyway, the highlight for November basketball is that it usually has…
NCAA Football Conference Championship week: Lowest attended games
Not much action this week, but still more than 3 games, which means there were 3 lowest attended games. Here they are, and as always, numbers are ANNOUNCED figures only. 3. Northern Illinois vs Bowling Green– The MAC has made plenty of appearances on these lists and it should be no surprise that their…
The Case for Ohio State to make the CFB Playoff
Let me begin by pointing out that I hate Ohio State with every fiber of my being. I grew up a Michigan fan, I attended Purdue, there was no space for appreciation of the Buckeyes in my mind. But even while blinded by hatred, I can tell you one simple thing: Ohio State is…
NCAA Football Championship Week: Games that will/won’t suck
Rivalry week is done. There were some goodies, and some not so goodies. Let’s see how I did last week: Suck: Clemson 37, South Carolina 32. Not suck but not as close as the final score leads you to believe South Florida 44, UCF 3. Definitely suck Memphis 63, SMU 0. Woof. Major suck Clemson trying their best…
Least attended NCAA Football games: Rivalry week
Since you guys seem to love this, we’ll take a look at attendances from rivalry week. The three lowest attended FBS football games this week, per announced figures as always: 3. UTEP at North Texas– UNT to their credit even kept this one close! They only lost 20-17 to the Miners. But in case you…
Betting against my alma mater, final roundup!
Purdue once again after covering got a reasonable line this week. Indiana was 10 point favorites in West Lafayette. I was out of town for the weekend, which was fortunate since my home internet went out for 3 days and my phone data was throttled because of German bureaucracy. Lucky for me, from the…