It is generally acknowledged Mark Dreibelbis inflated attendance numbers. Since ASU did not count people entering the gates tickets sold or given away was the only factual number and student attendance was a complete guess. The only accurate numbers are the NCAA controlled playoff games.TheMoody1 wrote:Was it a play off game? I was at App from 80 to 84 and have gone to home games every year since. I don't remember attendance being as bad as 8k for any regular season games. I remember a few 20k plus crowds in the 80's. Maybe someone has access to average attendance numbers from back then. Just curious.ASUchipman wrote:I went to ASU in the 80's' and 90's and I can remember having 8,000 people at a game.
According to ASU media guides these are the "official" sub 10,000 attended games in the 1980's:
9-12-81 vs JMU - 9200, 11-7-81 vs Marshall 8200, 211-20-82 vs WCU 6150, 11-12-83 vs Marshall 8112, 10-27-84 vs Citadel 9850, 11-17-84 vs SC State 8142, 11-285 vs VMI 4600, 11-16-85 vs Marshall 8355, 10-25-86 vs Furman 9870, 11-29-86 vs Nicholls State (PO) 6250, 11-28-87 vs Richmond (PO) 4138, 12-5-87 vs GSU (PO) 9229 The Ice Bowl, 10-22-88 vs ETSU 8100.
Just for fun, in the 1990's:
10-30-93 vs UTC 9500, 10-14-85 vs GSU 8800, 11-25-95 vs JMU 9500 (PO), 12-3-95 vs SF Austin 8950 (PO), 11-23-96 vs VMI 8260, 11-22-97 vs Liberty 8700, 11-28-98 vs Tenn State 3900 (PO), 11-27-99 vs FL A&M 6800 (PO)